Busy days
So many things have happened in these times without passing through these pages. I have not been writing as before, the multiple tasks keep me very busy without giving me time to sit down to write.
Today I greet you and tell you some things. I am still in my practice even though the economy continues to depreciate and the number of patients in the office has decreased considerably.
The venture with my quail birds continues. I have about 60 quail birds between males, females, and quail chicks. I market the eggs, live birds, and dead birds for meat consumption. I have some customers who regularly request these products.
These birds are almost all very well behaved, but sometimes without my knowing the reason they become aggressive with a bird continuously. Sometimes I have to remove it from the group to save its life.
But on the rest of the occasions, they are very well-behaved. They lay their eggs daily except for a day or two when they take a rest and then continue laying. They eat heavy amounts of food twice a day and drink plenty of water. They sing in the mornings so that I come to give them their food and in the afternoon they already know that it is their second dose of food.
There is a bird that injured her leg with a knee fracture and was immobilized. She has been in a splint for more than a week and is now standing on her two legs. In the beginning, when she was injured she only lay down, then she started jumping on one leg, today she is resting her leg on the floor. By Friday I will remove the immobilization but she will still be in isolation until I see her to go with her litter of quail.
I am between birds and plants. During the morning I am in charge with my gardening assistant of selling plants and fertilizers prepared for greater productivity of flowers and fruits. Some days we sell more than others, but everything is good if it comes from honest work.
I have many cacti, succulents, figs, lemon, avocado, aromatic, and floral plants along with ornamentals. They are all sold and I replicate them so that I don't need to buy them again because they run out.
For the time being this is what I do day in and day out in my home where I have all the commercial activities that sustain me.
All photographs are are taken with my Redmi note 9
Thank you for reading and it is nice to get back to free writing.
My cats
Some time ago our beloved Copito died. He was suffering from a urinary blockage and the vet although she did a lot could not get the stone out and our beloved 13-year-old kitty was gone.
I can finally write something about him but it still hurts my heart to do so. It seems like only yesterday he was chasing me when I was in my garden. I still have him on the cover photo on my phone and I don't think I'll ever take it off there.
He was my biggest pet peeve, crazy, a womanizer, very affectionate, friendly, and very feisty with cats even bigger in size than him. He was never afraid.
Today I have my Meme left, he is a tabby cat who assimilated many of Copito's habits. When he does them my son and I remember our beloved Kitty.
He is used to being indoors, he only goes out during the day for a while somewhere and then he appears with his tail held high and meowing. That is his habit. He likes to go out in the garden and keep me company. Every gesture is the same as Copito's, she learned it from him. But unlike Copito, Meme is not afraid of water.
Sometimes when it rains we have to make sure he doesn't go out of the house because he comes out and gets all wet. For this same reason he got sick, and he stopped eating little by little. We took him to the vet and he told us that our cat had a viral infection.
She gave him several medicines because he had a very high fever and parasites too. She gave him 5 injected medicines, so I had to inject him twice a day for a week.
He is completely healed and is now back to his normal routine. He wants to go out in the rain but my son won't let him.
I think we are now living in fear of what might happen to our Meme because of the trauma of what happened with Copito. I still have a guilty conscience, I don't know how I didn't realize that my Copito was very sick. He is buried in our garden and my son from time to time tells me that he is going to take him for a walk to talk to him.
I feel him pass between my legs, when I sit down to write on my laptop or when I cook, I think I feel him pass through my legs very softly as only he used to do. It must be my imagination but that's what I perceive.
With Venezuelan pride
Just a few days ago, the island republic of Singapure hosted the annual international Olympic robotics competitions. Many countries of the world send their delegations to represent them.
Venezuela sent a group of six young people from a western region of my country. This group was the winner of the prestigious award for excellence in robotics, the Gold Medal "Albert Einstein Award".
This group of young people between 14 and 17 years of age participated in the First Global International Excellente that was held during the week of October 7 to 10 of the current month, October 2023. In addition to the gold medal, they won a second silver medal for their robotics presentations and other awards.
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In this competition, the Venezuelan group presented a robot named Kashi, which performed its robotic maneuvers to meet the requirements of the qualifying team. This team strives to achieve excellence among the youngest, thus stimulating the intervention of the most outstanding in science, technology, and mathematics. 191 countries sent their delegations of excellent young people in the field and our group of young Venezuelan intellectuals was the winner.
In closing I have nothing more to say but how proud I am that in these times of so many difficulties, these young people put the name of my country Venezuela at the top of robotic technology.
Congratulations to all of them and my best wishes for international competitions such as the First Global Challenge to be a stimulus for many other countries to reward excellence in young people.
The passenger terminal
Walking through the city I have stopped at the passenger terminal, unintentionally I am looking at where the public transports arrive to pick up all the people who will travel to different places in the country. My mind starts to fly and remember how it was an episode of life in a bus terminal.
Many years ago I had spent a short vacation at home and after it was over I had to return to the university. My car had a breakdown and I had to leave it at home until the next vacation.
Many things happened along the way, I had to take several buses at different stops as I had to travel about 1000 km to reach my destination.
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There were road accidents and delays in the itinerary and when I arrived at my penultimate terminal stop it was already very late. It was a town where the cars in the afternoons no longer leave to travel, only if enough passengers arrive they do. It was not my luck, I spent more than 3 hours waiting for someone else to arrive and no one came.
I was very sad because I had to stay somewhere to sleep until the next morning to go back to the terminal. Nearby there was a guesthouse where I could rent a room for the night. I spent more than I should have and that made me sad but I had no choice.
I took a shower and then went to bed but I felt in my body the presence of the insects in the bed. I even thought I heard the sound of them, passing through my body. That thought disgusted me but I was so tired that I fell asleep and then it was already 5 am. So I showered and packed my things and walked back to the terminal. I waited another little while until the passengers were full and we started the trip to my destination city.
So when I arrive at a passenger terminal my mind goes back to the past and vividly recalls that experience of my life.
The ice cream cup
I regularly walk through crowds observing people's positions in many situations. I like to imagine what goes through their minds in those moments when they are with their gazes inside their mind as if looking at nothing but observing everything.
I couldn't take my eyes off this little girl as she held a big chocolate ice cream. I only looked at her for a moment but it was enough for me to dive into the past, just when I would go with my siblings to buy chocolate ice cream.
It was the favorite flavor of all of us. I remember on one occasion my older brother with all his affection invited us to have ice cream at a prestigious ice cream shop and all my brothers and I were so happy that we would be delighted with that exquisite flavor.
It was not so... when one by one of us began to savor our ice cream every one of us looked at our big chocolate ice cream bar with revulsion. First with a repulsive look and then with facial gestures denoting our displeasure.
It was a big cup of bitter chocolate ice cream... not a grateful taste for a child but my brother just wanted us to have a delicious ice cream in a very special place, not knowing that none of us had the palate prepared for such a strong taste.
