Peppers and Craving the Sun

I find myself craving the sunlight these days, and after a few days of grey fog, Nature has obliged me with a bright and cold afternoon.

I have been told that a vitamin D deficiency will result in a craving for sunlight, as well as muscle cramps. I am busted on both accounts. One day my husband came home early from work to find me laying on the kitchen floor on a mat, just so I could soak up the sunlight streaming through the kitchen window,  in a feline stupor.  I love our house but it lacks sunlight, a serious problem in my book. A new house is being built on the lot behind ours, and I am fearful it will take away my morning light at the bedroom desk or on the "Sun Porch". Will I survive? I don't know.

As I said, I've been suffering from awful muscle cramps in the last few months. They wake me at night, silently screaming in pain, struggling to get out of bed and  walk it out without waking my husband.  I had read once that being dehydrated will cause muscle cramps, or a lack of potassium, but a co-worker informs me it is also caused by a lack of Vitamin D.  I drink water, I doubt I lack potassium, but during the winter months I am told it is difficult for we who live in the "northern latitudes" to get enough sun on our skin.  So I hope the Vitamin D supplements I bought will help until the Sun inches closer in the sky and I can catch some rays.

In this neck of the woods, it's still winter, folks.

Comments

[Fer Guimaraes Rosa]

Andrea, this picture looks like a painting.
I love these beautiful sunny [cold] winter days! :-)
I hope now you get better from the cramps...