Mar 11,12 Day 9,10

Thursday, Friday March 11, 12 Days 9, 10

The last 2 days i have been trying to solve my problem with my stomach. I find that I have terrific indigestion when eating foods that have red pepper in them. It has gotten serious enough for me to think of abandoning this project. My major concern was eating the spicy foods on a constant basis and it has come true. Breakfast is fine because there are no curried foods. I have come with a possible solution for lunch. Oatmeal!! It is readily available and the local hilltop store has homogenized milk. Saturday noon I will try to see how it works. One of my greatest problems will be getting the cook to add SALT to the water. Nothing is more tasteless than unsalted oatmeal. I will let you know next time how it comes out. One of my biggest problem on a vegetarian diet is protein. This morning during thought time (5 - 7 am) I suddenly thought of Protein Powder. I have been thinking of having rice with tomato soup for dinner but that lacks protein. Protein powder is readily available in India and so Sat morning I am going down to the pharmacy in the Picture Palace area (2 miles down) and look into Protein Powder and look at how the Insulin “Pens” work.

I have been taking short walks each day with Friday a total of 4, 1 long (to Lal Tibba) and 3 short ones. I had to eat 2 of my bananas before dinner to keep going. I been unable to get any emails because of server problems. The days are so long that each seems to last 3 or 4. I feel like I have been out of communication for a week but it has been only 3 days. With the stomach problems and the perpetual cold inside the house, time crawls (along with being sick). The only time I can sit n comfort is at 8pm for maybe 2 hours. There is a fire for the living room and last night I nearly burned my legs.

I took my first Video of my expedition Thursday. There is a rhododendron tree in the back yard and I took some beautiful footage. I discovered that I was using the wrong video tape and had to redo it the next morning.