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What a menagerie. Interesting how this has turned out - I see eight eyed ginger cat frogs. Some strange goings on in your garden.
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What a menagerie. Interesting how this has turned out - I see eight eyed ginger cat frogs. Some strange goings on in your garden.Fbg ...still not taking it because experimenting with foods...will explain a bit more in a day or so. Experimenting with foods seems to be working.
I appear to have acquired another stray cat, but he was there all along.
All my life I wanted a little ginger cat, but I never came across one needing a home.
There are 4 stray ginger cats here, not 3.
I am sure that there is a greater chance of winning the lottery, than this.
The first ginger was Manky Ginger (I must think of a better name for him), but it describes his gangly looks.
The second ginger, just got called Ginger.
The third ginger got called Biscuit because his fur is more a soft orange with no tabby type markings.
The fourth ginger has much more defined tabby markings, and he turned a side of his face to me that I have not seen before, because he has always approached the cat bowl from the same side. Yesterday I saw he had a largish injury on the left side of his face, like he had been involved with a fight with a cat or a dog. I moved close to the window as I dared, but he wasn't fazed by me, and I could see that it had healed up, but no fur was growing there.
He is larger than the other gingers.
I had thought my eyes had been playing tricks on me, or the lighting was different.
So, fourth ginger I have now named Pirate (but his eye by the injury seems perfectly okay).
Creative is a kaleidoscope made from the painting of that pedigree ginger cat I saw some weeks ago who came to gennepher's cat diner for a few days, but then didn't come again.
It is still nighttime out there in the garden. But I forgot to put the barking driveway sensor in the garden last night, after recharging, to scare the fox away, and I can see that Popeye's Big Ted has been doing a midnight dance with Foxy Loxy last night. And then when the bewitching hour was over, the dance ended abruptly and Big Ted was dumped on the daffodils...
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Thanks @ianpspurs and care will now be taken not to use said brush again for fear of damage,Monday, Monday here in FH. Bright, chilly and full of Eastern Promise. Swipey is asleep so no known fbg but the trend implies somewhere in the 4s to mid 5s. Simply divine day yesterday in so many ways - this Pilgrimage is turning out to be quite the Sliding Doors event. The Food Fairy transmogrified my fave LC/Keto chocolate cake into brownies - divine darling, divine. I now have a few items to test for impact - those, Aldi soy pasta and cheese sauce all being fine taste wise and allegedly carb wise. @gennepher experimenting may be catching; your kaleidoscope today invoked ideas of a fresco on some Cathedral ceiling visited (purely in my mind) on this pilgrimage. @dunelm don't turn the brush into Trigger's Brush before Mr Miggins has her turn. Thanks for the art Sir. The chat with the NNs and Miss P sounds perfect. @Krystyna23040 good girl for the sausage roll. JKP and I like Granchester (fancy that, eh ) which is true to location at times but Professor T is the dogs thing me jigs for "real" Cambridge. @alf_Josiah holiday or hospital? - not that it is any business of mine. @Jojo85 the holiday sounds wonderful and the kg is merely a rounding error. Today would have been/was my mum's (#trulyblessed) birthday. We visited the grave and laid flowers on Saturday in celebration. I'm sure yesterday was so good because I felt completely at home there and the pork came from a farm we knew well. Oh, the sun also shone and Spurs won. Does God's plan include an Exodus (sorry Bob I ain't linking) for Ian? Stay safe, sound and sane - 2 out of 3 ain't bad Alf. To the Gym James and don't spare the horses.
Interesting art bit @dunelmGood morning everyone on yet another start in the sunshine here in the dark and dangerous north. I may have to dig out my swimming costume and give it a go over with the iron - if I knew where that thing resided. I have an old one that I use for ironing rice paper (who knew). A day of tidying up yesterday and first dibs on a new yard brush that Mrs Miggins bought last week. Seems to work well but we will never know until Mrs Miggins returns and carries out a detailed inspection. Lovely chat with the Ninky Nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse who were excitedly telling me about a visit to a bowling alley and an explore in a nearby wood.
Art bit - another large sheet of rice paper, landscape. Have a splendid Monday, don’t rush it. Best make some koffy.
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No buckets of self control available @alf_Josiah but here are some self control gift wrapped boxes just for you. Unwrap one when you need itGood Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those of unspecified IQ levels.
