Lysine Me Coming

This past year my husbands health came into a crisis. All these tests and no answers from the doctors. He lost weight and energy and started to look like a war camp survivor. At wits end I dove into my herb books and remembered lysine for felines. I have used this powder to save kittens on the brink. I read that people take this for similar issues like failure to thrive. He tried this and in less than a few days came around the corner. He got his appetite back and gained weight- the same results for kittens. We think it could have been a gall bladder issue but again the test were normal. Whatever happened to his health, this made him normal again. He is back to his normal weight again.  For his safety I always try a vitamin or herb before I give it to anyone. I research conflicts with meds before recommending anything. This is one of the good ones that works. It kicks the body into gear again. 

Love Living in Ozarks

When we moved to Summersville, MO this is one of the reasons we chose this place. Small home town of less than 500 people. They live and work here and love living here in the woods and large farm lands and crystal clear rivers. Farmers, loggers, teachers and more working together. There is a cafe that opened 6 years ago owned by a local farm family. They made meals and sold produce from their farm at the cafe. Then one night the poorly set up gas line leaked and the place exploded. No one was killed as it happened after hours. But the building was gone. But last year they rented and restored another building and are back in the swing of providing homemade meals. And when we are in town (15 min away) we pick up a to go meal and they put a message on the box. How cool is that? It is winter now so no fresh produce, yet. But I will be posting the wonderful veggies they have for sale this summer. We love the Wuertly Farms Cafe!

Back at home again and our cats are passed out by the wood stove This is Puff and Ump both rescued cats. Our stove has been so worth it. I thought it would be a lot of work cutting and splitting wood (city girl) for heat, but it is not. The wood comes from our land and we get a workout splitting and hauling winter wood for heat.

The ashes go into compost and the chicken yard. My hens love to roll in the ashes. And it cost only gas for our tractor/log splitter and chainsaw but it heats the whole house. And most of the people around here still use a wood stoves like us. When the power goes out we can count on this cast iron Jotul to keeps us toasty. But that is rare in these parts. Plus we have solar panels and do not worry about that. And I really do not like central AC nor central heat. It smells funny and never seems to get the house cool or hot enough. I grew up in New Orleans and had no air conditioning. I do not like the noise of AC. I love to open the windows and turn on the fans. I can hear the farm and the animals.  And when it gets too hot we head down to the rivers like the rest of the town. To play in the rivers and float until the sun sets. Looking forward to some river time this summer.

Et Tu Tattoo?

                   

If I ever wanted to get a tattoo it might be one of these designs. These are the tools of my trade. Scissors, threads, buttons, measuring tape, pins and needles. I must have over 25 pairs of specialty scissors, 100 types of threads, button library and needles for just about any type of sewing machine I have worked on. But we want to visit Japan. And in Japan they are suspicious of tattoos you can see. And if you got to an onsen (public bath) you are in your birthday suit and many do not allow tattoos. 

So you have to cover them up. Plus tattoos change as the skin gets older. Colors fade and scissors become shrubbery clippers over time and depending on where the tat is located it could get weird.

I also study tattoos for forensics and lost person info ID's. Skin is a wonderful thing to ID a person with. What was unique and rare is now mainstream. Everyone now has grand tattoo work all over their bodies. This makes my job easier to find and locate and ID a body or a living person. We can even locate the artist who created a certain style of tattoo. It makes for very interesting field work.

So if I finally cave and decide to get inked, it would be one of these.