05.31.07
Posted in Anything goes, God, Historical Trivia, Uncategorized at 8:56 pm by Administrator
Well, the opening of the Creation Museum has come and gone. Several news articles have been written on the event, so I won’t rehash that too much. Basically, it has been reported that over 4,000 people attended the opening. Judging from the car license plates, it is estimated that people came from about 20 different states to get there. I have no idea how many people normally visit museums on any given day, but from the pictures provided on Ken Ham’s blog, it looked like a good turn out. The pictures can be viewed here. The reactions from those who attended appear to be varied since both creationists and non-creationists attended.
For those who aren’t familiar with Ken Ham, he used to be affiliated with the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). They run another creation museum in the San Diego area, which has been there for over 20 years now, I believe. I’ve been to that one twice since it’s within driving distance to me here. The materials from that institute is where I first learned of the problems with the “model” of evolution. As a child, I always had “questions” of how “they” “knew” certain things like what the dinosaurs looked like if all they found were bones, or if we came from apes, then why are there still apes, or how can they tell that something is “billions” of year old, or if they only find one bone here and another bone there, how do they know which belongs to which and how to put them back in their original positions if the species is no longer in existence to use as a model, etc. So when I first was exposed to material from ICR explaining that those ideas were only “ideas,” then all of a sudden things started to fall into place for me. At first my reaction was, “Oh! So ‘They’ don’t really know? That makes a lot of sense!” Then my next reaction was anger because then I realized that I had been lied to all these years or made to believe something that was not concrete fact. Instead of teaching me that they “suspected” evolution took place like such and such, they taught it to me as if it were a “fact.” Not only did I learn that evolution is only a “model” of how the beginning of our world began, creation is also only a “model” of how our world began. ICR and AIG do an excellent job of clarifying that both evolutionists and creationists have the same artifacts by which to study, and it’s the interpretations of those artifacts where the descripencies arise. Naturally, the field is very complex and involving, so I can’t possibly discuss it all here. However, I have found that there are now free online videos which deal with the creation vs. evolution models. Such videos can be viewed from here and here.
One other thing I thought I’d mention is that ICR and the new Creation Museum in Kentucky aren’t the only creation museums. There are others such as Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas and Big Valley Creation Science Museum in Alberta, Canada as well as others that can be found at this link.
It appears that Ken Ham continues to do interviews and has reported on his blog that for the most part, the media has been doing a pretty good job of reporting their statements accurately. That’s nice to hear.
Marlakins
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05.28.07
Posted in Anything goes, Uncategorized, felt projects, knitting and crocheting at 6:14 pm by Administrator
This week I was finally able to work up my Manx Loaghtan ball of yarn I got as a present. I only got one ball, so I wanted to find a project that only required one ball. I originally chose a small clutch purse, but one of the more experienced knitters at my knit group told me that the loaghtan yarn was too thick for the pattern I wanted to make. So instead I made up my own pattern. Here is a picture of what it looked like when I got it started.
Just before I started on that, I also had another project that I worked up while I watch the rental DVD, Blood Diamond. Wow, what a movie. I never used to like DiCaprio much, but honestly, his performances in The Aviator and Blood Diamond is giving me a new respect for him as a serious actor. I used to just think he was a young pretty face, but he seems to have talent, too, ha! 
Anyway, here’s a picture of another experimental purse where I used some “fun fur.” I wasn’t sure how it would felt up, but this is what it looked like “before” I felted it. The bottom portion is some very old Crystal Palace yarn that I had stashed for 18 years or so, the fuzzy fur stuff is called “Fun Fur” which I bought on sale for $1.99 at JoAnn Fabrics almost half a year ago now, the red band on top was the left over yarn I had from my mom’s purse, which is a Cascade yarn. I didn’t have enough red left to complete the straps, so I used part red Cascade and part left over brown wool I’ve had for ages, and came up with the straps. So after I felted it, I was actually happy with the results! I’m telling you, felting is addicting! Here is it pictured below, next to my completed purse using the Manx Loaghtan yarn, which I didn’t felt because I wanted the cabling to show. I also attached a little Chinese talisman onto the zipper as a little finishing touch.
The little brown Manx yarn purse is my first purse or knit project where I tried to add a lining and a zipper. I’m pleased with the way it came out, although I would do it a little differently in the future. But for now, since this is for my personal use, I’m satisfied with the outcome. And it encourages me to try other sweater patterns where zippers are attached. I used the suggestion in Big Book of Knitting by Katharina Buss to add a crocheted edging to make a clean zipper attachment. It worked out very nicely. Here’s a picture of the top view showing how nicely the zipper fit in there with Buss’s recommendation to crochet a border.
