Big Channel News + What’s Coming Next

Ajouté : 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Hi friends. I have so much to talk about. I'm just gonna just start right in. Okay. Number one, I just put a video out. Woodstock Country Shop. Very excited about that. Woodstock Country Shop has been closed now since March.

[00:00:15]Kathy and Carl, the original owners and founders of the store decided to retire.

[00:00:20]Imagine that. You know, like retirement, what is that? Anyway, they decided to retire and this wonderful couple came by and they are now opening the store.

[00:00:32]Today was the grand opening. Kathy and Carl are the farmer former owners and Kristen and Jesse are the new owner owners.

[00:00:41]I can't talk today.

[00:00:43]Anyway, go check out their video. They do not ship as of now, so don't call them and ask them to ship you something because they can't do that. but they will um sell it to you if you come into the store. So, please go over there and see them and meet them. It the store is wonderful. It's really really great. I think you're going to love it. So, that's the first thing. The second thing is I am working on so many great things for you and I'm going to get to the health thing down there, but right now I want to talk about some of the things I'm working on. You know, I have this channel, Early American Living. I am changing the name to An Clay Home. No big deal. It's just that whenever people ask me what my channel's called, they say uh AnClay something. So, I'm just going to turn it to An Clay Home because we are broadening the scope of what we're offering on the channel. And I think that that will be an easier uh name to understand and grab a hold of.

[00:01:42]So, we've got An Clay Home. I have Bellwood, which is my uh uh fantasy world where you can listen to some stories and you can listen to a whole bunch of really great original music.

[00:01:54]And then I have Stonewall Cottage 1779.

[00:01:57]That's a new channel that I've started.

[00:01:59]That is going to be more slow living.

[00:02:01]That's going to be the life that we live around the farm set to music, the beauty. It's it's made to relax you, just totally relax you. and and a lot of that music is going to be similar to the music you're going to find on Bellwood.

[00:02:15]That's all original music. You can't find that anywhere else. And we're starting another channel. I know. Can you believe it? But this channel started out of necessity. This channel is going to be called the Caretaker. And this is a channel for Tom. This is a channel for dudes like guys. Guys, this was my brother's idea. One day I was talking to him and he he was looking at I guess Stonewall Cottage and he said, "You know what you ought to do? You need a channel where you tape Tom as he's working around shirtless Tom as he often is. And he does so much around our property and our house. And you know, you buy a 1779 house, you really got to fix that thing." So, he has been doing that for the last nine years and some of his fixes are kind of unconventional and some of his fixes are pretty darn good.

[00:03:15]So, Tom is going to have his own channel called The Caretaker. As soon as it's up, I will let you know. Get your husbands to watch it. I think it's going to be a really good time.

[00:03:30]Sorry, I just had a dizzy spell, which I'll talk about my health in a minute. I think maybe it wasn't a good idea to come outside and do this. I think I'm going to go in cuz Oh, there's another one because um the light triggers migraines in me, but I'll talk about that in a few minutes.

[00:03:53]I'm going to change out my glasses here.

[00:03:56]I have these special light filtering glasses and that was bad though. That one just that one just hit and a full grown full-blown migraine came from it. I'm going to go sit in this dark room. I hope you don't mind. It's very dark and I'm just going to sit here and talk to you because it'll just be better. And no, I didn't make my bed today and you can see that but whatever. Okay.

[00:04:27]Um, all right.

[00:04:33]Shoot. That didn't happen yet today, and I was hoping it wasn't going to happen, but I have been sitting at the computer for an hour now, so it was bound to happen. All right, so here's the deal.

[00:04:43]Um, so we're starting the channel with Tom.

[00:04:47]Tom the caretaker. It'll be for the dudes, for the guys. I mean, you might want to watch it, too. I don't know. But we're going to watch Tom do stuff cuz my brother seems to think that guys like to watch guys do stuff around the house. I don't know, it makes them feel manly or something. I had these friends down in Florida once that I was visiting and they were trying to lose weight, both of them. So, they ordered like a Beach Body tape or something and they got it in the mail the day I was there and they popped it into the VCR. that's how old you know this is and watched it and I remember saying so how many calories are you burning while you're watching your VCR but yeah whatever anyway I think that guys might enjoy the channel too uh watching Tom do whatever it is Tom does so that is coming the caretaker that means I'm going to have four channels out there and I appreciate your support in that all right Now, um, on Saturday, I went to a place called Cog Shaw Farm, and it's owned by Old Sturbage Village, and they had a big sheep and wool festival, which was totally full of yarns and and fiber arts and stuff, very up my daughter Cammy's alley. She was the one who found it and wanted to go visit it. And I was game because it was a old colonial village and it was by the ocean which are the two big loves I have is ocean and old colonial stuff. So we went and we had a ball. So I'm working on a video to uh put out about that again. I have to edit it. So you know maybe next week. I'm looking at next Monday. Next Tuesday Laney and I are going out on a home tour. So, that will come out the following Monday morning at 9:00. And um I guess we will talk about my health.

