Cloudhidden
A photo and writing journal since 1994
April 07, 2008
March 23, 2008
Snow Geese at Dusk in LaConner
I took these tonight in Laconner. The daffs were in bloom, I have one still to post, but fields were ablaze, I just got there late for dinner tonight (Alaskan King salmon, creme brulle for dessert, the coffee was divine. very unusual..
The Geese were stunning, too bad it began pouring rain, the fields were solid white like snow and when they took off it was a swirling menagerie of birds. Just breathe taking, I should rive up tomorrow early evening to get a better shot. Oh I have daffs in the trunk of the car...3 dozen of them, and halibut too. Oh dear...I better go take care of that...
I'll photograph the daffs later and post them..below Fields at dusk daffodils,Snow Geese in Green Field, Snow Geese as rain comes in...,Flying off into rain
click here for More Laconner flowers and Snow Geese up close
Heron's Nest
The Geese were stunning, too bad it began pouring rain, the fields were solid white like snow and when they took off it was a swirling menagerie of birds. Just breathe taking, I should rive up tomorrow early evening to get a better shot. Oh I have daffs in the trunk of the car...3 dozen of them, and halibut too. Oh dear...I better go take care of that...
I'll photograph the daffs later and post them..below Fields at dusk daffodils,Snow Geese in Green Field, Snow Geese as rain comes in...,Flying off into rain
click here for More Laconner flowers and Snow Geese up close
Heron's Nest
A New Earth, Oprah, Tolle, Elizabeth Lessor
I haven't been watching Oprah during the live event of Eckhart Tolle, interviews about, The New Earth, on Monday nights, but I have been watching after the fact when it is a good time for me to watch. And I have been just recently listening to Elizabeth Lessor take questioners on the radio online (http://www2.oprah.com/xm/ane/ane_main.jhtml), and find this radio show, tho short, to be very valuable. I think many people may be more drawn to something that isn't such a big deal, when it comes to calling in or asking questions. I mean Oprah is big exposure, and you will always be on that film with your questions, right ( for posterity)?
Also it isn't dominated by Oprah who doesn't really understand this very well but whose job it is to make it easy to understand??? (that has to be a real problem in itself, and besides in every crowd there is someone who tries to restate what a Guru type says, as if he isn't adequately expressing what needs to be expressed) But Oprah has a good heart, (as we all do), and she is trying to get to the bottom of this, the thing is, just because she has been successful doesn't mean she knows what she is talking about.
Eckhart is still using vocabulary that is elusive, which will elude us.
But isn't he a great guy? Aren't YOU a great person?
First, I am aware of the fact that the mystery that all this is wrapped in, using words that are so difficult for us to understand, like "ego, and observer, or witness." Vague terms to say the least,
I wonder why these words are being used. They’re ambiguous.. I mean, where is this so called ego? This is just a process of the left brain, this thinking and remembering, and even manipulating to get what we need.
I believe that down the ages wise men and medicine men and so on have used some knowledge in a way to create a mystique, when there is really no mystique at all. But as a result they have a job in their culture, usually a very powerful one.
I did love what Elizabeth said to a caller that the sort of out of body experience was the witness witnessing what the ego was saying. (I would say it was the sensory part of the brain, the right side, aware of the problem solving part of the brain,( left side, being quiet, and the sensory side noticing the difference). Isn't that easier to understand than trying to understand a concept like ego, or witness?
I myself moved in and out of this space of left and right brain activity for many years, most often I was in the right side, calm, and sensory, and it was like I was away, well, it was like left brain was on vacation. It is a big change, (it feels otherworldly, because it is rare that we experience this after we begin using the left side of the brain as we become aware of ourselves in these structural terms that language applies to) and I have to say that I am predominately back in the left brain, not the ‘be here now right brain’. It makes no difference really, at this point anyway. So maybe no one wants to hear what I have to say because I am not exactly always being the witness, or maybe I am, but I still complain, etc. But I don’t act like I am enlightened. I simply AM.
When you live out of the left side of the brain, you intellectualize everything, you problem solve, and you worry, weigh things, remember things, categorize, manipulate, etc.
The right side of the brain is a sensory part of the brain. Our earliest memories are not of left side brain, but that experiencing was sensory; right side, seeing, feeling, touching, tasting, hearing. That is what we do when we aren't thinking, and trying to solve problems, etc.
