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Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Wheres my crafty mojo gone?
For the past few days i have been really looking forward to having a play in my craft room, but no matter how hard i try, i keep hitting a crafty brick wall! I've looked at some of the most inspiring blogs for help, but when i sit down at my workspace, it just doesn't happen.
I guess we all get these days now and again, it's just not fun trying to get through them. So anyway, i had a bit of a play today and as well as making a huge mess of my crafty space, i put together a door hanger from a die cut that Maddy gave me.
More of a decor piece rather than to hang on the door. It didn't quite turn out how i intended, but it will do.
I really like the "ART" stamp that i got from Jennie at The Artistic Stamper, and i took apart a bracelet that i bought yesterday to use on this lace ribbon with some pearl brads.
Today i found a gorgeous blog owned by a lady called Carol, the blog is Alcoholinky and features absoloutely gorgeous crafty makes. It was there i got the idea of using gold embossing powder to finish the edges of this door hanger.
For something that looks so easy to make, you'd imagine my crafty space would be in the same state as when i cleaned it last night wouldn't you?
7 comments:
- Stephanie said...
I find taking a class, or pulling out a project from a class helps. Or check out YouTube or ITunes for crafy videos. LOVE your fruit.
- 8 October 2008 at 19:16
- Calv said...
Good idea Stephanie, i forget about all the great stuff on YouTube...thanks.
Cheers for taking a look at my blog. :)
- 8 October 2008 at 19:24
- Claire Mackaness said...
How can you say your mojos gone, thats lovely and I love what you've done with the embossing powder. I know the feeling though, I get very frustrated when I have a few hours to myself and then everything that comes out is c**p!
- 8 October 2008 at 19:40
- Calv said...
Cheers Claire :)
Well i've just had a chat with Maddy and she's given me a few pointers on giving it a bit of depth, so later i'm going to have a play with it and see if i can improve on it a little.
They do say that behind every good man is a woman lol. :)
- 8 October 2008 at 19:43
- maddy hill said...
calvin it IS gorgeous , but if your not happy with it , your striving to reach another level , which is good thing !!! !
by the way .... you forgot the "good" word before the "woman" word heheeee !
- 8 October 2008 at 23:01
- Susie Little said...
Gorgeoug work! Your Fruit is great too, brings a smile to the world!!x
- 9 October 2008 at 15:43
- Helena said...
It must be the time of year, the shortening days or something, cos I've been exactly the same, and know several others all saying the same on their blogs!!!
I tried to tidy up my stash a wee bit and that way came across a few bits that I'd forgotten about, which in turn got me eager to try to use them.
Mind you when I made my cards for a couple of challenges this week, I just wasn't into it and didn't like the results...
Hey ho!
FOund you via a project of yours on Carolyns' crafty place :)
- 14 October 2008 at 06:50


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Some folks get the call to go
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{Pony Girl -- Fun Home}
In 2010, in a small pasture in Lincoln, Massachusetts, broken-down rocking horses began to appear. The small collection has been dubbed "Ponyhenge" and has become a place for people to deposit their old hobby horses for a new life in this peculiar art-ish display.
Much like the real Stonehenge, no one knows the real story, but once one was left in the field more came. Their arrangement is changed from time to time apparently and a few even had knitted caps on on this chilly winter's day.
Amazingly, no one takes them away – the arrangement only changes and grows. The family whose land Ponyhenge sits on loves the attraction. They told the Boston Globe in 2015, "There was something lovely about it being anonymous, and now every time we go away, another one appears."
This may be one of the most amazing local sites I've seen. It was eery and beautiful. Sad and hopeful. A must see in Lincoln for sure!
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Stop me if you've heard this story before, but one of the Kardashians is being blackmailed over a sex tape. Plot twist: It's the mom. From Radar:
According to a source close to the Kardashian-Jenner family, Jenner was approached over a week ago by an unknown man claiming to be in possession of a sex tape starring the Keeping Up with the Kardashians momager.
"At first she thought it was a joke, because she knew it couldn't be real," the source told Radar. "Obviously she would never allow herself to be taped like that! Initially, she just ignored it."
"Obviously she would never allow herself to be taped like that" in reference to Kris Jenner might be the funniest thing I've ever heard. If the money was right, she would go fuck O.J. in prison and sell the footage to Vivid. There's literally nothing she wouldn't do for money.
But it soon became clear that her tormentor would not let go so easily.
"He called Kris more than one hundred times in the last seven days, from more than 100 different phone numbers," the source revealed. "He uses scrambled cell numbers. He called more than 25 times just yesterday (Sunday) alone! The man has been demanding money from Kris. If he's not paid, he claims, he'll release the tape."
