LOCAL HONEY

Last year I went out of county to get raw honey – today, I noticed a local dealer 😊

Tuesdays I normally drive to St. Helens, across the River; to walk the McCormick Park trail … then on to Scappoose just to kick around before heading back home: it’s a relaxing way to eat up daytime hours.

But, with Sara in the Hospital in Nevada, and Frank going in for a medical exam – I figured I’d stay close to home and wait for phone updates.

I texted David and asked if he’d like to go for a walk with me: he said, “Sure” – so, I parked at his place and we did a short walk around his block. It was a nice stretch of the legs; followed by a chit chat with his wife, a pat on the dog’s head, and a chatty cup of coffee. This took the edge off sitting and waiting (I’m not good at sitting, or waiting).

Afterwards, I walked the lower third of the Pacific Way Trail before coming home: giving me my 2 mile (and slightly over) daily goal.

1/3 of the Pacific Way Trail from 30^th to 38^th Aves. = 1.18 miles/1-way: https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/pacific-way-trail

Backyard Honeybee Hives.

Benefits of Honey: https://www.navmi.co.in/benefits-of-honey-for-health-fitness/

Blue-billed Ringneck Duck; male.

Muskrat & female Bufflehead.

Redeeming qualities of muskrats: https://loudounwildlife.org/2008/07/muskrats/

Hooded Merganser pair.

This tiny waterfall runoff, flows directly under the house; French drain setup.

French Drain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain

Local Honey available ...

Nice day to be enjoying the outdoors.

I’m glad I decided to do this walk before heading back home 😊

The day was perfect for outdoor exercise – and I have found a local honey supplier.

Honey is higher in calories than sugar … but the whole-body-benefits are worth the extra 4 calories per teaspoon 😉

Honey is rich in taste, vitamins, antioxidants … and it has essential hormones that suppress appetite and aid weight loss. Honey before bed, fuels the brain to repair itself while you sleep. Honey also acts as a probiotic to keep the digestive system – and immune system healthy. Honey in your daily diet is a plus.

I had barely gotten through the front door at home, when Sara called to tell me that the doctors say her white blood count is sufficient enough now, to do the lumbar procedure needed to figure out what needs to be done to combat the brain swelling, and hopefully get her eyesight back. The surgical team will be taking/examining spinal samples from three different spinal locations.

She is scared, but also brave. She is going through this alone: being scared is understandable. Being brave is survival mode.

This week is still young – I hope and pray, that as it continues to unfold, there will be good reports coming in concerning Sara and Frank.

Meanwhile … I am exercising the spiritual power of prayer & physical exercise: it’s the only two ways I know to stay positive and reap beneficial results.

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UPDATE 7:30 PM TONIGHT: Sara called a few minutes ago – she came through the lumbar procedure fine; she sounds better today, though her eyesight is still very blurry – and she had to lie very still on her back for 3 hours (actually, she was restrained so she couldn’t wiggle). Some of the pressure on the brain was also relieved. Doctors will have more to say to her tomorrow after spinal specimens are examined. I asked her how she is calling me … she said, ‘siri’ 😉 She says she needs to hear “mama’s voice”: me 😊

SCARY NEWS ~ TRUSTING ELOHIM

Ephesians 3.12

I enjoyed an early morning walk around the upper end of the Lake; a bit nippy, but not uncomfortably so …

Half of the hike: Lake trail map - upper end.

Morning walk started here.

Signs of Spring; daffodils pushing up thru the soil.

Ducks pairing up for breeding season.

Making progress towards my Spring Goal.

Glutes workout at home.

Today's plan ... didn't unfold as anticipated.

… and was preparing to come home and start laundry, while waiting to receive 2 important phone calls: one from my niece – the other from a friend. Both are waiting for doctor diagnoses.

Sara’s call came as I was leaving the Park. Before we hung up, she was crying and saying she was scared. I bit my tongue until it bled to keep me from crying; and telling her I was scared, too. I told her I was going to keep her before Elohim 24/7. I said I was going to pester Him until there is a Good Report.

