Tis Quiet

TIS GENTLY RAINING.  Please, no thunder.  It's really quiet in the house as I am typing a post.  Staying up late after watching a couple of movies with some of my GRANDS.  They are camping out on the living room floor.  Plenty of pillows, soft blankets and bedrolls.  NICE to have them spend the night.  Both asleep and so is my Husband.  Catching a quiet moment to blog.  

My Honey made his famous Chili Nachos and purchased some A&W Root Beer that was made at the restaurant.  Really good root beer.  His Nachos are a favorite in our family which made our Friday night just right for them.  

THE FIRST movie we watched was BFG.  BIG FRIENDLY GIANT.  The graphics are outstanding.  We all enjoyed the food and movie.

THEN we watched ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.  I asked the kids which of the two movies they liked the best and they both agreed on BFG.  I have to agree.

MY WEEK flew as I can hardly believe EASTER was last week.  I pop a malt-ball in my mouth from time to time.  Foiled wrapped Chocolate Kisses is another favorite.  Skipping the jelly beans makes room for comfort.  Made Deviled Eggs to take to a MEAL.  Easter candy all delivered to Grands.  The HOME decoration bunnies are slowly finding their way back into lime green storage tubs that will migrate to the cellar.  

He is risen.  He is risen INDEED.

I finally ran the vacuum today in just the Living room.  The Dining room is cluttered full of boxes and things that have to disappear.  My week was busy with clearing out the rock house garage.  We are sooooo close to calling it done.  Soooooo close.  There will be a sigh of relief heard across the Flint Hills when it is done.  DONE.

A HUGE TASK as you would have to have been there to believe how much has been shuffled out.  I am finishing up going through ancient magazines of MARTHA STEWART's LIVING.  The oldest one I found was dated from the 80's.  I have arrived.  I finally am throwing away my stash of LIVING.  Perhaps I should take the magazines to a NURSING HOME.  Better think about that one for a minute.  I do try to be resourceful and recycling these might be a better course of action.

The magazines start to get heavy in their boxes.  Awful heavy.  It is a freeing moment to say I downsized my STASH of magazines.  Swish.  Two points.

We'll have to take a break, catch our breath THEN forge ahead.  Going through newly returned boxes will be like CHRISTMAS presents.  A SURPRISE IN EVERY BOX.

My dishes, crystal, nic-nacs, pictures, suitcases and everything SERVICE MASTER took to clean will be finding their way back into our hands next week.  I've missed my THINGS.  I sometimes get HOME SICK for the rock house.  Like losing a very good friend.  sigh.  Time and prayer will surely help and I will be just fine.  HAPPY MEMORIES of when we use to live there. 

I wasn't ready to leave my HOME, but had to.  This one at least.  My present HOME really is a PRESENT.  A gift to still be alive and a gift to design a new HOME.  Where I now hang my hat.  A new thing has taken place.  Get ready, set, go.

Next step in FIRE RECOVERY will be to tidy this small cottage a little more, trash what came back as SMOKEYS, and then next week our personal effects that were taken 6 months ago will be returning in boxes.  We'll receive them and then comes the delightful task of opening the boxes, documenting items that came back alright and rejoicing of their return.  I'll have to keep so much of the dishes in boxes until the WOOD FURNITURE returns. 

Photographing items for new inventory will be a must.  I am still taking notes on what was damaged from our HOME FIRE.  This will be on going for awhile.  Still hunting for Living room furniture and Bedroom furniture.

STILL WORKING on this thing as it is very time consuming.  THANKING GOD for everything that was saved.

The flowers are blooming and this makes me smile.  

LOVE the flowers.  Came across geranium care in which I needed to read again.

http://homehavenministry.blogspot.com/2012/04/geranium-care.html

Purchased some tiny geraniums and patio tomatoes.  Next comes potting geraniums in our new location.  Going white and pink.  I moved two geraniums that wintered in RETIREMENT COTTAGE.  Placed them on the porch just today.  HOPE they make it.  Potting soil made it HOME.  So I will make haste getting these planted to beautify our tiny porch.

