Simple Raw and Natural

Friday we went to Cairns to Rusty's Market.  Food here is very expensive.  Eight papayas were $25.00.  Small bananas were about $1.00/each, and the larger bananas were about $2.00/each.  Small mangoes were $3.00/each.  I got my sugar cane drink at Rusty's.  I'm so addicted to them. On the way home we stopped in Smithville to visit John's travel agency, Flight Central.  The agent that booked my flights was named Chris.  He lived near Atlanta for a while as a student, so he liked my southern drawl.  I got all my flights booked for the September Australian tour for  $720.00. We had to drive to Kunandra for John to pick up his new bank card.  Kunandra is  in the Kunandra Rain Forest...quite a tourist town.  I plan on visiting it again during September.  Maybe I'll take the tourist train up and ride the cable car back to Cairns. I got a sweet letter from Ashlyn.  She sent me a beautiful strawberry ornament ...

My healing symptoms this morning are sore nose (left nostril done, right nostril is sore now), rash and itching of upper body, lymph gland behind left ear still sore but now is smaller (it's almost done), right lymph gland behind ear is getting a sore knot now, cramps down the front of the legs.  Other than that, I feel GREAT! I slept ten hours, woke up at 6:30 and did my exercises, dressed for work, and read until time to go to work. I mowed some grass today with the push mower, and we fed four trees.  The 30-year old water hose broke today, so I watched (and helped a little) as John repaired it. I cracked the coconut and grated half of it for our lunch.  The coconut water is very good.  Lunch was papaya, black sapote, pineapple, avocado, banana and coconut. We had a discussion on the color of body fluids.  The color indicates the level of toxicity - clear, yellow, green, black.  In some plague type diseases, such as smallpox, the urine can become ...

It rained last night.  I slept eleven hours, woke up at 12:30 and read for about an hour then went back to sleep until 7:00.  It's 62 degrees in my room. I am itching...broken out with a rash on my upper body...and my kidney hurts. I did my exercises and dressed for work.  I don't change clothes as much here.  I work in the same clothes Sunday through Thursday.  I change clothes after my shower before lunch every day, but I wear one outfit Friday through Monday and then a new outfit for Tuesday through Thursday.  Hand laundry and going to the laundromat makes me want to use as few clothes as possible. Our job today was to stake the tomatoes and cucumbers.  We walked over to the river bank and cut some bamboo poles which we used as stakes for our plants.  We tied the poles to the mesh cover with strips of old sheeting.  We used more strips to tie the plants to the poles. Cutting bamboo poles for stakes. Tomatoes and cucumbers sta...

I didn't sleep so well last night.  I was itching and concerned about things at home.  I got up at 6:30 and did my exercises, dressed, and read until time to start work at 8:00.  There was no 240v power this morning. I planted five more pineapples in the new pineapple bed.  I dug a hole, put in a trowel full of blue stone, fertilizer, and compost then planted the pineapple using another scoop of compost and the dirt from the hole.  After packing the earth tight around the plant, I tucked the babies in with mulch and watered them in with seaweed/fish water. I helped John feed five trees and plant a new tree.  It was good exercise pushing the wheel barrow and shoveling compost and mulch. Planting a new tree. Lunch was papaya, sapadilla, custard apple, avocado, banana, and coconut. When I get home my lunch will be the fruit we have available.  If I can't get coconut I will use the nuts we have such as pecans, walnuts, or almonds.  Another...

I ventured out from beneath the covers at 6:30.  It was 43 degrees in my room.  I did my exercises and dressed. There was a huge toad in the bathroom this morning.  He was sitting quietly in the corner.  I told John it was either a frog or a coiled up snake.  He checked it out and reported back that it was a toad.  It's still there, so evidently John did not remove him. A toad in the bathroom. I got to talk on Skype with Mom, Molly, Travis, Ken, Ashlyn, Zac, and Braeden.  It was good to see them all.  They all look great.  I got to see Ashlyn's newly re-decorated room.  It looks like a NYC apartment.  Very sophisticated!  It has the NYC skyline on one wall. We fed six trees today.  That gave me plenty of exercise shoveling and pushing the wheel barrows.  We planted two new trees today, too. Planting the tree...blue stone, fertilizer, and compost in the hole. I watered the baby tomatoes and lettuces in th...

