Accessible Gardening: #13 Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners , 0 by Sansai87

Sansai87 wrote:
I’ve been busy hammering away on Christmas projects like an over-grown elf. Today I spent a lot of time on a diabetic recipe site trying to come up with a Christmas dinner menu. We try to make it more elegant than our rustic Thanksgiving feast. That is doable at Christmas since there is rarely more than 6 people at the table.
MK had a doctor’s appointment this morning. She’s lost 16 lbs. in the last two weeks. PJ and I haven’t weighed in, but I know neither of us has lost that much. Since MK is a borderline Type 2 diabetic, and since the doctors have warned PJ that he will develop diabetes in the future if he doesn’t get his eating under control, and, I have a family history of Type 1 diabetes. I think adopting a Type 2 diabetic diet is the way for the whole household to go. It isn’t going to be anywhere near as bad as I imagined. Some of those recipes look scrumptious and there are thousands of them. I’m not going to bake b’day cakes and the like to supplement my income anymore. I will miss the extra money, but good health is priceless. I know I can’t resist sampling what I make and that is keeping me from losing weight.
Will power can be a shared resource. MK is determined to regain her health and is dragging PJ and me along. Lol. We are finally getting some use out of the recumbent bike. It is one of those with all the computerized bells and whistles. It even tells you how many calories you’ve burned in a session.
Since I had the paints out for Christmas projects, I decided to start on the signs for the different garden areas. We had some old ceiling fan blades around. There is a streetlight in the Bee Corner. I thought I would hang the sign on the light post. The shape of the fan blades works out perfectly. ~N~