For instance, my first memory I see my brown legs hanging over a bed ( you know how your legs are too short to dangle?) on white sheets that smell like fresh air, and cotton, I see a woman with brown arms carrying a tray containing a carnival glass pitcher with beads of perspiration al over it, filled with water, and matching glasses. I had no thoughts connected with it, I was three years old and was in Mexico for the first time, staying in a hotel there (all the way from my home state of Pennsylvania) From this memory I surmise I was hot and the bed was comforting, the senses were comforting. I surmise this memory wasn't a memory about something stressful for my body, and which would overwhelm my sensory brain's functions.
However, lets be honest, many children and adults run into more stress at a certain age than they are ready for. Look at schools; they assume every child is supposed to learn the same things in the same time. This isn't the way we are as human beings. We all have different experiences happening in and out of school, and are more or less sensory, more or less prone to stress.
I think we have to experience both sides of the brain to understand one another and to help one another, and to mature. I don't like the way Eckhart and Oprah use terms that sound judgmental concerning those who complain, or whatever because they are simply trying to figure their lives out, to understand themselves, which includes the stressors, the brain activity that overwhelms. We simply need to understand brain function better.
I think, in other words, that there is another way to explain this to impart this idea of awareness, consciousness, etc., and to further peace of mind, inner perception and, externally on earth, which is created by our inner peace).
I normally don't write for others to make comments, because it isn't important to me, as I write and post for my own enjoyment, but I do hope that if you have any questions, or comments, you will feel comfortable to email me, or comment and I will answer the best I can, or refer you to some other book to find answers.
If you want help to stop brain activity, and it being easy to do, I am so happy to help you. I wouldn't turn anyone way who I could help, and I do have some experience with this that is very pragmatic and helpful.
Also studies in creativity show the right side of the brain is not ‘creative’, the frontal lobe is creative, and it acts as a receiver, not as a source.
So whenever we are more in sensory brain, we are also freer to download information from the frontal lobe receiver side of the brain. So in a way there is a mystery, and in a way there is no mystery at all. It is simply a mystery to the left side because it is not able to sense and create. It can only use certain data and try to explain that, but it is cut off from creativity and sensory input.
And basically since we are human and have a brain, and live in this world that is problematic, the left side of the brain will involve itself. It is limited, however.
Now whatever you are; the ambiguous I AM, or the ambiguous EGO, simply you are energy. (Einstein said that matter and energy are the same thing)., you do come into contact with difficulties and I believe that stress can cause that voice to become very strong, that left brain to be very stimulated. Habitual ways of thinking come into being as a result, and we all know that habits are difficult to break. It basically takes 21 days to break a habit, and the most comprehensive habit to break is the habitual thinking by the left side of the brain.
I think it is much easier to pinpoint this reality while my left brain is processing .. (making me a banana), realizing I have cognitive dissonance in my left hemisphere, and sensory input in my right hemisphere, being outweighed by the left hemisphere, and simply realize, “ my brain is doing this, my left brain is overloaded, instead of saying, I am a complainer, or whatever judgment we might make about a self, when it is merely the brain doing this, We can dis-identify once we can pinpoint it as brain activity and leave it at that..
Don't get me wrong, I love Tolle, just think he is adorable, and certainly is making the most of what he experienced, and me, I am just muddling through life like the rest of you after 8 years of being awake, and falling back asleep (if I use their terminology) but the truth is the reason I did this was because I didn't understand what was going on. I was very young and alone when I experienced this "awakening" or breaking the habit of left side dominance. When I began to get confused about it, no one had any answers that made any sense, and 'I, also have read more spiritual books than should be legal,' to quote Elizabeth Lessor's words on the same topic of having read so many books. If you are still reading them, however, you probably aren’t at peace, and of course this is something we go in and out of al our lives..don’t fight it, it is all ok.
I always felt that each of us have to write our own books, we have to find our own way through the maze of our own brains. ( see our own way to truth and peace)
If I write my truth, and lecture my truth, I am doing no more than anyone who is exercising the left brain over and over in whatever they might be repeating..left brain talks, right brain lives.
Most books are way too wordy, likewise as Oprah said when Eckhart asked for a moment of silence on TV, she said this isn’t usually done on TV. Books are usually wordy. TV is wordy. Movies, especially bad ones are very wordy.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote a very small book called Science and Health, and was told it needed to be longer. Yet, a wonderful Christian Science practitioner I met, Mrs. Willoughby said a few words to me that sounded completely crazy, but I realized I had no better idea. It wasn't complicated, and I used it in unison with what the original ‘Be Here Now’ person, Ram Dass gave us all in the 1970’s.