I woke up early but stayed in bed until 7:00 because it is 49 degrees in my room!  BRRR!! I did the exercises I talked to John about yesterday.  I used to do these exercises every morning, but am out of the habit now.  I did twists, toe touches, sun salutation, leg lifts, fake push ups.... This morning I put fertilizer and mulch on three trees and then I cleaned the office.  I had to go help John push the riding mower out of the tall grass he was mowing.  The mower died and had to be jump started.  While I was putting the wheel barrow and fertilizer up, I had a spell of asthma. This mower cut grass taller than it is. The doctor says the asthma is an after-effect of smoking.  Then, he says, the asthma is followed by emphysema.  In my situation, he says, we need to work on getting me to sweat.  I don't sweat very much, so I need to continue to work and exercise until I do begin to sweat.  He can't say how long that will take...3 ...

Josephus:  What difference is there between a learned and a wise man? Banus:  The learned knows, and the wise man practices. I slept until 6:30 - about 11 hours.  I got on line off and on through the morning.  Karen sat outside and read.  She is taking it easy as she begins her fast. I cleaned my room, cleaned out my Lugable Loo, and did some hand laundry.  I talked to Travis on Skype. He has his sister, Dorothy visiting as well as Dorothy's son-in-law and grandchildren, John, Ashlie, and AJ.  I got to see and talk to all of them. I am still looking for a place to stay in Sydney.  It takes time trying to balance price vs location.  A hostel is still a possibility, but the Ibis Hotel looks pretty good, too. John got back from Cairns about 12:30, and we had lunch of papaya, black sapote, custard apple, avocado, banana, and coconut.  Our lunch conversation was about the raw food "gurus" who are teaching raw foods but not really tea...

I got up at 3:20 and dressed to go to Cairns.  We left at 4:00 and got to Rusty's Market at 5:00 a.m.  John likes to get there early because then he gets his choice of the best food.  I visited for a minute with Carol (originally from New York) about her diet.  Carol is a former patient of John's and eats only raw.  She has gone through times when she added cooked foods back into her diet, and would eventually find herself lower in energy.  She said she finally realized, "This works!"  The simple, raw diet just works.  Carol is at the market at 5:00 a.m., also, stocking up on good food. We went to the post office for John to check his mail, then we went to the radio station.  I did my blog from the computer at the radio station and then spent the rest of the time looking at hotels in Sydney.  There were special guests at the radio station this morning.  Two young saxophone players came in and played a couple of songs on the mornin...

I slept until 6:50.  It was too cold to get out from under the covers.  I checked to see if we had internet, but no, there was no 240v power. I cleaned the bathrooms and the kitchen this morning.  Then I finished the fence row.  It's all mowed, and the plants are mulched.  It looks nice.  I like pushing the mower. I grated the coconut for lunch.  John mixed sour sop and banana together in the food processor.  Lunch was papaya, soursop and banana, avocado, and grated coconut. Karen and I sunbathed after lunch for about 45 minutes.  I put my hair in curlers and let my hair dry in the sun.  It still looks awful.  I have decided my best hair do is the 1970's Russian gymnast look....just hold everything down with hair clips or bobby pins.  That look is growing on me....starting to really like it.  I'll try it out tomorrow in Cairns.   I got to talk with Travis a little while on Skype.  He's getting ready fo...

There is a poem I wrote in the front of my Bible many years ago.  It seems to have fresh meaning now. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the love and pride of man, At the Sophist schools and the learned clan; For what are they in their high conceit; When man in the bush with God may meet? I stayed in bed until 7:20 because it was too cold to get up. I mowed the grass in front of the cabins and also started chopping up the weeds I pulled from the berry bushes along the fence row.  I ran the mower over the piles a few time then put the mulch between the plants. After the mower ran out of gas, I started mulching the trees that John and Karen had been feeding.  John reminded me today that the main reason we do this work with the gardening is because it is good for our own bodies.   It's good for the plants, but primarily it is good ...

