At least with all of the exercise, you're keeping your hamstrings loose.
Chester Worwa
--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Carla MacInnis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Carla MacInnis <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cataract WAS Two matters of the heart
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 10:36 AM
> Hi Kendall,
>
> I'm rather like the elusive Pimpernel. Never know
> when I'm gonna appear. I just have to say ... it's cold in
> dem der hills. Atlantic Canada winters are something else!
> :)
>
> I'm getting too old for
> -30C to -40C temps and up and down stairs to the den to put
> wood in the stove. I need a houseboy, dammit! My hand-knit
> blankies sure come in handy this time of year. Mr. Digby,
> the wee terrier with `tude loves to snuggle under when I
> watch tv in the evenings. Family and friends have been after
> me to get a housemate since I've been on my own (hubby
> passed away in 2007). Whoever lives with me will have to put
> up with my habit of nocturnal baking and/or cooking and be
> prepared to entertain the furkid. He's very demanding. Maybe
> a house mate could take on the 'keeper of the flame' role
> while I make all the good eats :)
>
> I have a wood stove that supplements electric heat, which
> I don't like as it's not very warming and it dries out my
> skin; not to mention, electric heat sucks the moisture out
> of my eyes as well.
>
> Had I engaged my brain properly during
> renovations/construction, I'd have had a wood stove
> installed in the laundry area, which is off my tv
> room/office (a new wrap-around addition at the back of my
> home). I think in the spring, I'll have one corner of the
> laundry room assessed to see if a stove might actually work
> there. My current stove heats 1,500 square feet, aided by
> ceiling fans to move warm air around the main floor. If
> nothing else, I"m getting a nice work out with stair
> climbing several times a day. I'm using Bio-Bricks instead
> of cord wood. Lighter weight and easier to manage, not
> to mention very efficient. When I"m not engaged in all those
> various tasks to maintain my status as Domestic Diva
> extraordinaire, I"m still writing :)
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I had a potentially brilliant
> idea in aid of making some of my writing potentially more
> saleable/sellable. I'm going to rework one of my children's
> stories and wrap it around a theme popularised by a Canadian
> tv series I've been watching each evening ... Wind At My
> Back, which is produced by Sullivan Entertainment (Anne of
> Green Gables movies). It seems trials and tribulations,
> followed by resolutions/happy ending movies fare well here
> in Canuckland. Once I essentially rip my manuscript to
> shreds and re-write it, I'll push it onto the Sullivan team
> again. They read it in it's original format years ago and
> loved it but felt it better suited to print. I want to see
> my story as a movie! So there, too!. As well, I'm still
> tossing articles at local newspapers. I wish one of them
> would give me a column or two ... if only to shut me up.
> Last year one of those local papers did a piece on me (God
> only knows why!). What I write about is far more
> interesting. Who wouldn't love to buy a cookbook chock full
> of recipes featuring counter top appliances? Maybe I could
> start selling my recipes, one at a time, via my web site :)
>
> I have an excellent French Onion Soup recipe if
> anyone would care to have it; I really impressed an older
> brother with it and he's a major fusspot :)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Carla
>
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