Oh no, Kris must be so stressed. If only there was someone she could talk to -- a daughter-like figure, perhaps -- who was in the same situation in the past, but used it to her advantage to make millions of dollars. Nope, can't think of anybody.
As a result, the insider revealed, "The family has drastically stepped up their security and Kris had no choice but to turn all the information over to law enforcement and to [the family's private investigator] Gavin DeBecker."
In other news, the Kardashian family has a private investigator on staff. They're basically like their own little country. I wouldn't be surprised if they try to take over Malibu like it's Crimea.
It worked before.......
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You see, I've worked hard all my life to support myself, my family, and various mistresses and illegitimate children. Now, I figure, it's time to let the government do it. Why?
Because I can.
Do you have any idea how expensive it is to feed a houseful of hungry kids, some of whom might even be yours? Well, neither does the government, that's why they're so better suited for the job.
School supplies? I say, if the government requires us to send our children to school, then they should be required to buy the clothes, supplies, and breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that go along with it. How can I stay at home and make sure that the government workers in charge of upkeep on my home are doing their job if I have to be at a job? Having a job is not my job, that's the government's job.
The price of gasoline keeps going up with no end in sight, that's why I need the government to subsidize my gasoline usage. I need the government to pay for all the things I need, so that I can then buy all the things I want. I think the late, great country singer Jerry Reed said it best: "Who's gonna collect my welfare check / to pay for my brand-new Cadillac?" Who, indeed? How can I afford the new iPhone Cinco and iPad Extra-Absorbent if I have to pay for little inconveniences like electricity?
I see a bright future ahead. A bright future for me, that is. A future where I don't have to get up earlier than I would like to, to go to a job that I don't want to go to, to earn a paycheck with a good chunk taken out of it by the government so that they can then distribute it to other people. People I don't know. People who aren't related to me. People I'm not having sex with. I don't want a future where I have to pull my own weight, my friend. And neither do you. Want it for me, I mean. You wouldn't want that kind of future for me, would you? No, you wouldn't. Not if you could see me making my sad face. Come here, kids. Yeah, you illegitimate ones, too. Make your sad faces. See? You wouldn't want it.
Every morning when you go to work and put in your eight, ten, twelve hours, rest assured that you're doing a good thing. For me. An aging, aching me. A me who supported a bloated government all his life, until he realized that he didn't have to.
And, while I'm on the subject, I think I'm going to enjoy getting older. I already have my plans laid out for me. Besides doing nothing and being a financial drain on other people's tax dollars, I'm also going to steal. Why?
Because I can.
Hey, I'm an old man. what's the worse that can happen?
Best case scenario: I steal and get away with it. I have more stuff, and the excess stuff I have I can sell on eBay or garage sales. Preferably garage sales, because that way there's no paper trail.
Worse case scenario: I steal and get caught. In which case, all I have to do is act feeble and confused and they'll let me go. And if they don't let me go, I'll start crying. Nothing sadder than a pathetic old man crying. If they still don't let me go, then, when they're leading me away to the back room where they keep shoplifters, I'll fall. They'll then have to call for an ambulance for my personal getaway car. And, after all this, if they still want to have me arrested and press charges, I can sue them for roughing me up and pushing me, making me fall on the hard floor. And then they'll let me go because they wouldn't want the bad publicity. I might even get a nice fat settlement out of it.
That's what those jerks get for going against the new entitlement generation.
And, while I'm kind of on the subject, when I'm on the road, you'd better get out of my way. I'm having the government buy me a big, heavy duty SUV. The kind Al Gore drives. Something I can use to push cars out of the way when they're going slow in the fast lane. Before my retirement, I used to worry about silly things like insurance or how much a tank of gas cost, but since the government will be footing the bill, I say the bigger the better.
Where did I get this crazy idea? It's not so crazy, amigo. I first got the idea when the company I work for tried to fire me. I say "tried" because they didn't succeed. True, I'm bad at what I do, and the job I have is obsolete, but what does that have to do with anything? I've been a loyal employee for 7 months. That's a long time in the life of a Monarch Butterfly. My company, like my government, owes me. They owe me big.
When it came time to get rid of me, my supervisor made the mistake of being a nice guy. He called me into his office to save me the embarrassment of a Donald Trump in the boardroom moment.
"Jim," he told me, sadly, "I know this couldn't come at the worst possible time, what with the holidays and all, but we have to let you go."
I looked down at a piece of lint on my knee. He mistook this for crying, and walked over to comfort me.
"I really feel bad about this," he continued, "if there's anything I can do."