I read until 8:00 a.m.  My jobs today were to feed the guavas and beach cherries with blue stone, fertilizer, compost and mulch.  Then I mulched the trees John had been feeding this morning. Blue Stone...crushed lava rock....contains 36 trace elements. Our fruit trees at home need to be fed like this once a year until they get established.  Once established, we can let them go up to five years between feedings.  When we do feed the established trees we need to put back what we took from them.  For example, if we got 100 pounds of fruit from a tree, we will need to put 100 pounds of  food around the plant. The vegetable garden is doing great.   Lunch was papaya, avocado, mandarin, banana, passion fruit, and grated coconut. I washed my hair and rolled it on rollers.  It's all to no avail.  It still looks terrible. I got on the computer and got a few things done.  Also, checked on the home folks. I had two more ticks on ...

Bacteria are not the source of illness. There were two French researchers who were contemporaries, Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp.  Bechamp was a highly esteemed scientist.  Many say Pasteur borrowed much of his research from Bechamp's work.  Bechamp discovered the microzyma in the blood.  When a body accumulates toxins or waste matter, the microzyma become germs or bacteria that go in to clean up the waste.  They are the "street cleaners".  When they are no longer needed, they disappear.  According to the cellular theory a healthy body is the focus.  Pasteur, on the other hand, concluded that germs cause diseases and every disease has a particular germ that causes it.  According to the germ theory every germ must be fought against and eliminated.  The commercial interests got behind Louis Pasteur and all of medicine and even alternative medicine bases their reasoning on this theory.  But is it true? Sometimes it seems like g...

I got up at 6:50 and dressed for work.  There was no internet connection in the morning. I finished weeding the beach cherries along the fence row.  The rest of the morning, Karen and I planted pineapples.  John spent several days preparing this new pineapple bed by making rows with a rake, adding crushed rock, organic fertilizer, compost, and mulch.  Today we dug a hole with a trowel for each plant, put a trowel of blue stone and fertilizer in each hole, then planted the pineapple pressing the earth tight to be sure there was no air around the roots.  Each plant was watered in with water mixed with kelp/fish oil and liquid fish. Planting pineapples. Watering in the pineapples. I grated the coconut at lunch.  We had papaya, sapadilla, pineapple, avocado, banana, and coconut. John Fielder ready for a fruit lunch. I got on the computer after lunch since there was no sun to sunbathe.  I saw on Facebook that my Mom was taken to the hospit...

During the night I had many healing symptoms like I am close to a healing crisis.  A healing crisis will be the time to begin fasting.  During the night, I felt sick, headache, stiff neck, sore nose, sore tongue, bad taste in the mouth, kidney pain, lower back pain, arthritic and swollen fingers.  At 6:00 a.m. I felt better, but the symptoms were still there. There was no 240 volt this morning, thus no computer.  I went back to bed and read a book.  I showered and washed my hair...so goodbye straight hair....hello curly hair.  Today was a day of rest.  I worked on getting more cobbler's pins out of my jacket and reading. John was in Cairns for the day, so Karen and I prepared lunch.  We had papaya, pineapple, sapadilla.  I cracked the coconut and shredded it with the coconut shredder.  We crack the coconut by beating it on the edge of the cement porch.  Once it cracks, we catch the coconut water in a bowl and everyone gets a dri...

I got up at 3:30 a.m. and got ready for the trip to Cairns.  We went to Rusty's Market to buy our produce for the week, the post office, and the radio station.  I used the computer at the radio station to check email, Facebook, and the U.S. news.  Travis was online so was able to message with him a bit on Facebook.  The station had a drawing today for ten prizes, so I quickly bought three chances, but alas, my name was not drawn.  The money goes to support this community radio station, so it was a good cause.  Chris and Ron do the morning show, and they let me sit in the studio with them during the broadcast for a little while. We ran around all morning....the laundry to exchange our dirty laundry for our clean laundry, the post office again, the Mac store, the guitar store, back to the radio station, the pharmacy for curl enhancer, the health food store for sauerkraut, then back to the farm. Lunch was papaya, black sapote, custard apple, banana, avocad...

I had trouble going to sleep last night.  I was still awake at 10:00, but then I slept until 6:50 this morning.  I hurriedly dressed and went over to the computer room, but there was no satellite connection.  What a disappointment! We cleaned the cabin for the new arrival who is coming in on Saturday.  I cleaned the shower and bathrooms, too.  Then I cleaned my own cabin.  I cleaned out my Lugable Loo and got it all freshened up. Lunch was papaya, avocado, custard apple, mandarin, banana, and grated coconut. I finished cleaning my room after lunch and then sun bathed for 40 minutes. Consultations at 2:00.  Indentations on the edge of the tongue indicate starch poisoning.  Anyone with starch poisoning needs to eliminate grains.  Starch poisoning causes depression, psychosis, eczema, tuberculosis, and more. I got on the computer for awhile this afternoon.  My timing is really off to talk to my family.  I studied my lesson un...

