Habit

I have overcome or subdued several habits in the past year.  I have developed new habits and ways of thinking.  I no longer seek out puzzles and games on my devices.  It almost puzzles me that I spent so much time dropping colored jewels or blocks and feeling a sense of accomplishment.  I maintain my home in good order and have gradually extended my areas of control.  The one remaining area of concern that is within my grasp is my back yard.  I am completing construction of a trailer that will effectuate cleaning out trash.  I have resigned myself to waiting until David moves out before I do anything significant about my carport or rear downstairs porch area.  The ongoing habit that persists is using my phone after lights out and casually wondering what might be tasty to eat.  I'm not really hungry.  Most of the time I believe I misinterpret thirst as hunger. 

Woozy

I had hoped to fast for 72 hours but I neglected proper hydration and had to quit at 50 hours.  As soon as I took in a proper amount of water with minerals added and ate a fair amount of beef including a steak I'd made the other day and tongue left over from my initial 'nose to tail' venture, I recovered my clear mind and energy.  It has been a relatively busy and productive day.  I woke in the early morning and made some internet purchases that are somewhat silly but which I don't regret.  I bought a pin-dot sky blue dress, a fluffy petticoat, a patent leather belt that closes with a cluster of white enamel flowers, and a pretty white sweater.  I slept in late to make up for my night indulgence but was able to complete a full schedule of errands with Jacqueline by my side.  Adam and Calvin installed the plywood floor of the trailer in remarkable style.  I had a pleasant evening with Marge Lewis.

OMAD

My right eye seems to have fewer or less dense 'floaters'.  I have decided to proceed for the rest of the month, ending officially on October 14, with beef and lamb and salt and water.  I plan to give extra eggs to Lucinda's family during this period.  At the end of the strict carnivore period I will reintroduce eggs and cream to test my tolerances.  My first meal after I end my ruminant, salt, and water routine will likely be lamb with tziki fixed with cucumber.  If that seems to be a problem I will test lamb with tziki made without cucumber.  I confiscated the almonds I had given Jacqueline and informed her that I felt uneasy about giving her such a quantity of something I knew was bad for her.  There is a lot of misinformation abroad.  One of the popular youtube fasting advocates posted a video about foods she recommends to hasten autophagy.  They include chocolate, coffee, green tea, cicumin, and olive oil.  The first four she lists are relatively high in oxalates. 

Hitch

I got a trailer hitch from U-haul yesterday.  I worried that there might be problems with the order so I stopped by ahead of time to check.  Sure enough, although an installation was scheduled, the record for the purchase was harder to recover, but the quote that I was given was still available after some checking.  I didn't push the issue of the difference in price but the vendor gave me the same price that I had anticipated, giving me a good discount to accomplish that aim. 

Threes

There is a superstition that good and bad things come in threes.  Today started earlier than I wanted when Richard said the chickens were making lots of noise.  Since they are hens they don't make a ruckus at dawn like roosters so he went to investigate.  I think he interrupted an attempt to steal a chicken.  Unfortunately the chicken was dead when I went out a few minutes later to investigate with the light on my phone.  I put a net over the hen entrance to keep them in until I got home.  I fed them crushed lamb bones that were covered with a fair amount of gristle fat and meat and they ate it down entirely.  I also had a project of making a batch of cupcakes for the Art Exhibit at the SCERA tomorrow evening.  I am going to Salt Lake in the afternoon for my usual visit with Rudy Voss and afterwards I spend the night with Nancy and hope to use my new trailer hitch to take her boat up to Deer Creek Reservoir on Saturday.  When I started for the temple after securing the chickens my left front tire had a warning sign.  I stopped at the Maverik on 300 South where they have a coin fed air machine and set it to 33 lbs.  The tire was about 5 lbs. low.  I don't know the cause.  However even though the day started out with a dead chicken and a low tire, it concluded well enough with my chickens tucked up relatively safe behind a 'door' I put up to block their entrance and their main access door secured against simple intrusion. Jacqueline and Diana came over and made the decorated cupcakes I plan to drop off at Sandy Whitby's house tomorrow morning.

Bone Broth

I've been hearing more about 'bone broth' as a part of carnivore WOE.  Today I went to Walmart by the freeway to search for lamb breasts.  They are not a cut I would have purchased in former times, but the wealth of fat, connective tissue and bones small enough to become part of a broth are pluses.  The breasts were less than $3.00 a pound.  I slow roasted them covered in the oven to begin with then separated out the relatively meaty portions from the bones and connective tissue and put them in the same roasting pan on the stove top to simmer for hours.  I only ate one meal today, chopped lamb cooked in fat rendered from a piece of one of the breasts.  I covered it with tziki and it was very good.  I am down to eating one vegetable.  Cucumber is very low in oxalates and it make a lovely sauce to go with lamb.  It turned out that celery is high in oxalates. 

Brush with Fame

On several different occasions through my life I have had a 'brush with fame'.  These include when my name appeared in the major newspapers in our city when I was a Merit Finalist.  My full name, Margaret Patricia Heywood, took up the entire column and appeared more prominent than shorter names of other students who were equally or more qualified for distinction.  My various children have had similar or better opportunities at a time in the public eye, but I will only list those few times when my name has had more than local distribution.  When my portrait of the children of a friend was in a 'feminist' art show in Virginia it was the featured image on a TV broadcast about the show.  My first stained glass panel was shown in the Ensign at least twice after it appeared in the LDS Church International Exhibit and was also featured at a Bicentennial family reunion in honor of Joseph Leland Heywood.  Today my post on 'Don't Eat That' a facebook group started by Mikhaila Peterson, the daughter of a mentor, Jordan Peterson, received a personal 'Thank You' comment by Mikhaila.