He put a hand on my shoulder. Before he could react, I ripped open my shirt, buttons flying everywhere. My boss stood there in shock. He couldn't move. Shock turned to disbelief when I pushed myself backward to the floor in my chair.
"Help! Help!" I yelled, mussing up my hair.
My boss moved forward to help me, and that's how they found him when my co-workers burst through the door to see what the emergency was. My boss. Standing over me. Reaching down to get me.
"Don't hit me!" I begged, feigning terror. "Please, don't hit me! I'm a bleeder."
My boss looked at all the convenient witnesses.
"No, it's not what you think," he tried to tell them, but it was too late.
My boss was fired on the spot. I, on the other hand, got my own office and a raise. And job security.
Do the math. Being a contributing member of society got me fired. Being a selfish jerk got me my job back. With a promotion. All because my company is afraid I might sue them. And I might. Why?
Because I can.
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Eskin, N., & Caron, J. (2017, November). "It's a lot of trial & error": Experiences of paraeducators supporting individuals who use AAC. Poster presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA), Los Angeles, CA.
Caron & Eskin (2017) Poster (Pdf)
Abstract: Communication partners play an important role in the acquisition of communicative competence for individuals who use AAC. For many children who use AAC, the paraeducator is a frequent communication partner. Interviews were conducted with paraeducators to explore their experiences in supporting AAC. The authors discussed major themes in their poster presentation, including recommendations and future research.
Paraeducators, despite often working with children with the most severe disabilities (Mueller, 2002), receive limited training on AAC use (Giangreco, Broer, & Edelman, 2002). Results show that in order to foster better communicative outcomes for students who require AAC, 79% of paraeducators feel that monthly training, education, demonstrations, and feedback on performance will be enhance their knowledge and understanding of AAC devices.


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The local area is full of great fairs, fetes and festivals coming up. Take your pick!
12 May – Richmond May Fair
10am – 5pm
A great tradition in Richmond, the May Fair has been an annual event for decades. Charity stalls outside, craft marquee, fairground and great family entertainment. Free entry, Richmond Green
26–28 May – Foodies Festival
11am – 6pm
Not only a great foodie bonaza but headline acts such as Toploaders and The Hoosiers playing live. Food celebs including Great British Bake Off stars baking live, Michelin star chefs doing demos and MasterChef champs running workshops. Tickets £5-£26, Syon Park. foodiesfestival.com
9-20 June – Hampton Court Palace Festival
Entry from 5.30pm
Picnic in the grounds before enjoying a concert in front of the lit up palace. The line-up includes Lionel Richie, Paloma Faith, Gary Barlow, The Beach Boys and Tom Jones.
Tickets from £49-£149. hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com
9 June – Ham Fair
A small, traditional village fair, with stalls, entertainment and dog show. Free entry, Ham Common
St Margarets Fair
7 July
Live music, stalls, entertainment, rides and sporting events such as football competitions and dancing. A much-loved event in the local community.
Free entry. Moormead, St Margarets
10-15 July – Kew The Music
6pm -10.30pm
The line up includes Jools Holland (of course…), Boyzone, Steps and The Human League – a bit of a step back in time, then. Party in front of the glasshouses in Kew Gardens.Tickets from £49. kewthemusic.org
14 July – Barnes Fair
One of the largest fairs in London – particularly now that Wimbledon Fair is no more. This year the theme is French to tie in with Bastille Day. More than 300 lovely stalls around Barnes Pond, with a wide choice of lovely things to buy. Live entertainment and fabulous food. Free entry. barnes-ca.org/barnesfair


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Talk:2008/12/07 Portland, OR
From NinWiki
In the bootleg-section Trent's HD-footage is mentioned. What isn't mentioned there is the fact that somebody ripped the audio off this and created a torrent called "Lights Over Portland" which can be downloaded from thepiratebay (just search for it) and burnt to CD (the download files are given in .flac-format).
This person also released a bootleg for 2008/12/12 Sacramento, CA called "Lights Over Sacramento" and 2008/12/05 Victoria, BC called "Lights Over Victoria". As you can see, all three shows have the same setlist but there may be differences in performance (unfortunately I've only got the Portland-show but I'm downloading the other two right now).
How about adding this? Is there any aversion to direct torrent-download-links? -RickLip


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Quitting smoking has substantial and immediate benefits for smokers of all ages.
Former smokers experience better health and live longer than continuing smokers, no matter at what age they stop smoking. The excess risk of death from smoking begins to decrease shortly after cessation and continues to decrease for at least 10-15 years.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation: A report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: US Department for Health and Human Services, 1990.
Doll R, Peto R, Boreham J, Sutherland I. Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years observations on male British doctors. BMJ. 2004; 328: 1519.


