I have especially commiserated with Billy throughout all these videos, even moreso than Sesame. I watched Parts 1 and 2 before coming back here to comment. These videos were kind of hard to watch because of sad feelings for him. And I didn't even previously know about the problems with his eyes; the main thing I had known about was the constant digestive troubles. Of course, by now (present day) I know about the more recent diet change with cessation of dry kibble that has really helped him with improvement change. But what about his eyes - how are they doing this year? I hardly recognized him in these 2 videos because of how wide open his eyes are. It seems like every time I see Billy in other videos, I am used to him having his eyes pretty much closed, like in vlog #56 at 10:42; this is how I know him and how I always see him! I'm now thinking that maybe I've even subconsciously thought of him a little like "Blind Billy" even though he isn't blind. I have never thought of it as him having his eyes closed; it's just how he always looks. Do you think this is because of the eye trouble he has had, or does he just prefer to sit with his eyes closed often? It gives an especially bright look to his face.

2:36 - Soft and cushy! Do you make up from your imagination all these recipes that you're always cooking and making, or do you look up recipes online or in books? You have the best-looking combinations of things that all look so good, and I'm not really creative because I would never be able to think up these food combos to try. The egg and rice meal, the apple and yogurt etc. snack/meal... Is that matcha tea there that you made and then poured it into milk? I wonder what that tastes like...

(#2 of 2) So today I had my dental cleaning, and I had 2 bitewing x-rays taken. The hygienist again saw no need to do 4. HOWEVER, the plastic thing I was biting on one side must have moved a little out of place, so after she took the x-ray, she wasn't happy with it and said she needed to re-do it! Bummer. So I actually had 3 bitewings taken, to only get 2 usable ones. That happened to me once before a long time ago in a different dental office. That is so annoying. Anyway, I saw the x-rays, and they showed the back teeth, about 4 teeth on top and 4 teeth on bottom of both sides. One showed 3.5 teeth on the bottom. I asked how many teeth they really need to see on x-rays, and the answer was that they are generally only concerned about getting x-rays of the back molars because those are very hard for them to see with the eye; it's just hard to be able to see that far back in there and they can't see the whole tooth. They can easily see all the front teeth by eye. My teeth did not show any issues on x-ray or by eye, so the dentist said I was in good shape. I did ask the hygienist to use the thyroid cover, and she had already laid a lead apron on top of me, so she said she would switch to the other one hanging up that had a built-in thyroid cover flap on it. (See, they never just go ahead and cover the throat on their own without being asked; why not? That is ridiculous. It's no extra trouble for them to use the other apron instead.) The only big problem I had was that leftover glue on the backs of all my front teeth, from where the orthodontist removed those permanent retainer wires from the back of those teeth back in December. Apparently the orthodontist did a very lazy job and left behind a whole big bunch of layered glue for the dentist's office to have to remove, and I could tell that they were not very happy that the orthodontist had done that to them. So my cleaning lasting for 1.5 hours, and she spent an extremely long time scraping and chipping off that glue manually. I would have thought they would have sanded it off or something, but she just used her manual tool and kept at it. It was not too comfortable, and now my teeth are sore for the rest of the day! But they'll be fine. It was very hard to get off, like super glue. The thing is, there's no way my teeth could remineralize through the backs of those teeth with all that glue blocking the way, so it's really great that it has been removed. There's only a little remainder left now that she said should mostly wear away. She said she's often unable to get every bit of glue removed in a situation like this, and sometimes she will have to remove more at a later future cleaning. I would have thought the orthodontist's office would have done a much better job than this of getting the glue off. I've already been living with the left-behind glue for about 8 months. I also asked the dentist about that one lower front tooth in which the gum underneath it came down lower, but just ever since I've been on the CMCS, it has grown up higher at least 1mm (gum regrowth), and I asked him if he thought that gum looked receded now. He said that it was completely normal looking and not receded. So I guess technically it does not need to come up any higher now, although it is still a little lower than the gum surrounding it on either side. He said it was like if you naturally have one ear a little lower than the other or something, like that. He was not very pleasant-acting to me, I believe because he likely thinks of me as a difficult patient who is always resistant to all the stuff they want to do that I won't allow, and that really frustrates him. He really doesn't like it that I won't allow yearly x-rays "just in case". But hey, today showed that I didn't need all those yearly x-rays! I'm sure he would still not see it that way. It is all about protecting him from liability, as I mentioned before, because last year he was trying to pressure me to do x-rays and when I explained that I was in charge of my own health and took personal responsibility for it and would not place any blame on him if something came up, he suggested my signing a form in his office stating that he would not be blamed, ha! That told me for sure that it was all about not wanting to be sued. I said I would have no problem signing the form, but then the front desk person never asked me to sign anything, ha. But I really like the hygienist a lot; she is very friendly and easygoing and even though she normally pushes x-rays too, when I decline, she doesn't keep aggressively going on. And I took a couple of xylitol mints on the way out of the building! Sorry but this was really llllooooonnnnggggg. Oh my gosh, heck it, but I'm not finished, heh. I just now remembered I didn't tell you about the tartar and gum pockets. I still had some hard tartar way back on my farthest 4 back molars that must have been too tough for the system to fade away on its own (or it hasn't been long enough to do so yet), so she scraped tartar from those teeth, and the front teeth where the permanent wires had been glued on still had tartar between the teeth, although when I would look in the mirror I couldn't see any tartar buildup on them because it dissolved off the tooth surfaces. And there was only just a very small amount on some other mid-way teeth. But the gum pocket thing was something else I was so interested in finding out about. Over these last 10 years or so, I had begun developing some gum pockets (which came up coincidentally when I started going for more frequent cleanings and had them use pumice for the polishing agent, which I recently found out courtesy of Dr. Ellie is one of the most abrasive things to use on the teeth and should be avoided!! I had been trying to avoid all fluoride for a bunch of years then), which of course the pockets started out small and gradually deepened until by last year all 8 of the most back teeth, 2 upper and 2 lower on both sides of the mouth, were at 5's for pocket depth, and then also one mid-way tooth was a 4. So today she probed and told me that although my very farthest 4 back teeth are still a 5-rating (but no worsening), all 4 of the molars next to those farthest teeth have improved 1mm each this year and are now rated at 4 for pocket depth. And the mid-way tooth that was rated at 4 last year has now "normalized" and improved to a 3-depth. So I was very happy with that and attribute the improvement only to the CMCS with xylitol, as I have not done anything else differently (and totally stopped string-flossing). I suspect that the very rear 4 teeth are still the same instead of improved maybe because of the hard tartar that was in the way and needed to be removed? and possibly because I need to pay extra attention to getting all the mouth rinse liquids farther back in the mouth more? Those could be 2 possible reasons. The dentist's office didn't act like the improvement was any big deal, haha. They still aren't very happy with my only going for cleanings every 2 years or every 1 year; they want every 6 months, which I will not do. Dr. Ellie told me on that recent call that she advised not even telling them about being on her system, because they never believe you anyway, and also she said to just let the hygienist use whatever fluoride paste she wanted to (I knew I needed to have them stop using my requested pumice on my teeth); she said "just let her have fun with what she wants to use" because the one-time use of fluoride paste would not do me any harm at all; but she did say to not let them use any baking soda. So no pumice or baking soda. And she just used the standard fluoride paste to polish the teeth. Also, another Dr E video comment I saw yesterday was from a woman who said when she went to her dentist for a regular cleaning, they took her blood pressure before doing the cleaning. Her blood pressure showed as just slightly too high, which she said was because she had "white coat syndrome" (stress/fear of the doctor's office), and because it showed a little high, they refused to clean her teeth and sent her home because she was not taking some kind of established blood pressure medication! Things are getting even worse, apparently. She did not say where she was from. OK, end of message! (Sorry, had YT trouble again posting; would not let me add to previous thread in any way.)

