vote for our video

VOTE FOR OUR VIDEO

this is the video that ive posted before and that many of you have watched

the video was made by the alzheimers research center at the university of
texas southwestern medical center
it has been shown on multiple alzheimers websites and several federal websites
like the nih and on the huffington post

that is a picture of my mother who died with alzheimers disease
it also hit her husband my father and her youngest son my younger brother
and appears to have got me also

the video that was done about my story with possible alzheimers
has been entered in the neurofilm festival
the winner of the entries will get recognition
for their involvement with in our case
alzheimers disease education and advocacy

you can vote for the video
as thats how they determine which of the 70+ videos that are
entered this year will win

the winning video will be shown and recognition given at this
years american academy of neurology convention in
san diego

even among neurologists alzheimers patients are avoided
winning this award will help highlight this terrible disease to
this important group of specialists

if you like our video please go through these easy to follow steps to vote for us
click on  this link or go to www.patients.aan.com/go/about/neurofilmfestiv

its easy even i did it right the first time

after creating a user profile
an email is sent to your email account
click on activate your account
then
go to the 24th entry (they are in alphabetical order)

former physician takes action in the face of alzheimers

click on the name and watch the video if youve not seen it before
then
click vote

thats it
encourage people you know to help us spread the word on
alzheimers disease

thanks to all our friends family former patients readers of this blog
and those others we dont know but appreciate

the organicgreen doctor

tattoo fire ants yard care

TATTOO FIRE ANTS YARD CARE
tattoo
no i dont have a tattoo or plan to have one
this is in response to my recent blog
people wanted to me to show a picture of my tattoo
others asked me not to get a tattoo

only in my aricept dreams would i get a tattoo or
if i was in a drunken state or drug induced state
would i get one
neither of those activities i would do

maybe my wife she when i get more advanced in
my alzheimers could get me a tattoo
if she did or if i did it would look like this

maybe a wash off one would be better and less painful

fire ants
im always being asked how to get rid of fireants
this is what i do and it works well for me
its organic non toxic and cheap
i prefer not to use the baits or poisons thats sold at the
grocery stores or big box stores

i use instant grits
yes grits like you eat for breakfast especially in the south
although we never ate grits when we were growing up

i sprinkle uncooked grits on the mound and surrounding it
the theory is they feed them to the queen and she swells up
and dies
the fire ants seem to disappear from the area
sometimes i have to treat it 2 or 3 times
but
im able to keep them out of my garden
which they love to invade

then another treatment i heard of this week from someone
at habitat
he was talking to a lady at a lake park
she said you know how to control fire ants
no how


get some old red man chewing tobacco and sprinkle around
the mound
the worker ants take it down to the queen
she chews it
then when she has had enough she climbs to the top
onto the surface and spits
then you can step on her
works every time she said

yard care
i have weeds in my yard and my yard doesnt look good
i hear this all the time

those weeds were seeded in the fall
that was the time to treat them
bad news is there are spring seeds in your yard now
the only way to remove the weeds is to manually dig them
or just fertilize and mow your yard and let the grass out
compete the weeds

remember weed and feed and that bad stuff like that is not
good for the environment and doesnt really work here

the answer

apply corn gluten on your yard in october
this will stop the germination of the fall seeds
and you wont see the spring weeds growing
unless they are perennials which do not grow from seeds each year

apply it again now in february to inhibit the spring seeds
then manually dig what weeds grow

remember if you plan to plant any grass seeds dont use
corn gluten as the seed wont germinate

in the fall and spring-october and march/april-apply a 1/2 inch
of compost to your yard and water it in
then after youve mowed your yard twice in the spring
apply a organic fertilizer like
the ladybug 8-2-4 fertilizer

 or
medinas growing green fertilizer

dont use the commercial non organic fertilizer as they are a
source of pollution for our water systems

this is good as you can do for a yard

here is a link to the natuarl gardeners organic yard guide

or do like i did and landscape away all of your grass and
you dont have to deal with any of this

the organicgreen doctor

the p word

THE P WORD
whenever we get stuff out of our garden and i post
a picure here on this blog or
send it to my rainwater brother
i call it my garden p0eren
thats not a misprint

if i type in the real word
my blog gets overran with p0eren website searches
so i decided to call my garden produce
garden p0eren
hopefully to keep them from flooding my blog with perverts
looking for bad pictures

lets see if that works

remember the fall and the winter is the best time to garden
here in central texas
probably not so in the northern climates

this winter especially its been a good winter
since its so warm
we just need more rain

one problem is that the spinach broccoli and lettuce are starting
to bolt
which i never mind since the flowers on them produce a source
for bees and butterflies
my wife shes garden at her school is loaded with both

this is a broccoli from our garden
we eat it raw usually by itself or in a salad
the purple bracelet i have on is one
from the alzheimers association
advocating for their support

one benefit of this warm winter is that the asparagus is starting
to come up early
if youve never eaten asparagus organic of course right out of the
garden
you dont know how great a flavor it has
we almost never cook ours since it tastes so good
rarely does ours make it inside the house
this one didnt
the reason its so small is i ate the other half

this is a picture of my garden p0eren that we will be eating on for a few days
this is about 3ft x 3ft of produce
from left to right is
cabbage  asian greens  kale  rainbow swiss chard asian cabbage  and
yellow swiss chard

swiss chard and kale are two of the most nutritious veggies to plant
in your garden and may be the easiest to grow

these minus the cabbage will be rolled up like a cigar and trimmed
placed in a crockpot with chopped onions chopped garlic some salt and
pepper vinegar and brown sugar
its cooked for 6 hours on low
then served with cornbread and pepper sauce
that makes gardening worth it

this will make about 3 pots of greens which we will do on different days
the cabbage will be cooked separately

tomatoes grown in an organic garden especially heirloom varieties
have flavors that you cant get even if you buy organic ones at the store

the natural gardeners john dramgole and klbj 590 garden show host this
weekend talked about how to jump start their growth by 2 months

usually we start tomatoes in late march hoping to dodge the last frost
which always seems to get my tomatoes
then we are left with a short growing season before the hot summer
shuts down tomato production

here what he does at his place with a tweaking done by the ogd

i took cardboard cut the height of a 3 gallon garden container
a tomato plant
a hole dug the depth of the cardboard
a garden of rich soil amended with compost

the tomato is planted in the bottom of the hole surrounded
by the cardboard
then as the plant grows the cardboard is pulled up gradually
and more soil is added around the tomato plant
eventually the tomato after a few weeks will reach the surface of the
soil and the card board can be removed

then a 3 gallon garden container is used to sit over the tomato
plant and cardboard if cold weather arrives
this is covered with the white row cover or blanket or sheet
to protect it from freezing
when its warmer the container and row cover is removed

there are three cardboard tomatoes in this picture
one is covered with the container

the small black container thats buried in the ground
will be filled with compost water every two weeks during the
growing season
the compost water is made by putting good compost in a sock or
pillow case and soaking it in a 5 gallon bucket for two days
then its poured in the buried container
one is buried for every two tomatoes and are spaced 1.5 feet
from each plant

so thats how to get early ripe tomatoes in this strange central texas
weather we have

thats also how to produce good garden p0eren

the organicgreen doctor