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Four tribal students conquer Mount Everest
Two more students would attempt to conquer Everest in coming two days
Nagpur: Four students of two tribal ashram (residential) schools Chandrapur, Maharashtra, created history on May 16 when they climbed Mount Everest.
They are the first tribal students from India to scale the tallest mountain peak in the world. These students hadn't heard of Mount Everest before the authorities approached them with the idea. They were among the 10 tribal students from various government asharam schools in Chandrapur selected under a joint initiative of Maharashtra Tribal Department and Chandrapur Collectorate called 'Mission Shaurya' to conquer Mount Everest.
The successful students are Umakant Madavi, 19, Parmesh Aale, 19, and Manisha Dhurve, 18, from Devada asharam school and Kavidas Katmode, 18, from Jivati asharam school. While Kavidas and Umakant reached the summit at 3:25 am, Parmesh and Manisha reached an hour late, Chandrapur Collector Ashutosh Salil told The Indian Express.
Salil also said, "Two others — Vikas Soyam and Indu Kannake will make an attempt for the summit on May 17 and 18, respectively. The four successful students will return to the base camp by May 16 night."
The collector further said that Chhaya Atram and Aakash Madavi had to return to Chandrapur after they suffered "altitude sickness." The remaining two Akshay Atram and Vikas Soyam may also subsequently attempt depending on whether mountaineering expert Shekhar Babu takes a favorable call after considering their fitness and weather conditions, he added.
All the 10 students had undergone rigorous training for 18 months at various places before embarking on the Everest mission from the Chinese side.


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Are you ready to make an INVESTMENT in yourself? It befuddles me when I see individuals fussing about whether or not their insurance company is going to pay for them to quit smoking. Is this just a smoke screen because they are just not yet ready to make the committment?
Most insurance companies consider smoking cessation to be preventative care and will reimburse their members 100%. I will gladly provide you with a receipt for insurance claim submission.
The IRS is specific that over the counter nicotine therapy products are not deductible, but my services are. The I.R.S. recognizes only one form of smoking cessation, Hypnosis! In fact, it offers a tax credit for smokers who want to make the change. That means 100% of the money spent on smoking cessation with a hypnotherapist is deducted from your income! You can write it off on your Federal income taxes as a "medical expense". Here's the link to the IRS site: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p502/ar02.html#d0e2004.
Why not get a large clear jar out on the counter now and label it with what you are going to treat yourself to during the fourth month after you have successfully stopped smoking with the assistance of Hypnotherapy. Imagine the jar filled with $10.00 bills. Quick, get the calculator out and figure out how much money you will have saved! Here in New York, cigarettes are nearly $10.00 per pack. If you are a 1PPD smoker that amounts to YES...$900.00. I bet you can find something nifty to treat yourself to, can't you???
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Prediction: The Replication Crisis will be Solved by Market Forces, not Academics
Social science is in an interesting place, especially my home discipline of social psychology. Traditionally, it has been practiced by scholars at academic institutions who are relatively unaffected by market forces, which meant that it didn't really matter to people's careers if what was discovered in social science was actually used, but rather that those discoveries were published in the right journals. A few enterprising scholars used this fact to build lucrative careers by simply inventing discoveries that nobody was going to check. Still others do things that are not fraud, but certainly increase the chances of finding positive results, that may or may not be generally true. Indeed, I think every scholar engages in some form of this, including things that aren't currently seen as biased like trying different stimuli/materials when your initial stimuli doesn't work (I've done this).
There is no top-down cure for this. We could (and perhaps should) strive for ways to make research more perfect, and worthy organizations are working on that. But social science research is never perfect, always requiring a sample that is biased in some way and some compromise as far as control, ecological validity, and measurement, and perhaps this is where the metaphor of trying to emulate "hard" sciences like physics fails. It doesn't fail because the researchers are less intelligent or careful…indeed working with human subjects requires more ingenuity. But rather it fails because while an experiment done on one rock most likely replicates on the next rock, human beings vary to much greater degrees. We don't all react the same to profound stimuli like the end of Romeo and Juliet, the election of a black President, or the sight of violence, so should we expect us all to react so predictably to subconscious primes or invented tasks?
I work as a data/social scientist because I believe in the utility and power of working using data on human behavior, but it is fundamentally different than experimenting on rocks or chemicals, in that findings are always probabilistic. You can make a lot of money and do a lot of good things based on probability…but it is not the same kind of knowledge as the knowledge that allows my car to start in the morning, my refrigerator to run on electricity, and your computer to translate my words into pixels on your screen, where near-absolute predictability allows those items to function.
