I'm 3/4 of the way through your book Broken Money.  I've really enjoyed it and the description of BTC and lightning are some of the best I've read.  I don't really want to read long technical white papers, but I did want to understand it a little better than I did.  Your explanations were easy to follow and the perfect balance between simple and understanding how and why things work so well.  Thanks.


I'm really bummed about the new rise in BTC.  I was really counting on having a few more months of stacking sats before prices started skyrocketing.  I want to be a whole coiner and getting there was much easier when the price was $16,xxx than at today's price and what the price is likely to do if the ETF is approved.


The last programming language I learned was C++ and I left shortly after so I never really used it or became proficient.  I used ancient languages like Basic, Fortran, Pascal, and the original C.  I also used an automated testing visual language called Labview (I think.  I may be mixing that up the name with another program I used for matrices).  I am so out of date it isn't even funny.

I can still talk logic and high level plans, but my programming days are over.


Love the idea.  I refuse to spend as much as my computer for office software (and I don't like Microsoft), so I haven't used Microsoft Office in years (maybe approaching 10 years).  I've used OpenOffice and LibreOffice.  I wish it was easier to pay them.  I don't really like putting my credit card out there, but zapping allows me to give value without risking someone getting my card or even knowing who I am.  I think the only time when I paid them was when I received a $50 VISA gift card.  I could donate to them without having my card out there.


We use a stove as primary heat as well because the trucked in propane is so expensive.  We have a wood/coal stove.  We get so cold and have a good sized house.  When the temperatures get really cold (-2.7 F when I went to bed last night), wood just doesn't put out enough heat nor does it last long enough.  The coal puts out so much more heat and we are toasty warm.  It also easily lasts through the night.

It would be nice to use just wood, but, since we are so cold, I love my coal stove.


My leg of lamb, roasted in a cast iron dutch oven with a dry rub and a white wine cream sauce is amazing, but a lot of work, so I only do it on special occassions.

I accidentally found some marinated,  lamb  at Walmart that is grass fed and has only ingredients I would put on my food at home.  I've cooked it on a George Foreman grill in less than 10 minutes and it was fantastic.  I normally don't buy any meat from Walmart, but this was some good stuff and it was so fast for a night when I get home late but want to eat something good.  It would probably  be even better on the grill, but the whole point was to be fast and low effort.


Mmmm.  I love lamb chops.  For a long time, I only ate lamb in restaurants.  For some reason, cooking lamb scared me, maybe because my Mom never cooked it.  Now I've cooked lamb chops, lamb roasts, and leg of lamb.  Yours look fantastic.


Soup made from a whole chicken or a whole turkey carcass (like after Christmas & Thanksgiving) is the best.  If it is a smoked chicken or turkey,  It is even better.

I like to cook mine in a crockpot overnight, pull out the bones, and then add my spices and vegetables.  All together it usually takes about 24 hours, but it is low maintenance, tasty, and healthy.  When I put leftovers away in individual pyrex containers, it gels solid, so I know it has great bone broth with lots of natural gelatin.  Mmm.

Yours looks great, but looking at it, I don't know how you get all of the bones out with vegetables already in the soup.


Mostly I do direct deposit of my paycheck to Strike and have it set to autobuy 75% of that deposit immediately and the other 25% I trigger buys manually when it looks like there is a little dip.

My first purchase was on Coinbase and I have also used Kraken for a larger buy (wire transfer and buy)

Kraken worked well when I wanted to wire transfer a significant amount for a big buy to get started.  I like Strike for dollar cost averaging.  It is so easy.  Everything can be automated, kind of like having money automatically taken out of your paycheck and put in a 401k.  I do try to transfer my Bitcoin into my personal wallet within a week of the autobuy, so there is never much that isn't in my private custody.


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Start learning before you NEED it.  Your first year with have lots of failures that are learning experiences.  Also, it takes a bit of time to get your garden optimized unless you happen to live in one of the rare places with optimal soil and optimal rainfall.  Also, if you live anywhere dry or with a dry season, install some kind of automated watering (It could be a basic timer/splitter with a couple of soaker hoses attached.)  All it takes is a couple of days at the wrong time and your garden is dead.


The test says I have a high immune reaction to a protein in the whey.  I never had any severe symptoms.  Any symptoms were very minimal.  I'll give up dairy for a while, but if things stay like they are, there is no way I am giving up cheese for the rest of my life unless the reaction turns deadly.  I feel almost the same with butter, although the wagyu beef tallow is replacing the butter much better than I thought it would.


I'm Christy.  I live in Wyoming.  I was saved in high school.


A good church is such a blessing.

One thing that has led us astray is Christians have lost their foundation.  Genesis, especially the first 11 chapters, is the foundation for the whole Christian faith.  It tells who God is, why we serve Him, where we came from, what sin is and where it came from, what the punishment for sin is, what marriage is, etc.  When we write off the early chapters of Genesis for being "unscientific" (it actually is very scientific), we lose the awesome God and why we must obey God, and what sin is, and why we need a savior.  Although believing in a literal Genesis is not a salvation issue, without it, we are on a shaky foundation and will fail to give a reason for the hope that is within us.


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John MacArthur has a good study Bible.  I think he has it in more than one translation.  My husband has it in print and we both have his Bible app. (NASB, ESV, and NKJV).  The base Bible app is free or you can pay for the version with his commentary.


It is always a hard decision when to keep giving  to and supporting your local church and when the local church is too far from God to be worth supporting and it is time to move on to a faithful, God serving church.

It is more common to have people moving from church to church because they are unhappy with some small thing or someone in the church, but sometimes people do stay where they don't belong anymore.  We had to leave a church once that was going the wrong way.  It was a very hard decision, but it was the right decision.  On the other hand, our current church had 2 rough years where there were some issues, but we stayed and we helped the church to improve their situation and our church is now a complete blessing and a joy to be involved in.

If the church really is pulling you down so much, pray faithfully for God's leading on what you should do and where he wants you.  Bigger definitely isn't necessarily better, although usually a faithful church will be a growing church.


Most think too lightly of their own sin and too lowly of their Savior, God, and Creator.  When we have a properly high view of our Awesome God, we are more likely to understand the depravity of our sin.


I think you are partially right and partially wrong.  On the negative side, the statements about obeying government were made under the Roman Empire which was not godly nor righteous and had many similar issues to the US today.  So we can't disobey all laws just because the government does evil or discourages good.  On the other hand, blindly doing whatever the government tells us, especially when government laws directly contradict God's laws, is definitely not what we should do.  God's laws always come first.  "But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29).  We always should obey God rather than man, but God doesn't promise that we won't have negative consequences when we do so.

Unfortunately it isn't as cut and dry as we would prefer.


I just got back a blood test saying I'm having an immune reaction to dairy, ie no butter, and coconut, ie. no coconut oil.  Because of this I've been using beef tallow as my go-to oil/fat including in my sweet potato casserole for Christmas.  I've missed the butter much less than I thought.  I've been buying a wagyu beef tallow.  I may have to try rendering my own tallow.


That's why I homeschool.


A good, easy meal that everyone seems to love and doesn't break the bank is Salsa meat (meat can be anything, ie chicken, ground beef, ground elk, beef tips, pork cubes).  Brown the meat in a frying pan with Paleo Pink seasoning.  At the same time cook some riced cauliflower.  Put cooked riced cauliflower in casserole dish.  Put browned meat over the top.  Pour a jar (or 2) of salsa over the top.  (I like chipotle salsa).  Cook in oven at 350 F for 30 minutes if meat and cauliflower is still warm or more like 45 minutes if you make ahead of time and it is refrigerated.  Melt cheddar cheese on top (Tillamook extra sharp cheddar is best).  If you are cooking for 30 minutes or less, you can add the cheese at the beginning.  If you are cooking for 45 minutes, you are better off adding cheese after 20-30 minutes so it melts, but doesn't start getting crispy.  Easy, peasy.


I don't know if you would be interested.  Over half of my dresses are from this site.  If you pay a little extra you can customize each dress to your exact dimensions, neckline, sleeve length, skirt length, pockets/no pockets, back zip or side zip, etc.  I love their stuff.  This link gives a discount on your first order (and yes a gift card for me, ).  I won't be offended if you don't use it, but I thought you might like it.

https://www.eshakti.com/invite/e863c0e84f


If the Supreme Court rules badly, the theft of savings is going to get worse because the US government is trying to tax unrealized gains.  They inflate the dollar, then claim that your asset savings are worth more, and then they tax that "gain" in value.  How sick is that?

FYI, Don't judge me on who made this comment.  When a person is right on one point, I'll give credit even if I disagree on other points this person has made.

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Bitcoin is harder to steal.


Me too.  The big outside pockets also aren't as secure.  Things are more likely to fall out.

I will admit to occasionally overstuffing my pockets and looking scarily wide and lumpy.


Taxing unrealized deb  t is the pinnacle of tax tyranny.  They want you to own nothing and be totally dependent on them.

What are the chances that the Supreme Court rules correctly on this?  It seems obviously unconstitutional and bad, but that has never stopped the Supreme Court in previous rulings.

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Looks perfect.  I notice that skirt also has big pockets.  I'm a huge fan of pockets.  I'll see a cute dress, but when I realize it doesn't have pockets, I know I won't wear it much.


USD is losing value.
Gold is maintaining value.
BTC is gaining value.

BTC is a better investment, but I disagree that gold is trending to zero.


We're watching one of my family's favorite Christmas movies, "A Muppet's Christmas Carol".  So much fun.


