yeah, a front for the Untied Mariahoochie Growers Union... lol !!

yesterday I spent three *hours* cleaning a Z, preparatory to making Cannabutter.

http://cannabis.com/faqs/cannabis_re...ipe/index.html

the greenery was a gift from a local friend who knows I have MS, and been having leg and foot spasms lately.

the cleaning project reminded me of old times back in high school...

see, the stuff back then was low-grade from Mexico, and was all seedy and stemmy...

later, we Californians got spoiled, with all that potent and seedless sinsemilla.

anyway, the reason the cleaning TOOK so long is the humidity here, and the zillion seeds, which *wouldn't* roll out when I tipped the cookie sheet, but instead had to be picked one at a time from the pile.

add in clumsy and numb hands, and bad vision, and that really ups the time involved...

and here's where I made my MISTAKE.

I figured that since it LOOKED like the Mexican stuff from the 70s, it was about as weak... so, I chewed on stems while I worked.

ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR !!

Houston Control, do you read?

I was like, flying... giggling, and guess what?

hee hee hee...

my LEGS stopped hurting, like totally !!

or I just didn't CARE anymore...

Sitting here with my cup of coffee not looking forward to a large chunk of my morning. Have my regularly scheduled MRI, which takes about an hour and a half since they do both the brain and the c-spine.

How much more fun can a slightly claustophobic person get?

Just hoping that they don't find anything new and that the weird symptoms I had this summer were because of the heat.

Hope everyone has a great day

Good Morning!

Anyone hear how Frank is doing? I guess Sandy will post an update if Frank doesn't do it first.

Nothing much planned for today. It's cloudy and we're supposed to get some rain for the next few days.

I'm going through my closet and weeding out things I no longer wear to take to a shelter here in this county. That should keep me busy (off and on) for the next several days.

Good luck with your MRI, Jenn. Sorry you're claustrophobic. That must be hard. I'm not and actually almost fall asleep during mine - if the tech would just quit interrupting by using the intercom system to ask me if I'm doing OK I probably could! I hope everything turns out OK and nothing new shows up.

Frank, if you're reading this I hope you're feeling better. Maybe you're home by now.

Kay, put those stems away, girl. We can't have you flying around the jungle like a crazed monkey!! Hey, did you have a snack afterwards?

Everyone have a good Tuesday!

Jenn Jenn .. bring along a couple of instrumental CDs that you like .. and they will play them during the MRI session ...

I know - I can almost go to sleep too ... (have to keep my eyes closed due to claustraphobic too)

Kelly - that's awesome about you 'cleaning closets' ...

Kay - Belize was on Jeopardy again ... boy, is your nation ever popular with the clue-crew!!

quilter's biker group?? now THAT's original ... good one, Renee!!

Wow. Hadn't heard that name in a long while.

LOL thanks for the recipe!

Jenn...those MRI's. Well, I do what Vonn does, close my eyes. And where I have MRI's they do pipe in music. Claustrophic here with a capital C!

Frank???? Helloooooo? Deb???? Hellooooooooooooooo?

Maybe I should have put in my soap that Kay was leader of a smuggling ring, but was really no good at smuggling cause she was to silly from chewing stems to accomplish anything.

Kay, ROFLMAO! Glad to hear it works for yet another person with muscle spasms!

Jim and I talked to Frank for a long time last night. I told him to come on and update but he must have been so glad and forgot because HE WENT HOME LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!

Yep, they released him and he was glad to be home. They said he had some sort of inflammation that they believed caused the problem. I'll let him tell you what it is because I forgot the name already. He also said they ordered up new MRI's.

We had such a good time talking to him last night. I had him on speaker phone and chatted away about this and that. Hopefully we'll get him and Deb out here when the weather stays cool and he's feeling better.

So, if your reading this Frank, welcome home!

My update is we're going to see Jim's spinal cord doctor today. Not sure why but I guess it's a follow up. Good thing because I think Jim has a sinus infection. Shoot, we're both suffering. It doesn't help when the neighbor next door starts a bonfire early this morning and I wake up thinking my house is on fire! There goes the allergies.

Hope everyone has a good day and Renee keeps coming up with our story line. Girl, you should send this stuff to the soaps network! lol

Frank - How are you doing? I hope all is well with you and that you are feeling better. Check in when you can.

LOL, Kay. You crack me up.

Fin - I too am claustrophic. So much so that I go a little sedated. It makes it much easier. I did take 1 too many lorazepams before I went once and did got to sleep. Big mistake as I jerked around and they had a hard time getting the "pictures." LOL Last time I only took 1 and it worked out. They were able to do my spine and head in 40 minutes. I literally fight to lay still the whole time so they don't have to do a repeat.

Good luck today! I hope you get great results from the MRI.

Kelly - DD18 and I are cleaning out their (DD16 & DD18) closet and dresser today. It seriously needs to be done. They have far too much clothes. I think they have 2 tank tops each in every color possible. lol Well, that was a little exaggerated but it sure seems like that when we do the laundry.

Vonn - Renee is on to something there. What about doing a biker themed quilt and auctioning it off on e-bay? That would be cool. You know those Harley riders; they love anything Harley and will buy anything Harley.

I hope you all have a great day!

Well I started out on DS's 'puter this morning but switched over to DH's when the blankity blankin' cursor locked up on me again. I don't have time for this carp this morning.

Lots to do including giving the dog a bath before she goes to the vet this afternoon. Looks like the before school starts vacation has become two brief vacations after school starts. DH thought we needed more time to plan things and I agreed. Off to give the dog a bath and get going on the rest of my things.

Hope everyone has a great day. Glad to hear Frank is back home. Hope your MRI goes okay FinLady. The machines here are way too noisy for me to sleep in. Can't even hear my music really they are so loud. Maybe they are better now as I haven't needed and MRI for a few years.

Okay I really am leaving now.

I'm going to have to learn the dosage here, the hard way, I guess.

put the rest of the stems on to simmer, gonna make myself a nice cuppa tea.

um, how'd ya know?

luckily, mi esposo had just baked a muy delicioso CHEESE CAKE !!

lol, I scarfed, like, THREE pieces, man !!



my update-thingamajigger-dohickey-dealiebopper:

our friends with the Parrot Rescue and Rehab brought us a FINE pair of TURKEYS yesterday.

they said the white female was too young to mate yet... but the TOM was just full of feather-displays this morning, and whaddaya know?

today they walk the farm together, and promenade in circles around each other.

looks like they're in LOOOOOVE !! and doing a mating/courtship dance right outside my window, it's so unbelievably COOL to watch !!

oh, and at 6 am this morning, we had a visitor who wanted to barter.

she (lemme guess, sixteen years old?) was clutching two HUGE bags of fresh picked bok choy from her mamacita's plantacione, and (it took 20 minutes to negotiate the deal with our limited Espanol) we arranged an equitable trade, 5 newly-hatched pollitos (chickens) plus one young rooster, plus a couple of little bags of dried fruit (papaya and manzana bananas from my dehydrator) AND a big bag of fresh-fallen mangoes.

we just kept adding to her pile until she nodded that it was a fair trade...



so, everybody was HAPPY with the outcome, and we're going to have yummy fried greens with our huevos for breakfast, lol !!

CiaraMarie tossed a bunch to the geese, and they LOVED the fresh bok choy.

and my bunnies and guinea pigs get all the outside leaves, so they'll be happy as well.