Katiebird's Garden & Wildcraft

I thinned my radishes, kohlrabi and arugula the other day and thought that the arugula and radishes would be tasty on our mashed potatoes for dinner. They were a bit dirty. The radishes were quite spicy!  It was a nice surprise biting into them with the green onions and sour cream.   Aren't they cute?

My neighbor brought over a carton of eggs for us and another couple.  Her son's grandparents have a plethora of chickens laying tons of eggs and gave her a couple dozen to share.  I may place an on-going order!  I had to have one last night, sunny-side up with a piece of toast before I went to bed.  They are soooo good.  And they are big, I'm guessing they'd be considered jumbo size and came in all beautiful shades of brown.   Some day I'll have my own chooks!

I have been teaching myself how to run this spring and as motivation, I signed up for the Fitger's 5k , in Duluth, MN this weekend (grew up in the area and still have family and am running with my sister and my Dad's wife).  I haven't been able to really run the full 3.1 miles, as my blood sugars tend to drop if I get my heart rate up too high for too long.  I have found that if I make a point of taking a 1-2 minute break after a mile and then again after each 1/2-3/4 mile and just walk, I don't get so low, as fast.  Inhaling some purple glucose tabs helps a little too. I've only lost 3 lbs.  BUT, I have shrunken down a bit and am not as bloaty-looking around the middle.  Guess that's progress.  I think that when I get back to the lower-heart rate cardio (my beloved elliptical machine) with some high-rate intervals and weights mixed in, the shrinkage will go much faster.  I am participating in our local mega-gym's team training program, which consist...

I'm reading up on lacto-fermenting vegetables, in preparation for my abundant harvest I'm hoping for this year.  One random article said, "Just be careful not to cut beets too small as they contain a lot of sugar and can produce alcohol."  Hmm...beet wine anyone?  Does it exist?  Further research is needed on this one! *** Oh good Lord...it does exist!  http://jinman2871.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/beet-wine/   from randomly searching and found the Prairie Girl blog!  

I had lemon trees in my dream last night.  Obviously, we weren't living in MN in this dream. I have starting my veggie seeds on my kitchen table, a couple each week and now the table is full.  We have to eat in the living room.  Last night I designed my gardens on paper, which actually worked out pretty well.  In my front patio garden, I don't think there will be the vast multitudes of flowers like last year (I planted hundreds!) but I plan on filling in all of the spaces around the tomatoes and peppers with flowers so it is full.  I don't like to see dirt or grass clippings amongst my plants.  Too dirty.  But all of this plant thinking during the day is impeding on my dreaming!  I think I am meant to live in one of those 2-3 growing season states someday, according to my dreams.

I did not think I'd blow through a Twinkie in 25 mins.  It's amazing what your body can do.   As I spouted off the other day about trying to NOT get a low blood sugar when I am running, I'm still experimenting.  I started off last night with a BG of 129 at 6:00 pm (I'm at a basal rate of .45 from 2:30-7:00pm) and a teeny bit of afternoon snack-insulin on board still, so I ate a Twinkie snack cake (28 carbs-mostly straight sugar) hoping that'd take care of it.   Nope, went for just under a 1.5 mile run (25 mins) and came home to a BG of 67 and an evening of almost being low (granola bar was necessary) until I went to bed. Took a big swig out of the milk carton for good measure before bed and woke up to a 164.  Not bad.  If I run today, I will turn the basal down to .25 at around 5:30 and also make sure I'm higher when I start.  Maybe a BG of 150 will be a good number to try and be at.  I'll do the same route also.  We'll see what this...

Seems that I cannot run more than 2 miles at a time without the BS going low.  I neeeed to run 3.1 miles for my first-ever 5k run the end of April!  I make a point of chowing down 3 glucose tabs after miles 1.5 and hope for the best, but the vision is getting fuzzy and its time to call it quits.   I do walk the rest of the time while "hoping" I begin to feel normal, as 2 miles is a necessity at this point in my little training plan.  But to no avail, and its time to go home for a substantial snack.   I think that I will try NOT bolusing for dinner tomorrow (or whenever the next run is) as I have been covering 1/2 of the carbs I eat the last couple runs and that just isn't working.  We'll see if it works!