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Unfortunately, it was the worst ice cream experience of my childhood. Having a big cup of chocolate ice cream in front of me in the shape of a nacelle and not being able to taste it, was a nightmare. My older brother, out of the respect he deserved, did not receive complaints or bad comments, but having let the ice cream melt little by little and not being consumed was enough to make him feel very bad.
He left us sitting at the table for hours thinking we would eventually consume it but we did not. He never took us to that ice cream shop after that.
Thank you all for your passage through my publication.
About quails and plants
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Greetings reader friends, I hope to read you more often these days. Today I tell you about the evolution of my birds and plants.
I have incubated 20 quail eggs of which 9 have hatched in perfect conditions and 3 have died for different reasons. They are already a week old and are very well-behaved. I started collecting eggs again for the next incubation which will be next Sunday. I will collect 20 eggs again and see how many hatch.
For now, the family is growing and there are a total of 24 quail of which 17 have hatched through my incubator. And I hope to continue breeding birds until I reach 50 quail in the next few months.
I know I am going slow but sure, practice makes perfect and that is what I have been learning during this time. Everything about their development, maintenance, and reproduction.
My plants are beautiful. I have many to transplant but I have not had the opportunity to do the transplanting process due to lack of adequate substrate. I have to buy organic fertilizer because my substrate ran out and I have not been able to buy it yet. So they are growing a lot and I have not been able to take care of their pruning and transplanting.
This is a beautiful, pampered one that blooms with strange little red seeds around the flowering stem. It is a long-leafed plant and its flower is exotic.
In my garden, there is a lot of greenery, florals, fruiting and aromatics are the order of the day. Growing and developing in good conditions.
These are fig plants growing for two months now, they are slow but then give succulent fruits.
Oregano and basil plants that should not be missing in the kitchen.
My beautiful plant of sweet peppers soon will be harvested to enrich my cooking dishes.
Well friends, this is as far as I have told you for today, thank you for reading.
The photographs are my property taken with my Redmi Note 9.
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My mind
My mind is not what it used to be, I forget a lot where I put things. At times I have lost objects and I go in search of them. After a long fruitless search, I must say, I find the lost object right on my body, so close and yet so far away.
Yes, many times I have lost my glasses, I have searched endlessly for them, and when I give up and calm the search I find it just hanging from me, or in my blouse. That's when I remember that's where I didn't look or search in where I remember leaving my books.
Another time I was having a conversation on the phone and had to get up from my chair to do something I suddenly remembered. To achieve my goal I needed to find my phone as that is where the data I need is. As I continued to chat online with my interlocutor, I kept looking for my phone, only to realize later that I have the phone to my ear listening to the person communicating with me.
I've come to think that I'm going to stop in madness for losing so many things but then I hear that someone younger has told me that he has lost something and has been looking for it for quite a while but I'm looking at him from where I'm standing. I snap him out of his blindness and say.....
"Look to your right or left" as the case may be.
He looks next to another object, and there is what he is looking for.
# Why do these things happen?
I tend to think that when I put things somewhere and then forget it is when I do it automatically. That's why I forget where it is.
This has happened to me with my books, I take them to many places with me, and while I read I can do other things like washing dishes, washing clothes, putting them in the dryer, going to the bathroom, and reading for a while there, and then go to get dirty clothes or clean clothes. My books have gone astray, I have looked for them, gone through the house, the kitchen the bathroom, the garden, even in the flower pots but I am sure I have not thrown them away.
They must be somewhere safe but forgotten in my mind. I don't remember if I was doing laundry or picking up clothes when I parted with them. I know they are somewhere and I will find them.
Maybe I will when I repeat the process of doing what I was doing before I lost it. In the meantime, I need to stop thinking about what I was reading and wait.
A few days have passed and I need to dry my clothes again, again I turn on the light in the small room, and boala, the first thing I notice are my precious books on top of a stool and next to the clothes dryer.
Why didn't I see them before? I'm sure I went to this room to look for them and I didn't see them... or not?
I must be remembering wrong and I never got to this room after I lost them... I don't think I looked for them here. I only remember that while I was taking my clothes out to dry I left them for a moment to take them later and I think I left and turned off the light and didn't think about coming back for a short period.
Something else to remember I forget things easily, it will have to do with my age or carelessness. I will have to pay more attention to the things I do so I don't lose myself.
It's an imaginary story, but it could happen, thanks for reading.
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Overweight, my biggest problem
Greetings reading friends. Today I have come to write a little about my health progress.
Some time ago I told you that I presented a syndrome with dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. I got sick to the point that I called a friend and fellow internist. He was at my house and checked my systems, even did an electrocardiogram, and found nothing to confirm my discomfort with any diagnosis. So we were just left with paroxysmal vertigo.
He ordered blood tests and that's where it all started. Upon arrival, my blood sugar result was 20 mgs above normal. The doctor tried to give me medication for insulin resistance and I refused. I asked him to let me try a week without sugar and carbohydrate intake. When I took another blood sample it came back very normal.
I decided to do something with my life. I had been reading for a while about how to stop sugar addiction. After reading so much information I decided to start with that. According to what I learned I could stop consuming sugar within 48 to 72 hours of starting abstinence. I tell you that it was easy to do it and after 48 hours I had no desire to eat any canned, packaged, bread or cake sweets, nothing...
It was a pleasure to know and learn that when I wanted to eat sugar instead of eating bread or candy I just had to eat a piece of meat of my liking. Today I no longer eat sugar because, in fact, I don't feel the abstinence because it happened as a kind of trick to my organism. I ate protein instead of sugar and now my body never asks me for snacks.
I switched to eating only my three meals a day without adding any sugar, honey, or sweeteners. I am not dizzy, I am healthier and I am losing weight.
I have not weighed myself, I do not feel the need to weigh myself to see how many kilograms I have lost because, for the first time, I am eating to learn how to eat and that they are healthy and not to lose weight. My body size has decreased little by little, and I feel happy because I am overweight, obese, and reluctant to diet.
I am not dieting anymore, I am learning how to eat and stop eating products that are harmful to my body and eating what I like, healthy and I am still losing size. I don't talk about losing kilos because I don't weigh myself. After 4 months with this food system, I feel happy, and I am still learning how to eat healthily I am losing weight not by many kilograms but I feel lighter, healthier, and more active.
Soon I will be telling you what I do in my meals so that someone who feels devalued by diets can also feel the same as I do by eating what they like without feeling the deprivation they used to suffer before.
Greetings friends all.
Greetings to all
Greetings friends of readcash. I have been a long time without sharing with you but I visit your posts every day and I like them. I like to read some of the posts but the time takes me space to stay more to leave my comments.
Today I wanted to stop by to say hello, I realize that we are very few in these last days. When BCH is on the rise we all cheer up and think about those times when there was a bonanza and there were so many users encouraged to write. Time goes by and things change.
