beautress
Always Faithful
I'm sorry you have arthritis. My mother suffered with it all her life. When I was told I had two weeks to live at the e.r. if I didn't get Dr. so-and-so's surgery, and this doesn't happen often, but I smelled a rat, went home and looked up homeopathic dealings with gallbladder issues. I found source after source online that said simply "eat apples." One suggested eating several apples the first day, and two a day after that for 8 days. I haven't had a problem with pain in the back rib cage area since, because after that I buy one apple every time I shop for groceries and eat it before I get home. Guess what else good happened. My arthritis from crocheting also disappeared, and I've forgotten that I had it till you mentioned it. I don't know if you need all that many apples, but I eat three apples on one day of every week, and an apple on at least 4 more days, with a couple of days, no apples. I'm trying to maintain organs and issues as best I can, and those apples really have caused a lot of problems to be put on the back burner. I'm not sure the apple regimen is the cornerstone of me not having much arthritis pain in cold weather any more, but I'm crocheting at least 3 hours a day.
I have to to restock my cotton wash rags. I used to get them when the made and sold cotton dish wash rags down here in the states, and I'm going to try to crochet twelve more while I can. I limit to three hours the crocheting in one day, so it can take a month to make a fancy dish wash rag, or as little as 3 days if I exceed the three hours a day rule. Some of the colors are as fun as making a quilt, but I don't have my computer hooked up with a printer any more, but its' fun. I'm going to do one in brown for the sole purpose of cleaning up around my Mr. Coffee machine. In the meantime, I have 3 starts on dishrags, so if I get tired of one color, I can work on the white one or skip to the other color. Coffee stains won't show up as badly on tan and brown crochet rows, and I found a DMC twisted thread that combines a lot of shades of brown, to add to the fun when I get around to it.
I wonder if the couple of apples a day would kill off your arthritis? It's really not proven, but I'm really happy to be free of the pain of arthritis I was having. One of my sunday school kids when we lived in Oregon had childhood arthritis. She was the sweetest little 6th grade kid as ever, but her mother said they'd been combatting her pain since the cradle. I'll put you on my prayer list that you find something that eliminates your arthritis pain without poisoning you if its a prescription. My body doesn't do well with most pain and antibiotic shots, so you can believe that I practice distancing when out shopping for groceries or ahem cheap answer for baby doggie security at night. Which reminds, I found a huge professional-looking plastic storage box, and several quilted pillow shams and a used but sparkling clean baby bed protector to cut and resew to fit the plastic box which is a pretty shade of medium dark blue. Thanks to Good "Will, it was less than 20 dollars. Oh, my it's getting late. Prayers up for you and anyone here who has pain like what you experienced when you set aside your crochet hook. I'll also be praying for the pandemonium at the pump that seems to be worldwide that has caused food prices to go through the roof. I'm sorry you're losing favored shops that sold helpful things for do-it-yourself seamstresses, fiber artists, and can occasionally find a bargain like I did this afternoon for the nine fat little puppies. I quit giving mommie Song cream, but I treat her to a mix of milk and half and half once a day to ensure that her little guys get enough calcium to develop strong bones and teeth. They're characters! Night all!
Sweet dreams! 
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It's only 2.5 acres, but it hosts an egret family every summer when they fly up from the Carribbean for reasons not clear to me, because every time I've visited Puerto Rico, the weather is idyllic. They've probably done this since time began for their featherhood. I have to say it, the great whiteegrets are the most elegant birds in the world, but the year the flamingos came looking for a new piece of real estate in a year their home was oil slicked to death down east coastal oil slick days, all five pink birds left after one encounter with the male egret did a little surgery of his own on only one or two of them. The offended birds flew back to their associates on the east side of Lake Freedom, chatted awhile, then flew off together and headed north to someplace else. I then realized how smart birds are, and how lethal their potential in great white egret territory. Their body mass is about three times the mass of just 1 great white according to my memory. Fortunately, I haven't seen any flamingos in the Piney Woods since the cleanup of the shores of the Gulf was completed. It was a joy to watch them from my dishwasher's station in the kitchen, but it's equally fun to watch the great white egrets raise their young ones and as the weather cools, they teach them how to fly south for a couple of weeks until they're strong enough to survive a migratory flight back to Roatan or wherever in the Carribbean they call home in Piney Woods winter season of chills and spills.