Probabilistic knowledge is better dealt with in markets, as compared to the current peer review journal system. Social scientists actually study this. The journal system is not well equipped to deal with things that are not black and white as all it's constituent parts (what gets published, who gets authorship, who gets hired) are black and white. Markets let people make bets, hedge their bets, and come to some probabilistic version of truth.
Social science, whether social scientists are a part of it or not, is moving toward being a market, as far more data on human thought, communication, and behavior is captured by the tech industry than is captured by academics, and the tech industry is fully responsive to market forces. Statisticians and data scientists now publish far more knowledge than is available in scholarly journals. Most tech companies do thousands of experiments each year and bet real money on the outcomes.
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(From THE SURVIVOR; Volume 8)
Corn and beans have been staple foods for thousands of years. Those American Indians who farmed grew corn, beans and squash as the main elements of their diets. All three are easy to grow, are very productive, filling and nutritious. In fact. one could live on these three foods, and many have had to.
While researching this article I talked to many Southerners who remembered corn and beans as their mainstays as children during the Great Depression. Cornbread and cornmeal mush and beans were always there, regardless of their poverty, and they thrived!
If you have a supply of corn and beans you'll never hunger. Moreover, they taste good. They can also be mixed with any other food, adding bulk and flavor to the most humble meal.
To utilize corn you must buy it in 50 pound sacks for about $3.50 from your local feed and seed store. You'll also need a Corona Grain Mill. I sell them as a convenience to my readers since I make more profit selling only two books and books are so much easier to package and mail. So this is no hard-sell. I'm doing you a favor because I want you to own a mill. The mill will be among your most important survival tools.
When you get your corn, transfer it to two liter pop bottles, plastic bags, gallon jars, etc., as weevils will come from all over to eat it.
Don't bother trying to sprout the corn as it's most likely hybrid and so only about one grain out of ten will sprout and the rest will only rot.
With my Corona Grain Mill I can grind a pound of whole corn in five minutes. I put the pound in the hopper and set the screws to a very coarse grind which only cracks the kernels into five or six pieces each. Then I adjust the screws a little tighter to grind the pieces finer. Then again and again and once again. This makes grinding easy.
Since most recipes take a pound or less, grinding by the pound insures freshness. Of course, you can grind several pounds at a time but that's work. If you set up your mill permanently in a place of its own. you can grind routinely with no thought of time consumption or hard work.
A way I came up with to make the grinding easier is a box screen. This is a four-sided, bottomless box of 1 by 4 inch wood. Mine is 12 by 12 inches. I used regular nylon window screen as that's as fine as any bread flour or corn-meal needs to be. I simply spread GOOP glue generously on the rim and pressed the screen on.
I put a section of newspapers under the grinder head and put the screen on the newspaper and under the grinder head. After each grinding stage I shook the finer meal through the screen onto the newspaper and then transferred it into a bowl. This saved sending the finer meal back through the grinder.
You can also use the screen for anything else, as the GOOP gives the screen a permanent and strong bond to the wood. CORNMEAL MUSH
Your first project should be cornmeal mush. Consider, as you read, how cheap and simple it is to make. The best way to cook cornmeal mush is in a Crock-Pot. They cost about $20.00 at Wal-Mart or most other stores. They last forever and use only about 10 cents electricity in 24 hours. They cook slowly and will not burn the contents. You can start a batch of whatever before leaving for work and when you get home you'll have a fully-cooked hot meal waiting. The instruction booklet shows you how to do all your cooking in a Crock-Pot, cheaply and great-tasting. Get one! CROCK POT
Without a Crock-Pot you need a double boiler. Corn will stick hard over direct heat and so you must not cook it over direct heat.
A double boiler is simply two pots, the bottom one filled with water and the top holding whatever you don't want direct heat applied to. You can get double boilers cheaply at Wal-Mart, Sears, etc.. but a Crock-Pot is best.
But say you have a Crock-Pot. Put in 5 and half cups of cold water and pour in and stir 2 cups of cornmeal and a tablespoon of salt. You can add whatever spices or herbs you like for flavor or leave it plain. Turn the Crock-Pot on high and put on the lid. Then let it cook for 3 hours.
After one hour stir it well with a table knife and scrape off any cornmeal sticking to the sides, as that's where the heating elements usually are. Cornmeal does stick slightly in a Crock-Pot, but it's easily scraped off.
After the second hour give it another stir and scrape and let it alone. After the third hour, scrape and stir again and pour the mush out into a greased or Teflon-coated bread baking pan.
Let it alone for a few hours or overnight. It will then be set firm and you can turn it out on a plate. Then cut off quarter-inch slices and fry it golden brown and serve it with whatever else you have. It tastes good, is nutritious and filling.