Here’s a picture of what the lining looks like.
I know, funky choice of lining, huh? Well, it was just something I already had in the house for some of my quilting projects. I just thought the brown swirls matched the brown wool okay, and thought the pattern was fun, so what the heck? 
And finally, here’s a picture of another experiment wherein I used some varigated yarn and knitted in the round. The pattern came out interesting, and since I ran out of the yarn, I finished it up with some red Cascade yarn.
I have to say that felting is really addicting. It’s like Christmas everytime I open the washer to see what happened to the knit project. However, I am also pleased with the way the Manx yarn worked up, and now I have pictures that I can send back to my friend who sent me the yarn. I told him that once I make something out of it, I would sent him a picture of the completed project. Now that I’ve used up the yarn, I look at it and think that that yarn would have also made a nice little teddy bear. Hmm. I might try that sometime! Oh, did I say, “finally”? Well that was in error because I did also “finally” start on the ball of wool that I handspun months ago. I decided to make squares out of it. I plan to keep spinning all the roving I have and hopefully, I’ll end up with enough squares to sew together to make an afghan. Right now I have four squares laying out to be blocked. Hope that turns out okay. We’ll see. If so, I’ll be adding a picture of them in another post.
Toodles for now!
Marlakins 
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05.27.07
Posted in Anything goes, God, History, Uncategorized at 10:54 am by Administrator
“A brand-new museum plans to take old-time religion to new scientific heights. The Creation Museum’s goal is nothing less than proving that everything the Bible says about creation, the flood and the universe is literally true.”
Click here to view interview.
Marlakins
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05.26.07
Posted in Anything goes, God, Uncategorized at 5:10 pm by Administrator
It appears that Answers In Genesis is creating quite a stir from quite a few atheists. Why? Well, this Monday, May 28, 2007 is the scheduled opening of Answer In Genesis’s new Creation Museum in Boone County, Kentucky. Ken Ham, one of the founders of AIG, has already completed 43 interviews this week because of the new museum. A thousand guests have been invited to celebrate the opening and ribbon cutting ceremony. One such guest expected to attend is Raymond Damadian, inventor of magnetic resonance scanning aka magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Several months ago I wrote a blog entry about Raymond Damadian and the “Indomitable,” the first MRI machine to make an MRI image of a human on July 3, 1977. Although he had invented the MRI machine in 1977, which is on permanent display today at the Smithsonian Institutions’s Hall of Medical Sciences, the nobel prize awarded in 2003 for the Medical breakthrough of MRI imaging went to two other scientists, Dr. Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield. Both were important contributors to the field of MRI, however Damadian’s work came first. And even though the nobel prize award can be awarded to up to three people, only those two were awarded, leaving Damadian out. It has been suggested that Damadian was denied the award because of his open belief in young earth creation, which is totally irrelevant to his work on the MRI, but goes to show the bias in some scientific circles.
This Creation Museum is another museum that I would definitely visit if it were close to me! I especially would have loved to go to the opening to meet Raymond Damadian. But alas, I will have to just read the press releases on it come Monday.
Marlakins
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05.25.07
Posted in Anything goes, Uncategorized, humor at 5:43 pm by Administrator
If this museum were located near me, I would definitely go visit it. But unfortunately, it’s not. It’s located in Dedham, Massachusetts and is called, “Museum of Bad Art” (MOBA). Being that I am interested in arts, this particular museum caught my eye, not only because of the “artwork” it displays, but because when Brian and I checked out their website, we laughed so hard it hurt. This is the picture that had us almost rolling on the floor in laughter. It was under the landscape section and is called, “Dog.”
For more details on this lovely piece along with a gallery of their other pieces, here’s the link.
Marlakins
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05.24.07
Posted in Anything goes, Health-related--Natural Alternative Treatments, Uncategorized at 8:31 pm by Administrator
Every now and again I read of someone who has developed a serious illness like aplastic anemia who claim that they have never been exposed to toxins. It makes me wonder what they think toxins are because I thought that it has been pretty common knowledge that everyone living in any modern city is exposed to toxins of some sort every day. After all anyone who drives a car or are exposed to fumes from a car are exposed to benzene, a known toxin. Building materials are full of toxins like formaldehyde that continue to outgas even after construction has been completed. Our foods are commonly laced with excitotoxins like MSG and other questionable ingredients added purely for colors, textures, preservatives, and even flavors, which add no nutritional value to the product. Not only are we exposed to toxins from the air and our foods, there are toxins in our daily cosmetic products. One such toxin are phthalates. What are phthalates? This link explains phthalates like this:
“What are phthalates?
