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Last night I fell asleep at 7:30 with my light on.  I got up at 12:30 and turned off the light.  Then I got up at 5:30 thirsty and with a slight head-ache....but I got to feeling good right away.  I read seven of my Bible chapters first thing. My Mom is out of ICU and in a regular room.  Word is she is doing better and is fussing at the staff.  Maybe she will get to go home in a couple of days. I mowed grass today from 7:50 until 10:30.  I picked up yellow sapotes that had fallen off the tree. While mowing, I thought about a song we sing at church. I was reminded of this song when I saw where the little yellow flowers I mowed down yesterday were already back again.  I also thought about the lyrics in connection with my Mom's latest struggle with pneumonia. Now to thy praise, eternal King be all my thoughts employed, While of this precious truth I sing, cast down but not destroyed......Oft the united powers of hell my soul has sore annoyed, And ...

I got up at 4:00 and read my eleven chapters in the Bible.  At 6:00 I went to the computer to check on Mom.  Good news!  My brother posted that they had removed the Bipap machine, her oxygen levels were good, she was fussing, and eating like a little pig. Travis used his iphone to let me talk to Mom on Skype.  She still looks pretty weak to me, but everyone says she is much better.  It was good to see her, and she was glad to see me.  She said, "You are my darling girl".  I said, "You are my darling Momma".  Bro. Adam, our pastor, was there during the Skype call so I got to see him, too.  I got to be there via Skype while he knelt beside her bed and prayed.  So precious! More bad news from Arkansas.  My friend, Mary, fell and broke her ankle.  She had surgery to fix it up and will be hobbling around all winter.  Total bummer.  Here's hoping for a speedy and perfect healing. Qantas Airlines has grounded...

I heard John drive off this morning at 4:00 a.m., but I slept good up until 6:00.  I started reading my Bible readings but felt compelled to stop and go check on my Mom.  My heart sank as I saw where Bro. Lanny from my church had sent out an email asking for prayer for Mom.  The messages from my husband, sister, niece, and brother did not look good.  The doctor did not hold out much hope that she would make it through the day.  At this point, I began to seriously consider getting a flight home.  I talked to Travis on Skype, but he could not really tell me what to do.  John's DIL, Tina, came over and gave me a cuddle and encouraged me to go on home. When John came in from Cairns, I told him I thought I needed to go home.  We began to consider the options.  I have a return ticket for December 17th.  Perhaps I could move the date on that ticket up....Option 1.  Or I could by a new round trip ticket and plan on coming back here in a c...

The alarm went off at 3:30 so we could go to Cairns today.  Ian went with us this time. First stop was Rusty's Market.  John bought papaya, sapadillas, tomatoes, cucumbers, bananas, avocados, oranges, and two watermelons. Next stop was the radio station.  I got to use one of the computers to check on things at home.  I'm worried about my ninety-year-old Mom.  She has pneumonia and, of course, is being treated with traditional medicine...just the opposite of Nature Cure.  She has lived her whole life with medical care, though.  She is being given high-powered anti-biotics and kept in the hospital.  I am praying she will pull through, and we will have a wonderful Christmas together. Most people view infection as an enemy to be killed.  In Nature Cure we see it as beneficial...come to clean up the morbid matter that robs our vitality.  Once the lifestyle is changed to stop causing the accumulation of toxins there is no problem with in...

I woke up at 1:30, turned on my light and read awhile.  I'm reading Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly.  I went back to sleep and slept until 6:00. When I checked emails and Facebook I found out from Sheila, my sister, that Mom fell and was transported to the hospital.  I got a sweet message from DIL, Amy.  We are missing you, too! My job today was mowing grass.  It's such good exercise, but my arms are still flabby.  Grand-daughter, Ashlyn, is concerned about my flabby arms.  Any suggestions on how to make arms look younger will be appreciated.  The grass looks nice, though.  Ian helped John feed trees. I had a chat with Eddie about chronic fatigue syndrome.  It is such a debilitating sickness...totally curable with Nature Cure...but hard to convince people that change of lifestyle will make such a huge difference. I got another muddy shower, then helped John prepare lunch.  I got three letters in the mail.  Happy Day!...