We also change, now I have much more free time, and yet I do less writing on the platforms. The things I do, the images I can photograph I don't give them the space and, then I lose the opportunity to photograph.
The time I spend with my plants is very little, I have no pots to transplant and no compost to do sowing and transplanting.
I wanted to plant tomatoes in hydroponics and the test did not work. The motor was damaged. There were power outages and I lost my tomato planting. 9 beautiful plants until the motor was damaged and then they were full of pests. So much for my interest in hydroponics.
The new incubation of 20 quail eggs did not work out either. When they were 5 days away from hatching the electrical failure caused a malfunction in the incubation machine and the eggs were damaged. I have laid new eggs again, but I have the same discomfort as last time and I am not feeling well until the new chicks can hatch.
I have come to say hello and to tell you about my misadventures with the plants and birds. I hope everything will change for the better again.
The weather is terrible, the temperature has risen so high that you can't go outside for long. It is necessary to bring a parasol and sunscreen in scale because when returning home the skin is broken, the thirst overflowing and the body exhausted beyond measure.
Greetings friends, I look forward to reading some of your posts this week and commenting on them.
The 23rd birthday
Greetings friends and readers of this friendly community.
My son had a birthday, he was born on July 31st. This day was a Monday and I made him a small cake to celebrate his birthday with two of the people who work in my house and love him very much. It is a Monday work day and his friends could not come to his birthday.
On Saturday I made him a small chocolate cake and we asked his friends to come and sing his birthday. They came here to the house and we shared a meal, arepas, fried chicken wings, and salad. Quail eggs in pink sauce and some other snacks.
They brought soft drinks and ice, no alcoholic beverages, they are guys who don't drink much alcohol or at least they don't do it much in my presence.
They spent from 4 pm until 9.30 am having fun playing computer games and eating what they brought and what I prepared for them. It was a very special day for my son.
I only managed to take pictures of the cake in the evening, I was so tired that I didn't take pictures of the food or anything else. It was worth it to spend two days preparing everything so that my son's birthday celebration would go very well, everyone enjoyed it, everyone ate and left very happy.
My son likes the chocolate cake that I prepare for him, and this time it was a chocolate sponge cake. I cut it into three parts to fill it with cream, condensed milk, and butter, beaten until it thickened.
On the outside, I topped it with a dark chocolate couverture that I mixed with a little powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla. It looked delicious and the attendees confirmed that it was exquisite.
I still remember when I used to celebrate her birthday with a piñata... Those were the days... it's been more than 15 years since her last piñata. Maybe next year, God willing, I will make him a piñata to share with his friends, if they are still in the country. These guys have all graduated and are waiting for an opportunity to get the best job possible.
A big thank you to that "invisible friend" who stopped by my purse and left a nice tip. You know who you are and I thank you, many blessings from the Most High, peace and good to you.
So far I share with you the few pictures I could take of my son's reunion.
The pictures are from my Redmi Note 9 cell phone.
My loneliness
Greetings reader friends, today I have come with one of my imaginary stories. I thought it from a picture I have seen of a woman imprisoned in ancient times, where there was no freedom of creed or was beginning the liberation for that purpose ...
Prayer is what keeps me alive, this confinement within four walls is a torment for any human being. My sin for being locked up is to profess my belief in God and for that, I receive the punishment of man.
It happens that I have been raised in a very loving family environment where my parents profess their worship to the king of kings. This has had an impact on my Christian upbringing from a very young age. Since I was a child I remained active in the praise of my Lord and remained faithful to my beliefs to the point that even my own family has been immersed in my faithfulness to God.
It has been many years since cult ideology stopped being tragically persecuted by throwing bodies to the lions but it has revived persecution in other forms of power. Worst of all, for many, professing love for Christ today can cost you being considered a heretic.
Here I am today, sitting here looking nowhere and having as my companion my faithful camándula, the one that has allowed me on so many occasions to be so close to the praise of my Lord and my veneration of Mother Mary.
Today this same camandula accompanies me in my farewell to life, the one that God has allowed me to live to await my execution as a heretic. Such a thing does not exist, I have only one Lord and he is my beloved God. When those who execute the laws are the same who for having the maximum power proclaim who is good and who is bad, it is then when the just will fall because of their wickedness.
I leave with my heart full of having been justified in my belief and forgiven by my only Lord. Long live Christ!
I hope you enjoyed this short imaginary story.
Emotions on the surface
Today I want to write about one of the saddest experiences of my life. For some of you who know me, you know that my profession is health care, so when there are needs of this nature in my relatives, it must touch in my heart to have to get involved with the illnesses of all of them.
Today, the mother of my nephews and nieces got sick. My sister-in-law, the patient I am referring to, is already a widow, she is suffering from a terminal illness. We are doing everything possible to make her feel better, and she is the focus of our daily attention.
All her tests indicate that she is suffering from cancer, already spread to several organs. Given her decline, we are turning to alternative medicine and if possible, when she recovers her strength, we will go to oncological therapy with chemotherapy.
The patient's children, who are my nephews, have tried to hide her illness from her mother and have only told her that she is suffering from a large ulcerous lesion in her stomach. So I have to respect her decision and hide this condition from her.
It is difficult to have to speak freely when there is a lie involved. The important thing is that they know their mother's character and think that she will take it very badly and give up the treatment with negative thoughts.
It's hard to try to smile when our soul is crying, but there are situations where you have to make your heart grow fonder and this is one of those opportunities. Not showing what you feel in order to give more hope to a patient is part of my life as a professional health care worker.
Today I am sad because I have been involved directly or indirectly with family patients with cancer pathology on three occasions. The first time was my mother, after 20 years she had another cancer that took her to God and the third patient was myself. Thank God I have been a cancer survivor for 13 years now. Now it is my sister-in-law's turn, who is like a sister to me because of the ties that unite us.
These days will be very hard for all of us around her but harder for her because of the treatment to follow. Our hopes are grounded in God and the medicine He has placed within our reach.
It has been a week since she started treatment. We hope that this body will find relief to prevent the progression of such a terrible disease. In God I trust.
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Healthy changes in eating habits
I don't usually criticize what others consume or drink. We are in a world where everyone chooses the life they want to lead and many times they take advice as insults or criticisms. Today I have come to tell you that now that I am 62 years old I have decided to modify some habits I had.
I am not usually a person who takes medicines, I only take an analgesic once in a while when the pain is very strong or some other treatment of some sudden onset disease such as neuralgia, otitis, lumbago, flu, and others.
Since my body is getting exhausted from the system of life that I have given it, I decided to consume some different things and stop consuming others forever. Let me tell you.
I used to drink green juices on an empty stomach, this consists of passing through the juice extractor green vegetables such as cucumber, spinach, broccoli, green pepper, prickly pear, lemon, ginger, and other greens. Not all together but some days I would take some and other days I would take different vegetables. This is how I provided myself with magnesium, potassium, salts, vitamins, and others.
