THE GOOD EGG

I had to share this with you.  I love to cook and this labor saver, which was saved from the recycle bin, is great.  Especially when you make an angel food cake and have to separate approximately  13 eggs.  The soft water bottles are filling up our dumps.  Each one saved or repurposed is one less in the dump  Take a peek at this:

 

How to separate the yoke from the white of an egg.  http://www.youtube.com/embed/iAp8pEaWB1Y
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This week I stumbled on another use for the soft water bottles.  Maybe someone else has announced it but I figured it out on my own.  I use them with the close spout torn off.  I put oils in them.  They allow me to squirt just a tiny bit of oil in the pan, not drowning  my food in oil.  Saving me calories.

 

Have fun, discovering how you can rescue a water bottle.

 

For more blogs by me visit at:

 

http://gloriouscreations.blogspot.com
A blog mostly about quilting,

but cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
A tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
Blog about dolls.

Quilt BLOCK OF THE MONTH BLOGS

I am hosting a mystery for my guild.  Find the clues here:

http://gloriouscreations.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-mystery-in-making.html

http://organicinstlouis.blogspot.com/

New blogs about the vegetables we have been starting.

blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry
Blogs about seed sprouting.

Tutorial on planting Strawberries.

 

As always, any pictures or writings are my own.

Credit has been given to contributions not my own.
Please do not use without permission.

 

 



PARTNERS FOR LIFE

June 8, 2011, Our wedding anniversary,

I wrote a blog about our beginning.

http://glosgarden.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-day-of-rest-of-our-lives.html

Our wedding day.  These are 4 of my 5 Siblings.  The youngest was asleep so not in the picture. 

 

Last week with the demise of my personal computer I found a document I didn't know was there.   We had a guru retrieve the files.  Thank goodness they weren't lost.  You see I am not very savvy with these machines and I have never learned how to back-up.  Since then I have been dumping and reorganizing files and found this document.  Evidently my husband was awake late at night and sat at the most convenient computer and typed his thoughts.  It seems it is another view of the blog I wrote.  I couldn't have said it better.  I to, Thank the angels for introducing us.

He must have written it on the occasion of our 40th wedding anniversary. 

We are to be married 51 years this June.

These are his thoughts:

 

Mud, water, stalactites and mites, glowing campfires among friends totally exhausted.

evenings with peers sitting with pencils and pens and paper and typewriters trying to organize something called Choteau Grotto.

Raft assembling parties, siphons and photographs within a Devil’s Icebox covered in mud through a carbide lights flickering hue.

Rappelling, folk singing, countless miles traveled together all to end in a case of toilet paper under a University Tower.

When Mr. Joe swept her off to the car after the wedding I would never have believed what this, our “Lady Jo” would do to me.

They both graduated in June, normally, while I lingered until the following January to quietly leave, with degree in hand to go look for a teaching position in mid-semester.

I ended up at the Museum of Science and Natural History of St. Louis and worked for almost a year seeing our two friends infrequently.  Then came September 1962.

Lady Jo wondered if I could bring my guitar to class and sing some folk songs.  On Monday the Museum was closed so I went to her High School.  I had prepared a program entitled  “Folk Singing as a means of communication through the years” and had a fun time all day in various English and Speech classes Jo taught. 

I received 5 nice thank you letters from young ladies that enjoyed my program and brought them to Jo.  She picked out one of the letters and said, “This girl you should meet.”

She was right.  Unerringly she had picked my soul mate.  That was forty years ago.

What do you say to a friend like this?

 Although we are apart, we are together.  Lady Jo, Wherever and whenever you are, you are very special to me.

 

 

For more blogs by me visit at:

 

http://gloriouscreations.blogspot.com
A blog mostly about quilting,

but cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
A tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
Blog about dolls.

Quilt "BLOCK OF THE MONTH" BLOGS

 

I am hosting a mystery quilt for my guild.  Find the clues here:

http://gloriouscreations.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-mystery-in-making.html

http://organicinstlouis.blogspot.com/

New blogs about the vegetables we have been starting.

blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry
Blogs about seed sprouting.

Tutorial on planting Strawberries.

 

As always, any pictures or writings are my own.