CHURCH PEW UPDATE:  We have a church pew that we've owned for about 23 years that was bought in Hillsboro, KS from a church that was remodeling.  Replacing their sturdy and true pews for chairs.  I did not understand why they did this, but hey it was theirs to do with as they wanted.  I suppose so they could clear out the chairs and use the room for multipurpose activities?    

It took 23 years to downsize our church pew, but it happened for such a time as this.  Husband did the cutting down of our 9' Oak Church Pew.  She's a tiny 4 footer now days.  

I don't recommend putting off too many projects, but it all worked out for us.  Having this cut down has made my heart sing.  One day, this pew will go into the Utility room so there will be a sitting area to put boots on, etc.  Doll up the Utility room.  

LAST TUESDAY EARLY MORNING, I believe I had a gallbladder attack of the mean kind.  It lasted about an hour.  I was about to go to the HOSPITAL but upchucked nine times and sat on the floor feeling better.  Took it easy.  Read up on natural remedies to stopping gallbladder attacks.

I am drinking lemon water, V8 with fiber added, apple cider vinegar in apple juice.  It's helping.  I pray it continues to help.  

Well, that's the skinny.  Busy with RETIREMENT COTTAGE.  Soon I'll be sitting on the porch swing sipping' iced tea.  That will be the day.

May you have a blessed LIFE!
d

Purse, Compact and POWER

Hi.
I had a really nice week.  IMAX was in the forecast.  This was my first time to experience the jumbo movie screen and sound that caused me to jump.  SOUND can do that.  INFRASONIC sound transducers are sometimes used by Churches and at conferences.

This is the kind of SOUND you feel, but cannot hear.  Read that Joyce Meyer and Benny Hinn use these.  Should this cause alarm?  I think so.  Infrasonic sound can cause one to cry when you are not expecting to or creating emotions that make you feel really great.  Mistaking the ministry to make you in the audience feel something you wouldn't normally feel.  Creating emotions of what ever the ministry desires for you to feel.  SOUNDS dishonest to me.  I sense this is the truth. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/infrasound.html

CRANK 'EM UP just in time to assist the audience to want to buy the ministries materials that make life better, but especially better for the one selling the items.  What else can they do?  Mark Twain experienced Tesla's infrasonic sound to where it caused him to pass body waste without trying.  Didn't Twain wear white suits?  Oops.  He soiled his white suit. 

http://historybuff.com/mark-twain-and-nikola-tesla-were-buds-y65xDmZNq2XJ

I do recall hearing Joyce Meyer tell her audience first hand that she always prayed that angels would help DIRECT people to the books they should buy.  I heard her say this in person.  ANGELs, huh.  In my opinion they would be infrasonic aided angels.  Not to be sarcastic, but.....

Can infrasonic sound come across radio frequencies to where when you're listening to oh, I don't know...maybe Joel Osteen...to where you start feeling happy while listening to Joel give words of encouragement?  Can the happy vibes come across the television as well?  Anywhere there is sound???  Do I SOUND like a conspiracy theorist???  I do.  BUT I know I'm onto something that makes sense.  

Not to go off on a rabbit trail here as I sometimes just go with the flow and may end up saying things that don't pertain to how I started out.  Forgive me.  I iz human.  All girl.

Back to IMAX.  I sat in the middle of the theatre and felt like I was transported to another world watching BEAUTY and THE BEAST.  Overall I liked the show, the songs, the scenery, the story.

IMAX's screen is in the neighborhood of 40' tall.  I don't know what sound system they're
using, but it was loud.  Okay.  I heard that SOUND.  I am old and getting older by the minute.

THIS WEEK I found myself going through the fire recovery items on the racks.  I remove a plastic dry cleaner bag off of the items on hangers, SNIFF the item, remove from hanger, take the green numbered tag off the item that's attached by plastic stubs then place item in a laundry pile.

If the item doesn't stink with smoke, it smells of chemicals.