I'm trying to reply on that dental conversation, but it keeps deleting it. So let me try starting a separate thread... Hey, as you were describing that, I just now remembered that I have a bunch of husband's older bitewing photos on the computer. I think some other doctor was interested in seeing those x-rays of his teeth a few years ago, so the dental office sent pics of them to us in a message to send to this other doctor. They sent several years' worth. For him, they took 4 bitewings at a time, but this dental office is all about taking as many x-rays as they can. (This same dentist is always trying to pressure me when I go for a cleaning to let them take x-rays and it is very tiresome. But the last time I let them take x-rays, I reminded them that they only do 2 on me.) Anyway, I just now looked at all these bitewings. The majority of them show 4 teeth on the bottom and either 4 or 5 teeth on the top. There was also one panoramic (OPG) image taken 5 years ago. I looked up bitewing info online, and what came up does pretty much match what I'm seeing on husband's x-rays. The online info says "Bitewings show most of the tooth, but if the dentist needs a good look at the very entirety of your tooth or the jawbone, a periapical X-Ray is a better choice. This type of X-ray captures an image of the entire tooth, including a little past the tooth root. Not only does a bitewing x-ray give clear pictures inside the top and bottom crown portions of the teeth, but it shows the root depth and allows the dentist to measure the height of the bone between your teeth inside the gums and jaw. Bitewing x-rays show most of the tooth, but they do not show the complete root surface that is surrounded by bone. They can show the root depth, but not the entire root. Bitewing x-rays are typically used to diagnose dental issues, but they are not taken for the purpose of showing the complete root surface." So his bitewing photos did show either some or most of the tooth roots, but definitely did not show the whole roots in entirety (the ends were outside the frame). There were a few other photos included in there that showed close-ups of some of the lower back teeth in entirety in the shot, including the whole roots, but those pics only showed two teeth at a time. So that makes me assume that they can zoom in with the camera when taking a bitewing and narrow the focus to show entire teeth including the whole roots. I say "assume", because for all I know maybe those particular shots aren't even called bitewings, but maybe could be called some other type of x-ray. The only time I can remember having a panoramic done was a number of years back when I got that second round of braces as an adult. They didn't show it to me and I didn't ask to see it. But ever since that time period, I have been focused on receiving as few x-rays as possible going forward in the future, so I have not given it any thought to be curious about what my teeth roots, etc. looked like. I still would not want to get one unless I was having some kind of big issues (symptoms) that warranted looking deeper. Like I said before, I'm not too big on a whole lot of extra preventive tests other than just very basic stuff if the extra stuff could harm me at all. And if I did have bone loss and I had an x-ray taken that showed that, there isn't anything I'm going to do about it other than continue to use Dr. Ellie's system, so in my case it really wouldn't help anything to know. She has talked about that even bone that has been lost can regrow.

