Bloggers and blogging

I have been a little disappointed to hear that a few of the bloggers whose blogs I read have had negative comments about their blogs and I fully understand how they must have been hurt and upset.  Why do people make nasty comments?  Can't they just move on and read a different blog.

To me it's like complaining about a certain TV program.  You don't have to watch it if you don't like it, just switch to another channel.

I am not a prolific poster but I do enjoy reading other folk's.  If there has been any I didn't like I just stopped looking at them. I am not much of a commenter either but once in a while I do.

We all have our own reasons for blogging, mine is to keep a sort of diary I can look back on.  I don't have many people read my blog and that is fine, I started it for me.  I do appreciate any one who comments though.

I hope those bloggers who were subject to the nasty comments keep on posting as I do so enjoy reading about their adventures and daily activities.

Apologies

I am such a Dumbo sometimes.  I never realised I had a lot of comments awaiting moderation.  Today I found them and told Blogger to publish them.

If yours was one, I am very sorry and have resolved the issue.

Will Mung beansprouts be the answer?

On a visit to see my husband's neurologist last month we commented to him on how well he was looking.  He is not a well man and suffers himself from neurological problems as well as other things especially allergies.  He told us he had been eating Mung beansprouts for about a month and wasn't sure if his improvement in health was related but it was a big coincidence, he said.

So, we researched them and found that they are supposed to be beneficial healthwise and though why not give it a go.  Nothing to lose except a bit of time and the cost of the beans.

This was the best video I found online on how to grow them.

How to grow Mung beansprouts

I am now on my third batch of growing, here are a couple of pictures of my second batch before I harvested them.  They didn't grow as tall as the one's in the video but they taste great and they were plentiful.  Enough to keep us going until the next batch is ready.

Have we noticed any changes?  Well my husband thinks they are helping with his problems of constipation and I have noticed that I do not get indigestion at all if I have eaten some.

We eat about three small bowlfuls a day usually with or just after meals.

On a not so good note, when my husband was in the hospital the week before last some blood tests showed some liver function tests highly elevated so he has to have an ultra sound on his abdomen on Tuesday.  I might add that he hadn't started on the beansprouts at the time the blood test was done.  The first batch was growing while he was in the hospital.  Hoping it is just a temporary reaction to the plasmatheresis treatments he had.

Will keep you updated.

That was the month....that was!

February has been one of the busiest months I have had in forever.  My husband has not been well so there have been many trips to the VA hospital 150 miles away.  In between the usual housework, cooking, washing et al, you know how it goes.  He spent a week in the hospital at end end of the month and came home yesterday.  He had to have three plasmatheresis treatments which take many hours each time plus time to recover so they just kept him in for the week.  The last two treatments left him with critically low fibrinogen levels so then he had to be infused with cryoprecipitate afterwards which was another lengthy process.

Another thing that has kept me busy is cleaning up Asian beetles which have invaded us really badly this year.  The only thing you can do is vacuum them up and they just keep coming and coming so not a fun time.

Not much making of things other than a curtain for the door into the sunroom so I don't have to see them pesky bugs, they are particularly bad in there and some woven squares for the baby blanket work in progress.

Hoping for a bit of an easier month in March before the grass starts growing again in April and the never ending mowing starts.

That all said, life is good and I am grateful for every day.