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Now for the news around here.
So much is happening right now I don’t know what to discuss first.
In Michigan, we are experiencing smoky skies. We have had some brilliant and vivid orange sunrises and sunsets. They say it is the smoke making them so orange.
Still this is nothing compared to what others are living through.
Grey skies are very common here. But this time of year is unusual to see them. It is almost freaky knowing they are happening for reason different than normal.
Today though we were blessed with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. It was a welcome sight!
A few counties here have all so been identified to be treated for Equine Encephalitis. They believe the first case of transmission to a human has been identified.
We have been advised there will be arial drops of pesticides in hopes of minimizing the threat.
That means a stay indoors order for 24 hours. Water sources that can be moved will need to be kept indoors as well as family pets.
Pools, lakes and ponds are off limits until they test free of the insecticides. I am glad we are still mostly staying home anyway.
I started a nutrition class this week.
Even though I have attended one for heart health and a similar one for diabetes, I thought a refresher would be good.
It is difficult to plan meals since different items I order for grocery delivery are not guaranteed to be available.
This class is teaching me a whole new way to cook some of my favorites. And I am open to trying new styles of food as well.
This is going to become a whole new way of cooking and meal planning for me.
I hope to take you all with me on the journey. It is going to be quite a ride!
I look forward to any tips and hints you can provide.
I tell you one thing. Cooking Gluten Free is an entirely new animal. The entire chemistry of ingredients don’t work the same.
I have a lot of respect for those of you with dietary restrictions and needing to adjust even my recipes to fit your needs.
It is starting to get a bit chilly here. Curling up in a blanket has become an everyday occurrence.
I look forward to all the Fall projects everyone are sharing.
Autumn harvest is just around the corner and I am excited for what it will bring.
What are your favorite Fall Things?
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Good luck with your classes. Please teach us what you are learning. I am at 143, 144 and 145. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week.
Thanks Patrick. I will take you on the learning curve with me! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Thanks for hosting the party. Hope your week is going well.
Thank you Helen for joining in! Stay safe out there. I worry about you. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Hi Marilyn! Your class sounds fun and I hope you enjoy it and learn lots of new things to share! My Mama has to be gluten free and she says its a chore to accommodate that! I’m at #136 this week where I’m showing you my Fall decor in the loving room. Have a great day! 🙂
Thanks DeeDee. I know it will be hard to get my recipes flavors and consistency up to par. Thanks for sharing your lovely home with us! Enjoy your week.
Hi Marilyn, thanks for hosting and sharing so many delicious recipes and other content each week. I’m at #’s 53-56.
You are welcome Donna! Thanks for sharing. I tried all day yesterday. It was weird. I just couldn’t get a connection. Have a lovely week!
Hi, Marilyn; truly too much to handle, I hope we will get a break this fall. Thank you for hosting another great party; I am sharing #123 Traditional Mexican sweet potato treats. Stay safe and enjoy your week!
I hope for everyones sake things start to get a bit brighter. I know everyone needs their spirits lifted! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
I am 128-131 this week. Thanks for hosting and the feature!
Thank you for sharing Amber!! Enjoy your week.
Hi Marilyn
I left a cute little Hello Pumpkin Sign. Thanks for hosting.
Thank you so much Michele. It is so cute!! Enjoy your day.
Glad you’re safe amid smoky skies! Good luck with your new nutrition course. Good for you too to keep learning and embracing new ideas. I hope to be a lifelong learner too! You beat me to it this week…already visited my postings before I even commented. 🙂 You’re a great host Marilyn! Thanks for doing it each week! Have a beautiful week!
Thanks Marielle for the boost of confidence. When I woke up this morning to 112 entries I figured I had better get on with my shares. I am surprised you noticed! LOL. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Thank uou so much for the awesome feature on my Halloween goblet. Today I shared 124. Have a great week.
You are so welcome Anita. Congrats again. I loved the project and when my granddaughter saw it she chose it too! We choose together and decide. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Hi Marilyn, I’m #122 sharing a chili recipe. Enjoy the week!
Thank you Julie for sharing your chili. Have a great week!
We’ve been getting the smoke from the oregon fires all the way over here in central Alberta too. The sky has been orange for days. That is scary about the pesticide spraying. Hopefully everyone got their gardens harvested. Linking up this week at 117 & 118. Stay safe and have a great week!
That is amazing Marie! The skies are so surreal. The spraying is over now so the rest will be seen soon. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Wow Marilyn, this is a lot of news! Iʻm at 103, 104, 105 this week. I have a post about mosquito safety, maybe it will help your family. 2020 sure is a rough year!