[00:06:53]Here's the deal with my health. Thank you all for your prayers and support. Uh I am suffering again from migraines. And when I get migraines, it's not just a headache and it goes away. It's just something that stays chronic. It just stays. And it's this unwelcome guest that never leaves. So this is what happened that precipitated this. Basically, I um I had dryness in my eye and a lot of light sensitivity. So I don't I can't go to my doctor right now because she doesn't take you if you don't have insurance. And I don't have insurance.

[00:07:33]And so I went to a Walgreens, uh, which turned out to be the worst idea in the world because I ended up on a little iPad talking to some nurse practitioner who looked at my eye and totally overprescribed for me. And she ordered antibiotics and she ordered eye drops, which the eye drops were fine. That probably would have been all I needed. And she ordered a bunch of allergy medication, Flonese and um, Algra. It said, "Maybe you don't have your tear ducts aren't working here because you don't have um your you have a sinus infection," which I really didn't think I did, but I was kind of desperate at this point. So, I started taking antibiotics. But I have a very fragile system. I have something called MCCAST mass cell activation syndrome. I figured that out when I was carnivore. I still am carnivore, but I figured this out a couple years ago in my carnivore state as I was eliminating things from my diet. I figured out that I am just basically allergic to everything and my my system reacts to everything. So when you give antibiotics, um this was especially hard on my gut and it caused a lot of extra histamine in my system.

[00:08:51]Then my daughter came home with the worst cold in the world and wouldn't you know, I caught it. Uh, so I was three days on the antibiotics and I caught this awful, awful cold. This cold that I would never want to repeat. It was just a killer cold. Um, my whole family caught it. We were miserable. Absolutely miserable. So, I'm on antibiotics which are making me sick. They're making me tired. And the cold made me miserable.

[00:09:16]And right during that time I started getting these vestibule um vestibular migraines which are you you don't always your head doesn't always hurt with a vestibular migraine but you get this dizziness. You get this like you feel like you're going down a hill. You're you feel this activity in your head and it feels like you're dropping and you're going to faint or you're going to die of something or you're stroking out. you don't even know what it is and it's terrifying. And it started once or twice a day and it just started to grow and grow and grow. So um I already couldn't do anything because I was sick in bed with the cold and with the fatigue from the um antibiotics. But once I uh started with these vestibular migraines, I was just totally knocked out. I couldn't even walk. I couldn't see. and a light started entering my eyes and that light would cause an immediate in my head and then a very painful episode of migraine. Now migraine is all different things. It can be like you can be foggy. Um it really knocks you out though. It's it's really debilitating especially the dizziness kind. So I have been struggling with that for quite a while which means I can't look at the computer. Um, if I can't look at the computer, I can't edit my videos. The videos don't get out there. Um, if I'm dizzy, I can't film because I can't even walk around because I'm literally like, it's awful. It's awful. So, anyway, that is why I sent out that little notice that I'm not doing videos right now cuz I am really sick. Uh we had a really great home tour scheduled for you and unfortunately uh we were um I had to I had to postpone because I couldn't even walk. I was so dizzy. Uh everything was going wrong with me. I didn't want to get the owner sick. So um so that right now has kind of fallen through. So um but here's the deal. During all this time, I've been so uh careful about light in my eyes. So, I got these um these are special light filters from online that help just filter out the lights that could cause me to have another dizziness episode.

[00:11:48]And during this time, I went to the eye doctor. So, like at the end of my cold, I had an eye doctor's appointment, my yearly checkup, and I told her, "I'm always closing this eye. I get dizzy from this eye all the time. I can't drive because the light is so strong in this eye. I can't handle it." So, uh, she didn't tell me anything. She just said, "Oh." And I said, "Why is this eye so dry?" And she said, "Well, I'm assuming you've been through menopause, that's why." So, I was like, "Oh."

[00:12:19]So, I looked up online about getting a filter that would be good on the computer um that would filter out the harmful light.

[00:12:30]And uh sorry, I just had another one.

[00:12:35]Dang.

[00:12:37]Um okay, so I looked I have my eyes closed right now. I went online and I um looked for something called Avalux or something like that and there was only one place that sold that film over your prescription glasses. You had to go to an eyeglass store. So I looked it up. It was a half hour away in Worcester and I thought, "Okay, well I'm going to go."

[00:13:04]Right? So I went there. I picked out a pair of glasses I liked. I gave them my prescription numbers. uh she figured out the cost and she said $1,300 and I was like what?

[00:13:19]$1,300h.

[00:13:23]So she looked at me and and mind you this is a younger woman who uh has only worked in the office a few months. Very clever. And she says, "Did your eye doctor send you here?" And I said, "No."