I got up at 5:00 to read my Bible chapters. Travis called me on Skype, so I got to visit with my hubby.  It seems all is well at home.  He's going to get Magic Springs passes Sunday for 2012 for all the Arkansas family.  What fun! My son, Crockett, had a raw food breakfast and posted a picture on Facebook.  I am one proud Mama. I planted corn today.  One seed of corn was planted between each pineapple in the pineapple bed.  The corn will grow tall and the pineapples will grow down below.  Maybe I can try this in my little garden at home.  The only corn safe to eat is organic or what you grow yourself.  Most corn in the United States is GMO.  The corn I planted today should be ready to harvest in 100 days.  I won't be here to enjoy it.  I leave for home in 51 more days. We had a water problem this morning in the shower/toilets.  For the last few days the water has been muddy brown and flowing in a trickle.  Tod...

I slept ten hours!  I got up at 7:00, so I only read two chapters in the Bible before heading over to get on the computer.  I had an appointment to Skype with my Mom at 7:30 my time.  I checked Facebook and emails while waiting on the call.  At 8:30, I gave up and went to mow. I mowed for two hours this morning, including around the melons and some of the fruit trees.  At 10:30, I went back to the office to see if I could still catch Mom on Skype, but it was too late.  Molly had left to take her home, Travis had gone home, too.  I got to talk to SIL, Ken, and grand-daughter, Ashlyn.  Also, said hello to grandsons, Zac and Braeden.  Ken and his dad played golf with Travis today.  They had fun. John had lunch prepared by the time I got back to the kitchen.  Lunch was papaya, avocado, custard apple, sapadilla (aka chico-chico), yellow sapote, banana with macadamia nut spread, and grated coconut. After lunch, I finished my Bible c...

I slept until 5:30.  I read my ten Bible chapters.  I have 560 more chapters to read and 53 days to read them.  It looks like I need to read eleven chapters a day, doesn't it?  Since one of the books I am reading in is Psalms, I can start reading three Psalms a day instead of two. I checked emails and Facebook this morning.  My first job today was mowing.  I mowed until the mower ran out of gas.  Then I swept the porch at the dining room, weeded the melons, and helped John mulch one of the trees. Ian walked for two hours this morning.  That's great! John and I prepared lunch then got cleaned up for lunch.  For lunch, Eddie had 1/2 of a papaya as his introduction back into eating.  The rest of us had papaya, banana with macadamia spread, avocado, sapadilla, star apples, and grated coconut. John went to Mareeba to take one of his lawn mowers and his weed-eater.  The lawn mower lost a wheel and needs some other adjustments, the...

I slept until 6:00.  Imagine that!  I started the day by reading my Bible chapters. I ran the mower today from 8:00 until 10:30.  When the mower ran out of gas, I  quit.  I swept the porch around the dining room after I put up the mower.  John prepared lunch, and I fixed Eddie's mandarin juice. I took Eddie his juice, then got my shower.  John went for his daily dip in the river.  On his way back from the river he always walks by the cabin and shouts out, "Lunch in five".  I was here about three weeks before I figured out what he was saying. Ian was nowhere to be found when it was time for lunch.  I looked in his cabin and in the office.  We decided to ring the bell up at the dining room and finally he came running down the hill from Jonathon's house Lunch was delicious.  The food has tasted so good to me for the last couple of days!  We had grated coconut, custard apple, avocado, papaya, banana with macadamia nut ...

