Healthy Living 2

 I do believe in getting a good sleep. 

I am over doing it a bit in that department. It is the one thing i have tried to overcome, my need for too much sleep. If you have a suggestion how to get by with less, i am game.

What is too much sleep to me? Well these days i probably sleep 10 hours a night.

 A bit much right? 

But when i listen to people getting sick, i do wonder if i am spared lots because i do sleep it off every single night.

Like i did not have a flu or cold in the last 3 years. I would at the first sign of a sniffle, drink lots of water and sleep extra sleep. Yes more then my 10 hours. And always in one day  the sniffle or cough or headache or whatever symptom would pass within a day.

Getting older i do find i do sleep lighter, but as i do not have to go to work in the morning, nobody to look after. If i  had  a unusual lucid night, I will just sleep in a bit.

 Oops sitting up straight, i forgot, but at least i did not cross my legs

Yesterday i did see an Elk, i followed it's track in the snow. The lake was still half open water and there were 4 ducks! 3 Barrow's Golden-eyes and 1 Buffle-head

healthy living

What works for me.

 As i am typing this, i try to remain upright,  shoulders back, chin in, and sitting straight up on the front of my chair. 

Legs not crossed.

I nibble on a Yukon grown carrot.

I was already outside this morning, clearing the cars of snow and hauling firewood for half an hour.

The wild place aspect, the drive way and road close by where covered in elk tracks, nibbling on the vegetation along the road,  they ate my snap dragons, and seemed to like the Lepidium ( a weed, that i harvest for it's seeds)

ha, my posture! i was sloughing again.  I, 62 years old! Finally figured out that i breath easier when i have correct posture. I always believed that i had some sort of default which made me breath through my mouth. Not so, it is posture.

Same for my varicose veins,  weak ankles, balance i am finally working on those things.

This topic is so huge, maybe i should have started out with the fact that i am considered fit, and do not take medication.

 Maybe i will write a bit on the topic for the next few weeks. 

I want to keep it short, because i do not think computer time is very healthy.

 I am going to help my husband, who is changing tires, and depending on the help he does or does not need, i will go for a walk to the lake, to see if there are any ducks,

There were no ducks  in the last few weeks, i did  here swans overhead  lately,  migrating south.

Hope to see you here!

 

nest time

 I have been thinking of writing on my blog again forever, but as the weather remains very warm here, it will have to wait, because i rather spend outdoors, and choosing to have only a PC, outdoor typing is not an option. 

Today we woke up to plus 12 Celsius or so, with no wind and sun, i suspect we will set a record for Oct 8.

spring log 2022

 April 26  and again 28  a flock of juncos and american tree sparrows in the yard.

April 22 first crocus at Aishihik, just one

April 25 Takhini river at mendenhall landing is wide open. ( not the mendenhall river)

(april 13 we were still skiing on it.)

April 25 first rain shower on the highway

April 27 ,  a kind of rain shower in the yard, hailly. which brought the snow a foot down.

April 28 snow depth 37 cm in the yard

...May 21 first green Aspen leaves on the hill rocky south facing slope

 to be continued

The beauty of it all

Always in the end, my ponderings lead me to the realization that all is well.

Everybody has a place in this universe and all is connected.

And what you do,  what she/he does, is as good as what i do.  As it just is and makes us tick.

So i can only talk about what i do and experience, and  as i try to be aware what i do. There is always this darn typing here. I am thinking of just writing on paper totally just for myself, where as  even those scribbles do still ripple out in that universe, yes?

Joy joy, i really have nothing to add

 And thereI was going to point out where our ways seem erroneous. As in solar power in general, what a farce. To me yes solar power has a purpose, imagine you live of the grid, and now a few times a year you can grind your wheat by electrical means, or watch a movie one evening. How glorious is that? But here for us, more electricity, really? Or as in agriculture, to eat oranges from Calefornia, while i live in a forest full of vitamin C.

As i look up , the sun is just now hitting yo-yo peak. There is my vitamin D, i do not need it to be added to milk.

whoa we have 12 hours + of sun a day again!

Pine Creek Delta Atlin BC

 I  say a  loud and clear NO to the plans to sell power to Whitehorse!

I do not want to go in detail here about why to protect the Pine Creek Delta from such onslaught. But i  write this to ask you and find out; how do we succesfully protest?

Here in my little neighbourhood of mendenhall subdivision, i did lead two protests over my 25 years i lived here.  One was succesful one was not.

I actually do not know why one was not succesful and the other one was. Maybe when written down it becomes clear, or maybe you say well that is obvious.

So these are the two stories. One was for a water treatment plant, that i did not want. It is here now, a very expensive contraption which takes a lot of maintainance.

The other was for mosquito control. Our mosquitoes will be alive for many years to come, due to my protest.

hmmm with the treatment plant, we were well informed by the government, they even send us a radiation specialist who worked for a nuclair power company to show us that all was well in the world to have uranium stored in our community. (which was a consequence o the plan)

I and a 2 other neighbours  said, ho ho ho we do not want an uranium storage. I wrote a list of all the cons that i saw to do with this project. and i emailed it to all the neighbours...nobody seemed to care. Just us 3.I wrote down possibilities to meet everyones needs for healthy clean  water. 

The 4 million dollar plant did come (for some 100 people, people who choose to live here, mainly white middle class people that buy property here, like myself). 

The mosquito control program, suddenly we got  an email that it was to be executed here. I stood up in the AGM and asked; how can that be? we were never asked. Well it had not been done yet so go ahead and find out if the community actually wants it. I wrote an email to all the neighbours, asking who wanted to sign my petition against mosquito control.

In no time i had 20 signatures. which was 10 more then the people having asked for the control, which was enough to show the government that the community was divided on the issue.

So is the difference i see here now is that i actually never tried to change peoples minds in the mosquito case, i just asked what they wanted?

Is it that easy?

Looking forward to mosquitoes :) always!

And my husband and i drink water from Stony Creek, the best water in the world!

Shadhala

 Shadhala

'little sunny mountain' and the Southern Tutchone name for  Champagne, Yukon.

Another sunny day,  I can almost  see the sunny mountains. The morning sun is  just about to light them up. I assume that Sadhala is Middle Mountain. I can't see her from my window view, but I do see the larger mountans to east of it, as i live east of Champagne.

I imagine Middle Mountain in full morning sun before the town itself is in sunlight.