I'm not as far along as I thought I'd, but it's not midnight yet either.  Tomorrow it will have been a week since this load of textile items were returned.  I managed to open the gold wedding gown box to look at my dress, but haven't taken it out of the box yet to see if it shrunk.  This week I will.  I decided that I was going to take care of the hanging items first.  There are some cardboard boxes to go through as well.

Some of my plush toys have returned just fine.  I have to go through some of the dolls this week.  Take a deep breath and perhaps these will be just fine.

Birds are chirping outside.  The ceiling fan is running and Husband is taking a nap.  This is my time to escape to the tub to soak.  Reviving relaxation.  A load of laundry is running on this beautiful Sunday.  The start of washing the articles that have returned has begun.  

I made a pile of knitted items, a pile of aprons, a pile of shirts and skirts.  Neckties went into a tub where Husband will pick out the ties he'll keep.  The others will go into the sunset.  I need to find my scissors so I can snip the tags off the items.  This would speed this task up.  I'd like to be finished with this challenge.

I did purchase a set of white Simply Shabby Chic sheets like the ones that were destroyed in the house fire.  I like them so much that I wanted to replace these before they stop making this particular style.

I'll need to launder these this week.  I may hang these on the clothes line to dry taking in fresh air to where the wind irons out the wrinkles.  Putting nature to work for me is very economical.  PRACTICAL. 

Found a lavender colored purse at the THRIFT SHOP for SPRING weather.  Like her a lot.  Downsizing my handbag once again.  It's a mystery to me how the purses I carry start out light then as the days pass they gain weight.  Must be hypothyroidism in the purse department.  NOT FUN.

Way to go!
d

The Tax Man Cometh MEAL

We got hit hard this year. It is our Patriotic duty to pay our taxes. So we did. Taxes were paid on time and if we can slide til next payday, we won't have to take anymore out of our anemic savings account to make ends meet. We'll be happy citizens!!!

For years I have felt a sense of relief having a well stocked food pantry. As a young married lady, after our shelves and fridge were restocked from a shopping trip, it was the highlight of my day. My entertainment was going shopping with my hubby and children at a grocery warehouse. This may sound corny, but I looked forward to our "Night Out" shopping.

We seldom had a babysitter...couldn't afford one and as often as we relocated, we didn't have anybody that we knew well enough to trust to babysit. We seldom went on an official date with out the kids. It's important to still date your husband after you're married so you may have to get real creative on what to do on a shoestring budget. It can be done.

Back to the tax man cometh meal. It's crockpot time and if this stew turns out, I'll let you know about it. I am stretching for contents to put in the crockpot. Just one of those days...

I had a package of stew meat in the freezer.

Without thawing the meat, I poored olive oil in the crockpot for the meat to thaw out as it's cooking.
Turn the crock on high.
After a couple of hours, the meat has thawed.

Add the extras. This will a desperate attempt to create a throw together stew.

I used left over spaghetti sauce from a jar for tomato flavor with spices.
After emptying the sauce on top of the meat, put a little water in the jar and swish the water around to wash the inside of the jar and use all the sauce that you can. There was only about a cup of sauce anyways and I wanted to use as much as I could.
I had a 11.5 oz. can of V8. Used this as well.
Added a 14.5 oz. can of beef broth found on the pantry shelf.
A can of corn went in next along with washed, chopped, limp celery. Waste nothing.
A small package of baby carrots added.
Here in a little bit, homemade noodles will go in the crock. These noodles were bought at a elderly community's fund raiser...gotta be good.
Stew needed some thickening to it. Ketch-up was added.
Just added what was left of mild On the Border Salsa to the stew. Wasn't hardly any of this salsa left in the jar, so I added a little water to swirl around in the jar and poured the liquid into the crock.
I pray it turns out. The aroma in the air smells good, so I will have faith that this thrown together stew taste good enough to eat.
Oh Lord, help me now in my time of need!

God richly bless you.
Deanna here pulling a rabbit out of her hat.

Thrown Together Stew turned out just fine and everybody loved it.

It tasted better than it looked!