Where have you lived?

Do you want to see what your old neighborhood looks like now? It's easy just follow the directions on http://www.vpike.com Or maybe where you used to work or where a movie star lives. You'll have tons of fun exploring your old places and re-living memories.

Old Wive's Tales

I was reviewing some of my saved files and was reminded of Dr. Jon and his newsletters. They were always full of great info. Alas, Dr. Jon is no longer with us, but here is a few tidbits that you might enjoy reading.
Plenty of good info here.
http://preventionforever.com/catalt.htm

(The following is from one of his newsletters)
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I recall a rime from my childhood: "Heres to the State of Texas,
where the ants and lizards play. A hundred new mosquitos replace
each one you slay."

Stop the itching instantly with these remedies:

1. Baking soda neutralizes acidic insect venom. Make a paste and
apply to the bite.

2. Milk cools and soothes the skin; its proteins are anti-
inflammatory

3. Onions contain enzymes that breakdown chemicals your body
releases in response to pain. They also contain quercetin, which
relieves inflammation. Crush; rub the juice into your skin.
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Here's a remedy- it is from Folk Medicine by Jarvis-apple cider
vinegar will kill strep on contact. Gargle with it if you can-I
swabit on the sore area in my throat with a cu-tip. If the sore
throat doesn't get better, then it is a virus, not strep.
We've used this for over 25 years, and it works!
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My mom use to get boils ,in her arm pits ,when she was young. The
doctor use to make house calls inthose days and my mom said he would
come to the and have her put her arms over a clothes linethat that
had strung up in the bedroom and squeeze the boils which was very
painful. Well, a lady came along that my gramma knew and told her to
put milk and bread on the boils. well it worked very well . The milk
and bread drew out all the puss.
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For earache/infection drops mix 1 part apple cider vinegar and 3
parts water and stopper it with a cotton ball. Best done before bed.

For leg cramps, pinch the upper lip kind of hard until it subsides.
Be sure and include the tough little tendon between the two front
teeth and the lip.

For hiccoughs, a key down the back of your shirt (why? I dunno...,
but it works!)

Slather olive oil on your hair once a week or so for a perfect hair
conditioner/revitalizer.
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For sore throats, I put a piece of a clove of garlic in my mouth and
leave it there overnight. Garlic is a good antimicrobial.

For canker sores, Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a good way to
get rid of them. I take 2 teaspoons of tincture in water in a day,
and it is gone by the next day. I wish I'd known about this when I
had shingles.
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You are in the country, and one of the kids (or you) gets stung by a
bee. Mix some earth & water (mud) put it on the sting, it draws the
stinger out and no more pain
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Eye redness, itching - (pink eye, onset of conjunctivitus) make tea
of Loosetreif (from herbal store) and use as eyedrops - doesn't
sting, just feels slightly astringent and good. (also good for cats)

Acid Reflux - (I had serious reflux for 2 years)
1) shake up 2 teaspoons slippery elm bark in 1/4 cup of water and
drink this 4 times a day - 1 hour before meals and before bed.
2) Also Use this mixture to wash down Spirulina tablets (6 a day)
3) Also, daily yoga, enhanced "Breath of Fire" (50 breaths a day)

Breath of Fire: This is a rapid diaphragmatic breathing, designed to
excercise the upper organs (including esophagus valve & stomach) and
clean toxins from the body. Sit in upright posture with back
straight and legs relaxed. Using the muscles of your abdomen, SNAP
in your diaphragm (enhanced by also constricting/tightening your
chest/throat), causing a quick exhale (sniffing out) to escape
through your nose. Keep the mouth closed. Then, by relaxing the
abdomen, air will natually enter your nose and chest, causing an
inhale. When this process is comfortable, repeat quickly, causing
several quick, sequential exhales. Do in sets of fifty, with a long,
deep breath at the end of each set.
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Rub apple-cider vinegar on your chapped hands and they will be
healed quickly. It stings, but only for a short time. The vinegar
restores the acid balance to your skin.

Winter isn't over yet!

Keep some of these tips handy.

