I wrote in Pain control and dumbing down the consciousness that I’d taken one 7.5 Mobic for two days to help with some wrist pain.  It made me feel kind of dumbed down, but it gave me some vivid dreams.  In one, I was sitting with  my mom, who died in 1996, she in her blue nylon nightgown and me in pjs, and we were each drinking a glass of red wine.  Which in real life we never did.  We were just talking about ordinary things.  I woke up feeling I’d visited with her.  It was very cool.

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I’d been having a bout with an old carpal tunnel injury and wrote on Facebook earlier this week: “Wow, I gave in and took one 7.5mg Mobic for my aching paw at 1:00pm and just now woke up at 10:00pm. Well, my hand hasn’t hurt since then, I’ll say that. This is why I don’t like to take drugs.” A Facebook friend wrote: “We call them Frog Pills because they make you feel like a pithed frog.”  She wasn’t exaggerating.  I did it two days in a row, since it was the perfect time to stay off the computer.  It shut down the ache, but it also shut down my brain.  It made me feel… stupid.  And not in a fluffy, stoned, la la la way.  Just… inert.  I did not feel particularly intuitive.  And for someone whose livelihood depends upon my intuition, that’s no small thing.  It also affected my meditation, it was like driving through a fog trying to stay focused.  I so seldom take anything – even aspirin kinds of things – that I forget one side affect is dumbing down the consciousness.  I’ll have to see if it’s worth it.

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A Three Sisters Garden

The Three Sisters all work together. Critters will find it harder to invade your garden by interplanting your corn, beans and squash. The corn stalk serves as a pole for the beans, the beans help to add the nitrogen to the soil that the corn needs, and the squash provides a ground cover of shade that helps the soil retain moisture.

What is a Three Sisters Garden?  It is an ancient method of gardening using an intercropping system which grows corn, beans, and squash crops simultaneously in the same growing area that is typically a rounded mound of soil, often called a hill. Continue reading →

I love my Toro 20332 – Recycler lawn mower. It creates its own mulch as I go along. Good for my yard since I get a lot of pine needles and oak leaves. And twigs, that I just run right over.  My pal Denise has the same mower. She showed me how to change the filter the other day.  It really needed it after 2 years.  It stopped self propelling a couple of months ago. I drained the gas out into a pan and tipped the mower over and checked the front drive underneath. I had a mile of grapevine tangled around the drive rod, so I cut it off then I was good to go.  9-28-17 Update, cleared drive rod again but self propeller still didn’t work. I’ll take it in to be checked and report back. This mower is 10 years old!