Nice!  I've eaten and enjoyed duck and goose, but I've never actually cooked either.  I can't imagine it is too much different than chicken or turkey.

For a long time, although I enjoyed lamb, I was afraid of cooking lamb.  I found a yummy recipe and now cook leg of lamb multiple times a year.  It is too much work to make to do as a regular meal, but it sure is enjoyable.  I don't know why lamb scared me.  It isn't much different than beef or pork which I cook all of the time.  When my husband was out of town and I was only cooking for my son and I,  I found a 2 pack of seasoned lamb chops that, unlike almost everything else at Walmart, didn't have any chemicals or preservatives or even seed oils, just some herbs.  I cooked it up on my George Foreman Grill (I used to make fun of them, but it sure is good for a quick meal).  It was fantastic.  I don't usually shop at Walmart, but I may have to go back and see if I can get more for another quick meal.  There are some nights I work kind of late and it is a pain to do a long, complex meal because I end up eating so late.  If I prep things so they are simple, I can frequently get my husband to get dinner ready on those nights I get home later.


The problem with the LGBTGQ+ stuff, especially the transgenderism, is they are telling kids they were born into the wrong body and have to take hormones, hormone blockers, and have surgery to have value and be the way "they should be".  They have to chemically or surgically castrate themselves to have worth.  That is the most unloving, hateful, and harmful thing I've ever heard being taught to kids.  True gender affirming care is telling a kid they are the way they are supposed to be.  God doesn't make mistakes and they are not a mistake.  The world has become brain dead if they don't understand this.

Kids have no idea what they are doing to themselves and how this is going to effect their future.  Kids aren't allowed to drink or smoke but are allowed to chop off body parts and sterilize themselves.  It is insane.


Schools teach secular humanism.  Sadly almost nobody realizes they are teaching a religion.  They think they are the enlightened ones who have moved beyond religion when they are the ones most held back by their religion.  They also try to destroy all apostates to secular humanism (and its cousin, wokism).

Homeschooling was one of the best decisions of my life.


That works. We are celebrating Christmas with family early. It helps because we don't have to drive 3 times to another state to p/u and drop off my son and for family celebrations. It also allows me to have my cake and eat it too. I get to celebrate with extended family, but I also get to celebrate at home with my immediate family and go to Christmas services at my church. Win-win.


The underwear on the inside is good, but I hate the brooding, hateful new superman.  Clark is supposed to be happy go lucky, kind, and awkward, while superman is supposed to be self sacrificing.  The new superman is the opposite of what he should be.  It is sad, other than wonder woman, the new D.C. super heroes are all pretty unlikeable.


The grammar obsession is probably worse because my eldest is like a computer and if you use bad grammar, he gets confused.


Me, too.

Sometimes I get the urge to markup my computer screen with a red pen because grammar and spelling on social media and alternative media tends to be pretty bad.


I've been using GetAlby to login to various clients: Coracle, Satellite, and Snort.  Alby logs in so I don't have to use my private key.

I am setting up another computer and logged into getalby on the new computer.  It logged in and shows my balance, but I can't get it to link to any of the websites to log me into my account.  I put my npub into one of the clients (Coracle), so I can see my feed, but I can't post or interact.  What am I doing wrong?


I 2nd this request.


I had a steak, shitake, and tillamook cheddar omelet for lunch yesterday and will probably haven another today.  Mmmm.

I season my eggs with sea salt, fresh ground pepper, garlic powder, tumeric (and in this case a little chipotle pepper powder).  My omelets are full of flavor.


Drinking too much water, especially water without minerals can cause all kinds of problems.  I like RO water, but I've been adding salt/minerals to my water to help.

In the Grand Canyon, they have to helicopter out more people because they drank too much water and didn't replace their electrolytes than they do for those not drinking enough water.


I take it every day and haven't had any night cramps in years.


Congratulations.  Being a mother is wonderful.

Breast feeding is healthiest for you and your baby and is more convenient (if you are home with the baby).  It also saves in an emergency.  I flew once with my first son and we missed the connecting flight home.  Since I was breast feeding, I had all the milk he needed.  If I'd been feeding him with a bottle I'd have been dragging a baby in a cab to stores near midnight trying to get formula.

Teaching your baby to sleep without your help and even if there are noises will help life get back to normal and serve your child well.  I recommend the book "Baby Wise" for more details.  The basics are feed on a schedule.  Feed your baby when you wake him up and not to get him to sleep.  We were replacing the driveway and front porch of our house that had sunk when I brought home my first.  We had ground compactors pounding for the first couple of days, and he learned to sleep through all of it.

Remember that babies and young kids are tougher than you can imagine.  I've had mine dive off the couch onto their face and try to roll off a changing table and they were all fine.  Be careful, but don't worry.

There are 2 theories on keeping a baby well.  One is to protect the baby from all germs.  The other is to expose their immune system to lots of germs and pets to train their immune system to recognize pathogens and self.  Studies have shown that being around pets (and therefore germs) reduces the incidence of allergies & asthma.  I went with the latter and my son's only fever in his first 5 years was caused by a vaccine.

I researched vaccines on conventional sites, but with a holistic view.  I decided on my first son to only give him the dTap vaccine and not till 1 years old.  He only got 2 instead of the normal 5/6 .  I did that one because I was afraid of tetanus which can be deadly, but I've since learned that tetanus is anaerobic and if you get a puncture wound to bleed and get peroxide into the wound, it isn't much of a risk.  His only illness in his first 5 years were due to the vaccine.  If I had it to do over again, I'd not give him any.  I'd argue that zero vaccines is best, but at minimum, skip the vaccines at 2 & 4 months when the babies immune system isn't developed enough to respond well and when the dose/weight is higher.  If you do your research, the danger of the vaccines is higher than the danger of the illness.

I had the educated guess that the adjuvants in vaccines were causing the huge increase in allergies and autoimmune diseases.  I later read an article and the same form of aluminum used in vaccines is used in animal studies to cause autoimmunity for autoimmunity studies.

Once your child gets older, I believe nothing is better for your child than homeschooling.  Before kids I though I'd homeschool in elementary and maybe middle school and send them to high school to transition to the real world.  I've since changed my mind.  Both of my kids were in public school for part or all of elementary school (but I live in a very conservative area with less indoctrination and there is less in the early years to begin with).  I pulled my eldest out in 3rd grade and homeschooled him through highschool.  He is now in college in the honors program with tuition paid based on his 35/36 ACT score.  I pulled my younger son, who has Down Syndrome, later because he was harder to school and because he was taught by people I knew and trusted.  He is making better progress now that I am homeschooling him.

Babies don't understand things like falling off a height.  Find opportunities for your kid to fail and fall where the consequences are minor, so they can learn without severe consequences.  So often people protect a baby from any place they can fall even 6 inches and they don't learn to be careful around heights.  This same principle exists when they get older with real life lessons such as being honest, being a good friend, being responsible, etc.


Jeroen 🫖🐸 じゅりよん


They predicted we'd all die from global cooling and then the climate warmed.
They predicted we'd all die from the hole in the ozone, but then that went away.
They predicted we'd all die from global warming, but the globe quit warming for the past 20 years (if you use satellites instead of the adjusted values), so they changed the claim to climate change killing us.
They predicted we'd go back to stone age because of peak oil and now we have more known oil reserves than when the predictions were made 50ish years ago.

Has there been one dread prediction that has ever been even close to true?


I love pecans, but I seem to have gotten a mild sensitivity to all nuts (probably from eating too many of them in the past).  They seem to cause some mild inflammation that interferes with my sleep and causes me to toss and turn.  Of course, these day it seems like everything interferes with my sleep.


My eldest is off at college with a scholarship that pays for his tuition and another $4000 toward room and board because he is in the honors program getting a double major in math and computer science.  In his senior year in high school he got Math Student of the Year at the local community college.  I'd say homeschooling worked well for him.

I'm still schooling my youngest, but he is different.  He has Down Syndrome and so needs a lot more work.  I'll probably home school him till 21.  He did 7th grade twice (at my request in public school) and is doing 9th twice at home.  We'll probably do 10th twice, 11th twice, and 12th twice to try to catch him up (or close) to his peers.  He is making more progress at home than he did in the public school even though he was with some amazing teachers, two of three of them were the husband and wife who run his special needs after school program where he gets OT and speech therapy and they have adopted a bunch of autistic and down syndrome kids.  They are amazing, but they can't do with a classroom what I can do one on one in less time.

I guess you can tell I am a HUGE homeschool proponent.


I've thought for a long time that schools focusing on memorizing facts was a waste of time in today's world where most any fact can be found in a minute or two.  We need to teach kids how to think, not what to think.

I love the transformation recommended in this article:

Our focus needs a fundamental shift:

From Instructionism → Constructionism

From Convergent thinking → Divergent thinking

From Information → Imagination

From Content → Skills

If kids thought this way, they would be harder to indoctrinate which is probably why they aren't taught to think this way.

https://medium.com/@connect_75384/the-end-of-education-94f3a39fe97c


The one time I got to visit Australia for work, I extended the trip for a little sight seeing.  I did numerous hikes in nowhere land during the week in areas that might not have another person set foot on that trail for several days.  Looking back, I wondered if that was a good idea.  Not only could I have slipped and fell and hurt myself, but I also might have been bitten by one of your very poisonous snakes.  This was also before I carried a cell phone, so I had no way to call for help.

The good news is I survived, saw lots of great sights, and had a great time.  The bad news is that my house burnt down in 2015 and all of my pictures burnt up in the fire, so all I have is my memories.


When we are looking, we can find blessings even in the darkest times.  In fact we may find more blessings in the hard times than when everything seems to be going well.