At present, since vegetables have become somewhat expensive, I am taking magnesium capsules. This helps my body to avoid insulin resistance among other things. In addition, magnesium is involved in more than 600 organic processes that need magnesium to function. If the body does not find it, it stops processing some functions to be able to perform other more important ones.
Magnesium intervenes in all the cells of the organism where there are mitochondria because it is there where the exchange of the sodium and potassium pump takes place. Magnesium is what allows the process to take place. Of course, it does not do it alone, it is a cooperator with potassium. It allows potassium to go out and sodium to come into the cell.
Having said that I want to tell you that I have been a sugar addict all my life I would always eat dessert in the afternoon. I managed to beat this addiction as easily as possible. I was eating small amounts of protein in the afternoons when I felt like eating sweets a piece of meat, chicken, or fish, This way I managed to confuse my brain for a few days and after three days of doing it, my body started to get used to not consuming sugars in my diet.
I have been drinking coffee without sugar since I was 11 years old, I have never liked coffee with sugar. I am addicted to good coffee without sweeteners, artificial sugars, or honey. I drink green tea in the afternoons when it provokes me, many of you know that I have countless plants in my small nursery. I can drink ginger tea, turmeric tea, yerba buena tea, anise, clove, cinnamon, Santa Maria, citronella, etc...
Now I do not eat pasta or spaghetti of any kind and rice is only consumed sporadically in my house. The best way is to wash the rice and then cook it with little water. Leave it at room temperature and then store it in the refrigerator until the next day when it has formed a resistant starch that prevents the formation and drastic elevation of blood sugar.
Why do I do this?
Because it has been studied and demonstrated how rice immediately after cooking releases arsenic in large quantities and sugars in such quantities that it resembles eating a very sweet cake. So I don't eat rice unless it is in this way and as an accompaniment to my meals once or twice a month.
The rest of my meals are only proteins such as beef, red meat, pork, poultry, or fish, accompanied by salads, either raw or cooked salads. Occasionally a little banana or green banana that already contains sugar is also a healthier food.
All with a little ingenuity and without oil. Or sprinkle the pan with just a little oil.It is necessary to drink water before eating, after eating food leave for half an hour to drink water and then start again to drink more than a liter of water a day.
Fruits are not consumed in juices because the amount of sugar it contains as fructose is immense. You should eat a medium fruit or two small fruits or a large portion.
It is not a diet, it is just learning to eat healthier and my body is thanking me because I have been losing weight little by little and I feel that my legs and my spine are thanking me for overcoming my excess weight.
I have never in my life read so much about learning to eat as I do now that my body does not go with my mental age. I am young in spirit but my body is no longer young and I gave it a lot of bad life. So now after my tests started to come out altered I decide to change of my own free will.
I don't want to take medicine and be a slave of hours to take one pill and the other. I prefer to change my way and wrong habits of food consumption and learn to leave the toxic so that my glycemia does not rise, my cholesterol does not make me dizzy, or my weight makes me fall because of the loss of balance.
Everything is going well and I like my new lifestyle, not letting canned, bottled, sugary, artificially flavored, and other carcinogenic products into my mouth.
This is something I have been taking care of these last few months. I am now being responsible for my body and whatever happens to me, unless God wills otherwise I am eating to live and not living to eat.
Thank you reader friends for sticking with me this far, Until my next update.
All images are my own taken with the redmi note 9.
My 3 years in read cash
Greetings my dear readers, when I came back to write here I realized that I already have 3 years on this platform. Time goes by and it doesn't seem that much time has passed because I remember my beginnings here.
I had many stumbles and many punishments for that. Nothing stopped me and I continued throughout all this time I have been able to find some users among many that strengthened ties. Although time goes by, we continue the path together and it seems that time does not separate us and we are united by the experiences told here.
In the beginning, I didn't make as many friends as I should have because I only met a few people who helped me to understand the system a little bit. They are no longer here. Since they are gone I should have made more friends and continued to meet incredible people here.
I can't believe that on these pages where you write your experiences, you find people who appreciate us for so long and always show their affection. I am not going to name the people who always keep in touch with me when I write because they know who they are and I don't want to hurt the feelings of the users who, even though they don't come here often, remember me with affection.
Many of them call me a mother. Those who have known me for some time know that I am an older lady who likes to write, give advice, give honest opinions of my experiences, and give unconditional emotional support and financial support when I have been able to collaborate.
My 3 years here have been enriching. My beginnings here were true of great economic help because apart from writing being a way to grow, relax, and meet valuable people, it was also my first means of support for me and my son.
I can honestly say that two of these three years on this platform helped me pay for my son's university studies. Unfortunately what happened happened and this last year was difficult for this platform to stay afloat. However, many of us continued here even though we did not receive any financial support. We wanted to be with our friends.
Only a few months ago I decided to retire for personal reasons. My son had already started working and thank God, even though I didn't earn anything here, he was able to get ahead and this year he finished his university studies.
Now I just want to continue with the friends and colleagues that I have managed to get over the years. I hope that BCH rises as much as possible and that many friends return or remain here.
This post turned out to be somewhat melancholic but not. The gratitude I have towards my invisible friends, those who have allowed this to continue with their investment and trust are what bind me sentimentally to this great platform.
Thanks to Read Cash for existing and thanks to its majority investors and, to all the collaborators that nobody talks about, including my friend invisible who is always here.
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I am back again
Greetings to my dear readers. It has been a while since I have been here to say hello and share with you. There are so many things and situations that I have been going through lately in these weeks or months of absence.
I have been busy as always in multiple occupations but above all with my plants and my little birds.
I tell you that I lost my beloved kitty Copito, it was very painful. He had an incrustation of a stone in his small ureter and the vet could not remove it as in other occasions. Neither could the vet and my poor kitty succumbed, infarcted, and died. It is very sad to remember this episode of my life.
So I'd better tell you about my little quails. Now I don't eat chicken eggs, I only eat quail eggs. I had an idea to collect some eggs and put them in an incubator but my inexperience led me to have only 4 birds out of 6 eggs and two of them drowned because I did not take precautions.
I have two beautiful quails that are already of reproductive age but I don't think they know it yet and have not given me even one egg. I am patient and wait for them. Soon I will collect new eggs and put them back in the incubator to hatch.
My plants are as always with their flowers, their aromas, and their products for consumption. I am waiting for my lemon tree to start giving me lemons. My pomegranate plant is in full bloom. The soursop plant is full of very green leaves and the cherry plant will soon have flowers again.
Now I have a coffee plant again because the previous one died and they have brought me another one. I have just sown strawberry seeds and I hope they will come up in two weeks. Hopefully, I will have strawberries at home again.