John left for Cairns at 4:00 a.m.   I heard him when he drove off.  I felt sick to my stomach when I woke up.  Too many brazil nuts, maybe.  At 6:00, I got up to do my Bible readings.  At 8:00 I got up and dressed. Travis called me on Skype this morning.  He told me about all the wonderful treasures he has found for me to sell on Ebay when I get home. Eddie came over to the office trying to talk me into bringing him a juice, but it was time for John to get back home so he had to wait. I cleaned my room and cleaned the Lugable Loo. Eddie got his cup of mandarin juice to break his fast.  He was given a small spoon to help him keep from taking it in too fast.  My lunch was avocado, banana with macadamia nut spread, young coconut, and watermelon.  After lunch, I straightened the kitchen. I'm wondering about the media blitz to convince people that Steve Jobs died because he did some alternative treatments for his cancer in addition to so...

I woke up early at 2:30.  At 3:15, I got up and dressed to go to Cairns.  Dressing for Cairns is different from dressing for the farm.  It entails a little eye make-up, lip gloss, and jewelry!   I'm sure my banging around getting ready disturbed Eddie, but it couldn't be helped. We left for Cairns at 4:00.  At Rusty's Market we bought papaya, avocados, tomatoes, custard apples, oranges, cucumbers, and a watermelon.  We saw Carol there doing her shopping and chatted with her...mostly about the RAIN. At the radio station, John recorded his program while I had computer time and wrote a letter to a friend.  At 8:00 I went downstairs into the Raintree Centre where I got some cash out of the ATM, bought two Bic pens, a yellow flyswatter, brazil nuts, and Pantene hair conditioner.  John bought toilet paper, paper towels, Ajax, a spray cleaner, a floor cleaner, and three brushes to use for washing dishes and cleaning the coconut grater. We went to t...

When I woke up at 4:45 the rain had stopped, but it was very dark.  I read my Bible chapters. This cold, rainy weather continues on.  So far we have had over 6" of rain.  John worked outside some today feeding his trees.  My job was inside...putting together two bookcases.  John and I did the first one together.  I did the second one by myself. It made my day to hear from my friends Mary and Connie.  They are both encouragers. The down side of a solar hot water heater is the water is not very hot when there is no sun.  I got a lukewarm shower in a tiny drizzle of water.   Lunch was papaya, avocado, banana, star apples, sapadilla, yellow sapote, mango, and grated coconut.  Everyone in Australia calls papaya paw-paw. I spent a lazy afternoon listening to the webcast of the Sweet Adeline International contest in Houston, TX.  At one time my sister and I sang in a Sweet Adeline quartet called The Arkanstars.  It was ...

It rained through most of the night, and I woke up at 3:30 to the sound of heavy rain. I read my Bible.  Feeling good today, so got up and got ready to face the day. Travis called me on Skype.  We had no important news, but we are both ready for me to come home! Orange-Pineapple juice sounds good. My French has been neglected lately, but this morning I practiced a little bit using my Rosetta Stone program. The rain continued through the day but not enough to keep John from mowing around some trees and feeding them.  I cleaned one of the cabins and got it ready for the new client coming in on Saturday.  Then I cleaned the shower and toilets. Lunch today was papaya, avocado, grated coconut, banana, yellow sapote, star apples, and mango. We can't get yellow sapotes at home, but if we could they could be fixed to taste like candied sweet potatoes.  All that would be necessary would be to mash them up with a little cinnamon and sweetener.  They ...

I'm feeling sick with extreme thirst, stuffed up head, sore throat and leg cramps.  I woke up feeling bad a little after midnight, drank some water and went back to sleep until 5:30. There was a heavy rain beating down while I read my Bible readings today.  And then it rained and rained some more. John came down to the cabins to bring Eddie clean linens, then he checked on me since I wasn't up and about.  When I told him I was feeling bad and was still trying to muster up the energy to get up and get dressed he said to just enjoy the day.   So I did! John worked inside most of the day because of the rain.  He did a little mowing and fed a tree, but that's about all he could do in this weather.  This is not the typical rain for this time of year.  Normally, there are thunderstorms.  Today's rain is more like those of the wet season where the rain comes straight down and it rains for twelve hours at a time. The rain let up a little bit about...