Even just the spike proteins and mRNA look like they can transfer to the baby in utero and through breast milk.  When you add the DNA plasmids and the SV40 promoter genes, it gets really scary.


About a year ago we were going to eat out and I was craving a steak, but didn't want to pay steakhouse prices.  We went to Denny's where I can get a 14 oz T-bone for $17.  With the sides, that is 2 meals for me ($8.50).  I have learned I have to order the steak rare to get a proper medium rare steak.  It isn't as good as a good steakhouse steak, but it is quite tasty (now that I learned to order it rare).   We now eat a Denny's steak about once a month (maybe slightly more) when we need to eat out.

FYI, my husband went to Taco Bell last week and it cost him $11.  A 14 oz t-bone at $17 is so much better of a deal especially if you can stretch it into 2 meals.


The DNA (at least some of it) is promoter genes from the SV40 virus (Simian Virus 40) that was found in small pox vaccines (because the virus was grown in contaminated monkey cells).  Many cases of cancer today have SV40 virus in them and it is believed that SV40 causes cancer.  A section of genes in the SV40 virus act as promoter genes and are used in growing viruses and/or genetic substances.  If these promoter genes get integrated in your DNA, they can promote other genes and make them more likely to go cancerous.  I think there is other DNA as well, but the SVR40 promoter genes are what is mostly being discussed.


I'm a Mozart fan, but I haven't listened to classical much in a while.  I used to have a bunch of CDs but lost them all when my house burnt down and haven't replaced them for some reason.

I also think John Williams is a modern day musical genius and the20th/21st Century's version of Mozart/Bach/etc.


Make women women again.


I have my laptop computer camera covered with tape and the selfie camera on my phone covered with tape.  I leave the outward facing camera uncovered (so I can snap a quick photo) and always set my phone down with that camera down.  I usually use the speaker phone feature if I'm talking on the phone, so I'm not irradiating my brain.  That also allows me to keep the camera pointing down onto a table, desk, or other hard surface.  This seems to be the best compromise between convenience and blocking cameras.


The subject matter of the first is completely different than the subject matter of the 2nd and 3rd, but I enjoy them all.
The Survival Podcast
The Creation Podcast
Answers in Genesis Ministries


I was looking at some stuff on Minds and saw a post asking people to join a group on Twitter/X that is about getting off social media.  Isn't it hypocritical to say join a social media group about getting off of social media?


I just tried snort in another browser.  It starts to load and then gets and error.  I think something must be wrong in Snort.

I originally used Iris until it went wonky.  Lately I've been mostly using Snort and Coracle, but I can't get into Snort again.  Why do NOSTR clients keep breaking and getting worse instead of better?  I understand them having issues to begin with, but I don't understand them continually getting worse.

For what it is worth, I am enjoying Coracle.  It is the easiest I've found for viewing notifications.  In your feed, you can either show your feed with or without the comments/replies.  If you view without comments/replies, clicking on a post brings up a window that displays the post with replies.  Xing out of the window takes you back to where you were viewing in your feed.


My husband and I were talking about how Americans complain about everything even though they have more than >99.99% of the people who have ever lived.  Our founders were tough.  The people who traveled west in wagon trains were tough.  Modern Americans are whining wimps.  I'm much less of a whiner or a wimp than the average American, but I still can only dream of being as tough as our founders and those who traveled west.  I'm grateful for the blessings I have, but too many blessings can make people weak.


I can't get snort to load at all.  My browser says I'm blocked.  I wasn't sure if it was a snort issue or an issue with my browser or computer because I am having a similar issue with proton mail.


Fat free yogurt or kefir is just wrong.  Why do they want to go and ruin a good thing?


My husband is back and the freezer is full.  Life is good.

#grownostr

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This should be a wakeup call to our politicians that it is time to cut the spending and live within our means, but instead they are accelerating.  Sadly, I see pain and suffering for many because of their actions and the public's unwillingness to speak out against it because each one wants to keep their own "freebies" and stop spending on other people's "freebies".


No thanks.  I'll pass.


Most adults don't deal with it much, if at all.  It is much more common for the youth.  In school (elementary through college), it is rampant.  My son has had to deal with it a little, but not too much because he was homeschooled through high school (although he did have to deal with it in at least one of the community college classes he took during high school) and he now attends Liberty University which is the opposite of the normal woke university.  I know multiple people who have had their kids deal with it or even try to join it.


When my son had the issue of one of these confused people in his college class, he just made sure to call her by her name instead of her pronoun because he refused to address her by they/them.


My son had to deal with it in at least one of the community college classes he was taking during high school.  Now he is off at college at Liberty University and they don't do that nonsense there which is why I sent him to the opposite side of the country to go to college.  It is hard to find a college, even a technical college, that doesn't do at least some of that nonsense.  My old alma mater makes you take a class about it.


I don't know if it is a coincidence or intentional, but it is fun to think it was intentional.


I wonder if that was a coincidence or if it was intentional.


Who recommends using private nostr relays?  What relays do you use?  How do you sign up for a private relay?  What does a typical private relay cost?


Take vitamin-C (>2000 mg spread over at least 3 times during the day.  liposomal vitamin C will allow you to take more without digestive complaints).  Take Vitamin-D3 (30,000 - 50,000 IU if you haven't been taking any) and Vitamin-K2 (I generally take 1 vitamin-K2 for every 5,000 IU). Take Zinc (50 mg) with Quercetin (zinc ionophore to get the zinc in your cells which helps prevent replication of the virus) (EGCG works, too.)  Use a neti pot with saline with a few drops of povidone iodine and/or colloidal silver.


Winter is here (snow and days that never go above freezing) and I still haven't finished putting my garden to bed.  I guess I'll be trying to finish weeding and mulching in the cold.

My husband's car died at the airport this week so he is taking the pickup hunting.  We had to shovel the mulch out of the back onto our back porch in a snow storm so I can do some mulching this week and he has a place to throw an elk.

I see cold fingers in my future.


When I was homeschooling my eldest son we had a vocabulary book for several years that taught advanced vocabulary, especially words frequently used in classic literature.  Our favorite word was “sesquipedalian”.  I love finding opportunities to use it.  I love this meme’s use of the word.

sesquipedalian
[ ses-kwi-pi-dey-lee-uhn, -deyl-yuhn ]SHOW IPA

adjectiveAlso ses·quip·e·dal  [ses-kwip-i-dl].
    1. given to using long words.
    2. (of a word) containing many syllables.
noun
    3. a sesquipedalian word.
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When I was homeschooling my eldest son we had a vocabulary book for several years that taught advanced vocabulary, especially words frequently used in classic literature.  Our favorite word was “sesquipedalian”.  I love finding opportunities to use it.  I love this meme’s use of the word.

sesquipedalian
[ ses-kwi-pi-dey-lee-uhn, -deyl-yuhn ]SHOW IPA

adjectiveAlso ses·quip·e·dal  [ses-kwip-i-dl].
    1. given to using long words.
    2. (of a word) containing many syllables.
noun
    3. a sesquipedalian word.


Beautiful!  Looks yummy.


This is how things feel when you live in a world that has gone so crazy that every real news article seems like it should be satire like in the Babylon Bee.
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About 24 hours, but it depends on what you are freeze drying.  If it is something very juicy or thicker, it could take longer.  If it drier and/or in smaller/thinner pieces, it could take less.

I love my freeze dryer.  I don't know if I've gotten my money's worth yet (I have used it a good bit), but it has been fun and I am freeze drying higher quality stuff than what you can normally buy in a store.


I think the issue is whether we/they are trying to be like the character of God (in God's image) or to be gods ourselves and replace God.  Lucifer was the most beautiful angel and didn't like being 2nd to God and therefore rebelled.  He wanted to be the god himself.  He then tempted Eve to follow his same sin.

I used to really look down on Adam and Eve for disobeying God.  It seemed ridiculous that they couldn't obey the single law (don't eat from the one tree).  I then realized that it doesn't sound like it took long to disobey God.  I had to remember, that although Adam and Eve were created as adults and were very intelligent.  they only had the experience of a baby.  They had very little experience and had neve heard a lie before.  We are used to hearing and recognizing lies.  They were not.  If all a person had ever heard was true, it would be easy (although still wrong) to believe a lie.  I decided I needed to be a bit more humble about how I thought I never would have made the same mistake.


I love the optimism and solution orientation of NOSTR.  On other social media people complain about the problems.  On NOSTR people work towards solutions, whether it is self sufficiency in their personal lives or building tech to further freedom and information.


THE MLEKU 🥛🍫🧂🌊🏝🚶🏻☀


Politicians love to regulate things they don't understand.  Because they don't understand things, their solutions are always harmful and have harmful side effects that they didn't foresee.

Most politicians are politicians are politicians because they want power but can't earn it through merit.  They are the people that have high self esteem, thinking they are smarter than everyone else, but they only think this because they are too stupid to understand their deficiencies.

A scientific study looked at self esteem.  Those with the least understanding overestimated their knowledge on subjects because they knew too little to understand what they don't know.  Those who most would deem experts underestimated their knowledge because they actually knew enough to understand what they don't know.  I think this applies doubly to politicians.


This is just one of many reasons I won't use any of these services.  I don't trust anyone with my DNA.


I was a little concerned that the Ukraine/Russia war could turn into WWIII.  I am even more concerned that the Hamas/Israel war could turn into WWIII.  If Iran gets involved, then the US will come in.  If the US comes in and attacks Iran, Russia will come to its rescue.  I could see this escalating quickly.  I sure hope I'm wrong and it doesn't come to that.