Sara called from the hospital.

Her brain is swollen - doctors are running tests to see if it is covid related.

I cried when we hung up.

And then I plugged into the Prayer Grapevine.

Prayers are needed; and appreciated.

Prayers are needed – and much appreciated.

I dried my eyes, came home and researched what she relayed to me; and shoved fear as far away from my thoughts as humanly possible – fear is our enemy … it can get the best of us in short order, if we indulge it.  What she is facing is scary: but God’s faithful love and mercy is bigger.

((((THANK YOU!)))) to everyone reading this post ... who joins me in this prayer request.

RIVERFRONT WALK

There is an air stagnation warning for our region until Wednesday afternoon – but the air quality was favorable this afternoon, so I went for a riverfront walk with a friend 😊

Riverfront Walk; 1.1 miles round trip.

Sun poking through the clouds.

A 'camo' tree is actually a sycamore hybrid.

The red branches were what originally caught my attention.

On the way home, I bought some boxes … and four more skeins of yarn 😉

MOD Angel Baby blankets getting ready to be mailed off ...

Yarns for new designs.

I’ve finished knitting eight Angel baby Blankets; and I have crocheted decorative edging on seven of them, so far (they don’t need to be trimmed, but they look nicer if done this way): I think I’ll be able to pack sixteen to a box – if I loosely roll them, as shown in the picture above.

Keeping with my physical health routine, I also incorporated exercises into the day:

Standing Pilates for Arthritis | 20 Minute Gentle Workout and

DC DEMONS FAIL

((((WHOOHOO!))))

The DC obamanite demons lost their race-baiting power grab: voting in America remains Constitutional … and they do not get to stack the Supreme Court, which would turn this country into a dictatorship.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-democrats-brace-for-defeat-on-elections-bill-filibuster-changes-11642617597

Thank You, Lord!

The People are fed up with the DC Shady Bunch’s race-baiting and rabid hatred for America and Americans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR5hq3tItCo

obama-biden-cartel’s ‘DREAM’

Should America still be considered the United States America or the "United States of the Democrat Party." - We know what the demonrats in DC want...

But looking back on joe biden and his political career: biden has been a 'bigot' and 'propagandist' throughout his entire career in politics.

"biden can barely get his act together to give a speech on any substantive topic. But if you wind him up and turn him loose, the demagogue and propagandist that he is … the bigot that he's been throughout his career in the United States Senate and elsewhere, that's where he gets all worked up, and his sentences are actually mostly completed in full."

Just look to his recent speech in Georgia, where he calls millions of Americans, racists. And hey let's not forget his comments to black Americans in 2020, biden: 'If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black'.

demonrats are trying to implement their socialist agenda in order to consolidate power for themselves.

Should America still be considered the United States America or the "united states of the democrat party."

"The demonrat party is constantly pushing, pushing, pushing – and often pushing illegalities – to change our nation not for the better, but for their power."

"If you don't support what the demonrats want to do, then democracy will die. Who talks like this? This is a cheap imitation of benito mussolini. That's what it is,"

If Americans aren't on board with the obama-biden-cartel's agenda, they are considered pariahs, racist, or white supremacists. And are now being classified as Domestic Terrorists.

"They talk about dictatorship; and biden swings from the most outrageous, irresponsible spending bill that he can't get passed to the most outrageous, outrageous attempt to nationalize to change our voting system, violating the federal constitution, violating the authority of the state legislatures. And if you disagree with joe biden and his party and the propagandists and surrogates who support it, then there's something wrong with you."

The media and demonrats work together to destroy "Americanism" and to implement a "marxist" agenda.

From voting rights, to packing the Supreme Court, to adding states, eliminating the filibuster, and keeping the borders open for illegal immigrants, the demonrats are only looking out for themselves, it's never about democracy or the interests of the American People.