This is my account of the activities I have been doing these weeks. Besides some studies, I am doing online on theology and apologetics for my catholic church where I profess.
My dear readers I will look forward to reading your kind comments as always and I will be sure to stop by for your nice posts.
Stopping by to say hello
Greetings my reader friends. Lately, I have not been able to come as I would like and leave my cash gifts in the publications. Unfortunately, I ran out of tips to give and we get used to this platform always rewarding with comments and kindness to other users. That's why I go to the publication and I can only give a like and follow.
Coupled with the change in my wallet is the fact that sometimes I don't have the same enthusiasm needed to write a post and drop it on the platforms. Not all the time our moods are exhilarated by emotions.
Another thing that brought me here today is because of the news of the passing of our friend Pachuchay. No, I did not know her personally but on this platform, we make many virtual friends and she was one of those people. As time went by she wrote in some posts how was her health condition. The last time I shared with her was when she came back to post on one of my posts when the bot was activated again.
For me, it is very sad to know that the people we share with detach from the physical world, this is one of the cases. I felt so much piloerection in my arms when I read the news. She was a cat lover, had many in her home, and shared my comments when I posted about mine. She even has a tabby cat much like my Meme.
May she rest in peace Pachuchay friend. I know there is one of her daughters also a user here on this platform. I hope to read a post from her sometime after this sad episode in her life that will take her a long time to heal.
My life goes on in the same way. Here at home writing sometimes, farm at other times, and take care of my little quail more often. I have 6 eggs in the incubator, this is my first time and I expect the chicks to hatch in the next 7 days. I will tell you about this experience.
My plants are beautiful as always. I have been given more than 10 cacti and succulents, I am reproducing them as much as I can. I have planted many of them and they are very beautiful as you can see.
So far I tell you for today, my dear readers and virtual friends. May peace and good be with you.
The photographs are my property.
Great disappointment
Greetings reader friends I have been absent for a few days but I have visited many interesting articles, without leaving my opinion, just reading. Until today I have decided to come with another of my publications of a personal nature.
On another occasion, I had written something about this topic and today I have renewed my story for the platforms.
Many years ago when I was still very young I lived an unpleasant experience that impacted me for the rest of my life. It happened that I had just finished studying my first profession. I was working away from home in a distant city when my mother became ill. My younger brother who was with her told me that she had certain characteristics that concerned him about her health.
I decided to return home under a work permit. I took her to a trusted doctor who was on duty that day, and she was admitted to a hospital in my city. While undergoing medical tests she was found to have uterine cancer. It was devastating for me to hear that.
I quit my job in the other city and came with her to start with all the protocols to be evaluated by the medical oncologist and decide on her treatments. I kept crying and praying. I prayed to God that she would not be complicated and that he would allow me to have more time with her.
The time came for the oncological evaluation, which was surrounded by many setbacks, almost a month after she was diagnosed and the only oncologist doctor was on vacation.
When the final evaluation came, he was given his final instructions and I was given the harshest words my ears had ever heard.
"The disease is very advanced and the treatment they would give him would only be palliative since he should only have 3 months or a little more to live because of the stage of the disease."
Although it pains me to say it, I became brutalized and fought with God. He disappointed me to such an extent that I did not want to believe in him and I would not bother him anymore until my mother's death. That's what I told him. I had in my mind that the doctor would tell me that she was wrong and that my mother was not so bad, but it was not like that, it was always the same.
I was 19 years old and my knowledge of the word of God was only what I knew from going to mass. I didn't understand the bible, I read it and I only understood certain parts. That's why I didn't understand God's mercy. I could not understand that God's plans are different and much better than the unimaginable.
I no longer prayed, nor prayed, nor cried out for God. From now on I would be alone without his presence. My mother evolved normally with the antineoplastic treatment to the point that the same doctor was surprised every time my mother had her oncological evaluation. With the same doctor who diagnosed her at 3 months of life. At 3 months she had her first check-up and then at 3 more months and so it went on. She then went on to be evaluated every 6 months until she was discharged.
"She was healed"
It must be said that I was disowning God for the first 3 months of my mother's next life and always scolding God for His way of making her suffer all her life for her.
It is my biggest disappointment in life because for me since I was a little girl I had never been separated from God's love. I knew that He is always with me and yet I offended Him.
I was asking for forgiveness for my actions and words for quite some time. And I made a promise to Him that I would never doubt His word and His designs for the rest of my life. And so it has been.
My mother remained alive for 20 more years and I remain obedient to God's will ever since.
I'm a serial killer
Dear readers my greetings to everyone in this great reading family. It so happens that I haven't written much these days. The truth is that I haven't felt motivated for writing on any of the platforms where I write. I'm not sad or discouraged, I just don't have the motivation to do what I've always done these past 5 years.
Sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to. I have wanted to write daily but when I sit in front of my laptop I have nothing in mind to write but at the same time I have so many things to do. Sometimes I wonder if I really do everything I say I do because it seems unbelievable to me that all day long I am here and there and yet it seems to me that I haven't done much.
I think it's because of the systemic way I do it. It is not a lot of work, I do not get tired too much and it seems that I have more hours in the day to do many more things.
As I told you the morning is always between making breakfast and going to the doctor's office and then the afternoon comes and goes so fast and in the evening I'm here in front of the computer waiting for more ideas to share.
The last thing I did was two serial killings. Yes, I put some quail eggs in the incubator and while I was sleeping the incubator thermostat got stuck and wouldn't turn off. It cooked the 10 eggs I was incubating, it's very sad.
After that, I have been testing the incubator for a week and the thermostat has not stuck again. What happened to it? It's a big mystery to me.
Then I arranged my aquarium to put in freshwater fish and I was given two river fish. One died on the first day. I put the thermostat on it and as I saw that the temperature was fine I left the fish there. In the morning the remaining fish woke up cooked. The temperature rose when I left and there was no way of knowing that this was happening.
How about that...in one week I have cooked one fish and 10 eggs. I'm a criminal but I'm counting on you not to tell anyone. I'll be more careful next time but I still can't shake my murderous streak.
Poor my defenseless little animals, into what evil hands they have fallen. So far I tell you what has happened to me and I hope I will not make the same mistakes again...
their "killer mom".
The pictures are of my property taken with the Redmi note 9.
Living with respectable laws
Today I am going to tell you my ideas about the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and the implementation of his zero-tolerance policy for crime.
This president and his ideas have been strongly questioned in all social networks, either speaking in favor and also against. We all know that we are people who like to express our opinions strongly and with conviction about things that surpass our understanding. I want to say that I do not know the president of El Salvador well enough to defend his words or not but so far the things I have heard from his lips I have liked.
This photograph is from unsplash.
I can also point out that every country is independent in its ideas. What better than a president elected voluntarily by his people to establish the rules that will get his country out of the misery in which they are submerged?
