Robert and I have been doing lots of research on ways to handle and heal eczema for someone in our circle.  If anyone reading this has any verifiable, eczema-specific advice or knowledge, I'd appreciate hearing from you--you can write to me at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it   I'm open to synchronicity on this!

I had a very grounding week--paid my taxes, had my electrical panel repaired, bought two new planting boxes, four little hopeful pepper plants, and some daisies and succulents. 

Robert and I cooked dinner yesterday for Gunther and Eliza and Anders and Auggie.  We had fried oysters, chicken, rice, bread, salad, and mangoes and blueberries for dessert.  We played the Nature show we had recorded on cephlapods, particularly the Humboldt squid.  We had saved it for Anders who loves things squid.  (Gunther and Eliza went out to dinner with an old friend on Thursday and he had squid stuffed with sausage.)

Lots of walking all weekend.  I seem to be using the car less and less.

After watching every species of animal eating one another in all these hours of nature shows (Planet Eart is spectacular) it seems the purpose of life is eating.  What else is one to think (I know-- procreation--which leads to more eating.)  They show the eating more than the procreating.