Garage, Class, and Thyroid Medication Finished

Home Improvement Projects

I'm finally finished painting. There are still a few places where water is getting in during rain storms; I'll be darned if I know where how it's getting in. On the next warm, dry day (we get a few in Indiana during the fall and winter), I'll go around with a fresh can of foam when the wood is dry and hope for the best. 

My garage and vegetable garden.

The window sill and the front door on my house are fixed, too. The sill, facing west, got badly weather beaten; the door is just old. I fixed the rot at the bottom of the door, put on a new sweep and numbers, painted the door and spray-painted the hinges with Rust-oleum. The deadbolt broke and I had to do quite a bit of retrofitting to install a new one. I bought and used a wood chisel to make room for a new strike plate. I think I learned how to use one in junior high shop class--one of those "useless" classes going by the wayside--but oddly, I don't remember what project I used it on. The first quarter, we used only hand tools.

I had someone else replace some trim on the roof, though, not wanting another accident to recover from. I actually thought about moving my mattress below the roofline in case I fell off, but decided to hire it out. It looks like the handywoman did a good job. 

Classes

I finished my course on the Constitution. Government and the Revolutionary War were taught in grade school and maybe junior high or high school, but the information was cursory--we never even read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, and I don't think I ever heard of the Federalist Papers until I was out of college. When I was called for jury duty several years ago, the ignorance of the upper middle class people there about the legal process was stunning--they didn't know basic facts such as the state having to prove guilt rather than people having to prove their innocence. Twice over the weekend (here and here), I heard two British commentators remark on the ignorance of supposedly educated people, and I'm sad to say I agree with them. So here's a hat tip to Hillsdale College (and other resources of learning) for the chance to redeem ourselves.

Gut Biome

I've remarked before that I make l. reuteri yogurt--I've been making it for about a year, and in that year, I got off my thyroid medication. Another member at Dr. Davis's Inner Circle said his thyroid improved, too, after he started eating the yogurt. Not everybody there gets off their thyroid medicine (we're the only two I know of), but clearly, it's possible to reverse thyroid deficiency in some cases. I'm not sure if it's the yogurt we're eating, since there's a lot to the program, but Dr. Davis thinks the gut biome has something to do with thyroid deficiency. 

I felt well enough to start working out again. This time, I just had normal discomfort afterwards. I think my aches and pains from a few weeks ago were related to the flu shot I had. If the shot was any indication of this season's strain of flu, it would make me extremely ill without the shot.