A mosquito post sounds great!! 2020 needs to get over with. The best is yet to come. (And end of January too.) thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Thanks for another wonderful party Marilyn. I hope you had a great weekend.
Thank you Chas. It was quiet with the boys golfing all day yesterday. So we had a nice girls only day. I hope you had time to relax! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Thank you for hosting each week, great job. The sunsets sound beautiful but so very sad to know the real reason, my heart goes out to everyone affected by the fires. Here we’re also staying in but not due to smoke – 23K new C19 cases in 7 days on our little island is not good news Stay safe everyone xxx (links 89 & 90)
Wow!! What island may I ask? We sometimes forget that covid is still around in large numbers since we have been so bad to manage it. Please be safe and vigilant. My son had it (mild?) in March. Since then he still has fatigue, brain fog and heart and lung complications. And he is a very athletic and healthy 39 year old. It scares me to think of all the others that show symptoms. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
The little island of United Kingdom Marilyn … so not so little in the grand scheme of things but way smaller than the United States 😉 xxx
Forgot to add that i’m sorry to hear about your son its those stories of healthy young men and women struggling that scares me. My 15yr old daughter is Type 1 Diabetic so higher risk and both her and my son (13) are autistic too so its a lot for them to deal with xxx
You fooled me! LOL. Still. A great island. Thank you on behalf of my son. I went to your blog and loved your bio. And you do have so much to consider. My granddaughter has not been diagnosed but she is very hyperactive. And the typical only child complicated by living in a three generational household. She is intolerant to folic acid and that is really difficult since all gluten foods are not folic free. So we rarely eat out often with her. This nutrition thing is going to be fun. I am glad you are taking easy recipes and switching them. My attempts so far are “less” than successful. Your blog will be a great resource. Thank you for coming back. Stay safe!!
We had EEE around this past fall (2019) where they canceled all afterschool and evening outdoor activities and did aerial spraying as well. It was a bit scary as my younger boys and I are so prone to bug bites and hike so often but thankfully all was well. Here’s hoping the spraying works in your area as well. Linking up as #85-87 this week.
Looks like this arial spraying is more common than I thought. I know you are very good about the bugs and checking before you get in the house. My kids also hike and camp a lot. And they tend a very large community garden. I am glad they didn’t let me know when they found as tic in their dirty clothes! I have too many phobias. LOL. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Wow – so much going on. Thanks for hosting! I brought by some Chipotle Jicama Fries. Hope you enjoy. 🙂
Everything in this world is so topsy turvy this year! And compounded by SO many countries getting new leadership in this mess scares me. Most of them will be on a learning curve for a while. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Wow it sounds like things are a little too exciting for me there in Michigan. We are having smoky skies here in Utah too from the West Coast fires, along with some local fires. I’m impressed that you are studying nutrition – that is always such a good idea, but never easy. Good Luck! Our links this week are: #63, #64, & #65.
I hope you don’t see any more fire action. I am sorry to hear yet another blogger friend is being affected. Stay indoors and be vigilant! Michigan would be hard for you, but Utah would scare me to death! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
We have had smoky skies, too. Yesterday morning, the hazy smoke was so thick we couldn’t see the mountains that are less than a mile from our house. Can’t be good for us. But I guess we are blessed to only have to deal with some smoke.
Hope you will find a way to translate some of your all time favorite recipes into gluten-free, heart-healthy dishes. We have been eating far too carelessly this entire year. I guess eating our emotions. Need to get back on track. I say it every Sunday night and Monday I get up and eat poorly again!
How unique to think of unhealthy food habits as eating our emotions! That is so true, especially for me. You are so close to the fires it must be mind blowing to see that smoke. There are so many different effects of the fires that as a nation we haven’t grappled with yet. I am glad so far you are out of immediate harms way. Stay indoors as much as you can. Hugz. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Hi Marilyn
Colorado has large wildfires still burning so our air quality has been deemed unhealthy for weeks now. It’s so sad not to be able to do as much outdoors because of it.
I hope the spaying helps your area beat that encephalitis–a very worrisome disease! What else can 2020 throw our way?
I am sharing a Lavender Cake loaf today that we enjoy when its the end of lavender season.. It’s really nice with a cup of coffee or tea.
I am happy to hear you seem to be safe from the fires and hope you remain so. I can’t fathom how many people with even respiratory problems are living with the effects. Let alone EVERYTHING else that comes with it. Please stay indoors when you can. Who knows the lasting effects and what is in the air. I used to make, well once, a Lavender Cake. And it was so pretty. I can see us sitting at the table chatting enjoying our treat. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Hi Marilyn,
I’m so honored that my post last week was the most viewed! I guess I’m not the only one looking for ways to make housecleaning more enjoyable. 🙂
Tonight I shared a post on getting along with your spouse when you’re together 24/7 (#57).