I woke up at 4:30 with a tummy ache.   I had to take my flashlight and trek over to the bathrooms.  I'm still experiencing thirst and a coated tongue. Today I read in Leviticus, Joshua, Psalms, Jeremiah, Luke, and Romans Travis called on Skype and caught me up on what's going on at home.  Maybe he'll go to the farmer's market and buy some purple hull peas to freeze for winter. Cleaning John's office and the computer room was the job for the morning.  So many things will have to be gone through by John, himself, but it's cleaned as much as I dared.  John should be happy though.  I found $120 in a stack of papers on his desk. A paperbark wasp (aka paperbark sawfly) stung me on the back of the leg as I walked through the garage to put something in the trash.  I did not provoke this one at all as far as I know.  It really hurts when they pop you, but so far no swelling or itching after the fact. Paperbark wasp nest in the bathroom. Here is...

3:30 is too early to get up, so I laid in bed until 4:30.  I could hear Eddie moving around next door, so he was up early, too.  I read eleven chapters in the Bible today...three from Exodus, so I could finish that book.  I have 630 chapters to go and 61 days in which to get it done. Psalm 38:5  My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. Then I went back to sleep and slept until 7:00. I have lots of things that still need working on.  Healing is an art.  But the idea is to keep learning and growing and trying to do the right things while trusting the Lord for his goodness and mercy. Here is a recipe I got from Mimi Kirk for Cheesy Sauce.  I want to try this, because it looked delicious. 2 cups raw cashews 4 Tbsp lemon juice - She used a Meyer lemon.  They are so good. 1-1/2 cups water 1/8 cup olive oil 2 tsp Bragg's Liquid Aminos 2 tsp chopped up rosemary 3 Tbsp nutritional yeast Sea Salt to taste (she used a littl...

I woke up early but didn't get up until 5:15.  I have some detox symptoms...thirsty and bad taste in my mouth.  I read my Bible, and then worked on the computer. I cleaned my cabins and cleaned out my Lugable Loo.  I cleaned in the dining room and kitchen until 11:00.  It was a good start, but there will be more work to be done in the kitchen tomorrow. There is a wasp nest in the bathroom.  When I got out of the shower, I flung the towel up to go over my wet hair and one of those suckers stung me.  Other than the initial sting, it didn't bother me.  I can't even see where it stung me. Lunch was half of a watermelon and half of a coconut (not grated).  I took it to my cabin and ate while I read a condensed Mary Higgins Clark book called You Belong to Me. About 3:30 p.m. it started to look like rain.  I decided to go up to the kitchen and get the food for my supper and bring it to my cabin so I wouldn't have to go out in the rain. ...

I dreamed I was having a baby, but it was taking it a long time.  I was in an ambulance and then at a hospital.  The struggle in the dream was in trying to decide on a name for the baby before it was born.  Friends and family were there for me to get feedback on the names.  I finally decided on George for a boy and Missy for a girl.  Crazy dream! I heard John drive away for Cairns at 4:00 a.m.  I got up at 4:30 and read my Bible chapters.  I did some hand laundry this morning. At 7:30 I went to the office for the computer.  I Skyped with Amy, Caleb, Phoebe, and Connor.  Precious family!  Caleb laughed when I told him Travis was buying all our Christmas presents this year and said, "Maybe I'll get something expensive".  What a little optimist!  Phoebe was watching Scooby Doo but got on long enough to say, "I love you, Grandjan" and to tell me about her new Dora comforter.  So sweet.  Connor just waved and said "Nig...