Phthalates are a family of industrial chemicals that are used as a plastic softeners or solvents in many different consumer products. They can be absorbed through the skin, inhaled as fumes, ingested when they contaminate food or when children bite or suck on toys, and are inadvertently but directly administered to patients from some PVC (polyvinyl chloride or vinyl) medical devices.”
I can hear it already. . . There’s only just a tiny amount in our products, so it’s likely not enough to harm us. . . Well, that may be true, but consider this from the above link:
“Companies say that the level of phthalates in their products is “safe.” That might be true if people were exposed to only one phthalate from one source at a time, but none of us is and the exposures add up. Since many phthalates have similar effects, we may be affected by the total exposure to this group of chemicals. What appears to be a “tolerable” level of exposure to a single phthalate could contribute to an unsafe overall exposure. Therefore, when possible, you may wish to reduce your use of cosmetics known to contain phthalates and as well as plastic products made from soft PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic, also known as vinyl — products such as vinyl flooring, shower curtains, wallpaper and food containers.”
Before I developed AA, I wore cosmetics daily and used fragrant lotions and perfumes every day. My favorite at that time was “Romance.” So, not only did I inhale all that stuff every day, I was absorbing it through my skin and then sniffing all the other stuff everyone else around me who applied their daily douse of lotions, colognes, perfumes, hairsprays, deoderants, etc. had on. Knowing these things, I have endeavored to spare myself and my fellow man of just a little more toxins by trying to use products with natural fragrances made from herbs and essential oils. I know that living in modern times it’s virtually impossible to live completely free of toxins, but I do think that being aware and more knowledgeable about them will help us to lower our toxin loads and hopefully live more healthful lives.
For more info on phthalates, check out Poisoned Cosmetics, Not Too Pretty. That site has other links that will lead to other interesting sites regarding our toxin exposures.
Marlakins
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05.21.07
Posted in Anything goes, God, Health-related--Natural Alternative Treatments, Historical Trivia, Uncategorized at 3:34 pm by Administrator
How old were we originally created to live? I know that question sounds ridiculous to an evolutionist, but for a creationist, the answer is a matter of looking into the Bible at the accounts of creation in Genesis. In Genesis chapter 1, God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it, including man and woman. Death had not yet entered into the equation until the fall of man. At that point, it is written in Genesis 1:22-24,
“And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
From the above passage, it appears that man was capable of living forever. It appears that when the world was created, it was in it’s optimal condition by which man could exist perpetually. After the fall of man, those who had the breath of life began to die. In the biblical sense, “the breath of life” refers to creatures that breathe air and have lungs.” So from the premise I have just outlined regarding how long people can live, I have been interested in the longevity of man.
Is it true that the life expectancy of man is extending? That’s the common party line we hear today. While it does make sense that improvements in sanitation has improved living conditions and lowered death rates, has it extended our lives from times past? What is the age today by which we consider a person “old?” The common retirement age is 65. Many today die before they reach that ripe old age for retirement. What about in times past? Genesis documents lineages and ages of various people. Adam, the first man, was documented to live to 930 years old. His son, Seth, was documented to live 912, Enos lived to 905 years, Cainan lived to 910, Mahalaleel lived to 895, Jared lived to 962, and the list goes on. For those who believe in the bible, I’d like to reference Genesis chapter 12 where Abram is instructed by God to leave the country. Abram leaves with his wife, Sarai, his nephew, Lot, and all their belongings. Verse 4 states that Abram was 75 years old when he started on this journey. It was during this journey that he approach Egypt during a famine. Verse 11 says this,
“And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come in into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.”
