So yesterday, a 200 lb buck busted through a plate glass window at the Fifth Third Bank in Bustling Downtown Wapakoneta Ohio.
The deer apparently saw his own reflection, and took it as a challenge.
Police Chief David Webb is quoted by WIMA's Mike Miller as saying " He was there to get a little Doe".
I love this town.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Its that Time of Year... New Moon, New garden Begun!
Well its a new moon and that means planting time!
Well, I built my "seedubator" in the basement It was a simple table , that I have enclosed in aluminum foil, with a hanging florescent and several regular incancdescent lights for heat.
Makes me dizzy to put my head in there while I'm working!
Here are the seeds....
so far, I have planted in
Basil
Broccoli
Cabbage
Summer Squash Yellow
Summer Squash green
Celery
Rosemary
Onions
Lavendar
Lemon balm
4 kinds of Tomatoes
Eggplant
Cantelope.
Thats so far, anyway.
So when its all watered and done, I close up the black plastic curtain to keep the heat in. The timer is set for 15 hours of light per day, I may bump that to 16 when they have sprouted.
After this, when we have some good plants, they will be moved to a cold frame during the day for hardening.
I'll take pictures of the sprouts sooner than later, I hope!
Well, I built my "seedubator" in the basement It was a simple table , that I have enclosed in aluminum foil, with a hanging florescent and several regular incancdescent lights for heat.
Makes me dizzy to put my head in there while I'm working!
Here are the seeds....
so far, I have planted in
Basil
Broccoli
Cabbage
Summer Squash Yellow
Summer Squash green
Celery
Rosemary
Onions
Lavendar
Lemon balm
4 kinds of Tomatoes
Eggplant
Cantelope.
Thats so far, anyway.
So when its all watered and done, I close up the black plastic curtain to keep the heat in. The timer is set for 15 hours of light per day, I may bump that to 16 when they have sprouted.
After this, when we have some good plants, they will be moved to a cold frame during the day for hardening.
I'll take pictures of the sprouts sooner than later, I hope!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Look Out Amish Tourist Traps...
Here comes the FLDS!!! http://www.fldscrafts.com/index.php?cPath=57
So the FLDS, those hotties with the shark fin hairdos, now are selling their unique fashion sense and taste in crafts and home furnishings to us all via the Interwebz.
Not the toilet paper holder. Now you too can wipe your ass like Warren Jeffs! And dont' forget your door silencer, so no one hears the door slam when you go it to the commode to do your business!
So the FLDS, those hotties with the shark fin hairdos, now are selling their unique fashion sense and taste in crafts and home furnishings to us all via the Interwebz.
Not the toilet paper holder. Now you too can wipe your ass like Warren Jeffs! And dont' forget your door silencer, so no one hears the door slam when you go it to the commode to do your business!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
For The New Mother
note : I wrote this for a friend of mine's daughter, who just had a baby boy today. Someday, I'll rework this for my own daughter. Feel free to use it for any first time mom.
(cheezy picture of a super baby)
And yes, he really is that. He is a Super Baby. they all are. you know why? Because they perform a miracle by coming into this world. Not just the miracle of life itself, but another on top of it: They force us women, and men should they choose to accept it, to become adults. I say this not to be sexist... but a man can walk away from a pregnancy not remembering what even happened to create it. A woman will, no matter what kind of parent she is, never ever forgets carrying that child in her body, whether its just a few months ending in miscarriage or termination by " choice" or, as you have now done, the whole nine yards.
You are, now and for the rest of eternity, Kingston's Mom. No matter what happens from this day forth, if you both are living or not, you are no longer Jess, but Kingston's Mom, Jess. In fact, chances are it won't be more than 2 years before you hear yourself frequently referred to "Mrs Kingston's Mom" and you will realize you have no name to these small people, except that.
