Wow, granny, you must be tough as nails! Having to go without heat in the winter is no picnic. I’m still complaining about a transformer blowing early in the morning and the heat being out all day, several years ago! lol. That was when I learned what a “three-dog night,” well, make that “three-dog day” meant. Three dogs was what I had, and they all ended up in the bed and under the covers with me, trying to keep warm. I thought I would have frozen without them. Well, it WAS very cold that day! That’s also when I learned to always have an alternate source of heat if you live in an all-electric house.
And you go through all you do without complaining. We could all learn some good lessons from you.
I’m having a hard time keeping up with all the good articles you are posting. I have to check nearly all of them out, so don’t have time to post much myself right now. I especially like the old recipes (not to mention the new ones). I have been steadily printing things out from this thread. I’m so glad you started this.
Thank you for the kind words.
It is fun to at last share some of the types of things that i have found over the years............
When I first went on the internet, the old computer that I had traded for, had no memory, so I printed everything..........about 50,000 pages, now sitting in boxes and they will be there when I am gone, as now I can’t use the strength for using hole punchers.
See I do complain, too much, but when there is nothing to be done, you simply go on and do what is to be done and ignore the rest.
That I am here is miracle enough, I run on the prayers of a bunch of Freepers, it was a blessed day that I followed a link to Free Republic.
Do you remember the Lady in Idaho that got into a stand off with the local cops and the kids and their dogs held the cops at bay for a week??
I was on the side of the kids and mom and in following links, came here.
I think of life like a baby’s diaper, never saw any fun in changing them, but did it ..........
There is a hint to be had in any thing, I was visiting an Aunt and it was a messy diaper to change, she said let me help, took the baby, turned on the water in the sink, stuck the baby’s bottom under the warm water and had it clean in seconds, no muss, no fuss.......
I am always shocked to find out that other people did not live their lives as fully as I have.
I have no conception of what a sheltered life in a secure home, would have been like, or what I would have been like with a real education in school and college.
I quit school, 3 weeks into the 10th grade and got married.
When I was 21, I found out how dumb I was and started reading books, instead of True Story.
Now, I read the internet and am thankful for it, but I still have hundreds of books.
The reason that I dig into history so much, is that they as a rule did not go to the store a lot and learned to make do with very little.
For a while, during the depression, we were eating wild gourds and cooked them by using dry cow patties, [the dinner sized plop of manure, found on the range], not unusual at all, I have read the pioneers used buffalo patties for cooking.
I have not as an adult, cooked with cow patties, but do have a couple of small pots, that we experimented with firing the clay with manure, which is the Indian method in the old west.
Laughing, at my self and the way my mind never settles for one subject, a problem that I have had all my life.
[I had this one open to send alone.....smile]
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/03/03may26h.cfm
Persistence in Building a Home-Based Business
by Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A.
I’ve thought a lot recently about the value of persistence in building a home-based business. I had to go to the dictionary to make sure I had it right. The dictionary says that persistence is to “go on resolutely in spite of difficulties”.
The word “resolutely” seems to me to have an aura about it that is not very cheerful. Starting, maintaining and building a home-based business should be fun! Call that concept “resolutely having fun.”
But I’ve made up a list of my own that inspires me. Here’s the list:
* not giving up
* not giving in
* moving forward
* shifting priorities
* learning
* shifting tactics
* enthusiastic
* good self-esteem
* belief in purpose
* good mental health
* handles rejection with aplomb
* looks to the future
* advances towards goals on a daily basis
Gee whiz! I’ve made a list of new definitions that fit me! What a good idea! Make up your own definitions of success when you don’t want to fail. And you can be resolute if you wish. I am “resolutely having fun!”
Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A. (doitnow@nwinfo.net) helps people get back into the working world. If you’re stopped in your tracks and not sure which way to go, contact her and start making progress again. Contact her for the answer to one free question.
[Sounds like survival to me...granny]