So, Abram was 75 years old at the start of his journey. How old was Sarai? Abram told her to say that she was his “sister,” so I’m assuming she was somewhat close to his age, otherwise he could have said that she was his daughter. So how old was Sarai? Seventy, maybe? How many 70 year old women today do we know of who looks so striking that a “Pharaoh and his princes” would find favor in her and give her “brother” sheep, oxen, menservants and maidservants? I would guess that Sarai looked pretty darned good for what we consider a senior citizen today. And yet today in our “advanced” and “life extending” modern society, girls who are in their 30s are considered old for the modelling business. For those who aren’t familiar with the story of Abram and Sarai, they later became known as Abraham and Sarah. Sarah had a son when she was about 100 years old, and according to the Bible, she died at 127 years old. That’s almost twice as old as our senior citizens today who are suffering from all kinds of ailments.
Perhaps one might argue that the people who wrote the Bible didn’t count numbers and years like we do today? Then perhaps we should consider the ages of other people mentioned in the Bible. Let’s take a look at Joseph, whose was the last documented death in Genesis. According to Genesis 50:26, Joseph died at 110 years old. Sounds closer to our age. I think the author of Genesis knew how to count, and I believe the days and years he used was relatively similar to a day and year we use today. As is documented in Genesis, “morning and evening” was one day. If the Bible is accurate, then it looks like our life expectancies have been decreasing, and is thus consistent with our observed laws on entropy, a law of science, and also consistent with death entering the world after the sin of Adam and Eve. Evolution teaches us the exact opposite of the law of entropy in that our species first started from some slime, which continued to defy the laws of entropy for millions of years until you have complex living beings like humans. That is not science. But I digress. . . the life span of man is the topic I was originally contemplating, and before I close, I wanted to share an interesting link called Living in Three Centuries, the Face of Age. That link has a slideshow of people and their ages. Click onto the thumbnails if you want to see an enlarged picture with a short narrative next to it. Several of those pictured are over 100 years old. Check out the first picture on the left, top row. He is #72 and is said to be 112 years old, the 16th oldest person in the world, and the oldest person in the USA. Although some of these guys are old, in comparison to Adam, Noah, Seth, Enos, etc., they’re just young whipper snappers! Ha! But for some reason, I don’t think the guys of old looked as beat. Just my “suspicion” given the account of Sarai when she might have been around 70 or so. And then finally, this morning I read my son’s recent blog entry. I think some of what he writes fits right in with what I’ve just been thinking about. Here’s Andrew’s post.
Marlakins
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05.20.07
Posted in Anything goes, Uncategorized at 6:51 pm by Administrator
As a mother, I can’t help but blog about this, heheh–my youngest son’s first attempt at making homemade pastry. . . I noticed for the past few days he has been rummaging through our cookbooks. Then he would come to me and ask if certain ingredients were okay with my diet, ha! Soon, he had narrowed down his selection to a poppy seed roll. Below is a picture of his first completed attempted at making a poppy seed roll all by himself!
Now, this is the third picture I took of him holding his dish because for some reason he kept closing his eyes when I took his picture. I kept telling him I want another one because his eyes were closed, so in this shot he was “concentrating” on keeping his eyes open and forgot to smile, ha! But really, he was happy when his pastry came out of the oven.
Below is what his poppy seed roll looked like when we sliced it open.
Not bad for his first attempt! It’s not quite as pretty as the one pictured in the recipe book, but it tasted just fine. So speaking of “taste,” I had to capture his first taste of it.
And here it is below:
Ummmmm.
Nothing like enjoying the fruits of one’s labor. . . Thank God he also enjoyed sharing his final product with us and wanted to know if it tasted good, ha! Yes, it did, although I did try to eat it sparingly since I’m “supposed” to be going easy on the carbs! His brothers and his dad polished off the rest of it in no time. I have to smile knowing that we’ve got another cook in our kitchen.
Marlakins
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05.19.07
Posted in Anything goes, Historical Trivia, Uncategorized at 4:06 pm by Administrator
Since my dad has lived through WWII, he has had a life-long interest in war history, particularly WWII. While my cousins were out here visiting from the Philippines, they found an Aviation Museum in Chino called, Planes of Fame. My dad found that this museum actually houses actual WWII planes, and yesterday we played the tourist again and visited this museum. It turns out that we visited the day just before their air show, May 19 and 20. Many of the planes were being moved out in preparation for the airshow, so we got a chance to watch planes being moved about, worked on, and “flown!” Ha! What a treat! Even though my dad inhabits a 76-year-old body, I sure saw the little boy in him come out as he spotted planes that he remembered so well seeing as a young 13-year-old. Naturally, I had to take pictures. It was nice having my dad there tell us which planes were what. The first two my dad recognized were these fighter planes:
Certainly, I can’t attach pictures of all the planes they had, but I do want to share a few more such as this Pacific Princess below. My dad said he remembered seeing a lot of those flying over the Philippines. The Pacific Princess was a bomber plane.
