I'm reading more on Dr. Weil today, and now that he's past some of the testimonials and giving some of the why and wherefore I can see why (for example) it seems to be taking me a couple of months to get off of the medication I was on. It's the same kind of process that he's introducing with diet and exercise, and with the introduction of new habits. It takes a while to do them before they actually become habit.
The street out front is getting closer to finished, and I've been watching them work the concrete, especially the curb and gutter area, where they're doing it by hand. When they're finished and I don't have them as my audience I'm going to mimick their work and put in the footer for a stone wall in one section of my front yard. Between seeing the work a neighbor did to build his wall (I asked a lot of questions) and watching them do the concrete work, I think I'm set.
Susan, I enjoy reading about these big kitchen food productions you do every so often. I feel that since I moved my big freezer into the kitchen that I have a better relationship with the food in it, I don't forget that it's there for choices for meals or for food preservation. Using this reasoning I should move my pantry shelves into the kitchen from the hall. Hmmmmm. I wonder. . .