I have been following him in the networks to inform and document myself about his idea of destroying the gangs and mafias in the streets, especially those that have been harassing the common and working citizens of his country.
Before his launch, he was a well-known businessman who tried to enter politics through the common parties and did not succeed. Subsequently, he launched his party and was elected, and now has the approval of the people who accept his anti-crime policies.
He has received strong reprisals from some presidents of other countries who question the use of the mega prison and the lack of consideration for the prisoners there. They talk about the absence of human rights and the lack of respect for the inmates in many aspects.
This photograph is from unsplash.
I believe that an autonomous country, that applies laws that have given them results to reduce their crime and the big mafias, should be emulated and not criticized especially by countries that in so many years of government have not been able to reduce even in a smaller percentage the crime in their population.
I am referring to the double standards with which some countries want to importune themselves trying to explain to the world that the poor people who are there in those prisons with subhuman conditions and who are individuals belonging to the great corrupt criminal mafias, their human rights are not taken into account.
I wonder if they have realized that these criminals violated the right to life, to work, to health, and many other benefits to a large population of human beings who have wanted to live in peace for many years, and this population today deprived of their freedom did not allow it?
I do not agree with the evil and lack of love for people of different conditions. I disagree with injustice, loss of values, and non-implementation of truth in all aspects of life. And if the use of truth and applying human values leads to the implementation of justice for all then I am one hundred percent in agreement with that policy.
Love your neighbor as yourself, so says the word of God...
Did the criminals love those who were murdered, raped, violated, or outraged?
Did they not know that they had to submit to the law of man?
Now that they are under the yoke of the law, let them accept the penalty for their faults according to the law of man, which they will also have in their judgment with the law of God.
Very personally I believe that presidents like this Mr. Bukele should have in all the countries where we have voted to have peace, tranquility, rules to be respected, dignified work and to be a free individuals to transit happily in all the streets and in the hours that you want to transit.
My respects to this great country of El Salvador, its president, and the people who elected him.
A normal day at home
Greetings reading friends. Today I tell you about what a normal day in my life is like. It's not that I'm bored but it is a chore to do the same thing every day.
My life restarts in the morning when I wake up thanks to my cat who lies next to me and meows very quietly for me to get up and feed him. At 5 am. He gives me no respite, when he sees me move a little he already knows it's time for his meal. He has a finely tuned "biological clock".
The first thing I have to do is give him his food, which consists of meat or fish croquettes. And then, yes, I can go about my business. I go to the bathroom, to the shower, and then to the kitchen to put on a pot of coffee.
My son wakes up at 5.30 am and gets ready to work on his computer. After coffee. I go to the bedroom, tidy up, and arrange my bed, where Meme's little mischievous little cat, my smallest cat always wants to join in. Here he is under my blanket.
After all this, I get ready to make breakfast. Today it's some slices of Arabic bread that I covered with garlic butter and cheese. I immediately put them in the air fryer to make them crispy. A cup of coffee with milk and my Arabic bread croquettes.
I'm off to check on my baby quail. I like to eat their eggs. At the moment I only have 14 birds but I am preparing to have many more in my new venture. I give them clean water and their feed which consists of a protein-rich feed preparation so that I can stimulate their egg production.
Now it's my turn to go to the office, not that I already have a patient, but it's time to turn on my computer and check a few things.
My assistant is a young man 35. Every day, he is the one who opens the office, tidies it up, cleans it, and prepares it to receive the patients at 8 am.
Once there, I usually wait until 11:30 am. At this time every day the office closes and I go back home. Oh, I forgot to say that my office is next to my house, it is an annex that I built some years ago and it is the extension of the garage. It has a separate entrance from my house, a living room, and the ultrasound room, which is my specialty.
At noon I prepare lunch, usually, I do it together with my son but there are days when he goes out earlier or later and cannot accompany me. So I take the opportunity to make a tasty soup and he doesn't like it. When he goes out for lunch I will prepare a succulent chicken breast with salad and fried plantains which he loves.
Then in the afternoon after I finish my lunch and my son's lunch if we eat different meals at different times. I'm off to the garden. At 2 pm my house helper and the gardening helper arrive.
The lady sets out to work 3 hours every afternoon and leaves my house as sparkling as possible. And the garden helper does my directions for transplanting, fills my pots with soil, and prepares the compost and other things. He also takes care of any breakdowns around the house.
I have a lot of plants in my garden because I also sell plants and organic compost that I prepare at home. I show you some of my beauties.
It's already 5.30 am, time to close the garden, to say goodbye to my helpers. Then it's time for dinner for my son, for me, and for my cats.
At 8 pm I collect the eggs from my quail and turn off the lights so they can sleep and rest from their stressful job of laying eggs.
Now I sit down at 8:30 pm to write my adventures and share comments and other things online. Around 10 pm it's time to leave everything in God's hands to proceed to a blessed night and restart the day.
This is a normal day of daily activities in my home, many things and repeat day by day.
The pictures are of my property taken with my redmi note9.
It is a very productive garden
Greetings dear reader friends. Today I tell you that my plants in the garden are producing lots of fruit and I love that. The tomato plants have been ripening their tomatoes so I have not had the opportunity to buy tomatoes for my culinary preparations for several days. I have also been able to share with my friends.
They planted a lot of chili bell pepper plants in my seedbed. Unintentionally all that I planted did not come up but in return, many plants were born in their place and are giving me succulent fruits. All the chili bell pepper plants are loaded with them and they are sweet. There are also very hot red chili peppers.
On the floor, there are many spinach plants as the mother plants have already dried up but left endless seeds around them. When swept they spread and grew out of the pots, today there are everywhere, growing for more production and sharing.
The eggplant plant gave its flowers and is still loaded with many more flowers, I already ate the first eggplants that I put to cook in my air fryer. They are crispy and without fat. It is a very good invention of this kitchen appliance.
In addition to chili tomatoes and eggplants, I also have scallions and onions that are still growing. My banana plants are producing 2 of them. I will harvest them soon.
In addition to the vegetable plants I have planted by layering branches of the oregano plant and it was a success. Now I have two daughter plants of oregano for my meals and medicines. Because you know that oregano is very good in infusions for respiratory problems.
Many of you know how passionate I am about gardening so when my plants have new fruits, flowers, or colors I love to share them with you.
It is quite an odyssey to be in my garden, on the one hand, the vegetables, on the other hand, the cactus, succulents, and ornamental plants. On the other hand the fruit plants and the other hand my quails. Wherever you are in my garden there is a variety of tasks to do. You don't get tired, you don't get bored and you are always grateful to God for so much.
Thank you all for reading and sharing my garden adventures.
All pictures are my own, taken with my redmi note9.
A different day
Hello reading friends. Today I want to tell you that I was at my niece's birthday, the youngest of the family and we went to a pool party.
