Skin Care, Puzzle, Reading, Fire, Grilling

The ebb and flow of my eczema is extremely frustrating, just when it appears to be on the up swing I get an explosion of it again and find myself back to babying my skin to try and force it into healing. The Aveeno balm I am using is helping as it is keeping my skin moist for most of the day which is more than most anything else aside from petroleum jelly has been able to do.

The boys wanted to get a puzzle out so we got the tables setup and managed to get all the pieces sorted and the entire border built of the Mt. Everest image. I remember putting this together as a kid and remember it was rather difficult.

I had this book in my really old download folders and found it again recently. It is a full textbook I downloaded with the intense desire to actually learn but kept bumping against the financial issue so never started. Now I have a lot more impetus to read it.

I built the fire in the pit before dark and kept feeding it until I had enough coals to get the burgers on. We are into the warmer period now with the storms tracking from the south bringing in rain. It spit a little bit through the evening but the bulk of the system waited until this morning to hit.

We watched the end of the Kraken beat down of the Senators as they won 8-4. They are 3rd in the western conference and if they keep this up they could actually have a pretty good year.

After dinner the boys ended up finally earning their digital time after fighting cleaning even a tiny bit in their rooms. Since I can't soak with my skin this way I am having to be cautious with showers as I can't be scrubbing my eczema and can't have the water super warm. Once out I have only minutes to get my skin slathered with creams to lock in the moisture and keep it from devolving into a disgusting mess.

Today lots of sportsing will be going on on tv and I'll have some of it on while the rain continues to fall outside. I have been to town for the grain already and will be going out to empty the barrels in a little bit. I should make another batch of the protein tortillas to get us started on the week, and I have to do enough lessons in Duolingo to not get relegated to a lower league.