I got up at 4:30 and read my Bible chapters.  At 6:30 I went to the office to get on the computer. I talked to Travis, Mom, Ashlyn, Molly, Ken, Zac, and Braeden on Skype.  All is well with them it seems.  I miss them so much.  Ashlyn wrote a paper for school about her Jan-Jan being in Australia.  She read it to me on Skype, and I loved it.  She did mention in that article that she is expecting some presents from Australia. Today I mowed again.  The kookaburra was out as soon as the mower started.  This tiny little frog was hiding...sitting very still...I could hardly see him.  But the kookaburra saw him, scooped him up, and ate him.  Poor baby. The melons are beginning to put on blooms. I met Eddie's wife, Christina.  She is from Philadelphia originally, but has not been to the United States in thirty years.  We talked about the famous hot and cold springs of water in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  I invited them to come...

I got up at 4:30 and read my Bible chapters.  At 6:30 I went to the office to get on the com

I got up at 4:30 and read my Bible chapters.  I had time to check emails and Facebook before going to work. I started work at 7:15.  My job today was to continue the mowing.  I mowed from 7:30 until 9:45.  I was so hot and thirsty.  After putting the mower up, I went back to the cabin to rest and drink some water.  After I cooled off a bit, I knitted on my cap for a little while. Finally, I felt rejuvenated enough to weed the pineapples for about half an hour.  I quit at 11:00.  I'd had enough.  So I got a shower and washed my hair. When I checked on the melons there were two little wallabies checking them out, too.  They hopped across the field while I was mowing, too. There is a wallaby in this picture. The melons. Lunch was papaya, banana, yellow sapote, avocado, locquat, star apple, mango, and grated coconut. After lunch I did some work on the computer. We had consultation with Eddie at 2:00.  He's doing good...

I slept until 4:45.  I read my Bible chapters and checked messages before starting work about 7:30. John used the mower to mow around some trees so he could feed them.  While he did that, I put some fertilizer around the cucumber plants.  Hopefully, this will give the cucumbers a boost and they will keep producing cucumbers.  I put plastic bags over some more of the lettuces that have gone to seed so we can save the seeds. I got to visit with Eddie for a little while.  Eddie lives in Mareeba right now, but he is looking for a property to buy where he can have a fruit orchard of about 1000 trees.  Before moving to Mareeba he had a 4000 tree orchard.  Eddie is a raw foodie.  He eats two meals a day, although at work when the guys take a break, he'll join them and have a juice or a piece of fruit.  He has a fruit lunch and a salad supper...same as John.  Although during the summer when the fruit is better than the salads, he will often ...

It was cool this morning, 62 degrees in the cabin.  I spent 1-1/2 hours reading my ten chapters in the Bible.  That's about how long it takes every day.  I could read them faster, for sure.  But what's the point of that.  I'm trying to get more understanding or great truths as I read. I started mowing at 8:00.  The tropical sun was out by this time and it was hot.  I set a moving goal to mow until 9:00, then 9:30, then 10:00.  At 9:50 I had to give it up.  I was so hot, sweaty and thirsty.  And I started feeling chills.  So I pushed the mower halfway to the house, then went to my cabin and drank a bottle of water.  I laid on my bed and wiped sweat for about 30 minutes At 10:30, I put on my big, floppy hat and weeded in the pineapple bed for 30 minutes.  I'm such a wuss.  John works from 7:00 to 11:30 without any problems Airing out my sweaty work clothes and drying my towel and washcloth. Lunch was coconut wa...

I woke up at 3:00 and read my Bible chapters.  I felt really sick when I first woke up.  I thought I might not be able to work today.  But after I got up, dressed and moved around awhile, I felt much better.  The doctor says when you wake up feeling bad, go ahead and work for an hour or so.  If after an hour you still feel sick, go back to bed.  If you feel better, carry on. Travis had company.  Molly, Ken, Zac, Braeden, and Ashlyn were all with him at my house.  They had been to see Braeden run cross country and were getting ready to watch the Arkansas Razorbacks play Auburn.  I got to see them all on Skype.  I can't wait to see them live and in person in December. Today I cleaned one of the cabins to prepare for a client coming in soon.  I also cleaned the shower and toilets.  It was all finished by 11:00.  John was still feeding a tree, but he told me to take it easy until lunch.  So I did. Lunch was watermel...