[00:13:40]She said, 'Well, why are you getting those that film over your glasses?' And I said, ' Because I have terrible migraines and I need to be able to sit on the computer and work because that is what I do for a living. And she said, "But you might have something else wrong with you." And I'm like, "Like what?"

[00:13:55]And she said, "You might need prism glasses. Uh you might have binocular vision, you know. Um did your doctor check you for binocular vision?" And I said, "What's that? I never heard of that before. I never heard of prism glasses. I don't even know what you're talking about. And she's like, yeah, our doctors check for that stuff. She goes, you need a new doctor. And I'm like, I thought I had a really good doctor. Um, but they never ever mentioned binocular vision or prism glasses.

[00:14:28]And uh basically the upshot is if you have some this kind of vision um you are working too hard to work on the computer. So you're on the computer and your eyes are fixing in the distance and your eyes are not fixing on the computer and what's happening is you are straining you are hurting your neck you are drying out your eyes. You are causing headaches and migraines by working on the computer. And for me, my headaches and my ga grains get treated by foods. They get triggered by histamine and they also get triggered by my computer work and also some bad neck problems. So, I have a lot of reasons that they get triggered.

[00:15:11]Um, but I'm down to eating just salmon and beef. Like, I am eating nothing anymore. So, she said, "Well, if I were you, I would make an appointment with our eye doctors and have them check you because you don't want to pay $1,300 for a pair of glasses that aren't even going to work for you." And so, I called my husband over and I'm like, "Yeah, what do you think?" And he goes, "Yeah, that's true." So, I made an appointment.

[00:15:37]The appointment was for August because they're so busy. And I was like, "How am I going to make it till August?" Well, they called me the next day with cancellation. I was on the cancellation list. They called me the next day. I got in and they said, "Well, um I mean they called me the next day and I got in for it would have been today." And then on Wednesday, I was actually typing into my phone, "I wish I could get in earlier. I need to go in earlier. This is driving me crazy." And uh just then they called me and they got me in on Wednesday. So, long story short, I had binocular vision, which I totally suspected. and they ordered me prism glasses. So, I'm going to have prism glasses with a filter over them to help me on the computer. So, what I have to do is get rid of these migraines. I thought today I hadn't had one yet. So, I was like, "This is good." And now I just had three of those dizzy spells when I was talking to you because I'm on a screen.

[00:16:41]So what happens with migraines is that you your head you can just get in this pattern and I happen to be in a pattern and once I get a migraine I can't get rid of them. They last like a year and a half. So those of you who gave me suggestions, thank you. I have upped my magnesium and I will try the salt under the tongue. I do use um electrolytes. So, I use a lot of electrolytes, which is high salt, and drink a lot of water.

[00:17:14]But what I'm learning is that I also have to learn how to calm myself down.

[00:17:20]So, that means no stress. I can't have stress, whether it's self-imposed stress or stress from out there. Any kind of conflict, any kind of expectations will stress me out. And so I have to learn to uh self give myself some nice selft talk and calm myself down and take care of myself. So I think that that means that after I finish this video and get it out, I'm going to stop working for the day. Uh so that I can rest and try to get rid of this migraine that just came on. It was so weird because I feel it going in my eye. my eye activates. I get this ripple over my forehead. I get dizzy. I almost faint and then a pain goes right up here. Oh, it's terrible.

[00:18:10]All right. So, and I know it's not something like a brain tumor because I had an MRI in November. So, anyway, um so that's the that's the deal with my health. So sometimes I might be feeling good and I'll get a lot out and other times I'm struggling with migraines and I cannot go near the computer and I kind of am not on the computer. So that's that's why uh you won't see some things up some weeks and you will see some things up some other weeks. Uh, but I do have a library of about 900 videos, so you can totally work your way through there. And some of them are fun. Like they're like nine years ago when Tom and I, well, I started it, but Tom was helping me out. We started the channel and we did this thing called Chasing the Dream. And it was all about fixing up our farmhouse. And uh, then eventually it turned into decorating the farmhouse.

[00:19:14]And then eventually it turned into what are the appropriate decorations for the farmhouse um because it's built in the 1700s and things just went from there. And then um then here we are today. So that's the deal. That's the deal with my health. I want to thank you all for watching. Uh sorry this was so long, but it's kind of a complicated thing. So I am getting the prism glasses in a couple weeks.

[00:19:44]And I am really hoping that they are a gamecher for me. I am really hoping that I can get rid of this round of migraines and then not reactivate them at all. So that's the deal. Thank you guys for watching. I love you all if you stayed to the end. Oh my goodness, you are a super fan. So thank you for that. and enjoy the Woodstock Country shop video. And also uh look for the video on Monday about our uh our little trip to Cogshell Farm. It was pretty interesting. Okay, we'll see you later.

[00:20:26]Bye.