"Everything the demonrat party pushes, everything their media push, everything their academies push is about empowering the democrat party to empower the “american marxist movement."

obamanites TRYING TO OVERTURN AMERICAN LAW

The obamanites have officially made a mockery of MLK Day.

I am old enough to remember the MLK March era.

I know actual History … and the obamanite version of it, is not reality.

The obamanite demonrats have divorced themselves from reality.

The delusional demonrats have aligned themselves with conmen racists.

pelsoi has finally gone full tilt ...

Crazy pelosi goes full clueless biden: https://pluralist.com/nancy-pelosi-goes-full-joe-biden-in-bizarre-founding-fathers-filibuster-rant-opinion/

harris using Scripture as a political bludgeon is ludicrous.

kamala harris is a communist – just like obama: https://californiaglobe.com/articles/she-said-what-kamala-harris-promotes-communism-in-new-video/ 

obama and harris are both supreme liars.

obama and harris are both using religion as a smoke-screen – ineffectively, but using it, nonetheless to their own ends.

communists do not believe in God – therefore, islam serves their purpose: islam’s only god is self. islam is a hellish, nightmarish, narcissistic religion, whose god is a soulless strawman.

The heart of communism is materialism: there is no room for God.

When the era of communism took root; in Russia, in 1917, a full-fledged force was generated to eliminate the very concept of God … and every communist regime following, has had the goal of purging the people of their faith. communism is not merely irreligious – it is antireligious.

harris was raised in a communist household, like obama. Her father was an unapologetic communist, as was her mother. Both parents idealized fidel castro and che Guevara – as does barak hussain obama. harris’s sister, maya, was a devotee of communist campus groups at Stanford university. harris, like obama, had been born into – and raised totally immersed, in a Godless communist environment from infancy. Chances are their diapers were revolutionary red.

lewis was a rabid racist, all the DC sugar-coating cannot change that.

john lewis was a racist/conspiracy divider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_hbDoJFzIU & https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/01/19/letter-john-lewis-racist-divider-who-sits-his-hands/96777542/

john lewis died an unapologetic racist supporting racism: https://dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/30/john-r-lewiss-last-remarks-in-support-of-black-lives-matter-marchers/

The obamanite agenda is doomed to failure; Truth always wins.

Villainous racist, al sharpton: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190919/109952/HHRG-116-JU00-20190919-SD028.pdf

Conman racist jesse jackson: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm,  https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124046&page=1 & http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=31375

obama and farrakhan: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/02/03/obama-farrakhan-2005-photo-released-smerconish.cnn

pelosi’s ties to farrakhan: pelosi named barbara lee a co-chairman of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. lee had been a 2005 cbc meeting with farrakhan, where she posed for a group photo. In January 2006, she and other cbc members met privately with farrakhan in New Orleans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qmweHbj-Ks&t=223s). lee enthusiastically embraced farrakhan, who calls her “my sister.” Not until March 2018, did lee say: “I unequivocally condemn minister farrakhan’s anti-Semitic and hateful comments.”

I do no believe pelosi is ignorant of farrakhan’s network of DC dealings: it is an open secret that the demonrats in DC pander to farrakhan.

sharpton and farrakhan: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/11/nyregion/2-standards-about-words-on-farrakhan.html

There are numerous photos of sharpton and farrakhan being very ‘palsy’ together.

jackson and farrakhan: https://bonniekgoodman.medium.com/8-black-antisemitism-goes-mainstream-jesse-jackson-and-louis-farrakhan-6b26bd2ace28

farrakhan’s main goal is to make islam the only religion accepted by DC – long before he threw his support behind barak hussain obama … he was promoting jackson – but he never got invited to the White House, until obama hired black panther gunmen to patrol the white house lawns. (https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/82369b2320f38be4227a48a0930763d6/Louis-Farrakhan-puts-his-support-behind-Jesse-Jackson-running-for-President/).

biden and farrakhan: https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/biden-meeting-with-jacob-blake-sr-draws-attention-to-past-anti-semitic-statements/article_131179a0-0eea-5125-8bcd-1a8c28ec8b76.html

Voter ID is essential - the obamanite arguments are baseless.