Oh! This video features the lovely little pennywort again! This is just so great, that some of them like to go outside every day for a while and fool around (1:24). 7:41 is SO cute! That little hand covering up the mess.

Good morning Maxi!! Billie loves that scratch and lePoo makes me laugh hahaha She's certainly a heavy sleeper lol Ahhhh your favourite drink to go with your meal 😊 PIKAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Nah the vloggers just move the set off camera hahaha I've done that a lot in the past hehehe Since we got Kiarah, she sits like a human as well!! When she first started doing this I thought of lePoo hehe You always make such great looking food!

I read your last message and will comment on it later, but I wanted to send a new short unrelated message. BTW, every time I open this video for comments, I hear that beginning sound all anew - the music with the crisp crunching sound of the jackfruit! Today I watched Honeyjubu's video from April 11 called "organizing the refrigerator", which had a paid ad for storage containers, and she claimed that they would keep fruits & vegs fresh for 31 days! I hardly knew what to think. She did, of course, still do all of her usual veg prep work, including adding other non-food items to the containers, but still... The other night after dinner, I was still a little hungry so I ate a couple of dates slathered with cream cheese - yummy! I thought to have those because of our recent conversation about dried fruit.

I know so many of these things were not good, but I found the playing at 1:13-1:15 MOST hilarious and had to keep replaying this part several times. It put an automatic smile on my face.

7:01 - It's so pretty! It looks like you're at a park. Ohhhh, figs, figs...every time I see figs I almost want to swoon. They are SO delicious, and I really can't get them ever, except for one store (Trader Joe's) that gets them in for about 2 weeks, once every year. And the ones they get in are always sooooo tiny. They would be a whole lot easier to get if you lived in California. Of course one issue is that they are only available seasonally, but the other is how delicate and easy to bruise they are.

I'm going to try starting a new thread and see if my comment will post this way. I have tried replying twice on the other thread, and it ends up deleting it. Here's my reply: Yes, most of the baking soda here is Arm and Hammer, but it is also quite easy to get generic store brands of it so many places, which is just a little bit cheaper. But it isn't a big difference in price. You can get a 1-lb (454g) box of A&H for $1.47 (RM6.93) or store brand same size for .92 cents (RM4.34) or a 4-lb (1.81kg) box of A&H for $3.34 (RM15.76). I was surprised about A&H being expensive anywhere and am wondering - is there a big issue with all kinds of brands that are shipped into Malaysia costing a lot more than if they are sold elsewhere? I know that you've mentioned other things being really too expensive once they were shipped in. Do you know about how much A&H costs now in Malaysia? That's convenient that the one size you buy fills the auto pourer well. Zippers on bags always used to work so well before! That looks like a really nice little detergent storage box with the spout. I had never noticed that in any videos before. I did see what you meant about too much being able to come out at once, but was that the cap that goes on top that you were using to pour the detergent out into? I guess if too much came out into the cap, you could always pour some back in since the hole is so large as long as it was still dry. I'll have to come up with something - it's a small 1.2kg bag that said it would do 100 regular wash loads. I could get something similar to yours; one idea I had so far was an old plastic canister with screw-on lid that whey protein powder came in that I could keep a little measuring scoop in. I went and looked at the little saved bottle I have of those moisture absorber canisters. There were 3 different brands in there. One was called "Splack" - what a funny name! One type said silica gel right on it. I am currently using a certain brand of magnesium powder that you mix in water, and they are putting one of these canisters in each container. I never have any clumping of the powder at all, even to the very last bit, so it works. But I don't know if there is any difference in the way they work as compared to the little Tyvek envelopes of desiccants, because those work well, too. Do you know, recently when I bought that salad spinner, the manufacturer had enclosed a HUGE desiccant envelope inside! It was like around 8cm long or so! That was surprising to find one of those inside the plastic bowl.

@SunrayStar oh, i just want to update you about my baking soda in a bowl. It's crazy how long this video's comments have been between u and I...further from the time u asked me if my baking soda in bowl gets wet, i replied and said yes but i use very little and it will be all soggy towards the end of the week and i will wash it out and then refill. Have always been doing that but i also wanted to get something for a while now. Have been looking at it for a year but never got to buy it because of other more important $ commitments. Finally in may, i saw it on very good discount and had to get it. I bought 4 auto pourers which is mainly meant for sauces and oils. But i bought 3 for my soya sauce and others and the 4th one to put baking soda. When you tilt the bottle, the cap automatically opens and you can pour. once poured, the liquid will flow back without any spills. It works well for my sauces but for the baking soda...well it keeps it dry (good) but it doesn't pour out as smoothly as liquids. I have to do the action of pouring salt from shaker kinda movement to get the baking soda to come out. It's fine because i don't want too much to come out as well. It's been a few weeks now of using, so far, so good but a video on this won't be coming out so soon as i want to properly use it for at least 2 months or more before showing it. I don't know if my baking soda will clump up inside the bottle from humidity because even the ones i store in a big container clumps up over time from the constant opening and closing of it. If it clumps eventually, then it won't be able to pour out! I just saw hamimommy using the auto pourer in her latest video and she used it for oil and vinegar instead. I almost wanted to buy the same design that she has because it was significantly cheaper than the one i wanted but when the latter had discount, i had to get it. My spout is stainless steel and i prefer it over a plastic spout. Just to let u know - do wait for my video so i can share if baking soda in an auto pourer works well. Then u can decide if it's something u want to get, if you want to put baking soda next to the basin like I do.