Ram Dass wrote ‘Be Here Now’, (get a copy) it is a classic book and most of his money is donated to help people. Mrs Willoughby said to me, "you aren't meant to carry these burdens, just give them to the Lord, and she raised her hand over her head, as if to give it away. I left thinking she was a nut, but I did instantly realize I had no better idea (concerning my worries). So I began noticing when I was worrying to do as she and I gave it away, ( so to speak, I shifted my attention form the left brain thought processes. As Ram Dass suggested, I brought my attention to what my hands were doing at the moment. (seeing, touching; sense awareness)
I didn't ever sit down to meditate, I lived this, moment to moment, I struggled, but I broke the habit, Yet at that time, I was not aware it was a habit of my brain, so a mystery was still in place.
I progressed realizing it as a brain thing, yet the ‘mystery’ was still in place, and I had no one who wasn't into some mystery belief to turn, afterall, I lived in the middle of Texas. (A little girl from Pennsylvania, in the exact middle of Texas). I awoke, by all standards, completely, yet there was a doubt in my mind, and as a result of not understanding completely, the left brain was still involved, to a small degree, which grew larger as time went on because this is what happens when we don't value that left side of the brain and understand the difference between it's role and the role of the right side, and frontal lobe.
Furthermore, people who might know this better can capitalize on it to make a living off of the rest of us. Well, we do all have to make a living, I suppose, and yet, I don't believe those who truly understand will do this. I believe the ones who truly understand will struggle to live and share information freely for the good of all mankind. As Christ did, as The Buddha did.
Having said this, I also want to say this work of mine is copyrighted because I don’t want someone to use it in their book to sell to people when it is free here for all to read and to see and to be able to use.
So how do we use this information to get free of a bad habit of left brain activity?
I want to explore this, I am sure there are others exploring this. I want to recommend a book, The Brain That Changes Itself. I recommend it because it is honest, and not about mystery, or spirituality, or religion, but simply about our brains and how they work.
I am not saying that we are not more than our brains, I am however saying that we are energy, in the form of matter, and when we die we remain energy, but in another form, a form of pure energy.
Anyone who is able to shift their habits of being imbalanced by left-brain activity is capable of downloading the reality of what they are from the energy we intrinsically possess. It is there waiting to be experienced, once we balance our thinking; sensory input and creative intuitive universal communication we believe is miraculous, yet, is really quite ordinary, the way life really is when we are balanced in our brains, THAT being our ’natural’ condition.
Also it isn't dominated by Oprah who doesn't really understand this very well but whose job it is to make it easy to understand??? (that has to be a real problem in itself, and besides in every crowd there is someone who tries to restate what a Guru type says, as if he isn't adequately expressing what needs to be expressed) But Oprah has a good heart, (as we all do), and she is trying to get to the bottom of this, the thing is, just because she has been successful doesn't mean she knows what she is talking about.
Eckhart is still using vocabulary that is elusive, which will elude us.
But isn't he a great guy? Aren't YOU a great person?
First, I am aware of the fact that the mystery that all this is wrapped in, using words that are so difficult for us to understand, like "ego, and observer, or witness." Vague terms to say the least,
I wonder why these words are being used. They’re ambiguous.. I mean, where is this so called ego? This is just a process of the left brain, this thinking and remembering, and even manipulating to get what we need.
I believe that down the ages wise men and medicine men and so on have used some knowledge in a way to create a mystique, when there is really no mystique at all. But as a result they have a job in their culture, usually a very powerful one.
I did love what Elizabeth said to a caller that the sort of out of body experience was the witness witnessing what the ego was saying. (I would say it was the sensory part of the brain, the right side, aware of the problem solving part of the brain,( left side, being quiet, and the sensory side noticing the difference). Isn't that easier to understand than trying to understand a concept like ego, or witness?
I myself moved in and out of this space of left and right brain activity for many years, most often I was in the right side, calm, and sensory, and it was like I was away, well, it was like left brain was on vacation. It is a big change, (it feels otherworldly, because it is rare that we experience this after we begin using the left side of the brain as we become aware of ourselves in these structural terms that language applies to) and I have to say that I am predominately back in the left brain, not the ‘be here now right brain’. It makes no difference really, at this point anyway. So maybe no one wants to hear what I have to say because I am not exactly always being the witness, or maybe I am, but I still complain, etc. But I don’t act like I am enlightened. I simply AM.
When you live out of the left side of the brain, you intellectualize everything, you problem solve, and you worry, weigh things, remember things, categorize, manipulate, etc.
The right side of the brain is a sensory part of the brain. Our earliest memories are not of left side brain, but that experiencing was sensory; right side, seeing, feeling, touching, tasting, hearing. That is what we do when we aren't thinking, and trying to solve problems, etc.
