I came down with a nasty virus last week that knocked me for six, but I'm on the mend and slowing getting back to normal. The computer break has been nice I have to say; instead of spending my spare time Googling everything from recipes to craft projects to vegetable pests I've been "forced" to just sit and be with my thoughts for a change. I thought I was living in the moment before, but this week has shown me - once again - how we all need the Yin to our Yang in our lives and how reflection is just as important as doing.
Thank you to all the lovely people who have enquired after me, it's so lovely that people who have never met me in real life check up on me :-)
Thank you to all the lovely people who have enquired after me, it's so lovely that people who have never met me in real life check up on me :-)
For now, I am excited about the first squash of the season ripening. I wonder how long it will be before we are all heartily sick of squash and zucchini once again ;-)
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So nice to hear from you. Glad you are feeling better.
I know what you mean about computer time. I felt like i was pending too much time here too. So I bring the kitchen timer in set it for an hour (or less if it is a busy day and then go for it.)
If I set up a post and it take 20 minutes cool then I might come back later and spend ten minutes checking in on other blogs.
And another ten minutes googling recipes or articles. I don't include email chekcing time because I do that before everything else - first thing.
I am sure you will find a balance life is a constant re-adjustment to circumstance, place or mindset. When it isn't we're probably dead or we will wish to be when we sober up!!LOL
daisymum
Welcome back! Glad your feeling a little better...have been enjoying your blog so far and missed you this lat week.
xox
Glad you are on the mend! Take it easy and take it slow.
No way you can get sick of squash and zucchini! *sniggers*
Yay for feeling better! And even more yay for squash and zucchini. If hubby liked it as well, we'd grow it, but I just can't justify the space use for something he really doesn't enjoy. Bummer.
Hmm.. maybe we should all declare a blog-free google-free day once a month? A universal blog-out, to go get reaquainted with silence.
Glad to hear from you again...
Great to see things are really moving in the garden up your end of OZ.
Kind Regards
Belinda
Hi Julie
Good to hear you are over the bug. Thyme tea is great for such afflictions - 3 cups per day is enough to help your body get over the nasties.
I am yet to plant my squash - am doing so on Thursday - mainly because I forgot them when I was planting up earlier. Maybe my memory is telling me something?? I'm wondering whether we need a challenge as to the most innovative ways to use up those zucchinis and squash we all get so many of?
Hope your blood test results point them in the right direction and you get well soon. xx
Was that the virus with high temps, with an option of gastro? People I know have been dropping like flies too - fingers crossed we've avoided it so far..
Glad you're back :)
I'm very glad that you are feeling better. I'm new to your blog. I'd visited a while back but had somehow lost the address. My wonderful sister, Kelly (the city mouse), directed me this way again and I see that I have missed quite a bit.
Blessings to you and thank you for the beautiful peace that you share with your devoted readers,
Lacy
www.razorfamilyfarms.com
Hi there. I found your blog some time ago, lost it, and then found it again! I really enjoy your posts and the way you post them. In fact, I adopted a similar style on my blog. Hope you don't mind! And hope you're feeling better soon!
All the best.
I have been lurking your blog for months. You actually were the inspiration for me to start blogging (although im still not sure what it is im planning on blogging about.... is that allowed?? :-))
So glad you are feeling better, forced down time is better than no down time at all
Belinda
Phew!
So glad to see you back. I pop in each day to see what you have to say and was beginning to get a little concerned. I am pleased that you are feeling better once again. As for the squash mmmmmm!! We have been eating squash every which way for weeks now up here in sunny Queensland and think that I may be becoming just a little squashedout! The winning recipe this year has been chopped up and stirfried with a little onion, bacon and tomato over pasta (including any other little vegie that happens to be smiling at me from the garden of course) Enjoy. Look after yourself. Kind regards Linda
Hi Daisymum,
I also try to schedule (and therefore limit) my computer time, but the dis/advantage of broadband is that it's easy to "just nip in" to check on a recipe conversion or something!
Hi Teena,
Thank you :-)
Hi Veggie,
Must only be me who gets sick of zukes then ;-)
Hi Kelly,
Ooh, I love your blog-free day idea, I don't know how many other bloggers would go for it though LOL.
Hi Belinda,
Yes I'm loving seeing everything burst into new growth up here at the moment. Won't be long before I'm trying to hack it all back and contain it though LOL.
Hi NW,
Thanks for the tip about thyme tea. By coincidence I've been packing it into the chicken vegie soup I've been sipping lately, so maybe it added an extra punch! I love your zucchini challenge idea - really must get back to that in the height of the season when we are all drowing in monster zukes :-)
Hi Kez,
Yep! I took up the gastro option too = blerck :-( On the mend now though thankfully.
Hi Lacy,
Thank you for your kind words :-) By coincidence I stumbled across your blog yesterday (probably following a link from Kelly's blog I suspect) and added it to my Favourites :-) Great work!
Hi Amber,
Of course I don't mind; imitation is the sincerest form of flattery as 'they' say :-)
Hi Belinda,
Um yep, you can definitely not know what you are blogging about LOL. I started out all over the place and then went back months later and deleted all the irrelevant posts LOL.
Hi Kel,
Yep! Glad to have it out of the way LOL.
Hi Linda,
I'm so jealous of you northerners and your extended growing seasons! Still, I get to grow some more marginal stone fruits and things down here which is nice so I shouldn't complain too much :-) Love your squash recipe, bacon is just about my Dh's all time fave food, so I anything with bacon in it is a winner.
Cheers, Julie
You poor poor thing! We've just had a similar bug for the past 4 days - yuck! Lovely to catch up on the garden - ever an inspiration!
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