From the shot above one can see the gunner dome on the top facing backwards. Another gunner was situated right in the tip of the nose. 
On the right is a closer view of that. Just click onto the picture for an enlarged view. While we were walking along the lot, vendors were setting up their stalls for the next day’s airshow. Some of the WWII planes are still good to fly and are being flown as I type between 11AM-4PM today. They were all being lined up behind the orange partition, but lucky us, we were able to see three P38s right in the front. 
Here’s a picture of me boys in front of a couple of them. At this point we were able to sit down along with other photographers to watch the planes taking off for test flights. Judging by the looks of their cameras, they must have been professional photographers. No itty bitty digital cameras like mine, ha! 
After we had our fill of watching the planes, we headed back and ran into a war helicopter that had actually been flown in Vietnam. Not the most flattering picture, but hey, it was a bright, sunny, windy day, ha! The pilot was there along with the crew that flew her in, and they shared with us that this helicopter was stored for 10 years after Vietnam until the museum was able to acquire it. 
They then refurbished it, and it is still in flying condition today. The weapons, however, have been rendered inactive, thus they encouraged people to climb aboard and handle the guns, if they liked. Here are two of my boys checking it out. It’s hard to think that young men the same age as my son actually flew these helicopters and manned the guns. One of the crew told us that he had actually serves one tour in Vietnam when he was 21-years-old. And at that time the other crew members called him “gramps” because he was the oldest one there. The others were 17 and 18 years old.
There were lots of other planes there that I wish I could upload all the pictures! They had a Japanese fighter plane, some rescue planes, carriers, surveillence planes, etc. I love to compare them to more modern planes and imagine what it must have been like to fly them. I don’t think I’ve ever flown in a propeller plane. My father told me that when he first came to America, propeller planes were all there was. The seats he sat in were just like old wooden auditorium chairs bolted to the floor, ha! I remember reading about the Wright Brothers and how they had first flown their plane in 1903. Shortly afterwards, the military was drawing up contracts with them and laying down their “specifications.” One specification that really got me was that the planes “must” be able to reach a speed of 40 mph! Ha! And to think now commercial airlines are flying at 400-500mph, and jet planes such as the A-12 Blackbird flown in January 1963 were reaching speeds of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. The advancements in some parts of technology is staggering. 
But before I sign off, here’s one “older” jet plane. For some reason, this one reminds me of the era of I dream of Genie, heheh. 
And finally, here’s another shot with my dad in front of a B17. They used to call this the “Flying Fortress.” It was a big bomber plane before the B29s. My dad really enjoyed this museum as did I. My boys only thought it was “okay,” and my mom just couldn’t wait to go home, ha! Hmmm. Anyway, my dad asked me to make copies of the pictures I took because his brother, my uncle, will likely appreciate these as well. It’s really fun for me to hear their stories, really. One of my uncles told me that it was during WWII that he saw his first “American.” He was wondering what they looked like, and while he was walking along the river, he saw an army tank parked across the river with a G.I. leaning against it. So, he casually walked closer and closer, kicking the stones and water along the way. When finally he got close enough to the G.I., he looked up, and he saw the G.I. was “black!” Ha ha! Well, that G.I. was not only the first American he saw, but also the first Black American he had ever seen. Tee hee! And boy was my uncle surprised! One of my other uncles was older during the war, and he liked to hang around the G.I.s. He even became friends with some of them, and when I visited him in the Philippines, he even showed me some of the things they gave him that he saved like military issue utensils, ha! They were very happy when the Americans arrived because just prior, the Japanese had occupied the area and were treating them all very badly. The boys, including all the boys in my fathers household were required to go out and help the Japanese clear the way and lay down asphalt for runways for their planes. My grandfather would hide the girls in the family. The area in which they lived was heavily occupied by the Japanese and eventually, the Americans bombed the whole area out because the area was just too heavily infiltrated. That’s when my father’s family had to walk to Manila, and that’s where he eventually met my mom! Ha! There is good in everything, isn’t there?
Toodles for now!