Always keep extra blankets, gloves, hats in your car during the winter months. Also, water and some snacks. And don't forget the flashlight. You might want to put one on your keychain like the one pictured.

Keep your headlights clear with car wax! Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy mixture from accumulating on your lights - lasts 6 weeks.

Squeak-proof your wipers with rubbing alcohol! Wipe the wipers with a cloth saturated with rubbing alcohol or ammonia. This one trick can make badly streaking & squeaking wipers change to near perfect silence & clarity.

Ice-proof your windows with vinegar! Frost on it's way? Just fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water & spritz it on all your windows at night. In the morning, they'll be clear of icy mess. Vinegar contains acetic acid, which raises the melting point of water---preventing water from freezing!

Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray! Spritz cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors & rub it in with a paper towel. The cooking spray prevents water from melting into the rubber.

Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream! Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield & wipe if off with paper towels. Shaving cream has many of the same ingredients found in commercial defoggers.

De-ice your lock in seconds with hand sanitizer! Just put some hand sanitizer gel on the key & the lock & the problems solved!

**Warning** Really good recipes ahead!

If you are on a restricted diet, please just pass by this post!

Oh My Gosh! I thought it would be fun to look at some blogs today. BIG MISTAKE!!!

My search took me to "The Pioneer Woman". What delicious recipes I found. I'm a big peppercorn fan and I came to this page http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/12/filet-au-poivre/ and fell in love. In fact I loved all the recipes I looked at on this site. If I wasn't already stuffed, I'd be cooking right now. She has wonderful pictures that will just plain make your mouth water.

Still learning!!!!!

I'm learning as I go and I have been guilty of going back to my old posts and updating (without telling anyone). So, if there was a topic that you were interested in, please use the search feature to bring the post back up and re-read it. It may have new information! Or, since this blog is fairly new, you can just go through the posts again. One change in particular is the Reflexology post. I added an interactive foot chart that is really neat, but it takes up most of the page and just doesn't fit within my format. Too bad about that, but it's really worth viewing.

I haven't really advertised my blog, so I'm pretty safe make changes as I feel a bit more confident in what I'm doing. If you have any questions,comments or suggestions, please let me know. Maybe there is a better way that I don't know about yet.

Thanks for reading and please send the link to a friend.

Coconut Oil

Did you know that coconut oil is good for you? There is so much written about Coconut oil that it would take pages of this blog to tell about it, so I will include some links (of course).

This is where I buy mine
http://www.tropicaltraditions.com

Info about coconut oil
http://www.coconutoil.com/

A great forum to discuss the benefits of coconut oil.
http://www.coconutdiet.com/forum.cfm

Coconut Oil recipes
http://www.freecoconutrecipes.com

Pocket Tazer Stun Gun (adult humor)

I recently received this by e-mail and although I had read it before, it still made me giggle.
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Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.

A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this:

Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife, Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized tazer. The effects of the tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety....??

WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button AND pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I'd get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, right?

There I sat in my recliner, my cat, Gracie, looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.

Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All the while I'm looking at this little device measuring about 5' long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, 'no possible way!'

What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best...?

I'm sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, 'don't do it, dipshit,' reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and . . .HOLY MOTHER OF GOD . . . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE HELL!!!

I'm pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles no where to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs?

The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an atempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.

Note: If you ever feel compelled to 'mug' yourself with a tazer, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor. A three second burst would be considered conservative?

SON-OF-A-BITCH, THAT HURT LIKE HELL!!!

A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling. Apparently I shit myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I'm still looking for my nuts and I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return!!

P. S. My wife loved the gift, and now regularly threatens me with it!

Total Love Immersion Meditation

For those times when you feel less than loved. Very relaxing!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

I never made it to the theaters, but I did watch the Grammys!

Lady Antebellum got five Grammys! Woohoo! I really like that song!

Medical Funnies

These will put a smile on your face!

1. A man comes into the ER and yells . . .'My wife's going to have her baby in the cab.'
I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress and began to take off her underwear.
Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs - - - and I was in the wrong one.

Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald ,
San Francisco

2... At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall.

'Big breaths,'. .. . I instructed.
'Yes, they used to be,'. . .replied the patient.

Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes ,
Seattle , WA

3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct.

Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a 'massive internal fart.'

Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg

4. During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications..' Which one ?'. ... . I asked. 'The patch...The Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it !'
I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see. Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body!

Now, the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one.

Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair ,
Norfolk , VA

5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, 'How long have you been bedridden?'
After a look of complete confusion she answered . . . ' Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive.'

Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson-
Corvallis , OR

6. I was performing rounds at the hospital one morning and while checking up on a man I asked . . .' So how's your breakfast this morning?' ' It's very good except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste.'. ... . Bob replied.
I then asked to see the jelly and Bob produced a foil packet labeled 'KY Jelly.'

Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf ,
Detroit ,

7. A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered .

. . It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery.. When she was completely disrobed on the
operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green and above it there was a tattoo that read . . .' Keep off the grass.'

Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said 'Sorry . . . had to mow the lawn.'

Submitted by RN no name,

AND FINALLY!! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

8. As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB.
I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams... To cover my embarrassment I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly.

The middle-aged lady upon whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassing me. I looked up from my work and sheepishly said. . .
' I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?' She replied with tears running down her cheeks from laughing so hard . . .

' No doctor but the song you were whistling was . . .. ' I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener .' '

Dr. wouldn't submit his name....

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Baby's First Doctor Visit

This made me laugh out loud. I hope it will give you a smile!

A woman and a baby were in the doctor's examining room, waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby's first exam.

The doctor arrived, and examined the baby, checked his weight, and being a little concerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed or bottle-fed.

'Breast-fed,' she replied..

'Well, strip down to your waist,' the doctor ordered.

She did. He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and detailed examination.

Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said, 'No wonder this baby is underweight. You don't have any milk.'

I know,' she said, 'I'm his Grandma,

But I'm glad I came.

Colloidal Silver

As promised, I did some searches for Colloidal Silver testimonials. Here is what I came up with and I hope that you take the the time to do research yourself. I don't endorse any of these products because I haven't tried them, but I have my own testimonials and believe in the healing power of CS. Check out these links.

http://www.csfacts.com/pages/testimonies.html

http://www.csfacts.com/pages/testimonies2.html

http://www.csfacts.com/pages/testimonies3.html

http://www.csfacts.com/pages/testimonies4.html

http://www.colloidalsilversolutions.com/Testimonials.html

Wanna make your own Colloidal Silver?
Check this out:

http://www.survival-training.info/Library/ColloialSilver/Colloidal%20Silver%20Miracle%20or%20Fraud%20-%20Dr.%20Jon%20Brooks.pdf


(I have changed the link on this post because the prior one doesn't work anymore)

Procrastination?

I've been so busy lately that I haven't put in the blog some information that everyone should have. Colloidal silver and coconut oil! I have so much info. I've been reading about fat and how much the body needs good fat. There is also a good book out Eat Fat Lose Fat and so many others. What do they know that we don't. Hopefully, in the next couple of weeks, I'll tell you about all the benefits of coconut oil and some links to forums. Also, the benefits of colloidal silver. Until then, keep a smile on your face and think good things.

Did you know?

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing

 

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States

 

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

 

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

 

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten

 

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit

 

Hamsters love to eat crickets

 

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere

 

Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean

 

Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third

 

Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)

 

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds

 

The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers

 

For more go to http://www.kellys.com/know.html

Handcrafted gifts

Etsy has wonderful handcrafted gifts and now my friend is selling her items there. Check out http://www.etsy.com/shop/VictoriasMagicPotion She has beautiful hot/cold packs for sale at a reasonable price. Every home should have at least one and they come in various sizes. I love the prints! This is a new listing, so I'm sure that she will be adding more goodies.

I always like to hear the word "homemade" and really respect that people  take time to make their products well and truly unique. I, for one, will support these "handicrafters" when I can.

Movie Time?

Well, we haven't been to a movie since Avatar and of course there is a new 3D movie out that we want to see.  Check out the trailer of Sanctum. It might be too much for me and make my stomach flip/flop, but others in my family will probably love it.