This is going to change you, at your core, for better or for worse. You will, and at a fairly scary pace now, start to loose yourself to the rollercoaster of parenthood. You will stop caring about some things... and start caring about things that 5 years ago you never dreamed of even noticing. Time will distort and bend and change, you will find yourself yelling at a 6 year old boy exactly what your mother yelled at you, and one day, you will look in your own eyes on a man taller than you in a graduation cap and realize that woman in the mirror is not your mother, but you. Its going to come on fast and furious and it doesn't let up, ever.
I may be scaring you... but this is the natural way of life, more natural than any plant or herb ( I favor thyme myself ; ) or animal or action. You are now immersed in a fast and furious river and your goal is to get your child to the end of it fully whole and grown. This river WILL take the life you know out of you, but it will give you so much more than you ever could dream of.
You must be equal to the challenge. Evaluate your life and the things in it. What makes you a stronger parent? What makes you a weaker one? Some things will get washed downstream, others will keep you floating. Only you will know which is which. Sometimes the advice of the person you love the most is the worst, and the advice of someone you'd just as soon strangle right now is right. Look at them all, and weight them in your child's eyes.
Listen to your mother, Jess... and please don't stop reading here... but your mother has walked this road and will be the most valuable source of information you have when it comes to midnight colic, brands of diapers, choice of preschools, how to deal with the bullies, and is midget football ok at age 6. She will also be an invaluable friend the day that a beautiful young girl with a gleam in her eyes takes your prince away from you to start this process all over again.
Our children... yours, mine, and the other parents of minors out there, are in dangerous times in this country. Whether you sing "400 years" 'Whats so Funny about Peace Love and Understanding" or 'Proud to be an American" we all want the same things for our kids...just like Nan and Jim do for you - and that is to be happy, healthy, free and fulfilled. We just disagree on how to get there... and there are those who would see our children become their slaves. We can't let that happen. We must teach our children somehow, someway to respect the differences while celebrating the commonality, to do their best, and to love one another. Some of us find that easier with a God, some with a philosophy... but we all want the best for them.
In my mother's dying breath, she counted down where each of her children were. That was her last thought- to put herself at ease that we were safe and cared for. It is that legacy you are now entering.. the all consuming, all encompassing role of Mother.
Welcome To The Club.
(cheezy picture of a super baby)
And yes, he really is that. He is a Super Baby. they all are. you know why? Because they perform a miracle by coming into this world. Not just the miracle of life itself, but another on top of it: They force us women, and men should they choose to accept it, to become adults. I say this not to be sexist... but a man can walk away from a pregnancy not remembering what even happened to create it. A woman will, no matter what kind of parent she is, never ever forgets carrying that child in her body, whether its just a few months ending in miscarriage or termination by " choice" or, as you have now done, the whole nine yards.
You are, now and for the rest of eternity, Kingston's Mom. No matter what happens from this day forth, if you both are living or not, you are no longer Jess, but Kingston's Mom, Jess. In fact, chances are it won't be more than 2 years before you hear yourself frequently referred to "Mrs Kingston's Mom" and you will realize you have no name to these small people, except that.
This is going to change you, at your core, for better or for worse. You will, and at a fairly scary pace now, start to loose yourself to the rollercoaster of parenthood. You will stop caring about some things... and start caring about things that 5 years ago you never dreamed of even noticing. Time will distort and bend and change, you will find yourself yelling at a 6 year old boy exactly what your mother yelled at you, and one day, you will look in your own eyes on a man taller than you in a graduation cap and realize that woman in the mirror is not your mother, but you. Its going to come on fast and furious and it doesn't let up, ever.
I may be scaring you... but this is the natural way of life, more natural than any plant or herb ( I favor thyme myself ; ) or animal or action. You are now immersed in a fast and furious river and your goal is to get your child to the end of it fully whole and grown. This river WILL take the life you know out of you, but it will give you so much more than you ever could dream of.
You must be equal to the challenge. Evaluate your life and the things in it. What makes you a stronger parent? What makes you a weaker one? Some things will get washed downstream, others will keep you floating. Only you will know which is which. Sometimes the advice of the person you love the most is the worst, and the advice of someone you'd just as soon strangle right now is right. Look at them all, and weight them in your child's eyes.