For instance, my first memory I see my brown legs hanging over a bed ( you know how your legs are too short to dangle?) on white sheets that smell like fresh air, and cotton, I see a woman with brown arms carrying a tray containing a carnival glass pitcher with beads of perspiration al over it, filled with water, and matching glasses. I had no thoughts connected with it, I was three years old and was in Mexico for the first time, staying in a hotel there (all the way from my home state of Pennsylvania) From this memory I surmise I was hot and the bed was comforting, the senses were comforting. I surmise this memory wasn't a memory about something stressful for my body, and which would overwhelm my sensory brain's functions.
However, lets be honest, many children and adults run into more stress at a certain age than they are ready for. Look at schools; they assume every child is supposed to learn the same things in the same time. This isn't the way we are as human beings. We all have different experiences happening in and out of school, and are more or less sensory, more or less prone to stress.
I think we have to experience both sides of the brain to understand one another and to help one another, and to mature. I don't like the way Eckhart and Oprah use terms that sound judgmental concerning those who complain, or whatever because they are simply trying to figure their lives out, to understand themselves, which includes the stressors, the brain activity that overwhelms. We simply need to understand brain function better.
I think, in other words, that there is another way to explain this to impart this idea of awareness, consciousness, etc., and to further peace of mind, inner perception and, externally on earth, which is created by our inner peace).
I normally don't write for others to make comments, because it isn't important to me, as I write and post for my own enjoyment, but I do hope that if you have any questions, or comments, you will feel comfortable to email me, or comment and I will answer the best I can, or refer you to some other book to find answers.
If you want help to stop brain activity, and it being easy to do, I am so happy to help you. I wouldn't turn anyone way who I could help, and I do have some experience with this that is very pragmatic and helpful.
Also studies in creativity show the right side of the brain is not ‘creative’, the frontal lobe is creative, and it acts as a receiver, not as a source.
So whenever we are more in sensory brain, we are also freer to download information from the frontal lobe receiver side of the brain. So in a way there is a mystery, and in a way there is no mystery at all. It is simply a mystery to the left side because it is not able to sense and create. It can only use certain data and try to explain that, but it is cut off from creativity and sensory input.
And basically since we are human and have a brain, and live in this world that is problematic, the left side of the brain will involve itself. It is limited, however.
Now whatever you are; the ambiguous I AM, or the ambiguous EGO, simply you are energy. (Einstein said that matter and energy are the same thing)., you do come into contact with difficulties and I believe that stress can cause that voice to become very strong, that left brain to be very stimulated. Habitual ways of thinking come into being as a result, and we all know that habits are difficult to break. It basically takes 21 days to break a habit, and the most comprehensive habit to break is the habitual thinking by the left side of the brain.
I think it is much easier to pinpoint this reality while my left brain is processing .. (making me a banana), realizing I have cognitive dissonance in my left hemisphere, and sensory input in my right hemisphere, being outweighed by the left hemisphere, and simply realize, “ my brain is doing this, my left brain is overloaded, instead of saying, I am a complainer, or whatever judgment we might make about a self, when it is merely the brain doing this, We can dis-identify once we can pinpoint it as brain activity and leave it at that..
Don't get me wrong, I love Tolle, just think he is adorable, and certainly is making the most of what he experienced, and me, I am just muddling through life like the rest of you after 8 years of being awake, and falling back asleep (if I use their terminology) but the truth is the reason I did this was because I didn't understand what was going on. I was very young and alone when I experienced this "awakening" or breaking the habit of left side dominance. When I began to get confused about it, no one had any answers that made any sense, and 'I, also have read more spiritual books than should be legal,' to quote Elizabeth Lessor's words on the same topic of having read so many books. If you are still reading them, however, you probably aren’t at peace, and of course this is something we go in and out of al our lives..don’t fight it, it is all ok.
I always felt that each of us have to write our own books, we have to find our own way through the maze of our own brains. ( see our own way to truth and peace)
If I write my truth, and lecture my truth, I am doing no more than anyone who is exercising the left brain over and over in whatever they might be repeating..left brain talks, right brain lives.
Most books are way too wordy, likewise as Oprah said when Eckhart asked for a moment of silence on TV, she said this isn’t usually done on TV. Books are usually wordy. TV is wordy. Movies, especially bad ones are very wordy.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote a very small book called Science and Health, and was told it needed to be longer. Yet, a wonderful Christian Science practitioner I met, Mrs. Willoughby said a few words to me that sounded completely crazy, but I realized I had no better idea. It wasn't complicated, and I used it in unison with what the original ‘Be Here Now’ person, Ram Dass gave us all in the 1970’s.