I had not been to the pool for many years. The nieces and nephews all enjoyed this outing including me, I participated in the swimming and they included me as a child in the piñata. I took out some candy because after the piñata hit and broke a little bit I got behind the birthday girl's dad and with my dress, I was able to grab some candy for my son.
He couldn't go, he had to work late and when he got off work there were only 3 hours left to finish renting the house with the pool. He stayed home but I brought him some of the cake and treats.
I put on my bathing suit and dove into the pool, I had forgotten the feeling. I hardly weighed anything in the water. I have gained a lot of weight and I am obese but in the water, everything feels so light. The problem is when I got out of the water. I had gotten so used to not feeling the weight that I couldn't control the actual weight I was carrying.
I was reminded of the movies of the astronauts who have the zero gravity crash and then face the gravitational acceleration of the earth.
It's horrible how I felt getting out of the pool, after a while, I got warm again and was able to get out of the pool with my extra weight. Worst of all, I don't want to diet. I spent my whole life dieting to stay under my weight and now I can't stand diets anymore.
I am now 62 years old and I think I am a young girl and I don't watch my weight. I don't suffer from any disease because I am a friend of fruits, vegetables, and fish. The bad thing is that I also love sweets.
We stayed a little longer than we had booked because the kids didn't want to get out of the pool. When they did we started to arrange the piñata, cake, and dances.
From leaving at 6 pm we ended up leaving at 8 pm. I loved my family day, the pool, the kids, the singing, the dancing, and all the shenanigans. The problem was in the evening. My body not used to so much, started to ache from my toes to my hair.
I spent much of my preparation for sleep putting creams and gels on my legs, feet, and knees to lessen the pain.
In my country, there is a phrase that goes.....
"After having a good moment you can also have a bad moment."
Well, dear readers until the next adventure.
The photographs are my property.
The Quail Entrepreneurship
Greetings to all my reader friends, glad to see many of you back here. I was very sad yesterday when I wrote my little post but then when I saw back the little friend of all of us I was glad to see him and I am very grateful to him for his visit to my post.
Friend @Telesfor is one of the most persistent and encouraging people here. He was always adding something from his personal tips every time I came. Maybe he understood why I didn't want to leave this platform yet. He always came, first commenting and then left with the tips, thank you my friend, thank you for always being there and encouraging me to keep going.
Today I come to tell you that my new venture is going very well. In another post, I commented that I am starting to breed quail. I started by buying 6 birds. Of these 6 quails, the seller made a mistake and sold me two males. I only wanted one male.
Of the 4 female quails only one is laying, the rest are not laying. Of course, this is not a loss because in some cases the meat of these birds is also succulent because of their good weight.
This week I bought 8 more quails. One male and 7 laying quails. They get very stressed and stop laying when they change habitat. So I have to wait until they get used to it and start laying all of them. On the first day, all the females came with their eggs but on the second day they laid 4 of them, and on the third day only two of them and also two white eggs. Supposedly because of the stress.
Now they are 6 days old and only one of the new ones and mine is laying. In conclusion of my 14 quails, 3 are males and 11 are females. Of the 11 quails 2 are just laying.
It is a pleasant experience although they have not yet restarted laying. But as I pointed out before I am in the middle of experimenting with them, finding out everything about the life around them.
Next week is my birthday, or rather, tomorrow March 13 is my birthday and my son is going to give me a special large cage for quails and a small incubator.
I have to collect 10 eggs and do my first incubation of 10 eggs. With 10 eggs that I collect in my quails, I will have the reproduction of them. I hope to rigorously follow the incubation procedure to be successful.
Needless to say, this is a very exciting venture. Eggs from the quails can be sold for human consumption. Fertile eggs are also sold for reproduction. After a certain time of laying, the female quails are selected for meat consumption. The manure from the birds after a procedure is special for my organic fertilizers.
As some of you know and know me I like to prepare my compost and then I add the manure of some ruminants to enrich it with nitrogen. This is excellent for my plants as they grow huge fruits and flowers.
So far I am sharing with you some of my daily work at the moment.
The photographs are my property.
Remembering
Greetings friends who frequent these pages. I never cease to feel a certain nostalgia when I come to write here. What was once so full of comrades now lacks so much. I have come on several occasions to read the publications of some who still come here but I do not leave proof of my presence and I have not taken the time to write again as I do now.
And today I am writing to you because of a curious fact that has happened to me. In other times of bonanza, I saw some articles written by colleagues, I saw how they brought up that they received messages from the platform warning them that they had thousands of visits in their publications.
I **used to ask myself...**
why if I have 2 years on the platform I never received such a message that I have so many views on my publications?
I never understood it. You know what? Today I got a notification that my posts had thousands of views. And then I wonder again...
**And now?** This is gratifying information after the page is not visited by many. Well, anyway I am happy because someday they were going to inform me and today is the day. Thank you very much to the person in charge of giving this information. I am happy that my publications have had so many visits in two years.
I am saddened every time I write and I do not see the dozens of people with their posts and comments.
As long as it is open I will continue to come here from time to time and leave my feelings in writing.
Farewell, dear readers.
A new interest
Hello everyone, I hope you are well wherever you are today. I have come to tell you that I am venturing into a new Adventure... in raising quail for egg production. Yes, many years ago I had several quails that gave me eggs daily, I remembered them and I thought... why not raise some quails again?
Why not breed some of them again?
In December I bought half a dozen of them, 5 females and one male, supposedly. After a few weeks when I started to study the individual characteristics of each of them in their gender, I realized that there was something wrong. There were two males and 4 females.
I was also led to study them better by the fact that one of the males is smaller than the other and is very plucked. When I checked it I realize the mistake. I changed them to two different cages where in each cage there is one male and two females. It should be noted that I have to buy more females because statistically, you have to put 4 females with one male as the male is sexually insatiable and needs 4 females to be able to stay quiet for a while.
I am learning every day about the habits, customs, feeding, breeding, reproduction, and posture of these birds. Only two of the females are laying although they are all eating the same special food for laying birds.
I am patient, as I have only been studying these little birds since December. I am already collecting two eggs a day and will soon make a homemade incubator to incubate some quail eggs to increase quail breeding.
By the time I feel I am better prepared to increase production then I will buy special cages for them and increase my care for them. I will be writing to you about my progress in the breeding, production, and reproduction of my little quails.
All photographs are my property.
A flowering plant on the day of love
This is the flower of Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana. It is a plant that I have found difficult to propagate and flower. Throwing out all my words this year all the plants of this Kalanchoe that I have planted have sprouted and also flowered.
I like their bouquet of small red flowers. They stay open for a considerable time, every day more little flowers are added to the bouquet and then when they are all open they are a beautiful sight before my eyes.
I love to see my garden in bloom apart from the crops I receive from the vegetables I plant in my small garden also the flowers give me positive feedback when at dawn I see more and more plants with beautiful flowers.