Whatever the case, I can pretty much guarantee the US will get involved.  They can't seem to help themselves.  They seem to believe that no war can happen without them.


I usually do my gardening in a dress (with leggings short/long underneath).  I have lots of dresses with really big deep pockets that I don't find in women's pants and they are cool and comfy.


And they are throwing it into the face of God by using the rainbow (God's sign or his mercy) as a symbol of their anti-God actions and attitude.  I do not believe the choice of this symbol was an accident.


There is no human right that requires taking from another or infringing on their rights to life, liberty, or property.


The government and government employees are completely divorced from reality.  Besides the fact that ILLEGAL aliens are in the country illegally and therefore should be kicked out of the country, it is insane to require banks to give loans to illegal aliens because they are too big of a risk.  An illegal alien has proven they don't care about laws and therefore they are more likely to not repay their loans.  Because they are here illegally, they could get deported and then be unable and/or unwilling to repay their loans and there would be no way for a bank to collect.  In the same way they could get tired of being second class citizens and just decide to leave the country and also not repay loans.  No person or business in the right mind would give a loan to most illegal aliens (I won't discount some exception where the person was personally known).

Since the government bypasses normal economic laws (temporarily anyway), they don't understand how things really work.  They make laws that may sound good, but are contrary to reality and therefore will cause destruction.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-admin-orders-banks-not-to-reject-illegal-immigrants-loan-applications-5510179?autoemail=ckkroeker%40yahoo.com&utm_content=&utm_term=


Anarchists don't force anyone to do anything.  If people want to live in controlled enclaves, they have the right to do so.


I was reading an article from Dr. Robert Malone's substack email list and thought this quote was insightful.

"The problem with the false religion of Scientism  is that it is often wrong, but never in doubt."

#grownostr #sceience #health


Knowing that wives are supposed to be submissive to their husbands should also make women stop and think before getting married.  Too many women marry a man who needs fixing or mothering instead of a strong, Christian, loving man who would be easier to submit to.  Knowing I have to submit made me careful on who I decided to marry.  I married a bit late because I was unwilling to compromise.  He was worth the wait.


We can't afford even one tiny war with an incompetent, unarmed populace.


I definitely prefer snow than cold rain.  Rain when it is 70 - 100 F is completely different than rain when it is 35-50 F.  The latter is miserable.

We'll get plenty of snow this winter.  Last winter we got lots of snow.  The ground was covered with snow most of the time from November till early April with a few small snows after that that melted quickly.  We even got one snow that was >3 feet and took us 3 days to get out.


This weekend my church hosted the African Children's Choir which sang and danced at our church.  The kids come from extreme poverty In Uganda and get an education and get to travel the US performing with the choir.  They were such a joy.  We hosted 4 of the boys and a chaperone (who had been in the choir as a kid) at our home.

We got to take them up on the mountain to see snow for the first time and play in the snow.  The joy of sledding down a short steep hill, having snowball fights, and building a snowman filled the mountain with the sound of laughter and squeals of joy.  It was so much fund.

We got to play with them, have devotions with them, and sing hymns and Christmas songs with them.  They were so joyful, loving, and polite.  They would say things like "Auntie, thank you for this wonderful meal.  May I be excused" and then carry their plates and silverware to the sink.   (Everyone older is called Auntie or Uncle as a sign of respect).  We were greeted every morning with a hug and got a hug and a goodnight every evening.  They even sang a hilarious thank you song after our group meal.  What a blessing!
#christian #missions #bible

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By the time I headed home, the snow had already melted.  We did get an insane amount of rain for our climate.  I'm surprised I didn't see any flooding.


Not enough snow for doughnuts in a parking lot.


Aspens in the Fall are my favorite.


We got some snow (in Wyoming) on Wednesday afternoon, but it only stuck around for a couple of hours probably because it rained for about 36 hours beforehand.  I'm betting we got around and inch (or even more) of rain.  We don't get rains like that very often.


I can't think of an exception.  Government regulators always end up defending their favorites among those regulated (usually those who pay well or provide future inducements) rather than protecting the public like they were created to do.  At this point, I think we'd be better off with zero regulation on almost everything.


The snow has arrived.  It's been raining nonstop for at least 36 hours and is hitting freezing now.  I hope the roads home aren't too bad.


beautiful


An appropriate analogy for the US, modern culture, and much more.  Nobody wants to acknowledge the problems.  They seem to think if they ignore the problems that they will magically go away.  That isn't how it works.  The problems only get worse.

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It looks like winter arrives this week.  We're predicted to get 0.36 inches of rain Wednesday night and then 3.7 inches of snow Thursday night.

As busy as I am, I've got to get a few more things done outside today before the weather hits.


When is direct deposit coming back?  That was my favorite Strike feature.


I had started some broccoli, cabbage, and kale with the though of trying to do a fall garden.  I'm not sure why I thought a fall garden would work because most of the time our fall is only 2-3 weeks long(from highs in upper 80s/low 90s to lows below freezing).  I guess our almost 2 month long fall last year gave me hope.  I moved a number of the starts into pots and put them under grow lights inside.  Maybe I can get some fall veggies even if I don't grow them outside.  Hopefully I didn't pack too many per pot.  We've already had multiple nights below freezing, down to 25 F and we are predicted to get a little snow Friday (although it probably won't stick because it is supposed to rain for >24 hours first).


I had one of the most productive weekends I've had in a while.  I got my work work done on the computer.  I did things inside like making my food grade body butter and other things like that.  I also got a bunch of things done outside to get ready for winter that looks like is hitting the end of this week.  I even got my email cleared out and cookies cleared out on my computer.  I wish I was always this efficient.  Hopefully I can have another productive day today, after finishing homeschooling my son.


I bought some comfrey roots last spring, but got them too early so I planted them in pots.  I had an insanely busy summer so didn't get them planted when it was ideal.  I got several plants moved outside to my garden about a month ago.  I need to get the last 2 planted outside today.  We are supposed to get some good rain starting Wednesday night that should get them acclimated quickly, hopefully.  I just hope going from a temperature controlled house to nights dipping slightly below freezing won't hurt them too badly.


I love aspen leaves on the snow.

We might be getting our first snow on Friday.  We've had several nights go below freezing.  I just disconnected all of my hoses and timers for my garden and we had our sprinkler system blown out (It hadn't been working for a month or two.  It looks like our irrigation pump in our well went out.)


#homeschool

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We don't actually need a wall (walls can keep people in as well as out, ie. Berlin Wall). We could stop most of the immigration problems if we quit giving all of the illegals freebies. If they didn't get free housing, free food, free healthcare, and free education, most of the people would stop coming. The few that came would mostly be hard workers who want to assimilate and that would actually improve America. All we need to do is pass a law that says not one penny goes to anyone who isn't an American (I'd like to stop a lot more spending, but that is a start)

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It is sad how many people prefer a comfortable lie over the uncomfortable truth.  If they won't wake up and see the truth, they can't fix the problems we have.

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It really is this simple.

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#grownostr #memestr

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I don't expect them to stop spending, but we will reach a point that the cost of the interest is greater than the tax money coming in.  Yes, they will keep borrowing and/or printing, but things will get horrific when we reach that point.


I had heard that our debt hit >GDP a year or two ago.


At what interest rate do we hit the point that the entire federal budget (or at least all of the taxes receipted) does nothing but pay interest?


Absolutely!

I don't know if it's a bot or not, but it is schizophrenic.


I generally prefer to avoid blocking, but I might have to make an exception on this one.


I'd argue it is a pro-Satan and anti Christ organization.


Well said.  I am reading Calvin's "institutes" among other things right now.  It is quite good, but long.


I seem to have a NOSTR stalker who comments on every post I make. Some of them are hateful.  Most don't make much sense. Every once in a while I get a coherent one that is worthwhile.   Some posts get 2-3 replies. He doesn't seem to like what I post, but obsesses with them.  I don't understand it, but whatever.  It does fill up my notifications and makes it more difficult to find honest replies.


I'll pray to my God for your salvation even when you act with such hate.

If God is not real, why do you hate Him so?  Why do you spend so much effort trying to be insulting to Him and His followers.  If it is make-believe, your actions make no sense.


Aren't you sweet?


The hen


Isn't it hard to homeschool in Germany?  I thought I heard that the German government was very anti-homeschooling.

I'm blessed, where I live, the homeschooling laws are very lax.  All I have to do is send an email at the beginning of each year stating I will be homeschooling and what I will be using to homeschool in a couple of key subjects (English, Math, Science, History, Civics).  I have friends who put on their notification "assorted library books".  Nobody cares or checks.  I do keep records just in case the government ever started caring.


Ephesians 6:7-8
With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,  knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.


When I used to have chickens (before I developed a lung sensitivity to bird dander and had to get rid of them), sometimes I would set a dirty egg aside and when I wasn't looking, my dog would sneak up and take and eat the egg. I actually, once I figured out what was happening, started giving them to him since I didn't get many of the dirty ones.


But we are told that homeschooling is bad because we need trained teachers to teach kids.  If this is how the trained teachers teach, I think all kids would be better off being taught at home where at least parents care if their kids learn.

As a homeschool mom, I can defend that both my exceptional and my special needs sons have done better with one on one homeschooling than they did/would have done in government schools.  My eldest, who graduated from high school last year with something like 28 college credits (we had him take less than he could've so he could get into the honors program at his college), just declared a double major in math and computer science.  He is so good at his work and time management (from being homeschooled), that he said yesterday (thursday) he had completed everything he could work on for his classes including stuff due the following week.  Homeschooling is the best.