Ram Dass wrote ‘Be Here Now’, (get a copy) it is a classic book and most of his money is donated to help people. Mrs Willoughby said to me, "you aren't meant to carry these burdens, just give them to the Lord, and she raised her hand over her head, as if to give it away. I left thinking she was a nut, but I did instantly realize I had no better idea (concerning my worries). So I began noticing when I was worrying to do as she and I gave it away, ( so to speak, I shifted my attention form the left brain thought processes. As Ram Dass suggested, I brought my attention to what my hands were doing at the moment. (seeing, touching; sense awareness)
I didn't ever sit down to meditate, I lived this, moment to moment, I struggled, but I broke the habit, Yet at that time, I was not aware it was a habit of my brain, so a mystery was still in place.
I progressed realizing it as a brain thing, yet the ‘mystery’ was still in place, and I had no one who wasn't into some mystery belief to turn, afterall, I lived in the middle of Texas. (A little girl from Pennsylvania, in the exact middle of Texas). I awoke, by all standards, completely, yet there was a doubt in my mind, and as a result of not understanding completely, the left brain was still involved, to a small degree, which grew larger as time went on because this is what happens when we don't value that left side of the brain and understand the difference between it's role and the role of the right side, and frontal lobe.
Furthermore, people who might know this better can capitalize on it to make a living off of the rest of us. Well, we do all have to make a living, I suppose, and yet, I don't believe those who truly understand will do this. I believe the ones who truly understand will struggle to live and share information freely for the good of all mankind. As Christ did, as The Buddha did.
Having said this, I also want to say this work of mine is copyrighted because I don’t want someone to use it in their book to sell to people when it is free here for all to read and to see and to be able to use.
So how do we use this information to get free of a bad habit of left brain activity?
I want to explore this, I am sure there are others exploring this. I want to recommend a book, The Brain That Changes Itself. I recommend it because it is honest, and not about mystery, or spirituality, or religion, but simply about our brains and how they work.
I am not saying that we are not more than our brains, I am however saying that we are energy, in the form of matter, and when we die we remain energy, but in another form, a form of pure energy.
Anyone who is able to shift their habits of being imbalanced by left-brain activity is capable of downloading the reality of what they are from the energy we intrinsically possess. It is there waiting to be experienced, once we balance our thinking; sensory input and creative intuitive universal communication we believe is miraculous, yet, is really quite ordinary, the way life really is when we are balanced in our brains, THAT being our ’natural’ condition.
March 19, 2008
Pasta with Pesto, and Curry
Tonight I made curry and a pasta dish for tomorrow
Umm, house smells nice when curry is cooking.
Here are the photos..I used 2 onions, and 4 carrots, and 2 extra large potatoes, a few chunks of stew meat..some shiraz and curry...
The pesto is a fettucine with an herbal pesto sauce. So easy to make and relaly yummy pasta..
Anybody have ideas for dinner tomorrow night?
Well yeah, pasta, salad, but I'll probably cook up some more stuff for the next day. It's nice to stay ahead in case you have some draining day and don't have the energy to cook, or wanna go do something, so dinner is already done..
Tomorrow I may have a smorgasbord of left overs, not elegant aftermath's mind you, just good old leftovers.
I don't know what I'll cook until I'm in the kitchen, and then I get started and can't stop. I get worn out cooking, it's like a marathon.
Oh by the way here is a verry interesting link, you should check this out. I have been researching so much stuff on the brian lately, and in conjunction I am watching online video of Oprah interviewing Eckhart Tolle, very cool that over a million people are involved in this from her site at Oprah.com.
His book is The New Earth, and is about ego and awareness, raising consciousness, etc. Very practical stuff to have a better life.
Combined with news about the amazing brain, I am wowed.
The book to get is, The Brain That Changes Itself. Ironically I bought this book over Christmas and now PBS is giving it away in their aging brain series, which is also very very interesting.
So here is that one site you have to go to , I am to lazy tonight to make a link, so just copy and paste this in your browser or google the name here, and even tho her voice is difficult to listen to, it is well worth a listen.
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story of recovery and awareness -- of how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 18:44.)
Umm, house smells nice when curry is cooking.
Here are the photos..I used 2 onions, and 4 carrots, and 2 extra large potatoes, a few chunks of stew meat..some shiraz and curry...
The pesto is a fettucine with an herbal pesto sauce. So easy to make and relaly yummy pasta..
Anybody have ideas for dinner tomorrow night?
