I get the sidecar ! Cycles are not my thing in life. Annie, have you seen that old show ? They were funny. What was said about the butter, lard, etc. is true. I was figuring you were freezing things ahead. Are you getting help with all of this ? I would come over and help if I could ! Me, I am getting ready for food preservation training lessons. My ! What a lot of work it takes to put these on. We have a very large class this year. So much interest in food preservation now. I need to make some jerky and a few things, but they have to wait a bit. I am also taking that course online from the Univ. of Idaho. One word of warning about the Homestead Blessing Videos, they do contain some unsafe things. I emailed them, and I was nice about it, but I did tell them they were not safe canning procedures. I don't remember exactly what they were. I did not hear back from them. I hope they have some liability insurance since they are selling DVD's. They seem like nice ladies, though.

I don't see any crazy here ;) Radical? Why? Because we won't be led like sheep into our graves? Decisions made by WHO(M) for us, whether we like it or not? It is all MARKETING. The big vaccine hoopla - the meds - it is to make money for the STOCKHOLDERS ONLY. Be it by commercials on tv, or ads you see EVERYWHERE! MONEY MONEY to be made. To pay off the FDA, the AMA, etc. Trust me. Bush never required the gmo people to test before allowing. Neither is this president. So guess who is the guinea pig? YOU! guess what HIS family eats? ORGANIC. Just like mine. Gmo is in ALL corn *and corn is fed to cattle to make them fat! Soy. Unless it is organically grown and fermented just pass it up. CANOLA - who in their right mind would even touch this one? Soon to be rice - cotton - etc. There is NO stopping it. Problems are being seen and they are being hushed. We can NOT travel by air without molestation. We MUST obey to take a vaccine due to Health care? what? what if we are allergic? What if we give the disease now to someone else since we have been injected with it? Soon all of our rights will be taken, or so it seems. Be careful out there. Don't be so quick to believe what you are being told. There is google. There is research. They claim vaccines build up your immunity by giving you either the LIVE or DEAD virus? Well, what is homeopathy then? But each doc will tell you THAT is crazy. Why, because they can't patent it and make billions off our deaths? Open your eyes, soon. Please. Do NOT accept the MARKETING

Single here so that is not much of a challenge for me when cooking on a daily basis. When entertaining or having a party I cook what I like, some may not like some of it but there is always plenty of other options to pick from. My group is picky so I try to offer a couple of options if it is a big dinner or party....but I do make things I like as I will be eating the leftovers. The few things that come to mind tonight are Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for my nephews...they love them but I can't do raisins in anything. Their DM isn't a baker so I treat them when I have time. I have a BIL that loves cornbread dressing and greens for TG. I add that to the must have sides when he is here. The dressing is okay but I'll pass on the greens...I think they are collard greens...not sure as I have to google for a recipe everytime...lol! I'm sure there might be a few other things I make for a friend or family member but I can't think what it might be at the moment. David

The biggest problem many people have with understanding dogs is they simply insist on maintaining dogs have human characteristics. They actually believe dogs have some of the same atributes and skills that humans have. Dogs can learn amazing things. Now and then there arises an amazing dog---my son/DIL had one of those amazing dogs. He would sit and listen to you explain something, nodding at correct maments and wagging his tail appropriately. People swore he could understand English. Not so, he simply picked up on facial movements and body cues----what was said had not impact---I could speak gibberish and he responded the same way. Dogs react to very sublte body movements/voice inflections/posture---because their instinct tells them to do that with other dogs---that is their basic communication. Dogs simply have learned to transfer the same basic signs fom dogs to humans. I raised/trained horses for 20 years---I have heard stories of how horses could do amazing things---think like people/etc. Horses could learn---but they could not reason. I believe dogs can be changed much faster than most other domesticated animals---breed standards have changed for some in thirty years. That applies to cognative abilities as well. The average stray/loose dog today does often look both ways when crossing a street. That is not reasoning---it is selective instinct. Counrty dogs do not do that. Did you know city squirrels run across an open area differently than country squirrels? City squirrels run a more straight line---while country cousins run zig zag lines. Reason---selective breeding instincts---the squirrels in the city do not have hawks/foxes as preditors---requiring a zig zag path to evade capture. The straight runners do not get hit by cars as much. The current issue of National Geographic has an article about Darwins discoveries and the things scientists have learned about natural selection since his theory was published.