USA Laws concerning the Right to Vote: https://www.usa.gov/who-can-vote

Felon disenfranchisement LAWS are explicitly endorsed by the wording of the USA Voting 14^th Amendment (Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 – 1974) is a decision by the USA Supreme Court that forbids the voting by felons without violating the 14^th Amendment of USA Constitution. This Law is presumptively Constitutional.

Felons lose the right to vote, the right to hold public office, the right to serve as a jury member, and the right to possess firearms.

Felons lose basic civil liberties because of their criminal record. This is a just judgement – regardless of what the lawless and criminal obamanites think.

Felons & Illegals have no right when it comes to voting.

Am I the only one that sees and hears the hypocrisy, and the blatant dismantling of America; carried out by the obamanite-biden cartel?

It’s an open, festering, toxic scandal that no one wants to acknowledge – for fear of being labeled a racist.

Leadership has been so eroded in this toxic political obamanite atmosphere, that it has become a sad, twisted, joke.

I AM SPEAKING OUT.

I have no career to safeguard by caving into fearmongering tactics.

I don’t care what people think about me.

Truth is truth.

And Truth ultimately wins 😊

barak hussain obama, and his DC demons, will burn in Hell for what he has done to Americans – and to the world at large … and continues to do through his shameless, deluded, minions.

DUCK EGGS & RIVER WALK

I was up before the sun rose.

I was on a mission.

Blue showing through the early morning clouds; coffee shack location.

Sunrise; Ocean Beach Highway.

I was driving to Castle Rock to make a purchase in the parking lot of the Select Market, there.

Duck eggs are hard to come by, so when I find a supplier … I am on it like chicks on crickets 😉

In Castle Rock waiting at 'drop point' for duck eggs to be delivered.

The overhead sky looked like bags of upended cotton balls had been flung across it.

'Wait til Spring' for safe passage travels.

Meticulous Plans have been researched and carefully plotted.

Out-of-State Solo Lobo venturing can get dicey.

As soon as all road are a 'GO!' ... I'm outta here. 😊

A beautiful false-spring day.

Duck Eggs; fresh from the farm; I prefer them unwashed when I buy them – and I wash them before I crack the shell.

Duck Egg Info: https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-duck-eggs#1

After I got home, and stashed the precious eggs in the ‘fridge, I decided to go for a walk out at Willow Grove – the day was perfect for a brisk stroll 😊

The sun lured many people from their homes, today.

Even the sky was buzzing with activity ...

UFO Cloud over Mt. St. Helens.

(Lenticular Clouds: https://news.wsu.edu/news/2016/09/14/lenticular-clouds-truth/)

Willow Grove River Walk Trail - 1.4 as shown on the Park Map; 2 miles total, walking across the marina parking lot & the graveled back trail.

It was while I was looking at the mountain with the huge ‘Encounters of the 4^th Kind’ UFO cloud hanging over its gaping crater, that I got a phone call telling me Pam’s great-grandson, Oliver, had finally arrived – all 6 pounds of him. And I bet he’s handsome, too; Pam says he looks like her babies did, and she had beautiful babies. Her grand-daughters are drop-dead-gorgeous: no surprise there … Pam was a knock-out in high school.

I’m glad for her family. New babies are also exciting.

It was while I was standing there talking with her, that I also felt the first painful stab in the arch of my left foot. Piriformis pain was striking. I finished the walk after the call ended.

Thanks to the speed control feature on the car, I didn’t have to stress my foot arch too much on the way home. I iced my foot as soon as I could, after I got into the house.

Rest, ice, pain relieving exercises … and maybe use of the heating pad later on … will help back the pain down and ease the inflammation.

Icing my foot muscle; piriformis flareup.

Exercises to help with piriformis pain.

Seated Senior Resistance Exercises Using Dumbbells (I skipped the leg exercises because of the foot pain): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUy6OhjZfE