Well yeah, pasta, salad, but I'll probably cook up some more stuff for the next day. It's nice to stay ahead in case you have some draining day and don't have the energy to cook, or wanna go do something, so dinner is already done..
Tomorrow I may have a smorgasbord of left overs, not elegant aftermath's mind you, just good old leftovers.
I don't know what I'll cook until I'm in the kitchen, and then I get started and can't stop. I get worn out cooking, it's like a marathon.
Oh by the way here is a verry interesting link, you should check this out. I have been researching so much stuff on the brian lately, and in conjunction I am watching online video of Oprah interviewing Eckhart Tolle, very cool that over a million people are involved in this from her site at Oprah.com.
His book is The New Earth, and is about ego and awareness, raising consciousness, etc. Very practical stuff to have a better life.
Combined with news about the amazing brain, I am wowed.
The book to get is, The Brain That Changes Itself. Ironically I bought this book over Christmas and now PBS is giving it away in their aging brain series, which is also very very interesting.
So here is that one site you have to go to , I am to lazy tonight to make a link, so just copy and paste this in your browser or google the name here, and even tho her voice is difficult to listen to, it is well worth a listen.
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story of recovery and awareness -- of how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 18:44.)
March 18, 2008
Look Diane! I can still cook! (well, prepare food)
I butchered my first post, so lets see if I can get it right again.I confess the only cooking here was the pasta in the salad.
What we have here, besides a big mess in the kitchen is:
Pasta salad with ham
Marinated spinach salad (with black grapes)
Pita sandwiches of my own design, they include:
Taboli with mint ( thanks to Diane reminding me how to make it)
sandwiches are spread with: lotsa hummus
then filled with tabouli
Turkey, (chopped)
English cukes (chopped)
Tomato ( chopped)
Kalamata olives
(usually I use feta, (french) but was out, it was good anyway..)
Squeeze each side with lemon, and drizzle with olive oil.
I designed this sandwich , waaay long ago. Usually serve them with gazpacho ( prepared, not cooked, as well)
Anyway, this is great company food, make it a day ahead, and just serve it taco style.
It was a big mess in the kitchen, I tried to make it look tidy for the photo's.
It's stored away till tomorrow now.
You can add anything to these sandwiches, artichoke is good, use your imagination.
If you want my designer Gazpacho recipe, e-mail me. It is a really great gazpacho from back in my gourmet cooking days.
The pasta salad was pasta hearts, but they sort of turned to ribbons in the pasta. I use stone ground mustard with mayonnaise, sweet pickle juice, sweet pickle, dill relish, red bell pepper, onions, and celery in this salad, with salt and pepper, and hmm, any spices, I forget..
My dishes are from Mexico ( people usually ask)
My mess:
That's olive oil in the Chanti bottle.
Stuffed!!!
March 12, 2008
No escargot
I'm actually trying to get the Christmas ads off my site by removing the posts with Christmas topics, maybe this will do it..
I have a terrarium in my bistro and it had a slug in it, ( about 3.5 inches long) our common everyday washington slugs..I was gone one weekend and he got out. Silver threads were all over the carpet under the bistro. He apparently tracked back and forth looking for a different surface other than the wooden floor. I guess he must have slimed himself out because there was no track of him anywhere. uh oh.. maybe somewhere eating all our food, waiting to become "The Slug that ate Seattle"?
Honestly one year I planted sunflowers. I had 3 of them about 3.5 foot tall. They had flowers on them that were about 3.5 inches across. One morning the flowers were completely eaten off the stalk. These slugs are simply amazing, but don't confuse them with escargot.
I have a terrarium in my bistro and it had a slug in it, ( about 3.5 inches long) our common everyday washington slugs..I was gone one weekend and he got out. Silver threads were all over the carpet under the bistro. He apparently tracked back and forth looking for a different surface other than the wooden floor. I guess he must have slimed himself out because there was no track of him anywhere. uh oh.. maybe somewhere eating all our food, waiting to become "The Slug that ate Seattle"?
Honestly one year I planted sunflowers. I had 3 of them about 3.5 foot tall. They had flowers on them that were about 3.5 inches across. One morning the flowers were completely eaten off the stalk. These slugs are simply amazing, but don't confuse them with escargot.
Bakery Customers
Awhile ago I was up in LaConner, and stayed at a hotel across the street from the local bakery. When I got up , and looked out my window, I saw these turkey's waiting for the bakey to open....no camera, just a camera phone, but it saved the day..
Comforts
A full frig...one of the comforts of home. I took this with my phone.