Yummy-looking meal! I wash my hands sooo many times during cooking meals. It gets tiresome, but there's just no other way to avoid spreading food around on things. Do you remember a long while back talking about that bar soap I had gotten for using at the kitchen sink? Seems like ages ago! Well, that soap is on its last legs now and is almost gone. It is so thin and just a little scrap of a piece now, so it will likely run out within a week. I bought two at one time, so I have one more bar left (the super yummy-smelling citrus one next). So I'll get it out to use it next, but after it's gone I will not plan on buying any more bar soap. It is just so much more trouble to use than liquid or foaming soap in pump bottles; the pump bottles are way faster also. Oh, that was so funny at 6:00, what you said, and that noise he made! Hey, and he spoke at the end of the video, too! That was a first.

Hey! Tonight we had your cheesy salmon pasta for dinner, and it was delicious! I've added it into my recipe box. I used feta for the cheese. I didn't know which herbs you selected in yours, so I just picked basil and Italian seasoning at random. Also, several nights back I made caesar dressing to eat on top of my "chicken salad" (that's the large garden salad with diced cooked chicken on top). I used lettuce, cucumber, radish, carrot, pumpkin seeds, salt & pepper, and then the diced chicken and caesar dressing. It was very tasty. Here's what I put in the caesar dressing: anchovies, garlic, salt, mayo, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce (haha), olive oil and parmesan cheese. So this was my first ever purchase of anchovies! As long as I have them, I'll also try them sometime on the garlic toast instead of the sardines I have been using. (But I will NOT be eating a side bowl of mashed anchovies along with it, haha.)

They look HEAVY as he is cutting them off the tree...! I've never seen Jackfruit before. I've heard of it though. How did your husband not cut his fingers while cleaning the knife with his fingers?? Awwwww Pika.... It's ok honey.... It's just a little storm.... Interesting way to drink your drink at the end of this video with the dried jackfruit in it

I am really sorry that you had such a terrible treatment by that person to still have that awful memory to this day. As hard as it was mentally (and I'm sure the mental effects carried over into physical as well) on you to have to go through that, you can be sure that that person has been gradually eaten up inside with damage stemming from her anger and vindictive attitude and hateful mindset. If she does not change, she will likely end up as a very sick and bitter old person. Why don't you give a try to something like either the "letting go" procedure or EFT (emotional freedom technique) tapping exercises to once and for all clear these negative memories from affecting you, so you will no longer be bothered any more with any bad feelings as a result of that terrible person's treatment? I do know exactly what you went through feels like as I had an experience extremely similar to yours. The only difference really was that you had to live with your bad situation for a much longer length of time than I did. But otherwise, the same.

Gosh, you had SO many of the cats curious enough about it to all gather around at one time to inspect it! That's impressive. I really like the new layout; it looks good. And it even adds a little more interest to have the desks separated in different areas of the room. It actually makes the overall desk area look so much smaller than it was before as one long set, which is really weird that it would look smaller because they are the same desks. But I'm saying it is really a good improvement in interest and looks, in my opinion, and I thought it looked good in there before. When I was little, and then when I was a bit older but still young, I got so much sun exposure it isn't funny. When I was a teenager I used to lay out in the sun on purpose to tan and would get super-dark every summer there for a while. So I did not wear any sunscreen until much later. Even when I did realize the importance of not getting all the sun you could, haha, I began wearing sunscreen some but was never very strict about it. However, I would always put it on my face every time while gardening, and also I've always had a habit of wearing long sleeves and long pants (jeans) while gardening, along with a hat with a wide brim. I've worn sunscreen on my face for a long bunch of years now, but I only went through one or two stages of also wearing it daily on my arms, hands and upper chest. I really hate the stuff (sunscreen) because of its residue and slight greasy feel that never goes completely away (and I've tried all kinds) and how it rubs off on things and can ruin them (including furniture). So I have to say I definitely gave up on using it daily all over, except for my face and upper neck, where I do wear it daily. I would still wear it all over, of course, if I went on a trip and was in the sun a whole lot. But I have a funny story. Back when I used to work in an office, I was going through one of those stretches of wearing sunscreen covering more area. So one day I applied it to my arms and hands because I was soon getting ready to leave the office to run an errand, when a co-worker came into my office, stopped, and said with an odd look, "it smells like suntan lotion in here." And I said "it is." (well, it was sunscreen.) And she really thought that was unexpected and weird, haha (it wasn't even summer yet). I'm laughing now just remembering that. I went to a dermatologist for a mole removal about 5 years ago, and while I was there she offered me a free program of a particular pharmaceutical product for the face that was not tretinoin but something else kind of similar. Being the health nut I am, at first I refused it, but then I thought about it and I thought, "well, it's free" (although to be honest, I was always suspicious of that and did not understand it!) and I had begun to get fine facial wrinkles and the beginnings of sagging, etc. and I thought it sure would be neat if something improved all that, so I ended up trying it. It was a terrible mistake! And it left me with some permanent damage that has never gone away. While I was using that product, it super-super-super dried out my face so terribly and made it red and actually caused visible wrinkling (from the over-drying) that wasn't that bad before. I kept on with it for a while because I had read in the literature that things could get worse before they got better, and I thought it was a necessary process. But after about 2 months, I gave it up for sure because things were not improving. Although the over-dried wrinkles it put under the eye area did go away after getting off the stuff, and the overdried skin and redness eventually returned to normal, the damage it left on the lower cheek area just out from the sides of my mouth is still there! On each side, there is a really small area of skin that is kind of wrinkly-looking and slightly saggy; it isn't really dry skin, so no amount of moisturizing products have made it go away. I wondered if that product affected the elasticity and flexibility of the skin worse in that area for some reason and if that's why that happened. Oh, I couldn't remember the name of that product until just now - it was Adapalene. I would not recommend it to anyone! My undereyes are in pretty good shape, but I definitely do have the same things you mentioned above regarding signs of aging such as early signs of jowling, downturned mouth and saggy skin here and there. I use a number of moisturizing serums and creams daily on my face and neck. A few of them are the same base products I use every day, but I have an assortment of finishing (final layer) creams and oils that I alternate frequently, like use one of them one day, switch out for a different one on the next day, then yet another different one the following day (and one would be used in the a.m. whereas I would use another in the p.m.) ... I figure it can only help to get as many different kinds of hydrators with different ingredients in there to do their different purposes on the skin. One time a salesperson at a skincare company said to me on the phone when I was asking if it was OK to alternate a bunch of different products "yes, it's a good thing to do - it all gets in there." That phrase stuck with me. The big variety I use seems to have really improved the overall look of my skin as compared to what it was like before I started doing that.