I got up at 6:15 after sleeping for over 10 hours.  My kidney was hurting when I first got up but felt better after I began to move around. My computer time was short because the 240 volt battery didn't have enough power.  I got my pictures uploaded and read my emails.  Anna posted an interesting article about an Essene minister who was reporting the harmful effects of the long-term vegan diet. I cleaned the toilets this morning before starting the gardening.  I watered the little six packs and single packs I planted yesterday.  Then I planted seeds directly into the garden bed.  It was back-breaking work, because I planted the seeds individually about 1/2" - 1" apart.  When the plants come up, we will thin them by transplanting some to another location.  The rest will stay where they are.  I planted Lambs Lettuce, Brown Mignonette Lettuce, and two kinds of cherry tomatoes. I made a mistake which I found out about after I had planted fi...

This morning we finished putting the mesh over the vegetable garden.  John decided to wait a couple of months before putting up the shade cloth.  I planted six bean plants between the lettuce.  Then I planted lettuce seed and tomato seed in small pots and six packs - one seed per container.  I planted the seeds in compost and then dipped them in kelp and fish oil water. While watching John grate the coconut for our lunch, I  discussed with him an article I got from Mary about the wonderful benefits of coconut.  It said that coconut oil would stop symptoms of illness, rehydrate the body, rev up the metabolism, make your skin healthier, relieve stomach problems,  make your hair look good, and calm you down.  John then said, "Listen to what you are saying."  Then I had to acknowledge that in Nature Cure we are not "anti" bacteria nor do we promote suppressing healing symptoms.  As for skin and hair care, health comes from within, not fr...

I dreamed I got a smallpox vaccination.  I was upset because I never intended to get another vaccination.  HSV was giving free vaccinations to the citizens, and they were lined up around the building to get their shots.  Then I developed a huge open sore on my stomach.  I was looking in the phone book for a doctor since I don't have a medical doctor anymore.  While trying to decide who to call I realized the sore would heal without the help of a doctor.  That's the end of the dream. We talked at supper last night about how liberating it is to understand Nature Cure.  It takes away the fear of sickness and disease to a great extent.  When you understand that your symptoms are there to heal you, you stop responding as if you are being attacked by an enemy.  No more fear of epidemics, fevers, aches and pains, inflammations, etc.  God is the healer.  Our part is to co-operate by not getting in the way. Be thankful for your illness. ...

I got up at 6:00 and dressed for work.  I got on the computer, but have only 11% battery power.  I don't know why it failed to charge yesterday.  I was able to Skype with my Momma.  She says she thinks I am working too hard!  Mom says she is keeping up with me by reading the blogs.  Travis prints them off for her.  She is having dinner with Molly and family tonight.   She looked really good.  Also, got to see Molly, Ken and Ashlyn before the computer shut itself down. Ashlyn passed off one of her achievements in tumbling.  She was able to do a back bend and bring herself back up to a standing position on her own power!  Molly asked her how she was finally able to do it after working on it so long.  She said, "I imagined that Jan Jan was standing there when I stood up". John hurt his knee somehow working here on the farm, so he decided to rest it today by building the framework on the vegetable beds for the protective mesh c...

I slept nearly twelve hours.  I got up at 7:00 and did my hand laundry and then got on the computer.  I skyped with Amy and the kids and then with Travis.  Skype makes it much easier to talk to the family. I have decided this is a good time to read the Bible through again while I am here.  I have read the Bible through quite a few time in the past, but it's been a while since I systematically read it through completely.  I am using the same system I have used successfully in the past.  I have divided the Bible into seven sections - Law,  History, Poetry, Major Prophets,  Minor Prophets, Gospels, and Epistles.  Right now I am reading from Genesis, Ezra, Proverbs, Isaiah,  Jonah, Acts, and 1 Timothy.  I didn't start at the beginning of each section.  I started where I was already at in my less systematic reading.  Maybe I can get through it by December. I studied my natural hygiene lesson on James C. Thomson and got it t...