I was at Whole Foods in Seattle Sunday, and remembering Whole Foods in Austin in the 70's. A small, cheap rent, store that sold organic vegetables and bulk foods, honey, birkenstocks, and hippie stuff..now it is an amazing Corporation, and pricey, beautiful store, full of variety, and products, so much, I left without buying a thing, couldn't decide what to buy.
I was at Whole Foods in Seattle Sunday, and remembering Whole Foods in Austin in the 70's. A small, cheap rent, store that sold organic vegetables and bulk foods, honey, birkenstocks, and hippie stuff..now it is an amazing Corporation, and pricey, beautiful store, full of variety, and products, so much, I left without buying a thing, couldn't decide what to buy.
It's beginning to look a lot like spring!
Ok, I admit, my peonies aren't up yet.
I just thought you needed a peek of spring..
These are for Louie, my best friend in Ohio where they just had a nasty blizzard.
But crocus and daffs are up, and some ground covers are blooming, and trees are blooming too.
I'll post pictures, but feast on these from last summer awhile.
I found this company that sells garden groupings, like hardy ferns, or shade loving plants ( hosta, astibles, etc.) You buy a package of plants and get the plans for where to plant for a well designed garden. I think it's a pretty good idea.
Check it out.
I just thought you needed a peek of spring..
These are for Louie, my best friend in Ohio where they just had a nasty blizzard.
But crocus and daffs are up, and some ground covers are blooming, and trees are blooming too.
I'll post pictures, but feast on these from last summer awhile.
I found this company that sells garden groupings, like hardy ferns, or shade loving plants ( hosta, astibles, etc.) You buy a package of plants and get the plans for where to plant for a well designed garden. I think it's a pretty good idea.
Check it out.
February 11, 2008
Bamboo
I'm looking for bamboo, large bamboo that grows fast where I live. A neighbor subdivided their property, and now I have a hole in my back yard form the willow tree that was taken down that provided privacy. A new large home is going up, and it is very intrusive as all these large new homes are. I'm looking at Moso bamboo, it could possibly grow to 70 feet, and have canes of up to 8" in diameter.
So right now I'm remodeling the bathroom, and searching for bamboo that I can plant to provide a buffer between and me.
It feels naked here..
Here is a picture of Moso..
and another, nice huh? I have to plant a steel barrier to keep it from taking over the city tho.
So right now I'm remodeling the bathroom, and searching for bamboo that I can plant to provide a buffer between and me.
It feels naked here..
Here is a picture of Moso..
and another, nice huh? I have to plant a steel barrier to keep it from taking over the city tho.
January 21, 2008
The Stress Eraser
Sharper Image ( link below) has the stress eraser, and their policy for return is pretty good.
I just bought one and it is retraining me to breathe, and I feel much less stressed, amazing.
click this link...
the stress eraser
They have a 60 day return policy..click on pic below of tape archiver.
A small bio feed back machine that will fit in your purse; backpack, etc, coat pocket.
Use it at bedtime and a few short times a day, also if angry or just uptight..
I knew I was breathing shallow, but wow, I had completely forgotten how to breathe..
It's your own personal guru..I had been holding my breath for years after some very stressful events over 20 years ago.
I've used it for about 2.5 weeks now. I would send it back if it didn't work because it costs 300.00..BUT it's probably the best 300.00 I have ever spent.
Here is what they say:
The StressEraser™ is an award-winning, hand-held biofeedback medical device designed to calm your mind and relax your body in just 15 minutes.
The StressEraser's effectiveness is based on science's understanding of the physiological manifestations of psychological stress.
The StressEraser focuses your mind and guides your breathing to synchronize with a calming BreathWave™ pattern.
After just two weeks of 15-minute nighttime sessions, expect to feel consistently calmer, more patient as well as more energetic during the day. Reach for The StressEraser at anytime, day or night, when you want to feel less stressed.
The StressEraser was honored with Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Medical Industry Award for Technology Innovation of the Year for helping individuals achieve "physiological, mental and emotional relaxation" — non-invasively and without drugs.
Just click on the name here...
the stress eraser
I just bought one and it is retraining me to breathe, and I feel much less stressed, amazing.
click this link...
the stress eraser
They have a 60 day return policy..click on pic below of tape archiver.
A small bio feed back machine that will fit in your purse; backpack, etc, coat pocket.
Use it at bedtime and a few short times a day, also if angry or just uptight..
I knew I was breathing shallow, but wow, I had completely forgotten how to breathe..
It's your own personal guru..I had been holding my breath for years after some very stressful events over 20 years ago.
I've used it for about 2.5 weeks now. I would send it back if it didn't work because it costs 300.00..BUT it's probably the best 300.00 I have ever spent.
