HM - How is like to have a stroke

《How is like to have a stroke?》

A very good description was made by Jill Bolte Taylor, is an American neuroanatomist, author, and inspirational public speaker on her TED talk "My Stroke of Insight".

(You can see the full lesson here:http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jill-bolte-taylor-s-stroke-of-insight)

I know people with Hemiplegic Migraine don't have really strokes but they share allot of the symptoms and is hard to describe to others what is like to have this happening to you. 

I listen to her story while I was doing some tasks and I was all the time having "THIS IS IT! Was exactly like this!" moments.

Share this video with your family and friends.  In the end of it the speaker talks about the moral of the story and is very interesting.

Tip - Seed or not to seed

In Portugal I always bought plants to transplant. It was more save and produced fewer waists. Here in Germany I didn’t find yet these plants to transplant so I have to use seeds.

If you have a small garden buying plants to transplant to your garden is the smartest way but if you have a bigger garden the cheapest way is do it is by using seeds.

Anyway using at least once seeds is great to learn a little more about growing plants.

JANEIRO - Calendário da Época das Sementeiras

JANEIRO

Semear: Agriões, Aipo, Alho Pôrro, Alfaces, Beterraba de Mesa, Cebolas, Coentros, Chicória, Couves diversas, Ervilhas, Espinafres, Favas, Nabos Serôdios, Nabiças, Rabanetes, Salsa, Tomates, Beterrabas Forrageira.

Flores: Ciclamens, Crisântemos, Ervilhas de Cheiro, Gipsófila.

Flores (Bolbos): Begónias, Dálias, Gladíolos, Gipsófila Vivaz, Gloxínias, Liliuns, Jarros.

Avocado experience! - Tip - Part II

New tip for the avocado experience!

TIP - The skin of the seed needs to come out completely! Or the upper part is going to become like a shell and will not let the plant to grow out of the seed.

Found it in this video:

What I'm reading now

Check my Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/Mizinha

My 2016 reading goal: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/5402722

Last garden activities of 2015

The year 2015 is almost over. Is incredible how fast it went by!

Now is the the time to think about what happened during this year. Make a balance of what we got and what we wanted to have. Think about what we learned and what we wanted to learn... And think what 2016 can offer us!

In other hand the gardener must think about what are the tasks that should be accomplished in the garden before 2016... What were the things he wanted to do in 2015 that he didn't do and now he has two weeks to make it happen!


So my last garden activities for 2015 are:

• Remove the summer bulbs. Because I want to change the garden organization I need to remove the summer bulbs if I want to use them next year. What I read is that you remove the bulb from the earth, let it dry and packed in a dry place... let's see if it works!

• Finish the stone path. I don't think I will finish it but at least all the stones would be in the right place.

• Buy a small garden house to store the garden tools. All my tools are in the patio and doesn't look that nice.

• Check the house plants for yellow leaves and clean the leaves with a moist clothe.

• Bring the plants that need to be protect during the winter inside.

• Eat the cornsalad. Is the only thing I can eat in my garden now!

• Buy bird food.

• Cut branches. 

Being sick at home

Is so nice to have a day at home and not go to work.

I have a world of things I would like to do. Things that are in my to do list for ever waiting for a little extra time to be done.

But when you are sick things are not like that!
Head hurting plus nose running plus sleepy eyes equals zero capacity to finish any task.

So the dream of having a day for my projects is gone and I'm being forced to enjoy a day for my self!

I'm sited outside in the garden drinking a cup of tee and is, I think, the first time I just spend time here like this...