Blood sugars this morning were a…..hmm thought provoking 8.1, several culprits for this reading and all under my ( lack ) of control, sympathy is not required please send buckets of self control instead.
Little bit of good news for regular readers of my almost daily rambling, me, me’s and myself will be off line for the next few days, apart from maybe a quick post of blood sugars, subject to access to the interweb.
My pals chaos and mayhem are due for parole shortly, then the famous cry will be herd ( heard for the picky amongst you ) **cry havoc and let loose the dogs stupidity **
Stay safe all, I am staying safe I have already made Mrs J’s tea. Now it’s lft test time.
Interesting perception of the kaleidoscope @ianpspursMonday, Monday here in FH. Bright, chilly and full of Eastern Promise. Swipey is asleep so no known fbg but the trend implies somewhere in the 4s to mid 5s. Simply divine day yesterday in so many ways - this Pilgrimage is turning out to be quite the Sliding Doors event. The Food Fairy transmogrified my fave LC/Keto chocolate cake into brownies - divine darling, divine. I now have a few items to test for impact - those, Aldi soy pasta and cheese sauce all being fine taste wise and allegedly carb wise. @gennepher experimenting may be catching; your kaleidoscope today invoked ideas of a fresco on some Cathedral ceiling visited (purely in my mind) on this pilgrimage. @dunelm don't turn the brush into Trigger's Brush before Mr Miggins has her turn. Thanks for the art Sir. The chat with the NNs and Miss P sounds perfect. @Krystyna23040 good girl for the sausage roll. JKP and I like Granchester (fancy that, eh ) which is true to location at times but Professor T is the dogs thing me jigs for "real" Cambridge. @alf_Josiah holiday or hospital? - not that it is any business of mine. @Jojo85 the holiday sounds wonderful and the kg is merely a rounding error. Today would have been/was my mum's (#trulyblessed) birthday. We visited the grave and laid flowers on Saturday in celebration. I'm sure yesterday was so good because I felt completely at home there and the pork came from a farm we knew well. Oh, the sun also shone and Spurs won. Does God's plan include an Exodus (sorry Bob I ain't linking) for Ian? Stay safe, sound and sane - 2 out of 3 ain't bad Alf. To the Gym James and don't spare the horses.
Thank you @gennepherInteresting art bit @dunelm
I love the detail of the saplings...
Brilliant blood sugars @gennepher. You have definitely found what really works for you.Fbg 6.3
My food experiment.
It included me eating different foods, just things I fancied eating that I haven't eaten for awhile, instead of thinking 'what is the absolute best food to eat to control diabetes.'
But it included the addition of one new vital food.
To start from the beginning. A couple of weeks ago, or so, a particular seeded bread I bought online had gone up in price. The 'bread' is literally nothing but seeds (a lot of people gave it bad reviews because of the solidness of it, idiots -of course it is going to be a solid bread). It had been £3.99 for 4 small slices. And I had been prepared to pay that because it did not raise my blood sugars at all. It has now gone up to £9.99 for the same 4 small slices. That is just not viable (not on my state pensioner's income).
Years ago, pre diabetes diagnosis, I used to buy an intensely seeded bread in Nantwich market. Two loaves would last me a fortnight. This was when J was alive and we went all over the place. But when he was gone, obviously I am not going to drive a day's trip just to get a loaf of seeded bread from the market.
I did experiment with a loose seed mix for awhile (14 years ago) and that helped lower the glycemic index of the foods I was eating. But time and stuff got in the way, and like all things we stray off the good path for a bit!
So I went to get some loose seed mix. Not as easy to obtain any more. It wasn't in my regular shops. Finally found some when I met my friend in England. But it wasn't going to last long. I did find some in a supermarket near here. But it was a quarter of the size for 6 times the price. Absolutely not!
More searching. Ended up at the local Polish shop. Found different seeds there. With the aid of Google translate I identified (!) and bought several packets of seeds. I need to go back and ID more of them.
So my experiment was this.
Adding about 3 to 4 teaspoons of mixed seeds to whatever my meal is that day. Even to eggs, to bacon, to meat etc as I am cooking them. My cooking is grilling and so they might get roasted a bit on there.
I eat one meal a day.
