BUZZING AROUND & EATING HIGH ON THE HAWG

By OLIVENE GODFREY


I buzzed around like a bee on Labor day weekend and, as we old folks say,
eating high on the hog. One dinner was especially delectable which son
Barry and I ate at home. We had bacon wrapped fillet mignon and the
trimmings with pumpkin pie for dessert. The steaks were cooked on our
indoor electric grill and were rubbed with steak seasoning and garlic.
Barry eats often at steak houses and he said the ones we ate that night
were the best he had ever eaten.

When Barry had a physical recently, his cholesterol was high. He is
taking a cholesterol lowering drug and goes back to doctor later this
month to have it checked again. The doctor told him he should eat
steak only once a month and he has been trying to do that. My cholesterol
for years was high even though I took medicine for it. When I
started eating oatmeal once a day my cholesterol dropped dramatically
and has remained that way since then.

We ate an early lunch on Sunday at Dalton's Western Sizzling which
was tasty and then we went to K Mart to shop. We took my wheel
chair and Barry pushed me all over the store. I purchased two tubes
of Revlon lipstick among other items. I have read that if your lipsticks
are a year old, they should be tossed out, so I threw out my old tubes.

Barry started putting ear drops in my impacted ears as the doctor
ordered and then he washes them out with a syringe. My ears are
already feeling better and I am beginning to hear better. A lot of
gook comes out of my ears and no wonder I can't hear good.
I still have more treatments to have until my ears are completely
healthy.

We cooked hamburgers outside in the Weber charcoal grill for Labor
Day and they were delicious. Since Barry bought the electric indoor
grill we have seldom cooked out as it is easier to cook inside. But
Barry is a traditionalist and because we have always cooked out
on past Labor days he felt we had to cook outside. He says he
thinks he will not cook outside again until next spring.

On Saturday, I went to the grocery store with Barry. We bought
a Rotisserie chicken and ate all of it when we got home from
the store with our other foods and supplies. Ingles deli has the
best and most tender of these small chickens we have ever eaten.

Some of the leaves on the trees in our yard are turning early which
may be a sign that we will have an early fall here in northwest
Georgia. A nice thing about falling leaves is that we can see

our gorgeous view again of the picturesque farm house, barn and lake that
adjoins our property with the mountain range just beyond.

We will go back on our diets this week and hope to lose some weight
before the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

See you next time.