Thanks for hosting!
I know for a fact that home posts, especially cleaning and and ideas about family are very popular. Congrats again on the most clicked post! If will definitely be checking out your new article. They are always so interesting! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Wow! I have never heard of areas being sprayed for pesticides like that. 2020 is really showing off, isn’t it? Last night in Georgia was our first night where curling up in a blanket felt good. Enjoying cooler nights down here, too. Thank you for hosting and sharing such wonderful recipes! I always look forward to Sunday evenings with Over the Moon! Have a blessed week! ~Kristi
Kristi this is the first I have seen anything this widespread since I was a kid. They often sprayed DDT before you could buy it in a garden store. Either the outbreak is that big, or we are indeed returning to the 50’s and 60s. There is widespread out cry about it. I am happy you are getting a reprieve from the heat in Georgia. Thank you for the kind words about the party and my recipes. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Dropping by from #ChasingMYLife to bring you my SWISS CHICKEN & CORN CASSEROLE, BEEF RAGU and PORK AND CHARRED PINEAPPLE SLIDERS. Thank you for hosting a GREAT party. I’m looking forward to visiting links over the next few days. I hope you’re having a WONDERFUL week.
Thank you as always Tamy for bringing along your delicious food items. I enjoy visiting them for new ideas. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Hi! Thanks so much for hosting such a wonderful party. This week I’m #46.-DIY Dollar Store Autumn Wagon. I hope that you have an amazing week ahead! 🙂
I am so excited Stephanie to see all the Fall projects. And that wagon will be the first on my list. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Hi Marilyn, I brought my Butternut Squash and Pear Soup to the party, #38. I’m excited to come along on your new food journey. We also follow a cardiac and diabetic friendly meal plan at our house, in addition to my being gluten free. It’s a challenge for sure! ~Leslie
I look forward to following your meal plan Leslie!! You are my go to for special diets. That pear soup sounds interesting. We eat as many pears as we do apples!! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week.
Thanks so much for hosting!
You are welcome Dee. Thanks for sharing tonight and enjoy your week!
It’s amazing how the smoke carries through the atmosphere. Even here – all the way on the east coast in NJ, we’ve had hazy skies due to the smoke. Some really strange looking sunsets. I can’t imagine what they’re going through out west. Once again, thanks for hosting. I’m number 27 this week.
Shelley
I heard they experienced it in England too. Amazing. I remember when Mt St Helens erupted when I was in high school. My car got ash on it! West coast to midwest. So strange! Those sunrises and sunsets were beautiful weren’t they? I pray for all of the people and places affected. Fire is one of the things that terrifies me. And drowning. Eek! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
That was a good idea to take another nutrition class. So much has changed and much has been learned in this important area.
Sorry to hear about the equine disease it’s one I’ve never heard of. And I hate the thought of everything being sprayed with chemicals:(
My spots are #25 and #26
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I am/was worried about the chemicals too Rachelle, I fear the runoff. But it seems that it all went well and our county has more than a few environmentalists. The encephalitis has been mainly in the horses, but they suspect it may have been transmitted to one person. Time will tell. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!
Thanks so much Marilyn! We are recovering from damage to our beach house and town from Hurricane Sally…so many horrible things going on in our world these days, thank goodness we can still enjoy blogging…my links are #10,11,12 this week
I hope all goes well for you and your town!! I wish I could help with something. So I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. And blogging is keeping me sane too. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Wow, the equine things sounds serious. I have never heard of a 24 hour pesticide spraying cycle. That is just wild. Stay safe!
I am #’s 16 & 17 this week: Happenings on the Homestead #83 and How To Build An Emergency Stockpile.
Hope everyone has a good week!
Melissa | Little Frugal Homestead
It seems like the spraying is done now. I guess they will let us know how it all goes. We are used to the tics but this one is new to me. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Thank you for hosting, Marilyn. Hope you week goes well and safe, despite the pesticide spraying. Enjoy your nutrition class–we can always learn something new!
The spraying is done and seems like all is well. Time will tell. I am enjoying the nutrition class. It is a nice refresher. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
Thank you for hosting, Marilyn! This week I’ve been busy here as well with #7 water bath canning and getting the fall garden ready for it’s winters rest with #8, planting cover crops. Have a wonderful week, stay safe, and so glad there is blue sky again 🙂
Thanks suzan. The nights are getting cooler here now. We turned on the heat last night. I am glad to hear you are winding down the garden and preparing for the winter. There is always so much to do. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!