Listen to your mother, Jess... and please don't stop reading here... but your mother has walked this road and will be the most valuable source of information you have when it comes to midnight colic, brands of diapers, choice of preschools, how to deal with the bullies, and is midget football ok at age 6. She will also be an invaluable friend the day that a beautiful young girl with a gleam in her eyes takes your prince away from you to start this process all over again.
Our children... yours, mine, and the other parents of minors out there, are in dangerous times in this country. Whether you sing "400 years" 'Whats so Funny about Peace Love and Understanding" or 'Proud to be an American" we all want the same things for our kids...just like Nan and Jim do for you - and that is to be happy, healthy, free and fulfilled. We just disagree on how to get there... and there are those who would see our children become their slaves. We can't let that happen. We must teach our children somehow, someway to respect the differences while celebrating the commonality, to do their best, and to love one another. Some of us find that easier with a God, some with a philosophy... but we all want the best for them.
In my mother's dying breath, she counted down where each of her children were. That was her last thought- to put herself at ease that we were safe and cared for. It is that legacy you are now entering.. the all consuming, all encompassing role of Mother.
Welcome To The Club.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Neil Armstrong Portraits have been Recovered!
WAPAKONETA -- The police chief in Neil Armstrong's Ohio hometown says three portraits of the astronaut stolen from the local post office have been recovered.
Wapakoneta Chief David Webb would not say Thursday how police found the print and two enlarged photographs of Armstrong, who became the first person to walk on the moon in 1969. Webb says the pictures have been put back up and authorities have identified a suspect. No charges have been filed.
Employees arriving for work Monday noticed the images of Armstrong were missing at the post office in Wapakoneta, about 50 miles north of Dayton.
Postmaster Jennifer Shoup said someone apparently ran off with the portraits from the unlocked lobby sometime on Friday.
© 2009 The Associated PressOK, so who is the mystery man from Wapakoneta that is stealing Neil? Is it some college kid pulling a prank? The derranged son or daughter of one of the town fathers? Inquiring minds want to know !!!
I swear, this town has secrets. They whisper to me when I walk past certain houses on the wealthier streets, once in technicolor chalk on the sidewalk in front of the Adam's Family house, where some erstwhile demon or demonette had scrawled " Satan Loves Me" sending a slightly jarring note of Halloween on what was an othewise picture perfect day.
A friend of mine used to live in Lima. Now granted, he is a bona fide tin foil hatter... but he told me that there were satanists in this town, not the piddly little wiccan kind but the big fat goat sacrificing, baby eating kind.
After all, we DO have the biggest Halloween Parad in all of NW Ohio.
And if there are Satanists in this town, the head honcho must live in the Adams Family House.. where I found the shiny happy stoner teenaged scrawl.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Debt.
I have come to fully believe that Debt is the cause of every blessed thing we are facing in America right now in terms of the financial issue. To be willing to use a card to pay for things you haven't earned is beyond the pale of wrong, and to have a whole system built on it is nothing short of national suicide. And it looks like we are dying.
Consider the old days. You couldn't eat something till it grew and you cooked it. If you grew fat, it was because of a real abundance, not a 25K credit limit deluding you into thinking you could go into the best restaurant in town and eat a steak.
We buy cars on debt, we buy homes on debt. The second market is in collapse and the first is getting there fast. People are turning against debt. Dave Ramsey, who advocates the destruction of the credit business, is a national figure with his own talk show and radio show a series of webinars and books. He advocates doing a " plasectomy" and cutting up those credit cards.
I have to agree with him. They are a trap. They are designed to be a trap. And the men who designed them are now living off our taxpayer dollars, in the form of Bailout money.
Ladies and gentlemen, I urge you TODAY to make a decision to stop using plastic. It might cost you some THING you want or even need, but suck it up and do without that latte, that new dress, that CD. If your car needs repairs and you can't pay with real money, find another way to work till you can. In my case, I am putting off dental work till I can pay CASH not plastic. I am working 7 days a week and trying to make myself do more hours in the days.