Prior to my seed experiment I was adding a cup of miso soup to my diet. Especially if I felt like a little something mid afternoon. But no solid stuff with it as I get bad heartburn at night if I eat late. And that miso soup drink also lowered my in the day blood glucose readings.
But I still got one spike in the day. I alway have got one high reading at some point of the day, or in the night of over 10, maybe even 12.1 for no apparent reason at all to me. It didn't appear directly related to food.
However, having the miso drink once a day, did reduce that spike to under 10. And so the spike would be 9.something. But that still wasn't good enough for me. So, hence the mixed seeds experiment.
I started the daily miso drink about a month ago. And then the mixed seeds on my once a day meal about a fortnight ago. I am eating a little more carbs now, maybe about 30 grams, but always I am eating those carbs with seeds on them.
Although my fasting blood glucose is still in the 6's, I do not get those horrible over the 10's spikes at some other random point in the day. I can feel them when they happen.
And my blood glucose readings in the day, with this new regime is mixed seeds and a miso drink, can now go as low as 5.something, but never over 8. This is the most even keel I have ever managed to get my readings in a 24 hour period.
So, that is my recent diabetic food and blood glucose readings journey.
Creative today...a kaleidoscope of the approach to Flint Castle...I can see evil faces in this!
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Good experiment and smashing blood sugars result. Monsters from another planet or time in your kaleidoscope.Fbg 6.3
My food experiment.
It included me eating different foods, just things I fancied eating that I haven't eaten for awhile, instead of thinking 'what is the absolute best food to eat to control diabetes.'
But it included the addition of one new vital food.
To start from the beginning. A couple of weeks ago, or so, a particular seeded bread I bought online had gone up in price. The 'bread' is literally nothing but seeds (a lot of people gave it bad reviews because of the solidness of it, idiots -of course it is going to be a solid bread). It had been £3.99 for 4 small slices. And I had been prepared to pay that because it did not raise my blood sugars at all. It has now gone up to £9.99 for the same 4 small slices. That is just not viable (not on my state pensioner's income).
Years ago, pre diabetes diagnosis, I used to buy an intensely seeded bread in Nantwich market. Two loaves would last me a fortnight. This was when J was alive and we went all over the place. But when he was gone, obviously I am not going to drive a day's trip just to get a loaf of seeded bread from the market.
I did experiment with a loose seed mix for awhile (14 years ago) and that helped lower the glycemic index of the foods I was eating. But time and stuff got in the way, and like all things we stray off the good path for a bit!
So I went to get some loose seed mix. Not as easy to obtain any more. It wasn't in my regular shops. Finally found some when I met my friend in England. But it wasn't going to last long. I did find some in a supermarket near here. But it was a quarter of the size for 6 times the price. Absolutely not!
More searching. Ended up at the local Polish shop. Found different seeds there. With the aid of Google translate I identified (!) and bought several packets of seeds. I need to go back and ID more of them.
So my experiment was this.
Adding about 3 to 4 teaspoons of mixed seeds to whatever my meal is that day. Even to eggs, to bacon, to meat etc as I am cooking them. My cooking is grilling and so they might get roasted a bit on there.
I eat one meal a day.
Prior to my seed experiment I was adding a cup of miso soup to my diet. Especially if I felt like a little something mid afternoon. But no solid stuff with it as I get bad heartburn at night if I eat late. And that miso soup drink also lowered my in the day blood glucose readings.
But I still got one spike in the day. I alway have got one high reading at some point of the day, or in the night of over 10, maybe even 12.1 for no apparent reason at all to me. It didn't appear directly related to food.
However, having the miso drink once a day, did reduce that spike to under 10. And so the spike would be 9.something. But that still wasn't good enough for me. So, hence the mixed seeds experiment.
I started the daily miso drink about a month ago. And then the mixed seeds on my once a day meal about a fortnight ago. I am eating a little more carbs now, maybe about 30 grams, but always I am eating those carbs with seeds on them.
Although my fasting blood glucose is still in the 6's, I do not get those horrible over the 10's spikes at some other random point in the day. I can feel them when they happen.
And my blood glucose readings in the day, with this new regime is mixed seeds and a miso drink, can now go as low as 5.something, but never over 8. This is the most even keel I have ever managed to get my readings in a 24 hour period.
So, that is my recent diabetic food and blood glucose readings journey.
Creative today...a kaleidoscope of the approach to Flint Castle...I can see evil faces in this!
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