Senior Sustainable Living with Jo

I love kimchi!! It's a gotta have it daily if I can. No, it's not a Japanese thing but a Korean recipe. I was blessed with an appreciative multinational palate growing up. So my Asian repertoire includes Japanese, Thai, Chinese, and Korean recipes to name a few. I eat kimchi daily for the probiotics and immuno-boosting qualities it has. Not to mention the taste. Whether it's mild or spicy hot, it does the body good. It isn't difficult to make. In fact there are several Youtube channel posting on how to make it. My favorite is Maangchi.   She makes it easy enough to make except I don't add raw squid to mine. I prefer my squid prepared in other dishes. Well, it would be easy enough to do with two functioning hands which I no longer have. Back on the homestead, I planted the onions, Napa cabbages, carrots, and daikon radishes in the fall garden. But here in the city all the ingredients are readily available at the Asian Market. Since my last pint and a half jar broke o...

I saved and broke down all the boxes from the move. I even had the son-in-law go out and grab some appliance boxes. This was the first step in in creating my new no dig, in ground garden beds. I was intent on removing all the tape from the boxes when I noticed how swollen my left unaffected foot was. I'd been having issues with the broken bones on my AFO clad foot swelling, but not the other one. Oh bother, it would mean a couple days on Lasix, my diuretic, to reduce the swelling. It basically meant my heart was misbehaving again. The last thing I needed was to go into congestive heart failure again. Mad rushes to the bathroom followed. Each night I massaged lotion into my legs, elevated them on pillows as I slept each night. During the day, I'm off my feet totally. So nothing is being done in the garden. By now, I expected to have had a truckload of ground tree mulch delivered and spread. GRRR! But no, I'm stuck dealing with my heart issues. This is the thing about being a...