Overcome your emotions. They are evil things, they lead you to buy when you should save, spend when you should not, treat yourself when in no way can you afford it - which means you dont deserve it - and value yourself too highly.
Consider the old days. You couldn't eat something till it grew and you cooked it. If you grew fat, it was because of a real abundance, not a 25K credit limit deluding you into thinking you could go into the best restaurant in town and eat a steak.
We buy cars on debt, we buy homes on debt. The second market is in collapse and the first is getting there fast. People are turning against debt. Dave Ramsey, who advocates the destruction of the credit business, is a national figure with his own talk show and radio show a series of webinars and books. He advocates doing a " plasectomy" and cutting up those credit cards.
I have to agree with him. They are a trap. They are designed to be a trap. And the men who designed them are now living off our taxpayer dollars, in the form of Bailout money.
Ladies and gentlemen, I urge you TODAY to make a decision to stop using plastic. It might cost you some THING you want or even need, but suck it up and do without that latte, that new dress, that CD. If your car needs repairs and you can't pay with real money, find another way to work till you can. In my case, I am putting off dental work till I can pay CASH not plastic. I am working 7 days a week and trying to make myself do more hours in the days.
Overcome your emotions. They are evil things, they lead you to buy when you should save, spend when you should not, treat yourself when in no way can you afford it - which means you dont deserve it - and value yourself too highly.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Faith
from
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/04/conservative-groups-declare-obamas-stimulus-war-prayer/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/04/conservative-groups-declare-obamas-stimulus-war-prayer/
Ok then. I don't think this comes as a real surprise. We knew the Democrats, Obama, ect, would all be against faith, particularly Christianity. However, I didn't think they would act so quickly to begin to make Christianity, if not illegal, impossible to continue in the form we currently know it as.
Christians know that persecution is nothing new. However, I have to wonder if Christians in America today can handle it. For so long, we have had it so good. Many of the people who sit in the pews of a Sunday Morning would not hesitate to drop a dime on their God if not doing so meant loosing their jobs, homes, or families. I'll be honest, I would protect my family over my ability to be public about any faith. Perhaps that makes me a blasphemer, an infidel, destined for hell, but the safety of my daughter and family comes before my ideals. I don't know if that is a character flaw or if its sensible.
As I watch the sunshine of God's blessing receding from our land, I worry. I am sure I am part of the problem: There are those who would say I have, by being willing to disobey on certain points to protect my family, elevated the family to idol status, and have lost my salvation becuase of that. I don't agree, but what's an opinon besides a bag of elbows? Whether a mass scale return to obediance on the part of believers in this country would keep the wolves of recession and social unrest from our doors remains to be seen, but I guarentee it won't happen that way. What WILL happen is that as the Believers become hyper obediant and inherently start to hyper scrutinze each other, the country will polarize more than it already is, which can only lead to war.
Several states have already published, or re-released, manifestos as it were for abandoning the United States Union should certain constitutional privisios be upturned. The day is coming fast when we shall see states or even parts of states become unsafe for some types.. all the hippies move to Frisco, all the Mormons move back to Utah, ect
Where will we go, what shall we eat, how shall we live? Will God take care of the sparrows, or will the sparrows have to prove their faith by REAL suffering and dying?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Delicious Crockpot Chicken Stew
You'll need
1 fryer chicken
1 pack boneless skinless breasts
1 back bonless skinless thighs
1 pack of carrots
about 4 stalks of celery
2 1b bags of noodles.
onion powder
garlic powder
freshly ground pepper
sage
salt
Lipton Easy Recipies Onion Soup Mix
1 bottle of spring water
In a 6 quart crock pot, put the fryer in with some salt and fill to the top with water. Cover, cook on high for 8 hours. This makes delicious broth with no fuss.
