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The Art of the Fart - Oh My!!!

OK - I know that is a pretty disturbing title.  But, oh my GOSH!!!!  I am bloated!!!!  Honestly, with as much hot air that has been leaving me, I don't know why I don't have a string attached to my feet and I'm floating along instead of walking.  Honestly, what the heck?!??!??!

I don't know what is causing it - but I'm truly a fart machine.  Now, honestly, I know it's the diet.  I know it's what I'm eating.  But, I'm not really sure what the culprit is.

My food intake is a lot of veggies and fruits.  Fruits have become my passion.  And I'm eating a lot of them.   And to make it worse, my favorite has been cherries.  I have been eating them like they are candy.  And since it's the last part of the cherry crop, I've been buying them a lot.  Like a bag a day or every other day.  I was doing this knowing I really wouldn't get any more until next summer.

Now - I've never been a crazy cherry eater.  I liked them ok, but didn't have to have them.  This summer has been a whole different story.  Holy cow!!!  But they have been so delicious.  I haven't even wanted candy or anything really sweet, because I have fruit!!!!

Then you add on the cucumbers.  I have planted a garden for the first time in about twenty years.  I have not had a lot of luck with it so far.  I'm just starting to get tomatoes that don't have bottom rot.  I'm kind of plucking them a little earlier than I should, because if I don't the bottom turns black for some reason. These plants are humongous!!!  But, they don't have a whole lot of fruit on them.  Lots on the bottom, but the blossoms on the top have not been producing.  I have two chili pepper plants - one is the saddest thing ever and the other one is big and producing a few chilies.  Pretty excited to
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see how those turn out.  Then there are the cucumbers.  One day I just started having fully grown cucumbers and I don't know where they came from.  And they keep coming.  But, they've been soooo bitter.  And I'm forcing myself to eat these bitter, bitter cucumbers - because I grew them!!!  And I'm so happy to have my garden producing something that I refuse not to eat them.  So - I have some homework to do before I winterize it up when it's all done and even more homework before I plant next year.

I don't know what is causing me to feel like a huge balloon of hot air.  And no matter how much I fart, it doesn't fix it.  There is still more air to come out.  But - I do know this.  I'm down 18 pounds.  I feeling better.  Clothes are fitting.  Hopefully, my body will adjust to whatever it is that is causing the bloating and distention in my gut and I can continue eating the yummy food that I'm craving.
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