Well, it's a long time since I last blogged so I thought I would put fingers to keyboard and keep everyone up with the latest happenings here in Climax Springs, Missouri.

A naturally occuring phenomenon started happening when I moved from Arizona almost two years ago; I lost weight slowly but nonetheless, I lost weight. Yipee! I have now lost seventy pounds! And I am still steadily losing the pounds and inches. I have been donating all my clothes that have become too big to charity. I am now into buying thrift store clothes--usually designer clothes, one or two sizes too small for me, and then challenging myself to lose enough weight to fit into them! It's so neat when I can actually   squeeze into the new clothes, as I know I am getting healthier and feeling great during the process. My current fave foods are blueberries, blackberries, oatmeal and homemade chicken and whole wheat pasta salad.

My garden is coming along just fine and I will be taking pix and posting them on the website soon so that you can all see it for yourselves. Picking blackberries is a regular event here although one has to watch for the copperheads and water moccasins slithering between the verdant growth between brambles. Blackberry and Apple Cobbler tomorrow...There's a lot to be said for wild-crafted foods and I know there are gardeners here who think like I do and we may get together and start a farmer's market every weekend at the spring in the park. Farmer's markets are great venues for social networking and heirloom seed swapping, as my gardener friends are all into organic or wild-crafted foods. A couple of wild-crafted items are being offered for sale on the wildcrafted page of my site.

I was blessed with identical twin (like my twin sister and I) grandsons back in March and I will become a grandmother once again around January, 2009. I already have four grandchildren; so the more the merrier. I wish I could see them more often.

Anyway, time for me to hit the hay--big weeding day in the garden tomorrow; I also have to water it thoroughly.

I'll write again soon.

Well, today's the day my site goes live--again; yes, well we all have problems now and again, don't we. Therefore we mustn't dwell in the past but instead, forge ahead and be positive. Today, in the heart of America, it is sunny, but cool. We've had freezing overnight temperatures for three nights which I hope won't affect any of the spring growth; last spring, it froze here for a solid week and nipped everything in the bud, including the lovely lilac blooms. The woodstove is burning and warming my chilly parts as I type this--thank goodness for my woodstove! A kindly neighbor gave it to me as he figured I could use it better than the black widows which were in residence. Hearts of gold, some people. And with the price of electricity going up and up, a body needs an alternative source of heat. Our rural electric cooperative changed out our old antiquated electric meters that we read ourselves, and replaced them with brand new digital ones--folks round here say the electric will go up another 30% to cover their costs. Sometimes progress really isn't good. Maybe we should all change to solar and wind generators. Anyway, I'm rambling, so that's all for today.