Once you have separated the broth from the bones and scrap meat, put the broth back in the crockpot ( I don't defat... that makes for a richer and more satisfying stew) with chopped carrot, celery, and spices. Cook on high untill the broth reaches the temperature of 200 ( if you have a probe crockpot) or untill its bubbling around the edges.
meanwhile, roast the boneless skinless breasts and thighs, after cutting into small chunks,
in the oven, sprinkle with the onion soup mix.
When the broth reaches 200, put the noodles in. When the meat is roasted, add it to the mix.
Let cook on low overnight. Keep on Warm till your family devours it.
1 fryer chicken
1 pack boneless skinless breasts
1 back bonless skinless thighs
1 pack of carrots
about 4 stalks of celery
2 1b bags of noodles.
onion powder
garlic powder
freshly ground pepper
sage
salt
Lipton Easy Recipies Onion Soup Mix
1 bottle of spring water
In a 6 quart crock pot, put the fryer in with some salt and fill to the top with water. Cover, cook on high for 8 hours. This makes delicious broth with no fuss.
Once you have separated the broth from the bones and scrap meat, put the broth back in the crockpot ( I don't defat... that makes for a richer and more satisfying stew) with chopped carrot, celery, and spices. Cook on high untill the broth reaches the temperature of 200 ( if you have a probe crockpot) or untill its bubbling around the edges.
meanwhile, roast the boneless skinless breasts and thighs, after cutting into small chunks,
in the oven, sprinkle with the onion soup mix.
When the broth reaches 200, put the noodles in. When the meat is roasted, add it to the mix.
Let cook on low overnight. Keep on Warm till your family devours it.
Yes You Can!
Rebake an apple pie.
My Dutch Apple Crumb was woefully undercooked.. so after my work shift, I put it back in at a 400 oven for 20 minutes and its GOOD! I'm really surprised! My daughter is a sucker for the delicious crumb topping, and she has been eating it like its going to dissapear tonight, I am most gratified!
My Dutch Apple Crumb was woefully undercooked.. so after my work shift, I put it back in at a 400 oven for 20 minutes and its GOOD! I'm really surprised! My daughter is a sucker for the delicious crumb topping, and she has been eating it like its going to dissapear tonight, I am most gratified!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Apple Pie Meditations
So, I am working on the perfect apple pie.
My family likes it soft... no chewy chunks of fruit... and spicy, so we use nutmeg in it, like a McDonalds pie. now, I have my own home canned apple chunks that I'm using for filling. Thing is I'm likely to run out of those before I perfect my pie, and I suspect that the type of apple you use has a lot to do with the price of rice here.
so far, I take about 3 pints of my home canned , home grown apples ( green and red.. not sure what kinds they were) and I put in three tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 cups of sugar, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of nutmeg and one of ginger, a dash of salt, a cup of flour and 3 tbls of cornstarch. its like Apple spice pudding when I get through with it. I mash the mixture a touch with a potato masher.
I am at the moment, experimenting with a rebake. A dutch apple I made today came out half baked, due to my pre historic oven and probably the density of the crumb topping. I'll let you all know how the rebake goes.
My family likes it soft... no chewy chunks of fruit... and spicy, so we use nutmeg in it, like a McDonalds pie. now, I have my own home canned apple chunks that I'm using for filling. Thing is I'm likely to run out of those before I perfect my pie, and I suspect that the type of apple you use has a lot to do with the price of rice here.
so far, I take about 3 pints of my home canned , home grown apples ( green and red.. not sure what kinds they were) and I put in three tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 cups of sugar, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of nutmeg and one of ginger, a dash of salt, a cup of flour and 3 tbls of cornstarch. its like Apple spice pudding when I get through with it. I mash the mixture a touch with a potato masher.
I am at the moment, experimenting with a rebake. A dutch apple I made today came out half baked, due to my pre historic oven and probably the density of the crumb topping. I'll let you all know how the rebake goes.
Monday, February 2, 2009
I'm Alive!
Well here i am, I nearly puked my guts out the other night and I have not felt like writing. Today is a better day though, its warm and I have had a visit from my purple finch! Nice to know he is OK. I also have had a visit from my squirrel, and a neighborhood cat who has grown up significantly.
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