Marlakins
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05.17.07
Posted in Anything goes, Health-related--Natural Alternative Treatments, Spin Off from Steele's Chronicle, Uncategorized at 9:27 am by Administrator
Since the topic below is technically separate from Patti’s MILs condition, I thought I would start a new thread for it here. I’ll open up this space so we can continue discussing our own health issues and things we might like to share about what we are trying and our own progress. So, for starters I’ve cut and pasted Patti’s most recent post and added it below.
“I thought I’d post a separate note on what I’m currently doing with my health regimen in trying to heal my hormones and bladder.
“I mentiond elsewhere that Dr.Reuter had me do a cleanse. I thought I’d share it with you. It’s called Bieler Broth. It’s used during the day in lieu of food and is done for four days. I was unable to go all day without food so I was eating lunch and using the broth the rest of the time. It definately cleanses and it did good things for my bladder!
“I steamed 2 zucchini, 2 celery sticks and a handful of whole beans until very soft. Cooled and then blended in a blender until smooth. I would heat a cup at a time and add some garlic salt or sea salt to it for flavor. Works pretty good.
“With the improvement in my bladder from that cleanse it proved to me that toxicity is definately the issue causing the autoimmune disease. I am back down to one pain pill again (praise God!) and told Reuter I want to be off of them before we move (hopefully end of summer). So we have a clear goal at least. I am also taking Guna homeopathic liver cleansers. Guna liver, guna matrix, and guna lympho. 15 drops twice daily on the last two and 5 pellets twice daily on the guna liver. I’m also taking two chinese tea drinks a day which also greatly help my bladder. I can always tell if I’ve missed them.
“I started body brushing which is bringing about multiple positive changes. It’s meant to help move the lymph glands (which is happening). I can tell that’s working because my sinuses are almost always plugged, but with the body brushing they are draining nicely. It’s also causing me to lose some body hair (this is a good thing!). In my monkey like state, it’s always good to lose some of that. 
And, it’s tightening my skin! I use a boars bristle brush and brush towards my intestines with everything but my face. My face and neck I actually brush up towards the head.
“The T-Tapp is also doing a great job with my lymphs. I told Reuter about it and she blew the wad on the stuff. $350! After reviewing it all she was thrilled and said this lady is really onto something. She’s doing more research but one of the things Reuter had been studying is the importance of moving the lymph glands in disease. Which sounds basic; but she’s looking at it deeper she said and from different angles of disease. Don’t know what that means, if she tells me, I’ll pass it on. Nonetheless, I’m glad she approves ’cause like it or not, I’m gonna keep t-tapping! I have lost another 1/2 size and it appears most of that has come from my awful baby belly! How cool is that? Today I got a new blouse in the mail and it’s 3 sizes smaller then what I was wearing before I started t-tapp. But, get this, my actual weight has only changed about 6 or 7 pounds. That’s weird but she says on her videos that’s how it is because she’s working solely with deep muscles. When I get to where I want to be I’ll send you pics, Marla. We’re having family pictures taken on Monday and I’m actually kind of anxious to see the difference compared to when we had them done 5yrs ago.
“My hormones and adrenals appear to be doing better also. I don’t know if this is because of less stress or a combo of all the changes above. I’m thinking the t-tapp is helping the adrenals a lot. I used to never be able to exercise without my body crashing because I didn’t have enough cortisol to sustain me. I never feel bad after t-tapp which makes me think it’s good for my adrenals. Not sure though, I’ll just have to keep an eye on it and see. I’ll be retesting my adrenals in June so that should be revealing.
“I am having my two older kids tested for food allergies this Friday. We are almost positive they’re allergic to milk and that it’s a factor in Luke’s hives. I’ll be anxious to see how that plays out. They aren’t thrilled at all with the thought of getting poked. I’m going to go first and get my TSH and lipid panel done again. Oh, we also discovered that I’m not only allergic to dairy, but I’m allergic to whey protein. Dr.Reuter said it is few people that are actually allergic to whey (it’s still dairy) so I join a small crowd. But that also increases the liklihood that my kids are and it’s causing them health problems. My kids are doing well on the CLO and we intend to keep them on it for a long time.
“Andrea, awhile ago you asked about the cleaner that I use called BioKleen. It’s my liquid dishsoap (although they make lots of cleaners). They mainly use grapefruit as their base for cleaners. It cuts grease great and is not harmful to the soil. Which sounds funny, but since our food comes from the soil I figure it’s better to not put junk into it.
“Okay – that’s my latest health regimen. Always changing. But that’s it for this week anyway.
Patti”
Thank you, Patti!
Marlakins
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