San Juan Day 2 English Camp

Our first full day on San Juan we went exploring.  I had in advanced picked out two sites that I wanted to investigate.  First was the English Camp. 

I've always wanted a garden in this style and hope to have one some day.  Again at the English Camp on the island.

J and I had a lot of walking to do to get to the English Camp's cemetery.  We had to cross a highway and walk uphill for half a mile.  No wonder my left ankle was aching bad.  More on that for another day.  When we got to the cemetery I saw that all the Canadian flags had been knocked clean out of their holes.  So being a nice person that I am I up-righted three of them and had J fix the fourth.  They may not be my nation's flag but I still respect what the represent.

English Camp cemetery
Tomorrow I'll post pictures of the American Camp and maybe a light house or two soon there after.

Roasting The Chickpeas

I listed this 3-6 months size baby hat in my shop this morning.  I'm still busy making preemie to newborn size hats and will move on to the next size up soon.  I still need to make more booties too.  Winter is coming and I want to be prepared for sales.  Hoping to get more sales soon too. 

I did make a few sales last month and I'm still waiting to get feedback.  I'm terrible about doing feedback on other sites so I shouldn't complain too much about not getting it either.  But with ETSY it's a bit different because if you don't have many sales or much in feedback buyers feel like it's a big risk to buy from you.  So when I make purchases on ETSY, and I do, I always make sure to leave feedback as soon as possible.

I started adding in Canadian shipping fees today.  Hopefully that will draw in more sales.  I can't believe how much the cost of shipping has gone up since I first started my shop in 2006. 

Now to the blog title today.  I'm at this very moment roasting chickpeas in my oven.  I've made them before and J loved them.  Today they are going to be my lunch.  Instead of using olive oil I decided to use extra virgin coconut oil.  Did you know that coconut oil helps speed up your metabolism?  I've lost a pound in a day with using it in my cooking.  So that is my dirty little secret to weight loss. 

Not sure just how much of anything I'll be able to get done today.  After J's lunch I have to head over to the hospital for optometry.  I'm hoping for good news.  I have calcification of the optic nerve.  I really am hoping that it hasn't progressed.  It's bad enough that I have cataracts.  Yes, I know poor little me.  Not really.  I manage just fine.

Think I'll check on the lab and see if it will be open on Monday.  Monday is Columbus Day here or Canadian Thanksgiving up in Canada.  Since I have Canadian heritage we always celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving with all the trimmings along with the American Thanksgiving when I was a kid at home.  Talk about weight gain starting early.

While I'm at the hospital I'll also stop by the RE clinic and make sure that they have put in the lab order so that I don't have to run around between the lab and the clinic waiting for the computer to send the order err...I mean the nurse to send the request order to the lab.  They are short handed at the RE clinic these days.

Blog Awards, Another Round

Thank you EndoWarrior and Living With Endo for this award.  I appreciate you both thinking of me when you gave this award to me and I'll now pass it on to 15 other wonderful bloggers.


The rules for receiving this award are: Tell seven things about yourself and pass on the award to 15 other great bloggers.

Seven things about me that maybe you didn't already know:

1)  I'm 42
2)  I was raised in NY state, way upstate near Canada.
3)  I have French Canadian ancestors.
4)  I love to read.  I mean I have so many books right now that often I give them away because I'm an     Army Wife and have limited weight when we move so I can't keep all the books that I've read.
5)  I do charity work when possible.
6)  I've been married once before and had it annulled.
7)  I love cats more than dogs but it doesn't mean I don't have affection for dogs I just prefer my furry friends to be cats.

Now for the 15 blogs I have chosen to pass this on to:
1) Mommy Odyssey
2) Steph at Dogtags And Devotion
3) Niki at What Dreamers Do
4) Alex at First Time Twins
5) Sushi Girl at Just Us And The Cat
6) keeniebeanie
7) chasingourstork
8) missconception
9) ablanket2keep
10) adventuresinfertilityandmortality
11) Do I Have To Be A Dink
12) Just Two Lines Away
13) fromcupboardtocupboard  I like good food
14) Journey To The Center Of The Uterus
15) Of Cabbages And Kings