I have a huge lot of glass jars I saved, too. One of the biggest uses I have for them is to store all kinds of dry food products in the pantry that are either bought in bulk (by the pound from open bins in the store) or that come in plastic bags with those terrible cheapy zip-lock closures that do not work well and are hard to store anyway. Examples are a large assortment of uncooked grains such as oats, buckwheat, quinoa, etc.; loose teas; honey; nutritional yeast and many others. In the fridge I use them to store flaxseed, arrowroot powder, leftover unopened packages of ketchup from restaurants, etc. I also use them all the time for liquid or paste products I mix up for temporary use for humans and dogs for health purposes. I use the really really small glass jars for dog supplements or when I need something to hold a small amount of leftover pressed garlic or whatever. They have so many uses! I also use some for junky purposes like holding liquids for gardening purposes in the garage, like liquid seaweed for plants, for example, or rubbing alcohol for gardening tools. Here's a couple tips for labels on jars if you haven't tried these: For any that are really resistant to removal, I soak the jars in hot water with sudsy dish detergent in it (you could heat up some water for this). Cold or warm water won't work as well as hot water. Soak for as long as necessary until the paper of the label has been soaked through and softened, sometimes an hour (it doesn't matter if the hot water cools after a while). For really tough paper that doesn't start to disintegrate and loosen in the water, you may start it coming up by just scraping the edges with a fingernail, and usually you can peel strips off, if not the whole label. For thick paper labels that you can peel the top layer off but a bottom layer of stuck-on paper is still left, do a second round of sudsy water soaking to soak into and soften the remaining paper. Sometimes it's helpful to rub the softened paper with a soaking wet dishrag, which really helps push off the remaining paper, and for glue that remains on the glass jar, the dishrag is very helpful for manually rubbing that off (some glue requires hard rubbing, but I'm very often able to remove it this way if it does not easily wipe away). The water soaks in and helps to soften the glue, too, so that's why some glues can be rubbed away after soaking. For any glue that couldn't be removed after soaking and rubbing, or for dry labels that you can just pull away from the jar without soaking in water at all, but that leave behind hard glue residue (like your green bottle at 1:50), one thing that always works well for me is to rub a light layer of olive oil around to cover the glue, let it stand for just a bit, and then rub the jar kind of hard with either a small piece of paper towel or a small piece of dry rag. Then you can wash the olive oil off the jar. Glue residue that is kind of sticky rather than hard can usually be removed with a piece of duct tape by sticking it down hard and pulling up fast, over and over repeatedly until the last bits of glue have all been removed. GooGone and all those similar things will definitely be able to remove lots of residues, but I'm afraid to use them because of their ingredients, so I found that these natural things will work too. It's a pennywort! (1:30 and 1:35) - that's probably the one your husband had to go plant outside, right? I love those.

!!!!!!! You did a gimbap video!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much! I am going to get out of line in the chronological order I've been watching your videos and go ahead and watch this today! !!!!!

Watering frequency in a week for Spanish moss??

I loved this video because of all the thundery weather, which somehow is relaxing to me and always makes me feel safe and cozy to be inside. However, weather bad enough to cause damage, like what you talked about, is another story. If there's a storm going on and you're really concerned that your home and property may be damaged, that is extremely worrisome. I'm so sorry you've had recurrent damages! But I still enjoyed the video, nonetheless. This scene at 3:12 was scary-looking. Your bowl of lettuce mix at 2:35 looks so good! What kind of seasonings/oils did you dress it with? (The meal looks good, too.) 4:16 Oh, the monkey!! At 4:30 you said "I don't really like being in a tropical forest". Is this mainly because of the humidity, or wild animals that come out of it into your yard, or some other aspects?

