Okay, this is getting ridiculous now. I got to bed at a decent hour after stumbling through the rest of my day yesterday but I was rudely awakened at 3:30 am AGAIN! What the?! It wasn't the roosters crowing this time. I'd taken my Benadryl before bed so it wasn't a histamine rush which usually …
Hopefully you caught part one of my adventures in (somewhat) homemade butter-making yesterday. For the record, we don't use much dairy here because my hyperactive immune system doesn't love it as much as we do, so we use fresh, homemade almond milk and light olive oil instead. But since I can have a little bit …
Continue reading Now We’re Cookin’! Super Easy (somewhat) Homemade Butter (Part Two)
Most people are aware by now how much healthier it is to raise and eat your own food than it is to rely on the industrial scale, factory farming and most people already know how delicious and nutritious free range, organic meat tastes, but here's a quick reminder of why it's important to not support …
We have one duck that is, for lack of a better word, a malcontent. She is always starting trouble, she is a terrible mother, and between you and me, she is my favorite. We are kindred spirits. I will openly admit that I used to be a malcontent myself and probably could have been a …
People are usually very kind when I explain to them the impact mast cell disease has on my life. I tend to get sympathy, which I don't really want, as well as empathy, which I do really need, and sometimes I get some great (and not so great) advice. The other day I took a …
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