The Anchorage, Part 3

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

That nausea doesn't sound too good, Seliah! But it does sound like me of a morning. Can't eat for a few hours after rising but can then chow down like a rabid dog

Yeah. I cannot put anything but liquids down my throat for the first two hours after I get up. The only exception to this is if I wake up with my blood sugar levels in the basement, then I have to eat no matter how icky it will make me feel.

I don't eat a lot in a sitting, though. Breakfast is usually a handful of berries and maybe an egg, if my stomach will tolerate the egg that morning. Usually I eat those with a glass of water and my coffee. Yes, I drink both in the morning.

I then generally just "graze" the rest of the day; I eat small bits of fruits and veggies here and there. Usually about once every three hours or so, I'll nibble on something small. I have a lot of difficulty with "main meals" as the amount of food just tends to be too much for my stomach, and if I eat just a little bit too much I end up nauseous.

Meats or anything that is "heavy" will cause the nausea too. I think it's because my stomach is so used to eating basically an outdoor scavenging diet. I can handle game meats okay - depending on how I cook them - but things like sausages or pork; chicken... they make me sick to my stomach quickly. Eggs, sometimes just smelling them cook is enough to warn me that I'd better not try to eat them that day. LOL

Our bodies do get used to what we feed them. If you take a long-term vegetarian and feed them meat, it makes them sick. I do eat meats, but generally only in very small amounts and only once in a day. The rest of the time I live off things like nuts, seeds, berries, fruits and veggies. All of which are pretty "light" as foods go. I find a lot of the "sweet treats" and pastries, cakes, etc... as much as I love the flavor, they are too sweet for me or end up being too heavy in the stomach. I am the type of person who can pluck a few chives out of th garden, or a couple of mulberries off the tree, and they will fill me up for the next two or three hours.

I have a doctor who likes to tell me I'm an evolutionary throwback, and that he never knows what the heck to do with me half the time.

 

[Lorraine]

My doctor finds me somewhat problematical too. She pleads with me to eat more than once a day "a little bit of cereal, Lorraine! Maybe an egg!" I look at her like she's suggested broiling babies and she gives that big sigh and looks at me despairingly. Poor Aniva, I am a trial

 

[Lorraine]

Oh, and remember that housework I was going to do? Meh, tomorrow

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

I just eat when I am hungry - and what I am hungry for. Our bodies can pretty much tell us what we need. Cravings usually mean that you're low on a particular thing that's found in the food you're craving.

Oh, and remember that housework I was going to do? Meh, tomorrow

LOL... you sound like me. I hate, HATE housework... only do it because it HAS to be done.

 

[Miss B]

I also don't eat when I first get up. It's a minimum of 1 1/2 to 2 hours before I eat anything solid. I only eat food twice a day, a muffin for breakfast, and regular food for dinner, usually about 4 to 5 hours after I eat breakfast. After that it's a snack, and I don't eat again until the following morning/afternoon, depending on what time I crawl out of bed. ~LOL~

The only time that's different is on Sundays when I get up early to get to the gym by noon, and then I'll eat before I go, and have a yogurt when I get home. Dinner, again, is about 4 or 5 hours later.

 

[Lorraine]

Very interesting how similar we are, Miss B. Don't do mornings, don't do morning food, main meal is dinner...you do do that muffin meal which I seldom do...sometimes, but not often.

 

[Terre]

Very strange weather here today; we got up to 76, and are supposed to drop down to 34 overnight, then back up to low 50's again tomorrow. Only in the Northeast can you have summer and winter in the same 24 hour period. LMAO

LOL
Normal spring and fall weather for us. This yo-yo is why I don't expect the apricot tree on the corner near my house to have fruit this year. Silly tree is already blooming! The Bird of Paradise in our front yard however is still sound asleep. It won't start to bud until May as it comes from a mountainous climate in South America that has the same kind of warm-freeze-warm-freeze weather we do in the spring so it goes by length of day instead of air temp.
Nausea doesn't sound good mam.

 

[Lorraine]

I can feel autumnal cooling creeping in down here. It's almost cool enough to put a blankie over my legs tonight and I'll def be sleeping with a couple of blankets. I went outside a few minutes ago to chase a very confused swallow beating itself against the window (dopey bird, it's after midnight!) and it felt quite cool. A lot cooler than last night. It's the Equinox on March 20 so I shouldn't be surprised.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Morning, Terre.

Yes, I have a strawberry plant which has been alive all winter for some odd reason, in my kitchen on the prep table. We don't get much for sunlight inside of the house, so I was surprised that it actually stayed alive. I don't dare put it in the ground yet. Not until I'm absolutely sure the warm weather shows up with intentions to stick around.