Wow, you mean those plastic containers from the in-laws' came from restaurants? Way back in the earlier videos when you mentioned these, I just assumed they were food storage containers that they had bought at local stores to use at home! And that you came to have them because they sent food home with you after you visited. Your restaurants use way, way better quality containers for putting take-out food in than they do here, where nappy old styrofoam (plastic #6, polystyrene) (gross, bad) is still commonly used. And any places that use plastic instead of styrofoam use the thinnest and crummiest plastic imaginable that is normally not fit for reusing. A few more environmentally-conscious restaurants use a thin cardboard-like material, but it isn't fit for reusing either and is not sturdy at all, and sometimes there is a shininess on the outside of that material that makes me wonder what they coated it with. Hey, I use wool dryer balls, too! I keep mine on the counter in the laundry room in a pretty basket I just love. I really get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing that basket every time I use them. What does it say on the back of the CU mart cup at 5:21? Wow, nuts came in those pretty little boxes at 6:50? They are even decorative, with a diamond jewel-like pattern on the lids! I would want to keep those for permanent storage, too. Oh, the pair at 8:05!

I really liked this. I always wash and cut up all vegetable immediately before using them because what I heard years ago was that if you wash vegs prematurely, it removes something natural on the outsides of them that gives protection from breaking down sooner and causes them to go bad faster, but I'm wondering now if that is really true or not. The Korean videos I've been watching for a long time show veggie prep like you did, storing them washed in containers, but not the Japanese ones. Hmm, that's kind of interesting. I have always scrubbed vegs and fruit with a scrub brush under running water and have never soaked, really the main reason was to avoid wasting a whole bunch of product you would put in the soaking water, but you were using bowls and not filling the sink with water like I would have done, so I'm sure that using bowls uses less water & product. How do you determine when to use salt and when to use vinegar? Have you ever used baking soda? You may be interested to know that just last week Dr. Mercola had an article on cleaning pesticides from vegs, and he cited studies and the results of one more recent one where they tested different cleaning products and determined that soaking in water with baking soda removed more pesticides than vinegar or salt. We touched on this subject once a while back about how long you dried the vegs before putting them away, but do you air-dry all the vegs or only some of them? For some reason, I came away before with the idea that you air-dried them all, but I don't know how you could get the lettuce dry. I don't own a salad spinner; I guess I could probably use one. Did you cut the little holes in the plastic lids? To help with ventilation? I never have to throw any food away because of the way I keep track of it, but it sure would be nice to not have to be scrubbing vegs all the time. I do dislike how nappy it can get in the veg bin in the fridge from bits and pieces falling out of the packages they come in. But what about fruit like apples, oranges, etc., that may be eaten as snacks or as sides with meals rather than cooking with them - do you wash those kinds of things in advance too, or just as you would use them, since they last really so long on their own? Oh by the way, the way I keep track of the vegs is that I usually plan about a week of meals in advance, or at least 1/2 week in advance, so I will note it all down on a small note pad, like Sun. - Sat. and what I'm planning to have for dinner each day. That also helps me know in advance what meat I may need to thaw in the fridge the day or two before. And any vegs I have that I haven't listed to use in the weekly plan and will last longer, I list over on the right side of my little note paper as "available extras" whenever I can work them in to a future meal. If I use one of those, then I mark it off the list. That way it's on my paper and I don't have to rely on just being able to see it in the veg drawer. I plan my meals in advance, too, to help me use up what vegs I have, as well as know what I will need to buy for the meals that I don't already have. Your tea towel at 5:25 is pretty! So I guess the netting around the jackfruit protects them from birds? But what about the fabric on the inside that you put around the fruit? Is that for protection from other animals (monkeys, etc.)? And the fabric doesn't encourage rot?

It took me for-evah! to find this video again with the toast in it! (1:34) I had originally asked you what you put on it because it looked so good. So today I finally made it! I didn't have anchovies, but I always have sardines packed in olive oil in the house, so I used them instead. I did everything else the same (butter, minced garlic, Italian seasoning, and the sardine bits) and cooked it under the broiler of my still-working oven, haha. Since I had to open a tin of sardines anyway, I just mashed the rest of the sardines in a bowl and ate them with the toast. Oh my goodness, it was so yummy, I will definitely have this again from time to time. AND because your berry "milkshake" was a part of it and looked so good, I tried to recreate this also. I had on hand blackberries, and mixed those with my cream-milk. So good! I always think of you when I have these meals. By the way, we love the folded kimbap so well that I have been making it about every week and a half or so. So I watched this toast and berry shake part of the video again just now - I think that's Pikachu at 1:41 but I'm not totally sure because it's a back view plus the words on the screen are partially covering her, but it's so funny how it looked like your hand kept hovering over her back because you couldn't keep yourself from trying to pet her, but you couldn't really do it because of the toast residue on your fingers! :)

Hey, I just now noticed from the main thumbnail photo for the video that you cut your hair! It looks really good.

Hmmm, what am I missing? Right after I just finished leaving the other comment here, I noticed that the total number of comments tallied on this video by YT is one more comment than what is actually here. I wonder what disappeared?

2:07 Hey, it's a little pennywort! Wow, this is really very interesting to me about keeping a dish of baking soda out all the time at the sink. So is there no problem with a) any wind blowing it, b) the baking soda ruining from any splashing water or the like, c) ever accidentally turning the dish over, or d) the cats messing with it? I like this idea and may have to incorporate this somehow around the sink; I don't have hardly any available extra space there. So far to date, I have really only used baking soda for specific tasks and keep it in a metal canister with a lid under a cabinet. I have never thought about using it in washing dishes. I have a small leftover plain glass jar that looks like a duplicate in size and shape of the one you're keeping the toothbrush in (2:55) that I keep in a drawer near the kitchen sink with the dog toothbrushes in it!

