I love free stuff!!!

Today I remember why I joined The Pampered Chef ... free products! I earned free products from the new spring line that's coming out in March and there is nothing better than opening a box full of things that you don't have to pay for!! I would love to help anyone who's interested get started and then they too could feel that rush of opening a box and having Christmas several times a year! If joining the business isn't for you, I can still help you get free products by having a show! You can do a traditional home show, a catalog show or an internet show! Just let me know what you want and I'll tell you how to get it FREE!!!

100 reasons to be a hyperlocavore http://budurl.com/brs6

Check this out! 100 reasons to be a hyperlocavore http://budurl.com/brs6

First a definition, a hyperlocavore tries to eat as much food as close to home as possible, in order to reduce the food miles that his food travels. It is an extension of the term locavore. A locavore typically tries to eat seasonally within 100 miles of her home, to reduce food miles and to develop their local economic base. A hyperlocavore wants to bring food even closer. And what's closer than your neighborhood? We have a time crunch, we have land and property that is loosing value fast, we have kids who don't know where their food comes from, and we have a climate crisis.

Dreaming of summer and warmer weather

Picture of Bee Balm from my garden 2008
In January, in Wisconsin, it is cold, the days are short and everything is white or gray, even the sky on most days. So in the summer, when my garden is in bloom, I take lots of pictures! Now, I open them and look at them to remind myself that soon it will be warm again ... and everyone will switch from complaining about the cold to complaining about the heat! But it's all good ... the bugs, the bees even the mosquitoes! In January I welcome the thought of slapping away mosquitoes just as in July a snowfall sounds wonderful! Like everything it's all a matter of perspective. I know right now as we up here in the north have had enough of the snow, ice and cold there are people in the south who are thrilled when it snows! So, Wisconsin is, and always will be, the land of changes. In the last week alone the temperature has varied by as much as 70 degrees! By the end of summer it possibly will be 140 degrees warmer than it was this past week. Crazy to think about, but true! From -40 to 100 ... that's Wisconsin!

Cleansing

so I'm thinking about doing a whole body cleanse ... the real deal ... where you drink only purified water with organic lemon juice, cayenne powder and grade B (it has more vitamins and minerals) organic maple syrup ... for a minimum of ten days ... and I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this?? I have done the research, and it seems like a really good way to "flush" everthing out ... but I'm thnking Ishould take a week off work to do ti because I don't know how my body is going to react, never having done anything like this before!! I am sure to be hungry, at least at first, but I talked to a guy who's wife is doing a juice cleanse and he said she's not bothered at all ... but she does it every year. So I guess it can't be too bad ... I know a lot of people do it once or twice a year ... and I'd really like to see the effects getting the toxins, heavy metals, candida yeast etc out of my body would have as far as joint pain, skin eruptions and other things that are attributed to toxins in the body! It would have to be remarkable, wouldn't it?? Thoughts?