Instead of plain cornmeal mush you can make scrapple. That's simply the mush with meat scraps chopped up and mixed with the cornmeal during the cooking.
You can't beat the economy of cornmeal mush. At 7 cents a pound for cornmeal ground yourself, 2 cups or 10 ounces costs about 4 cents.. What you get when it sets is just over 3-1/2 pounds of food for about two cents a pound! CORNBREAD
Now for cornbread. This is delicious and Southerners love it. It's among the simplest breads to make. It's baked in a greased or teflon-coated pan about two inches deep and 8×10 Inches or round in an iron skillet.
It's cut into slabs and the slabs are then cut in half and spread with margarine. Cornbread doesn't hold as firmly as wheat or rye breads so it needs half wheat flour for the gluten to keep it from being too crumbly. Cornbread doesn't lend itself to making sandwiches but it's bread all the same.
A favorite dish of mine since childhood is chunks of hot cornbread covered with pinto beans and the bean soup. Delicious!
To bake it you get together 2 cups of cornmeal, I cup of wheat flour, 2 tablespoons of bacon grease, cooking oil, melted margarine, etc., 2 teaspoons of salt. I egg, 3 teaspoons of baking powder and 1-1/2 cups of water.
To make a lighter loaf, substitute commercial white flour and milk and add another egg. This may taste better to some, but I like the cruder kind just fine.
Mix the flours and add the grease or oil and mix some more. Then add the egg and salt and mix some more. Now add the water and mix until smooth.
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. and add the baking powder and mix again. Then pour the batch into the baking pan and put it in the oven. Bake It for 45 minutes.
When this is baked you'll have 1 pound 7 ounces of extremely rich bread for a total cost of just under 20 cents. It's tasty, nutritious and very filling.
You can also make corn pancakes with this recipe. Use 2 cups of water so they'll spread, and fry them in bacon grease, etc., in a hot skillet like regular pancakes. When the bubbles in the middle of the cakes stay open. it's time to turn them. A couple of minutes later they're done. These are heavier than flour pancakes. Spread them with margarine while hot and they taste great with salt and pepper or even syrup if you're into sweets. These are the corn dodgers Rooster Cogburn carried with him as his mainstay while tracking Ruffians.
A pound of dried pinto beans turns into 3 pounds of cooked beans. At 40 cents a pound, dried, that's a little over 13 cents for a pound of cooked beans.
Pinto beans are best cooked in a Crock-Pot as they take quite a while and no one cares with a Crock-Pot, but in a kettle they might be forgotten and burn.
Nothing is simpler to cook than beans. If you only want beans but little or no soup, put in 6 cups of water and 2 cups of beans, plus a couple teaspoons of salt, a teaspoon of pepper, chili powder or whatever seasoning suits you. Cook on high for three hours and if they mash easily they're done.
Otherwise cook for another hour. Since a Crock-Pot doesn't quite boil, you can't overcook them, so an hour or more doesn't matter. If you want bean soup, use 8 cups of water. I'd like you to make and try everything in this article. You'll find it's ever so easy and you'll be surprised at how much good-tasting, nutritious and filling food you can have for so little cost.
You'll not only learn how to cook but you'll realize that you and yours will never go hungry, as will so many who relate to food only as it is processed and prepared by others. You'll then wonder why anyone would be so stupid as to buy commercial "survival food" for $ thousands when you can do better for $ hundreds and learn while doing it.
I lose patience with people who see such food as dull and unappetizing. Especially women. You go to a Mexican restaurant, or Chinese, or Italian, pay an arm and a leg for admittedly delicious meals. Yet you fail to see that they are all prepared with simple, inexpensive ingredients, most of which are described in Survivor Vol. 1 or just about any good all-purpose cookbook.
Any woman who considers herself a good cook is fully capable of making any simple food taste good. If she can't, she'd better learn.
People who are so dependent-minded that they must pay others to prepare their food are in danger of losing everything. Don't you realize that that attitude causes the average family to spend about 30% of Its income on food when they could eat better on about 5%?
Your family could eat better and put that 25% savings to building a family business which would make you valuable to your community. You could even afford a greenhouse alongside your home. Succeeding issues will teach you to grow lots of food in a small space and make more from a few hundred square feet of land than you can at most jobs. Also, it will insure your safety, as your neighbors will fight to protect their food supply, which could be you.


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|18th December 2003, 3:17 PM
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Marriage is a wonderful thing :)
I just had to say this about marriage. It's a wonderful thing! Two people who fall madly in love, spend more and more time getting to know one another, can't see their life without the other person, and decide to make a lifelong commitment to each other. It's a wonderful feeling to know that you have someone who has made this commitment to you before God and all your family and friends.