Anti-illegal immigrant talk was racist when the negative effects were only felt by Republicans and red states, but stopping illegal immigrants is good when the negative effects start effecting Democrats and blue states.  Can they get any more hypocritical?

Of course they are hypocritical on pretty much every subject.


Every morning I make coffee and tea for the day.  I make 2 travel mugs of french press decaff. coffee (w/heavy cream, grass fed beef gelatin, and sacred 7 mushroom powder), and 4 different kinds of tea.  I heat half of the water in my electric kettle and half in a teapot on our gas stove.  I messed up today.  After pouring the electric kettle over 2 of the teas and half filling my french press, I refilled it for the next morning, but then, instead of using the just boiled kettle of water on the stove, I poured the barely luke-warm water in the electric kettle over my coffee and 2 of my teas.  I didn't want to waste the coffee or tea so I ended up microwaving each individually.  I don't like microwaving things and my coffee isn't going to be as good as normal.  I was really mad at myself.  Now I know what I did about 2 weeks ago when my coffee and tea were cold.


Evidence of dangerous contaminants in the Covid jabs.

Here are the bullet points from this Mercola article.  I'll try to attach a word file that will have all of the details because this article has expired on his site and you can only see it on his paid substack now.

The basics are that the jabs have a large amount of DNA (possibly due to bad manufacturing processes) that can, and almost certainly do, integrate into your DNA causing harmful effects and being passed down to future generations.  They also have SV40 promoter genes (that have no reason to be there) that both promote cancer and promote DNA entrance into the nucleus of your cells.  After one doctor showed the contamination, another doctors set out to disprove his findings, but found the same thing.  This doctor then went to the FDA to get the jabs stopped until manufacturing could be fixed, but the FDA just replied, the jabs have been proven safe and effective.  (Remind me why we need a FDA that doesn't protect us from anything.)

"Alarming COVID Jab Contamination Shocks Scientists
    • In early April 2023, microbiologist Kevin McKernan detailed finding massive DNA contamination in Pfizer’s and Moderna’s bivalent COVID booster shots. The highest level of DNA contamination found was 30%, meaning nearly one-third of the content of the shot was plasmid DNA, the presence of which dramatically increases the likelihood of DNA integration and cancer
    • An in vitro experiment found that the modified RNA in the Pfizer jab has the ability to enter human liver cells and reverse transcribe into DNA in as little as six hours post-exposure
    • The lipid nanoparticles that the mRNA and DNA contaminants are encased in facilitate getting the DNA inside the cell. Once it’s in the cytoplasm, bits of DNA can enter the nucleus by random chance
    • Mice injected with the COVID mRNA shot passed on their acquired immune traits — both good and bad — to offspring, which not only suggests that the mRNA can enter the nucleus of the cell, but also that it can be permanently integrated into chromosomal DNA and have intergenerational effects
    • Pfizer’s bivalent jab has also been found to contain simian virus 40 (SV40) promoter, an oncogenic piece of the virus’ DNA known to drive very aggressive gene expression. Combined with pieces of DNA, the presence of SV40 promoter make the risk of cancer all the more likely
    • The SV40 promoter is a sequence used in gene therapy to drive DNA into the nucleus of cells. If the shots aren’t supposed to alter the human genome, why do they contain bits of DNA and an SV40 promoter that can drive that DNA into the nucleus?"

#grownostr #covid #vaccines #fda #sceince
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/covid-jab-contamination


I see my special needs son walk into the bathroom carry his toy airplane.  He doesn't close the door and I hear him almost immediately flush the toilet and say something.

I replied, "I didn't understand what you said."

He walks out and says "I released the monsters into the toilet."

That really made me laugh.
#grownostr


It is amazing how well this describes today's society, in general, and America, in particular.

Today in America, nobody is punished harsher than a whistleblower who exposes the truth.  This is just one example.
#grownostr #truth #lies

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Looking at our 10 day forecast, I think our highs in the 80s or higher are done for the year.


Because He is eternal.
Because He is all powerful
Because He is not limited by time.
Because He loves us enough to suffer for us.
Because He is creative and has designed such a beautiful and amazing Universe.
Because He knows all things and is able to use every mistake we make to lead to His ultimate finale and for our good.


Because God is that awesome.


I remember during covid running into people I hadn't seen in a while and getting the look, "do you do hugs?"  So many people had been isolated and really needed that hug.


When Americans talk about wanting a wall on the Southern border to keep the illegal immigrants, particularly the criminals, out, although I am sympathetic to the thought, I always think that walls can keep people in as well as keep people out and I'm much less interested in a wall.


If you get criticized by both sides, you probably are more in line with truth and liberty than the overwhelming majority.


I love aspens in the fall.


I feel your pain.


Last I heard, Ukraine hasn't liberated anyone in a long time and the last time they made progress on the front lines, they probably lost more people to the offensive than they "liberated".


Her tune sure has changed now that she is dealing with the problems instead of red states like Texas and Florida.  When the Texas and Florida governors were saying the same thing, people like Hochul were saying they were uncaring, evil people.


Although I feel bad for people who were lied to and told they needed a degree to be a success, but never told how to intelligently look at the pros and cons, I really hate when people borrow money and then complain and/or refuse to pay. Not repaying a loan is no different that theft.  Since student loans are guaranteed by the government, they are stealing from average Americans, many of which are worse off than they are and/or already were responsible and paid off their own debts, but are being enslaved paying off less responsible people’s debts.

We need to totally reform college education in the US.  The federal government needs to get out of the business of guaranteeing student loans.  Students need to be taught how to analyze the trade-offs of a college education.  They need to look not only at how much more they will make after receiving a college degree, specifically for the degree they intend to attain instead of averages.  A limited number of degrees, like engineer, lawyer, doctor, and architect, have significant benefit and can only be entered into with a degree.  Many more have a small increase to income, but that increase is frequently not enough benefit to overcome the lost income while in college, the cost of college itself, the cost of living expenses during college, and the cost of interest on the student loans.  A few degrees, primarily victimology degrees like women’s studies, gender studies, and African American studies probably make them less likely to earn a good income.  What employer wants to hire someone who spent 4+ years learning to be a victim, find fault in others, and sue companies?

If banks had to deal with the cost of defaults and not just the benefits of earning guaranteed interest, they likely wouldn’t finance expensive degrees in fields that don’t add much to future income and that may make the person unfit for most jobs.  This would prevent people getting into this mess in the first place.


Although there can be times to sacrifice to improve things, this is insane.

"Sisi said. “If the price of the nation’s progress and prosperity is to go hungry and thirsty, then let us not eat or drink,”"  I think I can correctly say that Sisi isn't reducing his eating and drinking.  It is easy for politicians to insist other sacrifice when they don't have to.


Love this statement "To see God and to be like Him - what more can I desire?"


So true.


That's a great decoration.


Other than maybe a journalist, why would anyone buy this?  You couldn't pay me a million dollars to wear this.


Yes, making a point.  That was a word that my son and I learned while I was homeschooling.  It was a fun word that we enjoyed working into conversations.  In general, I prefer to use simpler words to make sure the people I am conversing with understand the point I'm making.  I sometimes use a bigger word if it really communicates my thought better, but I try to speak/write in conversational English rather than educated English.


Originally I felt like this was an intelligent debate that sharpened my arguments and where I learned more about your beliefs.  At this point it seems like I'm just getting sesquipedalian nonsense.  I'm bored.


Entropy isn't just about energy.  It actually is about order and yes, progression to chaos.  Just because the sun supplies energy does not mean you get order.  If you add energy to ice you get less and less order as the water melts and then evaporates.  The two are not equivalent.


In my previous post I listed lots of scientific evidence and arguments.  You never addressed even one.  You only bad mouthed my one mention of God instead of actually addressing the facts I gave.


It looks like you hear God and automatically ignore all of the other logical and factual arguments.  Sadly you won't look at evidence that suggests God.


For what it is worth, I appreciate your questions and comments.  They help strengthen my own beliefs by having me defend them logically and really think them through completely and not just in a superficial manner.


The universe is.

I think it is illogical to think that the Earth is producing all of this increase in order (as you previously implied must happen).  Do you believe that somewhere else in the universe everything is becoming disorderly at a higher rate to make up for all of the order being created on Earth?  That doesn't seem logically consistent to me.


I would define intelligence as the ability to sense the environment and make conscious decisions to change in response to that environment based on prior knowledge, experience, and logic.  This would not include instinct.  All intelligence starts with God, who always had the ultimate form of intelligence since he is all knowing.  He has created a much lesser form of intelligence in animals, but only humans have true intelligence, where all of the decisions are fully conscious.

In evolution there is not intelligence (particularly intelligence controlling the evolution).  Random changes happen by accident that predispose particular individuals to a better survival rate and those changes are passed down to future generations supposedly giving the next generation a higher chance of surviving.  Because there is no intelligence leading the mutation or the survival, irreducibly complex systems cannot be slowly mutated into existence.  They would have to appear fully formed.  A partial mutation would not give enough benefit (most of the time zero benefit or negative benefit) to be a survival benefit especially a significant enough benefit to overcome the normally harmful effects of the overwhelming majority of mutations.  Since >99% of mutations are harmful, only majorly beneficial mutations can realistically be selected for.  There are basically zero known mutations that fit this category, especially if you limit it to mutations that produce new information.  There are examples given of beneficial mutations, but every example, I know of, is a case of a loss of information that gives a creature a benefit in a narrowly defined environment, but reduces their ability to survive in diverse environments.


