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There are some people who live to write negative comments. They are automatically sent to SPAM through Akismet. Then there are the junk comments about pornography and pills….Akismet trashes them. Sometimes people I know and like end up in SPAM for no apparent reason. I found Ingrid there last night with a batch of 87 spammers.
While I am without internet access, the SPAM piles up for this blog. One day I signed on to find something like 800 of the little nasties. I wholesale deleted them without looking. If you are a nice person who has written a pleasant or reasonable comment and it did not show up, please try again if it is important to you. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by volume and do not read the stuff in SPAM, so all comments get unceremoniously flushed.
Unless I’m sick or ditzy or in a weird mood, I delete all nasty comments. They are almost invariably from anonymous posters. I figure if someone disagrees with my religion or politics, they can write their opinions on their own blog 
If someone hides their identity to say not nice things, they have no moral backbone or character. My blog is not a free speech soapbox.
99% of people who leave comments are nice folks. I appreciate you. If I accidentally erased your comments, let me know and re-send them….
YES!!!!!!
For the first time since January, I went without extra oxygen at night. I woke up feeling fine…no puffiness or redness or chest pain. YES!!!! I sooooo want to quit needing supplemental oxygen.
Except for the usual arthritis aches and pains and the myasthenia muscle stuff, I feel pretty good 
My good days would probably seem like awful days to the average person, but I’m grateful. It’s nice not to be so gosh darn sick.
My stroke/myasthenia/lupus brain leaves a lot to be desired. I think my forgetfulness and ditziness bothers Heather way more than it bothers me. I am blissfully ditzy, often not even noticing my deficits. I DO notice how difficult it is to come up with the right words. I think I just need more practice hanging out with people and using my verbal skills. I have come a very long way from my stroke on January 1st!
With all the windows and the door open, the apartment is full of fresh air. I keep the overhead fan on 24/7. I now know what the tree is across from my bedroom window. It’s a mock orange. I love them! In the two weeks I have been gone, it filled out with lush leaves and is covered in blossoms. I cannot see the whole field any more, but can from my living room window. Now that summer is here, everything is soooooo green and flowers are everywhere.
The garden jumped from transplants to a full scale growing machine in two weeks! It sure is nice to see how well the plants have put down roots and shot up. The peas are so nice and tidy. Geeze…as long as critters stay out and weather remains favorable, that garden should produce a heck of a lot of food. It’s approximately 3000 sq feet.
I sure as heck wish there was a way for Heather to get to her pics! She has hundreds of fantastic pics of the garden and each place we have been. I’m thinking I might be able to get them if I bought a card reader. We will see……
Guess what Heather did? She made pancakes for breakfast with blueberry syrup. What a treat!
What’s Up?!
I wrote this in the morning….
We are back in Gorham, NH after being soaked to our very bones in Maine. Had to stop and do the laundry which seemed to be fermenting from all the wetness in the air. Yuck!
It can’t seem to stop raining in Maine or New Hampshire. The rivers are high and raging….great for whitewater rafting, but not very good for flatwater canoeing. The weather gets better a bit to the west, so we are done with Maine.
Yesterday I went to church at the Yarmouth Maine Ward. What a nice bunch of people!!! They had 4 Ward History scrapbooks by the door. I enjoyed reading them so much that I almost missed the beginning of Sacrament Meeting. A nice woman came and got me to tell me it was almost 9 AM and I should come sit with her.
Last night we camped in the White Mountain NF right on the Maine/New Hampshire border. Technically I think we were in NH, there was a Maine welcome sign across the road. We got there from Fryeburg, but left by going toward Gilead and Gorham. Next…on to find some camping spots with nice, calm lakes for Heather to paddle in.
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And later…..
The rain was intense and expected to stay that way. A system was stuck over western Maine, making the rivers totally unsuitable for an old aluminum canoe. We decided to go west and get away from the rain. It worked!!!!!! When we got near Burlington, the sky parted. All the way up the Champlain Islands the road was the divider. Nasty gray and black clouds on one side and blue sky on the other. The ferry crossing was gorgeous! Perfect temp and NO rain. Zeke and I stood up front. Nice breeze
Stopped at two of our favorite Vermont Co-Ops….Plainfield and Montpelier. Heather got us yummy sweet cheese bread at one and egg rolls at the other. Mmmmmmmmm…..
Got back to my apartment by 9 PM. My garden is doing fantastically well….hardly any weeds, the plants got HUGE in 2 weeks and there has been plenty of rain to keep it happy and growing. What a relief for US to be out of the rain!
Now to re-stock the van and research local canoeing spots. I have Heather until the 15th, when her husband comes to take her away From now till then we will probably go camping and canoeing in the Adirondacks.
For the 16 nights we have camped, I only used the CPAP 3 times because I only had that much battery power. All the other nights I slept with just 2 liters of o2 and no CPAP. Tonight I plan to use the CPAP, but no extra oxygen and see how that goes. I can tell already that it is this place that makes me sick. I can smell smoke in here from a neighbor and for the first time since we left, my chest hurts 
The good news is that my building becomes smoke-free as soon as the one smoker here moves out. YIPPPPPPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! It seems sooooooooo unfair that his smoking means I need oxygen. Grrrrrrr…….
We are in Maine
Spent the night in the White Mountains National Forest of New Hampshire, now we are in Maine. Heather has decided she wants to buy a used $100-$200 canoe or kayak and do some water camping. We are going to drive around looking for garage sales today We decided to explore Bethel, Maine and found that their tiny little library has wifi accessible from the curb
Having a good time :-)
So far I have managed to find free camping spots each night. Last night we camped right along Crystal Lake in Barton, VT. Gorgeous! Sometime around 10 PM the sky let loose and there was a spectacular lightning and thunder show with heavy rain. After a couple of hours of that, the sky cleared and the stars came out.
Not much luck finding wifi out in the boonies. Hope you are all having a GREAT summer. I am
In Waterbury
Here is where I am sitting
I just made a detour through Montpelier, Calais and Worcester and am now at a public park in Waterbury with two hour free wifi access. Heather is on the Long Trail hiking, so I had some time to explore my old stomping grounds I did not stop at my old farm, just went down the hill and back up. They have a GIANT solar array up…must be for whoever is living in Heather’s old house. The siding on that house was stained brown and I could barely see it from the road. The good ol’ 2 seater outhouse is surrounded by rosa rugosa and the fruit trees I planted 20 years ago are BIG! Looks like the new owners are only growing in a small section of the old raised beds. Saplings are coming up in the field.
Vermont is called the GREEN Mountain state for good reason. Everything is the lushest green you can imagine and plants grow like in a jungle. The lilacs have not “gone by” yet and there are peonies, iris, azaleas and rhododendrons in full bloom. Oooooohhhhh….and I love all the orange and pink oriental poppies! I drive real slow to look at all the vegetable an flower gardens.
I stopped to talk to my friend Sarah and catch up on what has happened in the last few years.