Just to think that I don't have to go through the dating process ever again is very comforting, especially after all the posts I've read on this forum. I won't talk about the hard work a marriage takes or the negatives that sometimes arise from living with the same person day in and day out because plenty of people have done that here. I just wanted to say that there are MANY positive aspects to getting married and staying married.
It astounds me how many people apparently weren't listening to the words that were said during their marriage vows. Go back and read them...over and over again.
Appreciate what you DO have. Think about how lucky you are to have someone to share your good and bad times with, to form a family with, to sit next to you on the couch and watch tv with you (or whatever), to be next to you in the bed night after night, to comfort you when you need it, to take care of you when you're sick.
Personally, I'm grateful for the little things, like having my husband wash my car for me without me asking, putting gas in it when it gets low, fixing things that need fixing around the house, helping me with home-improvement projects like painting, taking care of the yard maintenance, going with me when I walk our dogs, stopping off at the store on his way home from work to pick up a few things we need for dinner. It makes the other little things that are not so positive easy to overlook.
I realize that not all marriages are perfect -- and mine's far from perfect -- but nothing in life is perfect. Life (and marriage) is what you make it. Sometimes it takes all you have to give and more, other times you have to be willing to accept what your partner has to give. The more you are able to endure together, the stronger your marriage will become. You have to MAKE it work, not sit back and wait for it to work.
Okay, I'm stepping down off my soapbox now.
Maybe others could contribute what they think is wonderful about marriage.
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Re: Marriage is a wonderful thing :)
In no particular order, here are the things I think are wonderful about marriage:
- a partner whose values and goals are in line with my own
- sharing life's highs with
- someone to comfort or be comforted by during life's lows
- raising awesome children together
- sitting on the couch, drinking eggnog, and looking at our Christmas tree together (and forgetting about the argument over the lights)
- cookies in bed late, late at night
- being loved and accepted - No, make that loved and treasured for who I am
- back and foot rubs
- cooking for an appreciative audience
- growing old together
- getting to really know someone
- knowing what he's thinking without him saying a word
- someone to pamper me
- someone to pamper
- great sex whenever I want it :-)
- someone who never thinks I don't look good
- never having to go on another date
- finding my lid
|18th December 2003, 6:32 PM
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We do things separately, but we are always ONE.
Death scares me because it is the only thing that we won't be able to do or go together.
No matter what happens in life; good, bad or indifferent - I am only whole with my spouse and I know my spouse feels the same. Miles apart, or when we are with our own friends, or doing things the other doesn't enjoy - we are still connected. We can exist without the other, but we wouldn't be whole.
Even when we unintentionally hurt each other - it only hurts because we love each other and realizing that helps healing.
|18th December 2003, 10:22 PM
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Thanks for the replies.
Come on people - aren't there more "happily" married people out there than this? Let's show the positive side of marriage.
|18th December 2003, 10:42 PM
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Well, I am happy, but can't think of any statements like yours.
You guys covered alot of it.
|19th December 2003, 10:41 AM
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sure it's wonderful if your husband doesnt have o/w
|19th December 2003, 2:27 PM
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Personally, I'm grateful for the little things
like him making sure your car is in good running condition when you have to go somewhere far from home, or giving you his last $20 for that trip because he doesn't want you to worry about not having enough money ...
or my favorite: climbing out of bed on a cold morning to warm up your car and defrost the windows so that you can stay in bed a little longer.
I never thought I'd be married, much less like it, but I can certainly say that I can't imagine going through life without my husband. He laughs at my stupid jokes, he gets silly with me ... he's my friend even when I'm pissed at something he does. It don't get any better than that!
|19th December 2003, 7:42 PM
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So true Quank. It's great to have little inside jokes that only you and he know about and can get silly over. We have four little dogs that are like our second set of kids, now that ours are grown, and we watch everything they do and just think it's the cutest thing in the world, when other people are just shaking their heads and thinking we're crazy for even HAVING four dogs. It's nice to have someone who puts up your eccentricities and gives you unconditional love.
|21st December 2003, 10:50 PM
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Hey Cindy...
I saw this post yesterday and decided to think about it for a day before responding. I've come across some interesting studies about the benefits of marriage. Unilaterally across different cultures, marriage is good for us.
Married people are generally happier, healthier, live longer, make more money, manage the money they make better, have lower rates of suicide, depression, illness, accidents and alcoholism. They have sex more often (WOOHOO! Of course, you would think this would just go without saying but there as been bona fide research on this topic).