Get involved in groups who have similar values as you, whether it is gardening, btc, liberty, church, etc.  Being around people with similar priorities is your best bet.  Although I am a huge fan of marriage, don't rush it.  Getting attached to the wrong person can be worse than being alone.


Your response is unclear to me so I am not sure what you are trying to communicate.  I will ask, "Where do you think intelligence comes from?"


Another article that touches on the research, but goes into how a different theory and model of life has led to new experiments and new knowledge that is likely to change the way we look at biology.

It is like how nobody in paleontology looked for soft tissues because they assumed they weren't there because of the assumed age.  Once one person, Mary Schweitzer, found soft tissue, now people are looking for it and finding it frequently bringing into question the assumed ages of these fossils.

https://www.icr.org/article/14299/


Experiments on Mexican Tetra which have surface fish and cave fish subtypes, that are assumed by Evolutionists to have evolved to their differences, are being shown to quickly undergo changes to adapt to the opposite subtype.  This means they are designed to change through internal control mechanisms, not through random mutations that couldn't possibly happen this fast.  Some of the changes happen in the lifetime of a particular fish that switches environment.  Some changes happen in the offspring.  This would be expected if these fish were designed by and all power and all knowing, loving God.  They are totally unexpected if you believe in evolution.
#grownostr #christian #creation #evolution #science #bible

https://www.icr.org/article/14298/


Did you know that we are finding soft tissue (including proteins, collagen, and even recognizable cells & blood vessels) in fossils that are supposed to be millions or even tens of millions of years old, and yet testing strongly suggests that these tissues can't last more than thousands of years in the most optimal conditions (which don't exists outside of labs).  This evidence strongly suggests these tissues are not nearly as old as we are told they are, which in turn suggests that there is not enough time for Darwinian Evolution to be a viable theory.
#grownostr #science #bible #creation

https://www.icr.org/article/14297/


Except one of the best proven laws of science, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, states that all things go from order to disorder, but if evolution is true, then all things are going from disorder to greater order.  This has NEVER been observed.  It is unscientific and not based on evidence.


To add to this, one of the best proven laws in all of science is the 2nd law of thermodynamics which states that entropy always increases in a closed system.  In other words things go from order to disorder, but evolution is disorder going to greater order.  It is contrary to science.  It only happens when an intelligence acts on the disorder to order it.  In the case of a car or house, it is people creating the order.  In the case of life, it is God creating the order.  There are zero cases witnessed of information being added to a life form for benefit.  The few mutations that have been seen that give a benefit are due to loss of information that gives that lifeform a benefit in one particular environment (usually a lab) but makes it less fit in the general environment of the whole world.  Evolution is based on a desire to disprove a need for God and is based on stories.  Even the idea of natural selection is just replacing God with nature.  Nature can't select anything and definitely can't select a trait that will eventually lead to a benefit when combined with other future mutation.  Yes, a few mutations give a benefit, but they are losses of information, not gains of information.  Information (including the information in DNA) only comes from an intelligent mind.

With some handwaving arguments and millions of years, evolutionists can make evolution seem plausible, but when looked at in detail, it makes less sense.  Evolutionists have also pretty much given up on showing how nonlife can become life because all attempts have failed so miserably.  If they can't show that life can come from non-life then the whole theory falls apart completely.


If man is a chemical accident that happens by physical laws, why do you trust your observations?  They could just be random chemical reactions.  Why do you trust your logic?  Isn't it just random reactions?  Why do you even trust the laws of logic.  If everything is true simply by way of physical processes, why would you believe in logic which is of the mind?
 Why does every culture believe murder is wrong if evolution is just survival of the fittest?  Wouldn't killing off the weak be good if Darwinian Evolution is true?

In response to your last point about a universe popping into existence, if you know physics well, that is impossible.  Everything has a cause.  God is the first cause.  He works because He is outside time and space and isn't  limited by the physical law.

There are so many things in life that are irreducibly complex, that it is incomprehensible that these things could "evolve" even once.  Many of them are said to have "evolved" independently multiple times.  One irreducibly complex system that makes zero logical sense that it could evolve on its own is sexual reproduction.  Unrelated organisms can't reproduce together.  You would have to have a male something (particular species/genera/family) evolve a whole male reproductive system in the same location and at the same time as a female of the same species/genera/family evolve a whole female reproductive system through random mutations.  If you have studied the complexity of those systems, there is zero chance of that happening. It is illogical.


2 Peter 3:3-6
3Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” 5For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men."

2,000 years ago uniformitarianism was prophesied and refuted.


There are so many examples of irreducible complexity.


Those are some amazing Fall colors.  We aren't at peak color yet.  I love Fall, but our Falls tend to be super short.  It is not uncommon to have highs in the 90s and 2 weeks later have a freeze.  We have already had a freeze at my house in the river valley.


Nice seeing a wombat in the wild.

When I visited Australia for work (and took a few extra days for sight-seeing while I was there), I got to see a wallaby in the wild.  It was pretty cool for an American.  I also went to the Healesville (sp?) Sanctuary to look at all the unique Australian animals.  It was lots of fun.  I did make the mistake of walking through the flying fox exhibit at the end of day (dusk) when they were starting to wake up and move around which was a little disconcerting.


Most days we've still had highs in the 80s, although a cold front just rolled in so today is only supposed to get to the low 70s and tomorrow's high is predicted to be 58 F.  We're having large (45-50 degree) swings every day between the highs and lows.  It makes it hard to dress for the day.


When you look at text books they say one thing.  When you get to the real studies, you see the problems with all of the theories that are treated as fact.  Not only are almost all mutations harmful and almost all beneficial mutations only slightly beneficial (most, if not all, are actually lost information that makes them survive better in a particular environment, but less fit overall when considering all environments), so they cannot be selected for, but also DNA is so complex that many sections do one thing when read in one direction, another when read backwards, and yet another when you start reading in the middle.  A mutation that might be beneficial in one of those spots is pretty much guaranteed to break it when read in another way for another function.  Also the mutation rate is putting so many harmful mutations into the genome that, if we had actually been around for millions of years like we're told, we should have so many mutations that nobody should be able to live.  Evolution only makes sense when you look at it from a birds eye view and don't look at the details.  That doesn't even take into account how nobody has ever even gotten close to figuring out how the first cell came into existence.  One of the best proven scientific laws is abiogenesis, life only comes from life and not non-life.

Textbooks are for indoctrination.  They have lots of out-of-date science that has been disproven.


I love all your pictures of flowers.  Our flower season is pretty much over as we are regularly getting down to low 40s and high 30s.  I'm already wondering when we will be getting our first snow.


Last night we got some thunder.  My son doesn't like thunder.  My husband farted and my son asked if that was thunder.  I made the mistake of saying, "No, it was butt thunder."  For the past 24 hours, I have heard talk of butt thunder constantly.


Ignoring reality before and after socialism


Amen


We are told that ice ages are caused by cold temperatures, but there are major problems with that simplified view.

Cold air doesn't hold much water.  The colder the air, the less moisture it holds.  If you have very cold temperatures, you have very little snowfall.  To get large snow buildup, especially over a relatively short time frame, you need hot oceans (so you get lots of evaporation) and cool summers (like are caused after major volcanic eruptions put ash and gases into the atmosphere).  During the global flood, with the breaking up of the waters of the deep, when the crust split and moved exposing magma to sea water and causing massive volcanism (as shown in the geological record), you would get just these conditions, causing an ice age.

This theory actually explains the evidence better than the consensus theory.
#grownostr #christian #science #evidence #iceage

https://www.icr.org/article/14295/


We are sold socialism by being told it is about being caring when it is really about envy by the average people and tyranny by those in power.  It is as far from moral and good as you get.

True, free-market capitalism (not the crony capitalism/corporatism that we are told equates to capitalism) is the most moral system because all transactions are voluntary and only happen when both parties are happy with the transaction (whether you mean one person buying a good/service or if you mean one person working for another in exchange for compensation).  In true capitalism everyone wins and those who do best are those who best provide for others.

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I'm not the math genius that my son is, but I'm still a geek who likes reading on most scientific subjects, history, economics, the Bible, math, and gardening.  I'm currently reading a >1000 page book on geology and its catastrophic cause, a book on genetics and the link between races, "Traced", and Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion".  When I tell most people about what I am reading, their eyes either open in amazement or glaze over in total disinterest.  I look at it as "if you aren't learning, you are already one foot in the grave".  I just read an article about a study that said if you are over 50 and read >3.5 hours a week, then you are 20% more likely to stay alive over 12 years, so I guess there is some "scientific" evidence for my theory.


I can't understand people that ignore facts and logic.  If anyone uses emotion to try to convince me of something, I am so turned off, I sometimes ignore them out of hand even when I should consider it.  It is just so often that, those who use emotion instead of facts, are lying or are tyrants.


I have better control of my tongue than my facial expression.  I don't have a poker face.


This article talks about planetary magnetism predictions based on what the Bible says.  The article itself doesn't go into enough detail for anyone to judge (or even fully understand) the predictions.  The book mentioned at the end of the article, Humphreys, D. R. and M. J. De Spain. 2015. Earth’s Mysterious Magnetism: and that of other celestial orbs. https://www.creationresearch.org/store/products/bk%20-%20earth's%20mysterious%20magnetism?taxon_id=2 does a great job of explaining it and amazing you.  I've read the book and highly recommend it.
#bible #creation #science #geekout

https://www.icr.org/article/14293/


Some interesting research showing that Human & Chimp DNA are not the purported 98.5% similar.  Those numbers come from old, inaccurate testing methodologies, contamination, using human DNA as a scaffold for putting together DNA snippets, and throwing out DNA that is completely dissimilar.  The real number, reached independently with different methods by a Creation Scientist and an Evolutionary Biologist, is < 85% similar.  This is too dissimilar for Evolution to be possible in the time assumed based on mutation rates of humans and chimps.