I really enjoyed this video. At the immediate start, I love this plant!! What is it? When I first saw it, I thought it was a red pepper plant. Some pepper plants have the fruit growing pointed upright instead of hanging down, but then I noticed the texture of the (flower?) and it didn't really look like a pepper. It is such a pop of color. Our butter here most often comes in one pound size consisting of 4 butter sticks rather than one block, so I always get 2 sticks out at once and put them into the butter tray. Whenever I need butter, I slice little "pats" off. I can see how this would be more difficult to get a small amount of needed butter from a whole loaf of it. I remember waaayyyyy back your mentioning those takeaway storage containers from your in-laws, and you are still finding uses for them! I also dislike fooling with garlic each time I need it for a meal, and I'm intrigued by the little storage containers with tiny "ice cube" trays and snap-on lids, but I've never tried it this way. I have a manual hand-held stainless steel garlic press, and each time I need garlic I have to peel a clove (that can be hard to do) and use the press on it, which is fine, but the worst part for me is having to clean and dry the garlic press because there are so many places on it and in it, and rims turned under and such, to have to work the dishrag around and then later the drying towel. I guess I dislike washing and drying that tool more than the rest. I do not have a garlic chopper like that. I always liked the wash-as-you-cook way, and I've tried to do it, but somehow I can't make it work for me as I never have enough time to wash any dishes while I'm cooking. Plus I keep needing the sink that would have sudsy dishwater in it. Or do you have some other way of soaping the dishes rather than running a sink of soapy water? So I always have a whole lot of dishes and pans to wash all together after dinner. I really dislike that dishwashing time every day immensely!! Oh, those mulberries...yum. I remember those from the video where you made the drink with milk mixed into it, along with the garlic toast. Yum! How fantastic to have your own tree outside for these. What is that at 6:45? I know it can't be (because you said it's for syrup), but it looks like some of the garlic rounds that you froze! And finally, what kind of thin-sliced meat is that at 7:25 that you're rolling around mushrooms? Isn't Pikachu sitting really funny at 8:04? And one arm is underneath and the other is hanging off - this made me laugh.

I’m watching again, but from this channel now 😻 The dogs are running around wondering where the meowing and hissing are coming from. They even checked out our own 2 cats lol

All of your plants are so pretty, but the pennywort is my total favorite, as I have seen this one pop up in a number of your other videos, and I always love it. I used to have a houseful of plants spread out all over, but I never did have as many at one time as you have now. It was quite a lot of work, especially the repotting, my least favorite houseplant chore, but I did not fool with mine frequently, either. Except for special needs that would come up, it was normally around once a week. The low total number of plants I've had for the last year is four. I just got tired of all the work after years of keeping them, so as any would die, I would just not replace them, until the number of them got down really small and much more manageable for me. I do love the look of a houseful of green, though! Plants really add a lot of interest to a room. Over time, I began buying a few artificial silk-type plants to still have more punches of greenery than just four. They just require some occasional dusting, which I do with the vacuum cleaner. As far as the artificial plants, I have 3 floor plants, 3 vines really high up over things, one table plant, and 3 small African violets in baskets. They certainly aren't as fresh-looking as live plants, but I still enjoy them.

2:50 - "Hey lookit, mom's passed out on the floor!" "Well, poke her and see if she comes to..." 6:07 - Hahahahahaha! Now what kind of pan material is this? It looks like it has non-stick qualities but without being the unhealthy non-stick material. Your omelet looks so delicious. As a matter of fact, you make soooo many scrumptious-looking meals. How long do you have to air-dry the washed veggies until they're dry enough to put away? I am the same way about not wasting any food. I make sure to use it all before anything ever goes bad, so I never throw ANY uneaten food away. It would make me feel too wasteful and bad to throw out food.

Wow, weren't these really fun to cook? That is amazing how you put them in and they just instantly crisp. I've never had anything like these! Oh, my gosh, 1:08, Itsy: "For Me?!" I had to watch this one twice in a row - I could not stop smiling throughout the thing. And another holey shirt! hahahahha!

Wow, you were starving me with the fish crackers and sauce. The crackers sounded so crispy delicious, and I have no idea what they taste like because I'm not aware of anything like that here. Are they mainly fish-based, or flour-based? The closest thing that I can think of that I'm familiar with and love is tortilla chips with salsa, but I know that your thing is not going to taste like that. Other than that, this is the funniest video of yours that I think I've seen yet, and I'm up to video #74! I laughed over and over throughout the whole thing. I'm always saying that the cats don't seem too interested in most of the things they're offered to eat and they're normally shown just barely taking a sniff, but they are CERTAINLY up for those fish crackers!!! First big laugh, hubby getting comfy on the floor at 2:43 and then the little chickie at 2:50 - "mommy" - hilarious! (But oohh, poor little lizard...) le Poo at 6:25 - hAhA! And I had to keep ON laughing at the holey shirt!! There were holes all over it!! And I saw your comment that you were laughing while editing it; how could you not? And then the hilarious comment at the end about le Poo...