Here is what they say:
The StressEraser™ is an award-winning, hand-held biofeedback medical device designed to calm your mind and relax your body in just 15 minutes.
The StressEraser's effectiveness is based on science's understanding of the physiological manifestations of psychological stress.
The StressEraser focuses your mind and guides your breathing to synchronize with a calming BreathWave™ pattern.
After just two weeks of 15-minute nighttime sessions, expect to feel consistently calmer, more patient as well as more energetic during the day. Reach for The StressEraser at anytime, day or night, when you want to feel less stressed.
The StressEraser was honored with Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Medical Industry Award for Technology Innovation of the Year for helping individuals achieve "physiological, mental and emotional relaxation" — non-invasively and without drugs.
Just click on the name here...
the stress eraser
January 20, 2008
Methow Valley Revisited
This snowy country is always beautiful..Pearrygin State Park in particular has landscapes that change drastically every few minutes.
This is in Winthrop Washington about 5 hours from home.
I snow shoe here...
This is in Winthrop Washington about 5 hours from home.
I snow shoe here...
January 17, 2008
Snow in the Mountains not far from home
Some more photos of snow up in the snow country of Washington.
Umm, wish I were going again to stay awhile, if only I had a small place up there, it would be a nice wintry get away.. Icy Creek...along the road to Winthrop a river flows, and at this time it was freezing over, and had ice floats building up.
Was beautiful, but I had no places to park along side the road to photograph it.
But this is similar taken in Winthrop by the river. When I'm up there, even tho it is isolated from any places I'd like to go to, I am drawn back to the snowy landscape, reminds me of my wintry roots in PA. Icicles hang from houses, reminding me of the swords we broke off to fight with as children, altho these are small in comparison.
Horses in the snow in Winthrop , the Methow Valley. It is about a 4 hour drive from my home. The snow, of course can be accessed only a bit over an hour away, but I like coming here to Winthrop and snowshoeing in fresh snow, seeing bunny tracks and deer hoof prints early in a morning. Very cold temps now, but spring offers snow as well, and much warmer, not that I mid the snow. Just last stay was at a place in Winthrop I had stayed at before, but this last time I was given a basement room at a B&B. It was very unpleasant, I had no idea it was a basement, was told it was a 'downstairs ' room, which I had stayed in a downstairs room before, and it wasn't a basement. It wasn't very cheery being in a room in a basement, no window to see snow, and a 10" tv. (for 95.00 a night)
But the ceiling was painted like clouds...( not good enough) lol
Deer migrating to some place to bed down I suppose, for the night.
air filters, which are the best?
Just waiting for a new heating system with air filtration system to be installed in this house. When I turned on the big monster heater this year, immediately I had trouble breathing,and coughing. It persists.
Obviously this has been a problem ongoing, but I hadn't put it together. The cough is awful, and I can only assume the heater blew dust mites out of the vents all over the house. 19,000 dust mites per 1 inch of dust I believe.. hmmm...
So I'm shopping around for the best air filters.
If you have any ideas, let me know. For now I'm looking at these units from this company. I see they have some units on sale.
I've bought small portable air filters that plug into the wall directly, this is a good company I think. So I guess I'll look around these stores for a filter at least for my room so I can sleep at night and see if it makes a difference.
Dust Mites
Obviously this has been a problem ongoing, but I hadn't put it together. The cough is awful, and I can only assume the heater blew dust mites out of the vents all over the house. 19,000 dust mites per 1 inch of dust I believe.. hmmm...
So I'm shopping around for the best air filters.
If you have any ideas, let me know. For now I'm looking at these units from this company. I see they have some units on sale.
I've bought small portable air filters that plug into the wall directly, this is a good company I think. So I guess I'll look around these stores for a filter at least for my room so I can sleep at night and see if it makes a difference.
Dust Mites
January 15, 2008
mac book air?
I gave them my idea for the illuminated keyboard.
Now I almost wish I had waited for this version, but it starts at about 1799.00.
.Worth every penny I'm sure.
The illuminated keyboard itself is worth a pretty price ( to me).
How many years ago did I begin bugging them about illuminated keyboards? And every store I went into.
Too bad I'm inventive but don't know how to put these deals together.
Oh well, maybe in my next life I'll pair up with a business genius.
Until then, I'm just a receiver ( another) for the great ideas floating around the universe)
One among many...
Isn't this cool tho? Looks maybe 1/4 inch thick?
January 03, 2008
Holidays in Winthrop
I didn't notice the apples until I downloaded the photos, I was intent on the eagle on the other side of the river.
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