I had onions continuing to grow outside until almost February. It was a really nutso winter this year. Chives, too. And my potato bin already has sprouts, so I have a feeling we will lose the potatoes this year. I left the bin outside because I just can't heft it anymore myself. Last year, my plants didn't like the soil, and we had very little harvest. That same stubborn strawberry plant got overwatered (we had TOO much rain last summer!) and while it tried several times to produce fruit, the fruits ended up going moldy on the plant before they were ever ripe. But the dang thing is still alive! Just... no fruit. LOL

Hi, Lorraine. Sounds like the seasons are in the middle of shifting for sure lately!

 

[Lorraine]

Surely are, Seliah, surely are. The swallows are starting to gather in flocks and soon most of the boats up here will be covered in guano. I appreciate swallows about as much as I appreciate crickets...they're a damn nuisance and a health hazard. Their migration north can't come soon enough for me.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Surely are, Seliah, surely are. The swallows are starting to gather in flocks and soon most of the boats up here will be covered in guano. I appreciate swallows about as much as I appreciate crickets...they're a damn nuisance and a health hazard. Their migration north can't come soon enough for me.

That is about how people in my area feel about seagulls and crows/ravens... and the starlings, too, actually. I've had to chase my Bear off the front porch last year, because he was plinking stun darts at the starlings from his blowgun.... sheesh! And he looked at me like I was nuts until he realized I bloody meant it! LMAO

 

[jan19]

LOL... you sound like me. I hate, HATE housework... only do it because it HAS to be done.

Me, too. Housework is high on the list of the most boring in the world things to do. I did clean the bathroom floor yesterday, while doggie was at the groomer. It shines, and looks great -- but it hadn't really been cleaned since I can remember. I tend to give housework a lick and a promise. A friend has this little Rumba thing, that vacuums by itself. A little robot. That'd be cool to have, but it'd choke itself on some of the things Dolly leaves lying around. Plus a Rumba is expensive, I think. I can get a little vac for $39.

My doctor finds me somewhat problematical too. She pleads with me to eat more than once a day "a little bit of cereal, Lorraine! Maybe an egg!"

Isn't it aggravating to have to eat? Sometimes food tastes good, but most of the time I eat to keep from getting sick. And I try to eat something like the "right stuff," so my diet is boring. What I wouldn't give for the food of the old days, when nobody worried about cholesterol and such. Granny's biscuits, the other granny's tomato gravy -- my mother's fried okra and butterbeans. Grits, eggs. Even KFC doesn't taste right anymore though. Something about the way food is produced these days, I guess. When I was a kid, we all had gardens and canned up stuff for the winter.

I feel like an old timer...what's happened to my world?

Morning, everyone, and I hope you all have a great day.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

"A lick and a promise." Oh, I'm going to have to remember that one! LOL. My Grandmother used to say that all the time, I haven't heard that phrase in years!

Isn't it aggravating to have to eat? Sometimes food tastes good, but most of the time I eat to keep from getting sick.

That's about the only reason I eat most times, too. Or at least, the only reason I eat "main meal" contents. I'm content just nibbling off of the plants around me, but I need the stuff that meat contains if I want to keep my bloodsugar out of the basement (things like protein...) LOL

When I was a kid, we all had gardens and canned up stuff for the winter.

I feel like an old timer...what's happened to my world?

Nah. I keep a bit of a garden myself, even though we don't have much room for it. A good portion (something like 80%) of our fresh fruits and veggies in this house I either grew myself, or wild-harvested from the land around us. And we do canning every year as well. I've been trying to teach my girl how to do the canning also. She's taking to the gardening thing nicely, as well as the wild foraging/harvesting thing. Needs to know how to store what she grows or harvests!

Morning, Jan. Hope you have a good day as well.

 

[Lorraine]

Hi Jan Glad to hear your little Dolly is still being Dolly. Talking about Rumba's, have you seen the videos of the sharkcat on a rumba? Side splitting entertainment.

I used to have a huge garden on the foredeck...I'll find a photo and post it. Grew heaps of stuff but finally had to stop cos it was getting to hard to haul the water and it wasn't doing my decks any good. I even had a lemon tree!

 

[Lorraine]

Night all, I'm gonna crash now. Almost 2am and I'm fading. Catch yous later, have a good day

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Have a good sleep, Lorraine!

 

[Miss B]

Have a good sleep Lorraine. See you later.

 

[Lorraine]

Thanks, Seliah, Miss B One brill sleep later I am ready for coffee!

 

[Terre]

Good aftermorning.

 

[Lorraine]

Good morning, Terre! Still morning here for another 30 mins