FYI, this article is an easy read.  Other articles I've read on the same subject have given more details than are given in this article.
#grownostr #christian #science #bible #evolution

https://www.icr.org/article/14289/


He is in a math club.

When he started taking college classes at the local community college class, the professor had them do a group project (I think it was calculus).  He came home all surprised and said "I just found out that not everyone is excited about math as I am."  I am a geek and love math and science and history and stuff, but he makes me look normal.


I understand the old migrants not liking the new migrants.  I lived in South Florida for 7 years.  The first wave Cuban immigrants were hard working and frequently business owners (one of my closest friends were a Cuban couple that owned several Cuban restaurants).  The later wave Cuban immigrants were lazy, disrespectful dregs of society.  The first wave Cubans hated them because they gave them a bad name.  The first wave Cubans were absolutely wonderful people.  The later Cuban immigrants were leaches that destroyed everything they touched.  I've been gone for >20 years so I don't know what things are like today.


I think of many things, but your post made me think of my son who just went off to college to study computer science.  We were having a video call with him and asked for him to show his dorm room.  He spun the camera around to quickly to get a great view, but my husband asked if he had anything on the wall.  He said his roommate did, but he didn't.  My husband said he should probably have something on his wall.  My son replied, "what?  like the Mandelbrot set?"  That's how my son thinks and the rest of us are enough like that to know exactly what he was talking about.  I think my son is getting a Mandelbrot set poster for Christmas.


Exactly.  People can choose between not being paid as much as they want or not having a job and having nothing.  People are much better with a lower wage, but having a job rather than having no job and no income because the government mandated wages higher than what employers can afford to spend and/or higher than their productivity to that business.


Probably.  All I know is that the red color is fantastic.


Did anyone realize how beautiful tumble weed could be before it dies and starts tumbling?
#grownostr #nature #fallcolors

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A nice afternoon walk.  I love the fall colors even if they haven't reached their peak yet.
#grownostr #fall #fallcolors #nature #pictures

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A beautiful vine on my fence.  I don't know what it is, but it sure is beautiful in the fall.  The picture doesn't even do it justice.  The red leaves seem to glow.
#grownostr #fall #fallcolors
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I so agree.  I use leggings under my dresses to stay warm in the winter and to prevent pulling a Marilyn Monroe because of my windy location, but they are not pants.


I don't think the majority usually makes the right choice.  The majority are normally psychopaths leading the blind, mindless followers.


Me, too.

If we get away from the crowds and get as independent as possible (preferably as a group not just an individual or household) it gives us more time and more ability to see what happens.  The tyranny almost always starts with the big cities and the crowds because those in power can gain control of more people with less effort.


That looks like a great, peaceful place to sit and read God's word.


I think we frequently don't ask enough of God for 2 reasons.  We don't have a high enough view of God.  We don't realize how powerfully awesome He is, so we don't ask the big things because we don't have faith that he can accomplish them.  We also don't trust his love and feel like we are interrupting him or causing him too much inconvenience.  If we only realized how much He loves us, we would know that there is nothing He wants more than for us to ask for his help and if we only realized how powerful He is (able to speak time, space, matter, energy, and the whole universe into existence) and that He is not limited by time, then we would not doubt that he "can" or "has time to" do what we ask.

The only thing I would add is to ask for help with situations rather than ask for the solution because God's solutions are better than what we can imagine.  It is also good to say and mean what Christ said right before the cross "not my will, but thine be done"


I can't remember where I read it, but I recently saw a poll that showed around a third of Democrats would vote for RFK, Jr if he ran independent.  Since I can't remember where I read it, I can't make a good judgement on the quality of the poll, but I remember thinking it sounded valid.

Also, just because someone says they will vote a certain way in a poll doesn't mean that is how they ultimately will vote.


It is hard to know when things have gotten so bad that this is the only way left.  Nobody (or very few) want to get violent if there is another option and it is hard to tell the moment this becomes the only option.  Acting too soon is counter productive.  Being the only one defending oneself also rarely turns out well, but, at the same time, most won't have the courage to try until someone else does.


Although I believe both Trump and RFK,Jr both want to do what is best for the country, I don't know that their methods and personalities would work well together.  Trump acts on impulse and on his gut feeling.  Probably around 2/3 of the time that leads Trump to the right decision and the other 1/3 is a disaster.  He also refuses to ever admit he made a mistake, no matter how obvious it is, which makes me not want him as President.

RFK, Jr is a researcher.  He researches things to the nth degree before making a decision.  He has come to the right decision on probably everything he has researched, but doing this thorough of research takes time, so he can't research everything, therefore there are areas that he goes with his family history because he hasn't researched them. This can lead him in the wrong conclusion on those issues.

If the 2 could work together and if Trump could admit he can be wrong and can learn from others, they could complement each other nicely, but I don't think RFK would deal well with Trump's bombastic attitude and his split second gut reactions and I don't think Trump would have patience for RFK's slow, methodical way of looking at things or being corrected with facts when he is wrong.


I don't know why people won't trust individuals to make the best decisions for themselves, but trust government officials to make the best decision for people they don't even know.
#grownostr

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Stay away from aspartame.  Not only does it have some negative health effects in you, this study (in mice) suggests it can cause cognitive issues in your offspring.  The amazing thing is this study was done in males.  Somehow the negative effects are passed down to the next generation.

FYI, most people use aspartame to lose weight, but in Europe they give aspartame to livestock because it makes them eat more and gain weight, so even though it has zero calories, it is probably making you more likely to overeat and gain weight.
#grownostr #diet #weight

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/popular-sweetener-may-lead-to-cognitive-deficits-in-offspring-study-5498144?autoemail=ckkroeker%40yahoo.com&utm_content=&utm_term=


We already have a situation where the majority of people, who go to college, would be better off not going to college because many quit before getting a degree and many get degrees that don't have much benefit for the person (and definitely don't have enough benefit to justify the cost).  These people end up with massive student debt, that frequently hangs over their head till death.

Admitting students who are not good fits for college makes them more likely to be in this harmed category.  Honestly, some of these people, who are admitted to college and then drop out because they can't succeed, should sue the colleges for admitting them and entrapping them in debt.  That would teach the colleges to only admit those likely to succeed.  (This is true no matter the race or other category)

The university virtue signally is harming the very people they claim to be helping.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/universities-evading-supreme-courts-anti-affirmative-action-ruling-congress-hears-5500349?deep_link_sub1=article&source_caller=api&shortlink=5v7y28wp&src_src=Goodevening&deep_link_value=5500349&src_cmp=gv-2023-09-29&est=xRXSAd7yn1OqIPRZ9kbCaifDBXO5n8BIX/lrxMCSvDJ8eNzKoWRJ4SCY3M02CrI=


From Robert Malone email (with my comments following):

"This week, Biden’s dog bit another secret service agent. We all remember that “Major” bit people before. So, again -in the White House? Well, actually no. Biden gave that dog away in 2021.

This is a NEW dog - a dog named “Commander” - that was born in 2021. This is the Eleventh biting incident that we KNOW of from this young dog. In the four month period from October 2022 to January 2023, there were TEN biting “incidents” - sending one person to the hospital. They went to the hospital, AFTER medical treatment was performed at the White House. We only know this because Judicial Watch did a FOIA for that time period to discover if bites had occurred. These bites were from a one year old dog.

It is probably safe to assume that if there were TEN incidents in that four month period, there are other bites that we don’t know about.

THIS IS THE BIDEN’S SECOND DOG THAT WE KNOW OF THAT HAS TURNED EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE.

This is not normal.

Dogs that bite without warning is usually because fear aggression.

Unlike most other types of dog aggression, fear aggression in dogs has no warning signs. Because they will react only when they think that there is no other option but to defend themselves, these dogs won’t growl, bare their teeth, or snarl before they nip at their source of fear. In most cases, this behavior is caused by a trauma in the dog’s past.

Fear aggression is often caused by abuse (for instance, a dog getting physically punished or mistreated).

The fact that this is at least the SECOND dog that has developed aggression is not a good look for the Biden family.

No one should have to work in an environment where there is a large, aggressive dog that is biting lots of people so hard that it is sending people to the hospital.

In a normal situation (err.. that means you or I or anyone else), a police report would have been filed about an aggressive dog that drew blood long ago -particularly if someone ended up in the hospital. There would have been a hearing or a court case. A county official or judge would order such a dog euthanized as soon as a history of multiple bites was documented.

Heck, such a story would have made the local newspapers. Ten dog bites in a four month period!

What is wrong with these people? Responsible pet owners do not allow their dogs to bite at least eleven people! Seriously - I hope a presidential nominee takes this up as campaign issue."

The fact that Biden continually owns dogs that continually attack others suggests there is something truly wrong with Biden.
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"Too dumb to care" seems to describe the majority of the public the majority of the time.
#grownostr #memestr
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They are both corrupt, both liars, and both anti-democratic.  (FYI, you could put Russia & NATO in another kettle or pot.  There are no good guys in this war)
#grownostr #memestr #ukraine

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Jeroen 🫖🐸 じゅりよん


They have to lie about inflation.  There are so many entitlements tied to the inflation rate that the money, they are spending on entitlements, would infringe on the money spent on themselves and used to buy votes and campaign donations.