Why do you have to pick out the tiny little bits of tree bark from the soaked resin? You mentioned that you didn't cook the lasagna in an oven because you don't have one. (This is a kind of follow-up comment to our oven discussion a while back.) Guess what? I may need a new oven now. The other night when I was baking dinner in the oven, I noticed that the overhead broiler came on, but I was not using the broiler - just the regular oven. It cooked the food too fast and hot and I had to remove it prematurely before it burned. Then when I tried to turn the oven off, I got an error code on the display. i checked the manual for this, and one possibility that it gave a fix for was to unplug the electrical cord for a minute and then plug it back in, which would be expected to reset it. I did that but need to test it. I'm afraid to test it on an actual meal in case it really is broken - I guess I'll try testing it empty just to see.

Your vlogs are so peaceful. Thank you for sharing! Where would we be without our kitties?

There are those "S" hooks again - for Sarah! 💕 My favorite item out of the whole thing is still the plain branch itself. That was a great choice.

Awwww le Poo, you're so precious 💖 Shamu's little tongue sticking out is so CUTE! Mango is exactly like Motley lol I like that donut pillow though. I need that for Motely when I take him to the vet! PIKAAAAAAAAAAAAA! 💖 Tortie prefers my husband over me as well lol I think it's a girl cat thing - daddy's little girl and all hahaha Awwww look at those 2 all curled up together 🥰

I use that exact duplicate lambswool duster. I have used this same kind for so many years that I can't remember; I have replaced it a few times when they get so worn out. I have washed them before when they've gotten ratty-looking, then blow-dried them while brushing out with a hairbrush. Seems like they're a little frizzier doing that, though.

So lovely

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You're not alone! Lots of this stuff is the same for me (timing, eating, etc.) I don't think it's a bad thing at all to sometimes skip lunch (gives the digestive system a break and allows some detoxification), and in fact I only eat two meals a day every day. I started doing that for intermittent fasting, but I actually came to realize that I was not even interested any longer in eating breakfast as I used to. I drink a lot of water first thing in the day.

OK, I now see your vacuum here (2:29). We were talking about vacuums a while back in a previous video. I was saying how I have to take mine outside to empty the dust cup because it is so filthy, and such an atrocious amount flies out when it is opened that it is impossible for me to do it inside. Now that I see yours, I see the difference and why it's possible to empty yours inside. Yours has a neat little cup, even with a little cup handle, and you can "pour" the dirt out. Mine is a much larger container, really not a "cup" at all, even though they call it that. There is no handle to pour with, and no neat little cup-shape to pour out of. Mine has a flap on the bottom; you press a button, the flap (which stays attached on hinges) flies open and dirt flies out widely. You can't catch it all in a bag. The flap gets in the way since it stays attached, and all the gunk falling out falls all over the flap; then I have to use another vacuum cleaner to vacuum it off after I'm done emptying. I have to stick my hand way up inside the container to pull out all kinds of stuck gunk (disgusto). Whenever this one wears out, I think it would be best if I could find one with a cup more like yours.

Они не боятся прямых солнечных лучей?

Здравствуйте, я вот тоже купила, сама из России.Приедут недели через две. Скажите пожалуйста вы чем нибудь удобряете их ???

Love the cat games! (3:33) They're so comical. I was really wondering about the balled air plant at the beginning; I was glad you save it a segment. What you cut away looks really healthy! What did you end up doing with all of these - or do you cover it in a later video? Also, I wanted to say that it was very satisfying to see only Spanish moss all across the branch now, and that's so great that you were able to make a bunch out of the existing ones that ended up matching the rest. Good job!

Gosh, I'll bet you were a million times happier with the aesthetics in the room after making those changes, because it is so inviting looking! You can do everything in that room - you can work, eat, and then rest in the recliner. The new cabinet is beautiful, and it wouldn't have been the same over there without it. This is so funny, but when you were hanging the chandelier from the S-hooks and the second one was still unattached (10:06), I hadn't even seen the first hook yet, so I honestly thought that the one on the right was a decorative letter S (for Sarah), like another one of your whimsical things. I was kind of disappointed that it was just an S-hook, haha. Oh my, I would so love to have one just like the lovely little wicker/rattan pet "tent" with rooftop perch at 11:01. I have had trouble with one of my dogs wanting to hop up and lie on top of one of their plush fabric pet tents, which isn't for that purpose, and the whole thing just collapses when she has done that. I had to attach a piece of paper with some lavender essential oil applied to it on the top of the pet tent for a while to break that habit. But your pet bed is made for hopping up on top to rest. (Bonus: cat inside!)

From earlier on in the video I forgot to mention that our 2 cats LOVE belly scratches - especially Motley, our black and white cat

He knows I’m filming so doesn’t want to do it hahaha that made me laugh lol Our dogs also leave puddles from their drinking too!

This was a fascinating video, so many things to see. Since I'm watching all of these now, about a year later, I won't have to wait long at all to see the chandelier video coming up, heh! I searched to see if you had done your one-year Spanish moss update but didn't see it. Is it there somewhere inside another video, or do you still have plans to do a video on this sometime yet to come? About the preserving, many years back I did a lot of air-drying one summer of plants like lavender, globe amaranth, and strawflowers. I did the method of hanging them upside-down in small bunches. They turned out so well and I was so pleased with them. I placed them all around in vases and arrangements, and they lasted years. I remember reading about glycerine and silica gel preservation, but I have never tried those methods. Is that stainless steel bowl you used heart-shaped?