The Thyroid Summit

There has been a great worldwide summit on Thyroid health this week. Over 30 hours of broadcasts. The information is so very important because so many of us have a low thyroid condition causing much of our ill health. Even people who seem healthy may still have a low thyroid problem.

A low thyroid may be the cause of many heart problems. It is tied in with our sex drive and our adrenal system, that part of us that gives the extra oomf when there is a major crisis in our lives.

This summit has been given mostly by doctors who have treated thousands and thousands of over 30 to 40 years. The information is not about some new found pharmaceutical but is tried and tested natural methods of good, honest, practical help.

If you have missed out on being part of the summit and would still like to get access to this important information, click on this link
https://nq177.infusionsoft.com/go/thyroidorder/TOSSY/
as it is available to purchase after the summit. This way you will be able to take your time to digest all this wonderful information that could change your life.

There is most important information here also that can help many sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), CFIFS, ME and Fibromyalgia (FMS) and allergies.

Thyroid Health

I have a long standing interest in the Thyroid gland in the body. We are lucky enough that next week there is going to be a worldwide seminar to inform us of many things to to with this gland. We all have one, you can't exist without one. Is yours functioning to its best ability?

 

There is a big week coming up next week.

If you are interested if feeling more energetic, less fatigued, there is a possibility that you may have thyroid problems. 

Many people who know they have thyroid problems need more help to feel better.
Many people do not know they have thyroid problems. Could you be one of them? Do you feel worn out and tired most of the time? Do you have difficulty losing weight? Do you suffer from depression? It might be your Thyroid. 
 
Datis Kharrazian (pictured) has written a brilliant book all about the thyroid. It is called 'Why do I still have Thyroid Symptoms?' He is now collaborating with many other professionals to help us learn more about our thyroid gland. He is one of the many speakers who will give their time to help people around the world. 
 
This seminar is on the internet so we don't have to get on a plane and fly to the US. We can access this information from our favourite computer. 
 
Each talk is available only for 24 hours. So register today to gain this free information. If you cannot see all of the talks, they will be available for purchase. 
 
See you there next week.

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Mystery

Mystery and Wonderment by Therese Vahland

Mysteries of the World

There are many great mysteries in the world - how it works, how the solar system works, how tiny ants can carry large objects over very long distances. 

Television shows try to tell us over and over that the only mysteries worth delving into are murder mysteries. Why do people kill each other? 

I notice on the telly that all the murder mysteries are getting more violent. Repeatedly the writers have the women detectives doing the shooting of the bad guys. Wrong move guys. Leave women out of it. We do not want to show women as being the killers. Women give life, not take it.

Women Hold the Greatest Mystery

Women hold one of the greatest mysteries of life on our planet. Women can give birth. That is one thing women can do that men have not been able to do in the last 50-60,000 years.

Wonderment

We wonder at the beauty of a baby when it is just born. We wonder how most babies are just right. They have all their fingers and toes and have them in all the right places. 

We wonder how the cry of all babies sound alike no matter what nationality they are born into.

We wonder at baby chickens and how they get themselves out of their eggshell. 

We wonder at the size of icebergs and are amazed at how they melt when they are surrounded by cold, cold seawater.

We wonder at the age of great sea turtles and wonder at their agility in the water and we also wonder at the strong urge that brings the female turtles ashore, dragging their large bodies up the sand, how they can dig a hole with no hands or feet, just to lay their eggs on land. 

We wonder and we think and we gaze. Occasionally someone is given an insight to a mystery. If luck goes their way, they are given help to use this to help mankind. Then we wonder how they did it.

Spend a little time each week in awe and wonderment of our great Earth and the mysteries it holds. It will make us all happier people.

Ostrich and Bantam Eggs

Eggs are all the same shape, no matter what the size or breed of bird. Have a look at some of the eggs that have passed through our household.

The large egg is just huge. It was laid by an ostrich on my brother's farm. It's shell is very thick and hard. These ostrich eggs are equivalent to at least twelve normal hen's eggs or more. 

The other eggs in the photo are from my bantams. There are some very tiny pullet eggs here and a couple of eggs a bit larger in the bottom row that are from eighteen month old hens. A normal hen egg is larger than the bantam eggs.

Ostrich and Bantam eggs

 

Wild birds lay eggs the same shape though they are smaller again. Emus are very large birds from Australia. They cannot fly. Their egg is very large also but a bit smaller than the ostrich eggs.

Birds are not the only creatures that lay eggs. Turtles also lay eggs. Their eggs are round and do not have a hard shell. 

A platypus, an Australian mammal that lives under water also lays eggs. 

Decorative Painting for Children

One of our granddaughter's turned three recently. She is more like thirteen, but that's the way it is with a lot of children these days. I'm sure they have been here before with the things that they know and the way they take so readily to technology.