The Blossfeldiana is one of the plants that I take the most care of because it is very difficult for her to respond quickly to my care since her growth is slow and after transplanting I have to wait sometime to see her as she is today.
I don't like to be commercialized with the days of celebration that are stipulated in the calendar but I like to celebrate with a hug and a good comment.
Just as I like to celebrate my birthday, Christmas, and others, I also like to celebrate the day of love and friendship, so today I give you the opening of my Blossfeldiana plant bouquets. I hope you like it.
A big virtual hug to all those who continue to write here and those who continue to read my posts.
The images are my property.
My rational fears
You ask me about my fears and I tell you that my fears throughout my life have been changing. I remember when I was an infant I was afraid of many insects and domestic animals. I learned to fear everything for no reason.
It wasn't until I became an adult that I left many fears behind as I learned to face them and stop being afraid of them. But exactly I learned more to stop fearing insects and animals when I started writing on the platforms.
When I got closer to the spiders and took pictures of their legs, their eyes, and their beauty, in macro photography, and tried to know more about them by reading about the peculiar characteristics of each species I met. Then I began to respect and love them, which allowed me not to be afraid of them anymore.
I hated toads to the point that I was terrified of them and could not see them because I would call someone to get rid of the toads and frogs.
The photograph is from unsplash
Once I had a kind of snail plague in my garden that was killing all my plants and luckily I read something about toads. I learned that they eat snails and because of my need to kill the snails. I read a lot about frogs and toads. Today they are my friends and I am no longer afraid of them, they live in my garden in harmony with my plants. I must say that they put an end to the snail plague.
I must say that I had a family of toads but during the rainy season the toads disappeared, and I no longer have them in my garden.
Over the years I am no longer afraid of insects or animals, my greatest fear is heights, enclosed spaces, and the immensity of the sea. I can't stand airplanes, the thought of having my feet on a false floor makes me panic, I immediately sweat, and tachycardias affect me.
I like to see the sea and its beauty but when I go to try to swim I am overcome by a feeling of ignorance of what is happening under the water and I panic, I go back to the shore, my thoughts are my worst enemies.
Claustrophobia invades me when I have an MRI for my health check-ups.
I can no longer control these fears the way I want to. During the MRI when they put me in the tunnel with the noise that the equipment makes, I try to think of beautiful things to endure the study time but it is a nightmare to stay there for such a long time.
These three fears I still can't channel these to leave behind the effect they have on my mind and body. This time reading about those subjects makes me much more afraid. If you know of any methods that will help me eliminate these fears I will gladly practice them.
Today I wrote about my fears thanks to @Coolmidwestguy invitation, if you want you can do the same and write about her fears reading in the publication... https://read.cash/@Coolmidwestguy/am-i-scared-of-anything-312b0c69#comment-470a0ed6
Thank you friend @Telesfor for your continued support.
Preparing Turmeric and Ginger rhizomes
I have harvested turmeric and ginger. The plants reached their last stage, I removed the rhizomes and washed them as best as I could.
After that, I had to take them to the oven to dry them, but first I chopped them into small pieces about the same size.
I have been growing and harvesting turmeric and ginger for many years for my drinks and meals. I like the taste of turmeric in my rice or my meats and fish and I love the taste of ginger in my cookies, cakes, and tea.
Besides using it in the culinary arts it is also very potent as a medicine as it stimulates the body's defense against many diseases.
After roasting the rhizomes in the oven I pass them to the blender and turn them into a fine powder for better use in the kitchen. I mix the turmeric all at once with a little black pepper as it is recommended for use in this way.
Curcumin reacts with piperine and they make a medicinal synergy in our body systems. They act in all the organic systems, and in all of them, they have an excellent results to maintain health.
If you are a friend of sowing try this harvest and be happy with it.
My new tomatoes
I love planting, I did it in November and now my tomato plants are beautiful, full of flowers and beautiful little tomatoes. I just put in some handmade stakes made with dried sticks from other plants.
I am happy. Even though they are not the seeds I planted and I got other plants instead, I am happy because I will have some tomatoes that never go bad. I like to eat them in salads because I never have a big enough production to make sauces.
Four tomato plants are in full bloom and I hope that the soil that I just put on them with organic fertilizer will give them a lot of nutrients. I don't know about tomato species but in my country, we call these tomatoes of elongated shape as "perita tomatoes."
In other opportunities, I have already harvested them because I sowed the seeds myself, in this case, the seeds came in the compost that I put as fertilizer.
Other plants have also grown and I will tell you about them another time when the fruits are bigger. For now, I am very happy with my tomato plants.
I have little space in my garden but I always find room to plant new vegetables plants, for me there is nothing better than going to the garden and harvesting my produce to savor it on my table.
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Someone who has meaning the most to me in my life so far
Sometimes I imagine that my life goes by unchanged, always the same things that I do on a daily basis. I have two great passions in my life, the first is my profession and the second is gardening.
My specialty is being an ultrasound doctor, I perform it with passion, giving my all to achieve the best diagnosis for my patients. Have I been wrong? Of course, I am a human being first and foremost and I make mistakes sometimes. The important thing is that I do my best to be as thorough as possible in my diagnosis and I hope I have not caused serious harm to anyone with my mistakes.
And my second passion is plants and every day I sow, harvest, transplant, prune, etc. I love to be in my garden. I saw everywhere, in pots, in seedbeds, in plant beds, in recycled containers, in water and I stop counting.
This photograph is my property.
This is why I say that I seem to lead a boring life because I can only talk about my plants, nature, and my patients. Other things are not easy for me to resume a conversation.
Now the question of this publication and what I came here to say is that after having these passions in my life the most important thing that has happened to me in my life has been to have my son.
I spent most of my life working and almost at the age of 40 I had my only son. He is now 22 years old and I am 62 years old. I am still actively working and posting on various platforms but not consistently.
My son has been the greatest gift God has placed in my hands to care for, my greatest responsibility. My life has no meaning if he is not present with his messages, his words, and his games.
I know that children are of the world and that he at any moment must leave the nest but he will still be present in my mind with all his memories in me. My life is full of him, who has never left my side until now. I hope he will soon finish his career and find his partner and start a beautiful family.
I am not going to say that we mothers are the only ones who give everything for our children because I also know of many fathers who do it very well. So I will just say that there are parents who give their all for their children, our children come first.
When he was with covid I couldn't help but assist him. He was in bed for a week and I never left him alone. At the end of the week, he was well with the disease and I fell after that. I was in treatment for a month because the secretions would not let me. Thank God everything passed.
We have gone through many circumstances together that I do not regret because they are part of my life, my personality, and my growth. I am so grateful to God for having given me the responsibility of taking care of and teaching this great human being who is today a good man and about to graduate as a computer engineer.
That's all I can say at the moment. Thanks to the invitation of @Coolmidwestguy in "readcashrain" to write about this question. If you want to participate you can do it, through his user you will find the information.
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