Now, as for the state of my own marriage, as with any marriage, it is far from prefect. But is still wonderful. I'm happy and content with my life and my sweetie.
I'm most grateful to him for his loving support and encouragement. When I was thinking about going back to college part time to try and finish my degree, he gently nudged me, boosting my confidence to do it. Since we both work, he picked up the slack at home. He cooks, cleans, and does the laundry. He will make me dinner when I come home late from a class.
When I'm sick or not well, he pampers and pets on me, trying to make sure I'm taken care of and he has done what he can to make me comfortable. With his actions, as well as his words, I know I have his support.
At Christmas time he goes out his way to make sure I have a good Christmas with thoughtful (not necessarily expensive) gifts. He does this because he knows I do not have good Christmas memories growing up. As adults, my brothers and I stopped celebrating for a long time for various reasons. He is a big reason why I starting celebrating the holiday again. He frets, plans, and generally just all that he can to make sure I have a great Christmas morning.
I love him. He loves me. He will be there for me, no matter what. Just knowing I don't have to face anything alone and I have him by my side just makes the world a saner place.
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
|28th December 2003, 4:30 AM
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There are hundreds of reasons I love being married but the main one is that I feel so complete. I realize that sharing my life with my wife and children is really all I need in life. I will probably never be rich or famous but I have something that is way better. I wake up every morning knowing in my heart that I don't need anything else to make me content. I have made a ton of mistakes in the past (This is not my first marriage) and because I'm human I will probably make lots more and I'm not pretending my marriage is easy, Lord knows we've gone through rough times but when all is said and done I can't imagine anything in life being as rewarding as a good family, especially when you have learned to work hard to maintain it. I love being married and could not imagine life being satisfying any other way.
|28th December 2003, 6:38 AM
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o, cindy, i loved this post and subsequent responses so much i printed it out...and made me rethink. i am now engaged, by the way. (as of boxing day) i showed it to him a bit after the question i thought was coming, and it was a neat moment. the proposal was mellow, but we can't wait to grow grizzly and mellow together, and we are ready to face the challenge of his family, etc, to get the basic beautiful rewards that you have found.
to make sure we're ready, we're going to take all those classes together, financial, marital, social, dancing, etc. anyway, thanks, your post made a real difference in my thinking. i'm kind of embarrassed to post this after all my single girl posts, but i wanted you to know.
|28th December 2003, 10:27 AM
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i am now engaged, by the way
Wow, Jenny!
You'll hate the cliché, but congratulations all the same. I'll be more eloquent when I've actually been awake long enough for brain to kick in.
I've been wondering how that all worked out! Great idea to do the classes and all; they are very helpful. You're both bright sparks and, I'm sure, will have plenty of good sense between you to work things out when they arise.
Wishing you all happiness
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creatures, let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
|28th December 2003, 2:09 PM
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[color=violet]YEA, JENNY!!!![/color]
yours is a wonderful bit of news to share, and I'm excited for you and your love monkey. After reading the posts after the one I put up there, I realized what Lovetolearn and GaSongbird have posted rings true: marriage makes you realize just how precious that person is, how (s)he completes your life and helps you stay sane when your world seems to be falling down around you.
what are the words to the Peter Gabriel song? "In your eyes, I am complete I see the doorway to a thousand churches " I think marriage is very much like that.
best of luck to the two of you!
|28th December 2003, 11:36 PM
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That's great news, Jenny! It sounds like you are truly happy and secure in your decision. Best of luck to you.
The hard times make the good times even better.
|29th December 2003, 12:22 AM
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Thanks to all for the inspiring words in this post. And good on you Jenny.
As one planning to marry my current partner some day, I find the positive words so encouraging. It also makes me realise what I already have, in sharing my home and life and dreams with my man.
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Aside from the great characters, M. Leighton has crafted an incredibly compelling storyline with All the Pretty Lies. With both of our main characters keeping secrets, I couldn't help but be constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. While I anticipated the truth coming to light, M. Leighton kept me invested with the emotional aspect of this book and the developing relationship between Hemi and Sloane. All the Pretty Lies was well paced, only really hitting a short lull in the story once. Each turn in the plot added to the tension, building up to the moment when Hemi and Sloane's lives would change all over again. When the truth about Hemi's appearance in Sloane's town comes to light, M. Leighton does not disappoint. She skillfully delivered the emotional blows, making my heart ache for Sloane and unexpectedly, for Hemi as well. All the Pretty Lies was an emotional rollercoaster, the pages filled with lust, humor, uncertainty, loss, defiance, and love. M. Leighton has expertly captured the angst of new adulthood and the all-consuming nature of fierce love. I'll definitely be back for more from this talented author!
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