Dr Copa

Lately my wife and I have been considering getting a few backyard chickens to help keep the tick population under control. We keep hearing stories of so many people in the area getting lyme tick disease that it is starting to make us nervous about walking around in our own back yards! We’ve been noticing that there are a few neighbors that have been selling some fresh eggs, and it gave us the idea that maybe in addition to keeping the tick population down an added benefit would be to cut down on our grocery bill a little bit by eating the freshly laid eggs from our own chickens.

Of course we need to research the different chickens for sale and price out the cost of chicken feed to add all of that into the calculations. And just as important, we have to come up with a game plan for how to keep the wild foxes from killing the chickens. I’m not sure that we will be able to keep the chickens safe.

I am interested in finding a good weight loss program.  It seems that every time I go to the doctor’s office they weigh me and I’ve gained weight.  I think that the insulin that the doctor put me on for my diabetes is responsible for some of the weight gain; I’ve tried hard to lose weight by eating less high calorie foods and eating more salads.

My wife told me to go to the Internet and look at the Weight Loss Diet Help website.  It reviews many of the commercial weight loss programs that are available to today’s consumer.  It lists and compares the features and costs of the different programs, and it provides links that lead you to offers of discount coupons and offers to many of the programs.  The diets I’ve already heard about are the South Beach Diet, Medifast, Nutrisystem and WeightWatchers.  They also talk about a couple of diets that I’ve never heard of before.

What I found even more interesting about the website was that it had several interesting articles about the subject – it had an article about healthy weight loss and an article about the benefits of gym workouts that I found most informative.

I love cookies. I try to avoid them whenever possible, but this time of year it is impossible to do that. People are always offering me cookies! It’s hard to tell what cookie is my favorite. Sometimes I think that its chocolate chip cookies; sometimes I think it is sugar cookies. Sometimes I think it is butter cookies! Oh, there are just too many good cookies out there to decide!

I had some coupons to buy some Pillsbury cookie dough just burning a hole in my pocket today, so I bought a large roll of chocolate chip cookie dough and a small roll of sugar cookie dough. I had never seen the large roll of cookies before! I wonder if they are only making the large size for the holidays?! I’ve tried the store brand of cookie dough before, and it was good, but just not AS good as the Pillsbury brand. I wonder why that is – usually the store brand of food is as good as the name brand! Often it’s made by the same factory with the same recipe and ingredients, just different packaging!

Anyway, I hope I have the time to bake some of them this week! It would be nice to have some freshly baked cookies around the house!

I never would have thought that stress could cause diabetes, but I am a walking example of that exact situation. When we moved down here I was as healthy as a horse, but in only a few short months I was diagnosed with diabetes. I had not been feeling well for a couple of months and finally asked my wife to take me to the doctor’s office. At first the doctor told me that there was nothing wrong with me other than stress, but to shut me up he took a blood sample.

By the time we arrived home from the doctor’s office, there was a message on the answering machine to call the doctor immediately because he wanted me to go to the emergency room. I called him back and he told me that I was a severe diabetic and did not have enough insulin in my body to support life! Before I could even absorb what was happening, my wife was packing an overnight bag for us and hustling me out to the car.

For the next three days we lived at the hospital; my wife sleeping on the sofa in the hospital room, keeping me company while I was a human pincushion. After three days I was well enough to be sent home, with insulin pen and blood testing equipment in hand, and strict instructions to eat a low carb breakfast and low fat lunch and supper, and orders to lose weight and use sugar substitute. It has been a very long process, and it hasn’t been fun, but I’m glad I listened to my wife when she insisted that we go to the hospital that night; if she hadn’t been persistent, I probably would have died that night!

My sister loves items from Spice Rack Source, so it isn’t hard for me to come up birthday and Christmas gifts to present her with each and every year. I like their products as well, may sister and I went in together on a order last year and we both purchased kitchen spice racks for our kitchens. We love those spice racks, since we both seem to love cooking and use spices like they are going out of style. They have managed to help declutter our kitchens a bit and we are both grateful for that.

Last Christmas I ordered her a wall spice rack that she had been hinting at for so very long. It was funny because she had in turn bought me the exact same spice rack. Christmas morning was a hoot seeing what we had gotten each other. I love my sister dearly, she is like my best friend. We have so much in common (not just family related type stuff) and really rely on each other so very much. Our tastes are fairly similar and we always find something to laugh about when we talk each day. I thank God for her.