Credit has been given to contributions not my own.
Please do not use without permission.

 



PODIATRIST VISIT

Forty-five years ago I had need of a podiatrist.  I visited two different "Doctors".  I figured maybe it was just my luck I got two doctors which I thought were only in the profession because of a foot fetish.  To me they were no better than the reputation Chiropractors had.  They seemed like Quacks.  [BTW we had a family Chiropractor at the time and were always trying to convince others they needed one]

 

Eighteen months ago a problem started developing. 

I  put it off making an appointment, using as an excuse my traveling.  It was true I was gone a lot.  The pain finally got to the point I couldn't put it off any longer, the appointment was made. 

 

I chose my Doctor by an ad in the local paper.  Their office was nice, in a great location and their office help seemed efficient.   There were two doctors sharing the office. I took the one they suggested. It was a very good first impression. 

 

Now that I have been to the doctor, I looked up the definition of what a podiatrist is.  The following are three of the definitions in Google.  There were lots others but they all repeated these:

 

chiropodist: a specialist in care for the feet

po·di·a·try  (p-d-tr) n.

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the human foot. Also called chiropody.

 

podiatry noun  

  

Medical specialty dealing with the foot. Podiatrists diagnose and treat foot diseases, disabilities, and deformities by means of physical medicine and rehabilitation, special shoes and other mechanical devices, drugs, and minor surgery.

 

I wanted to make sure I understood what I should have expected from a foot doctor.  Maybe I expect too much.  I paid a generous co-pay of 35 dollars.  I have no idea what the office charge is or how much the insurance pays.  I would like to find out.  I really wonder if I am getting my money's worth.

 

The first fault I can say in this office's routine, was with the glorified physician's Assistant.  I don't think she was a nurse.   She did not introduce herself when she came in.  I had to ask her.  I said, "Are you the doctor?"  She answered, "No, I am the PA".  No name, no warmth, nothing.  She asked all these inane questions which I knew the doctor was going to re ask.  She said, "Take off your shoes and socks."  I told her, "My husband does this for me since I lost range of motion in my leg from dropping a garden tractor on my leg."

 

She didn't even volunteer to help.  She watched me struggling rubbing one foot against the other working to scoot the sock down over the heel. 

 

The following is a blog on the incident:

 http://organicinstlouis.blogspot.com/2011/04/hidden-in-grass.html

 

She left the room with out even saying, "The Doctor will be with you in a moment."

 

I sat there, the room was very chilly due to being on an outside, north corner wall and it was literally Zero degrees outside.  There was nothing to cover my feet with.  They were getting very cold.

 

After 15 minutes a lady came in.  She was dressed in a collard Tee and scrubs.  She said, "Hi, What are you here for?" 

 

I said, "Are you the Doctor?"  She responded yes, not even introducing herself.  I told her what I was there for and that I hadn't been to a Podiatrist in 45 years. 

 

She gave the problem a cursive look and sliced it with an Exacto knife looking thing.  Then she put on a pad and said, "See you in a month".  There was just a little discussion about the situation.  She knew I hadn't seen a foot doctor  in recent years and she did not look over my feet to see if there was an impending problem.  I am now in the geriatric population at 69 years old.  I am also part of the overweight problem in the United states.   Both conditions which are known to contribute to feet problems which contribute to back problems.

 

I wonder, am I being too critical, am I expecting too much from my doctors?  The Doctor saw me for approximately 15 minutes, did I get my money's worth.  Did she earn the compensation from the insurance company.

 

I will probably cancel the appointment coming up in Twenty days.

 

 

For more blogs by me visit at:

 

http://gloriouscreations.blogspot.com
A blog mostly about quilting,

but cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
A tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
Blog about dolls.

Quilt BLOCK OF THE MONTH BLOGS

I am hosting a mystery for my guild.  Find the clues here:

http://gloriouscreations.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-mystery-in-making.html

http://organicinstlouis.blogspot.com/

New blogs about the vegetables we have been starting.

blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry
Blogs about seed sprouting.

Tutorial on planting Strawberries.

 

As always, any pictures or writings are my own.

Credit has been given to contributions not my own.
Please do not use without permission.