Anyway, as it was her birthday coming up, I decided to paint a little dresser for her. She was interested in fairies and mermaids and the fairies won out. 

She was very excited with it. I hope she has a lot of enjoyment playing with it.

Backyard Chickens

My Chickens are very happy in the backyard. They have their own new shed and their own scratch garden with plenty of shelter. They also get into my flower garden for three or four hours most days. They are great workers, turning over the topsoil, and keeping insects and weeds down.

Bantams, Chooks and Chickens

My chickens are bantams, that is, they are a small variety of the normal size chooks. Normal sized chooks are called standard. In days past chickens were always referred to as chooks. Chickens were their babies, those cute little fluffy balls that grow up too quickly. Today it is fashionable to refer to your chooks as chickens, no matter how old they are. 

Chickens or chooks belong to a group of domesticated egg laying birds called poultry. So it is more correct to say that you keep poultry. Other members of the poultry family are ducks, geese and turkeys.

Hens and Pullets

Adult female chooks are called hens. Young hens from six to twelve months are called pullets. Pullets start laying from six months old. Their eggs are much smaller that an egg from an adult hen.

Words for the Chook Shed

Male chooks are called roosters or cocks. Young roosters are called cockerels. So we have

• chickens
• pullets
• chooks
• hens
• poultry
• roosters
• cocks
• cockerels 
• bantams
• ducks
• geese
• turkeys

Whatever the name, they are fun to have in the garden. They are great to clean up your scraps of leftover food. They will thank you each time you give them old lettuce leaves. I often collect the leaves that are cut off the lettuce at the supermarket. The hens love these.  

 

Creatures of Habit

Hens are creatures of habit and in my observation they also seem to have a short memory.

My chicken shed has two doors, one for me and one for the chickens. They have never tried to go in or out of my door. This makes it a lot easier when you are going into their shed with your hands full and trying to stop the chickens from getting out with your feet at the same time. I know because I did this with their old pen for fifteen years. 

When I go to open their little shed door, they are lined up waiting to get out. They also know that they are only allowed into their garden at first. They are not allowed to rush out into my garden, otherwise I would have chickens all around my feet and they might trip me up.

After they have had a scratch in their garden for a couple of hours, then they are allowed into my garden to continue their work there. 

I have moved my hens to a few different sheds recently. I am always worried that they will go back to their old shed when I let them out. To avert this, I keep them locked in their new shed for a couple of weeks so they don't get into the garden. In the evening, they have always gone back to roost in their new shed. They only seem to have short term memories. 

Fertilizer

Chickens are a great source of fertilizer for the garden. They add this to the garden as they go about doing their work. The soil in their shed is also good to sprinkle over the vegetable garden or around the roses and flowers to add extra nutrients to the soil. The most concentrated source on manure is from under their night time perches. Once this is well dried it is a powerful nutrient for the soil.
 

Frogs in the Backyard

I was heading out the back door to lock the chickens up for the night. It was already dark. 

Just as I was about to take a step off the step I noticed something on the doormat. Sitting there quite calmly was a brown frog. He sat still while I went to get my camera, waited kindly until I had taken some photos, and in a flash, quicker than a blink, he was gone. He was so quick, I did not see him go, only heard the rustle of a sound as he jumped into the plants. 

Little Aussie brown garden frog come for an evening visit

Frogs in the garden

I always like to see frogs in my garden because I know that the garden is healthy when this happens. The absence of frogs is one of the first signs to let us know when the land is sick. 

Froggy Restaurant

Many years ago when we lived in another house we had frogs climb up on the windows in the evening. The bottom of the windows were about 120cm (4 feet) off the ground. When the lights were on in the evening, the insects were attracted to it. The frog thought this was a free for all and enjoyed climbing up the windows and having their fill.  

When we were in China we were served a plate piled high with small mountain frogs. Not for me thank you!

The Crafty Frog

I was given this lovely frog that has had mosaics lovingly applied to it. He doesn't get outside much though. I'm afraid he might hop away.

China frog with beautiful mosaics on his back

Frogs in Literature

Frogs have featured in literature for hundreds of years. We have the famous story of The Frog Prince by Brothers Grimm and the Chinese story of The Frog in the Well. Aesop, who was a great Greek teller of fables from long ago told of The Scorpion and the Frog. The Wind in the Willows is another famous English story by Kenneth Grahame that has become famous with Toad and other characters living at Toad Hall. A toad is a variety of frog. 

In the Australian aboriginal history, the Dreamtime story of Tiddalick The Frog is an important and famous story.

Frogs are also remembered in music

A Frog went Walking

A frog went walking on a summers day

A hum, a hum

A frog went walking on a summers day

He met Miss Mousey on the way

A hum, a hum, a hum, a hum, a hum.  etc

See if you can find some frogs today.