Anyone who reads how margarine is made will never touch the stuff under any circumstance.


If you look at the creation account in Genesis 1, the word used for God is plural.  The trinity is there from the very beginning.


The sad thing is that she keeps breaking the law with zero consequences.  She even still has her job which allows her to keep breaking the law.


Most people today think of children only as a cost.  Yes, they cost money to provide for when they are young.  Yes, they cost time as you raise them.  What they don't understand is the joy the children bring.  The joy of seeing your kids grow up and succeed and even become your friend.  They also ignore the fact that when you get old, having a younger person, who loves you, to either take care of you or make sure you are well taken care of is huge.  There are so many old people who either didn't have kids, or didn't prioritize kids that are now in a nursing home with no one to make sure they are taken care of.  They are treated as a number or an object with no respect.  I'm guessing many regret their decisions regarding children.  (I'm seeing this a lot as I saw my parents taking care of their parents and now my husband and I are having to do some things for his dad and my parents.


Well said.

As much as I like finding like minded individuals, it is also fund to find an intelligent, polite sparring partner.  Sometimes they can change my mind.  Other times it helps me to reinforce what I believe because I have to logically and factually defend it.  I definitely think it can be more productive to have a "sparring partner" even if it is more comfortable to be with those who think alike.


Sounds yummy, but I'd skip the mayonaise and the sugar.


My theory on food is that all food can be improved by adding cheese or chocolate (although I normally only eat chocolate that is >85% cocoa and normally >90%).  I have a drawer devoted to cheese in all 3 of my refrigerators.  I understand the desire to eat a block of cheese.


The IRS (government theft department) says it is creating a whole new organization to go after pass through entities in order to go after the wealthy.  The pass through entities they will investigate include general partnerships, sole proprietorships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and S Corporations.  The majority of all of these categories are small businesses.  It is easy to go after a small business because they can't afford expensive lawyers to fight the government tyrants, therefore the staff will end up going after small businesses for the easy wins.  The mega-rich have lawyers that will cost the bureaucrats lots of time and may even get the businesses off completely.  Bureaucrats almost always follow the path of least resistance and therefore small businesses are going to be harassed and even destroyed by these bureaucrats.

This is one more example of the government destroying the little guy while saying they are going after the mega-wealthy.  This is one more example of the government causing more harm than good.  This is one more example of the government saying one thing to the public, but doing another and most of the public knows so little about how businesses really work that they believe the government lies.
#grownostr #liberty #taxes #freedom #lies

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/irs-targets-complex-pass-through-entities-used-by-high-income-earners-5496186?autoemail=ckkroeker%40yahoo.com&utm_content=&utm_term=


The secret of tyranny is to teach people to never look for the truth, but to just receive it from authority.

The secret to freedom is homeschooling the next generation so they never get indoctrinated.


The truth can rarely be communicated in a catch phrase or sound bite, but that is all most people have time for.


Last night I was reading "The Great Controversy", a book that my husband picked up at a library book sale.  It was written in the 1880s.  There is a lot of good Christian insight, although I don't agree with everything.  This passage stood out to me last night.  The second half about those who have refused God is the more moving part, but I thought the whole paragraph was needed for context.

Could those whose lives have been spent in rebellion against God be suddenly transported to heaven and witness the high, the holy state of perfection that ever exists there, -- every soul filled with love, every countenance beaming with joy, enrapturing music in melodious strains rising in honor of God and the Lamb, and ceaseless streams of light flowing upon the redeemed from the face of Him who sitteth upon the throne, --could those whose hearts are filled with hatred of God, of truth and holiness, mingle with the heavenly throng and join theri songs of praise?  Could they endure the glory of God and the Lamb?  No, no; years of probation were granted them, that they might form characters for heaven; but they have never trained the mind to love purity; they have never learned the language of heaven, and now it is too late.  A life of rebellion against God has unfitted them for heaven.  Its purity, holiness, and peace would be torture to them/ the glory of God would be a consuming fire.  They would long to flee from that holy place.  They would welcome destruction, that they might be hidden from the face of Him who died to redeem them.  The destiny of the wicked is fixed by their own choice.  Their exclusion from heaven is voluntary with themselves, and just and merciful on the part of God.
#Grownostr #christian #saved #redeemed #choice #just


I don't want to eat genetically modified food, lab grown food, animal based food that has been given mRNA jabs, food sprayed/contaminated with chemicals, etc.  I'd prefer that none of this exists, but I can accept it, as long as our food is labeled.  I should know if my food is genetically modified.  I should know that my  pork was given mRNA jabs.  I should know that my food was grown in a lab or farm raised (like farm raised shrimp/salmon/etc.).  I should know if my food was sprayed with toxic chemicals, herbicides, and insecticides.  They I can decide if I want to risk eating it based on quality and price. (Mostly if not always will choose NO).  It is wrong that these things are snuck into our food.  If it is as safe and wonderful as they tell us, they should be proud and bragging about it.  The fact that the lobbyist work so hard to hide what is in our food strongly suggests they are doing bad/harmful things to our food.

I try to avoid this kind of thing by eating whole foods, organic foods, etc., but when they give mRNA jabs to organic pigs and genetically modify everything under the sun, I get frustrated.  There is very little at the grocery store that I feel I can trust to be healthy.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/in-depth-doctors-warn-of-the-hidden-harms-of-bioengineered-foods-5494344?autoemail=ckkroeker@yahoo.com&utm_content=&utm_term=

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/in-depth-doctors-warn-of-the-hidden-harms-of-bioengineered-foods-5494344?autoemail=ckkroeker%40yahoo.com&utm_content=&utm_term=


So true.  Well said.


When you can't explain away the crimes of you and your family, accuse those who exposed the crimes of wrongdoing as a distraction.


My husband and I were having a video conference with my son who is away at college.  I asked for him to show his room, since I hadn't seen it.  We commented that we didn't see anything on the walls and that he needed something on the walls.  His reply was "What?  like the Mandelbrot set?"  I love my son, but he definitely isn't a typical teen.

FYI, he got math student of the year at a local community college for taking classes during highschool, so he is really good at math and really enjoys it.  He also once had to do a group project in one of his math classes (calculus?).  He came home and told me, "I just found out most people aren't as into math as I am."  He is the ultimate logical guy.  He views everything through math and logic.  He understands things that most people don't, but has trouble with figures of speech that a 5 year old understands and he gets confused when people use bad grammar just like a computer given bad syntax.  He is studying computer programming with a double major in math which is a perfect fit.


Wyoming


Since kids, I care about some things that I didn't before.  I don't care about certain things that I used to care about a lot.  I am more careful when doing dangerous things.  I never used to think about what happened if something went wrong.  I just assumed I could handle it (and usually could), but now that I have kids, I think "what happens to my kids if something happens to me? (death or disability)"


The only state with a shorter time between last freeze and first freeze is Alaska.  The high was >80 F, but it went down to 29.9 F in the early hours this morning.  Being dry, we can get huge swings between high and low.

This is why I always grow my tomatoes and peppers in pots.  I can't get tomatoes (or at least any significant amount) before the first freeze.  If I have them in pots, I can bring them in, produce for a couple months, then they get all leggy and produce little to no tomatoes, but when the days start lengthening, I get spring tomatoes.  I start seeds and then replace the old tomatoes after a big flush.

I actually have twice had years when things went crazy and I've had tomatoes produce inside for 3 years even though they are supposed to be annuals.  They will continue producing, but not as well as the first year.


In Wyoming, we are lucky to get a foot all year.  In the summer through fall, we frequently get less than an inch, although this year we a little rain regularly into early August, so we are green compared to normal and some of our reservoirs, that are normally bone dry by July, still have water in them.  Four feet annual rainfall sounds wonderful until I think about what happens with our elevation changes when we get a big rain.

When I lived in Florida, if you got an inch of rain, there was a little less than an inch of water everywhere because the land was flat.  It also drained fast since the ground was mostly sand.  In Wyoming, when we get an inch of rain, we get damaging runoff and lowlands can have more than a foot of water.  There is one low spot on the interstate, that runs under 2 overpasses (one for cars and one for trains).  There is no place for runoff to go.  When we get a big rain, it is unpassable.  I've learned to avoid the spot if we get any significant amount of rain (> 1/2 in).


Rain would definitely be appreciated.  We actually got our first freeze last night.  Luckily I keep all my tomatoes and peppers in pots and brought them inside yesterday.  The weather forecast didn't predict a freeze, but we are in a river valley and sometimes the cold sinks into the valley and we get colder temperatures than in town.  It's a good thing I trusted my intuition.

I just picked the rest of my green beans and cucumbers that were in decent condition today before they got totally wiped out by night freezes.


I've seen the shrinking with my husband's father.  He was 6 feet tall and now I (at 5 feet 6 inches) am taller than he is).  He has Parkinson's and back degeneration including damage done from a failed back surgery that makes it so he can't completely straighten his back.  It is sad.

My Dad hasn't mentioned anything about shrinking, but I don't think he is as tall as he used to be, but I haven't had a way to double check.  He may have shrunk up to 2 inches (5 cm).


I don't know if it is the biggest threat, but I see flag idolatry as a major problem in the church.  Many (Most?) Christians get way more upset at disrespect of the flag or failing to say the pledge than they do over someone using the Lord's name in vain or damaging a Bible.

I've come to the conclusion that saying the Pledge of Allegiance is sin and idolatry.  We are told we can't serve to masters, so how can a Christian honestly pledge allegiance to the flag and to God?  As the US government becomes more and more anti-God, this becomes more obvious than it used to be.