Yearly Archives: 2009

Red Envelope Day

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Today is Red Envelope Day, a stand for Life! Do this simple thing today to send a powerful message.

RED ENVELOPE INFO
Get a red envelope. You can buy them at Kinkos, or at party supply stores – or make your own.

On the front, address it to:

DON’T FORGET YOUR RETURN ADDRESS. THEY WON’T BE DELIVERED WITHOUT IT.

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington , D.C. 20500

On the back, write the following message.

This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life was unable to offer anything to the world. Responsibility begins with conception.

Put it in the mail on March 31st, and send it.

from Red Envelope Project

What’s worse than…

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a dead skunk in the middle of the road?

A dead squirrel in your ceiling!

Want to know how I know?

For the last couple of months we’ve had an awful stench, that comes and goes, in our master bedroom closet. At first I just thought it was someone.  🙂  Then I removed all our shoes, and things from the shelves, and cleaned everything well, thinking there was a dead mouse in there somewhere. Nothing. When the smell returned last week, worse instead of better, I removed all of our clothes, as well as everything else, and put them in another room. The smell seemed to grow worse.

By this time the idea of a dead mouse in the walls was becoming a dead body under the house – well, at least a possum or a cat or something. Surely a mouse would have disintegrated by now.

While I was gone last week, after I’d removed everything from the closet, investigation began. First crawling under the house. Of course, our closet is in the far corner from the opening to get in the crawlspace. Nothing.

Checking the ceiling was the next idea, but instead a wall was torn out first. Nothing. Finally, the ceiling was pulled down. As the insulation was shifted around  —- down it came! some insulation paper with a dead squirrel in it. UGHHHH!

I’m glad I was gone.

Now – the ceiling is being re-drywalled, as well as re-drywalling and mudding of the wall.

My clothes are still in piles, covering the bed and desk in the guest room. My shoes are still in trashbags covering the floor of the guest room. Awaiting the repainting and applying of the trim in the closet.

But at least the smell is gone.

The pattering of little feet across the roof of the house isn’t near as cheerful a sound as it was a few months ago.

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Friday Food – Cinnamon Rolls

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fridayfood2.jpgGood morning! Mmm – to wake to fresh cinnamon rolls. Well, I’m not today. Off to a homeschool museum day, so quickly to the point today. [Post updated 3/30/09]

Lisa’s Honey Cinnamon Rolls

2 c. hot purified water (steaming not boiling)

1/3 c. raw organic coconut oil

1/3 c. raw honey

1 tsp. unrefined salt (Real®, himilayan, or celtic)

Put above into your mixing bowl.

Add:

approx. 4 c. freshly milled, organic hard white wheat flour

1 slightly rounded Tbl. SAF yeast (instant) (on top of your flour)

Mix and knead, adding enough flour to make a soft dough. (That is, add flour until it cleans the side of your bowl in a Bosch, knead in Bosch for approx. 5-6 minutes.)

Prepare “Carmel Topping” (above recipe makes 2 pans of Cinnamon Rolls – so prepare 2 pans as below.)

For each pan, Melt:

1/3 c. unsalted butter (organic, if you can)

1/3 c. raw honey

(Can use 1/2 c. each for a stickier, sticky bun.)

1 tsp. blackstrap molasses (can use 1 Tbl. unsulfured light molasses)

Stir together well.

Pour into 9×13″ pan, and distribute evenly across the bottom.

“Grease” your working surface, we use liquid lecithin /olive oil (see below).

Divide dough in half, and prepare each half as follows.

Roll out  on your greased surface, into a rectangle, approx. 1/4″ thick. Spread (smear) dough evenly with approx. 1/3 c. soft butter. Pour over that, and evenly distribute, 1/3 c. raw honey (you can also substitute 1/2 c. sucanat, if you wish). Sprinkle well with non-irratiated, organic ground cinnamon. Roll up (like a jelly roll,) slice into 12 equal slices. Place cut side down in your prepared pan.

Cover with a flour sack towel. Let rise until doubled (nice and puffy.) Preheat oven to 350°. Bake approx. 20 minutes.

Notes: Start milling wheat, while water is heating and you’re measuring first ingredients.

You can use milk substitute to replace water, if you desire.

Our “greasing” recipe: 1/3 c. liquid lecithin, 1 c. olive oil, mixed well. Store in a covered container. Use to grease pans and surfaces for dough handling.

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Read an E-Book

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This is Read an E-Book Week. How did I ever almost miss such an important event? Well, we certainly can’t let it pass us by without doing something, can we? So… here are some ideas to help you celebrate “Read an E-Book Week!”

But, before I give you some options, why eBooks? Here’s 5 good reasons.

  1. Time. No waiting around to get your books in the mail – or taking the time and money to go to the bookstore – to get started. Download today – and at many places, including all the free ones, immediately. Your book is only a click away.
  2. Space. Those books take up a lot less space on the computer than on the bookshelf.
  3. Security. Even when you print the book to read it, you still have a back-up copy on the computer, in case something happens to your hard copy.
  4. Availability. Many great old, out of print books aren’t available (are very hard to find, cost prohibitive prices, etc.) in hard copy. E-Books may be your only chance to get them.
  5. Cost. Many of these books are FREE, and others are cheaper than the hard copy would be.


Does this mean I think eBooks are the way to go all out? No. eBooks have their place and they have some great reasons to utilize them. But they also have their limitations and drawbacks. I don’t ever want hard copy books to be replaced by eBooks. But I’ll save that for another day, or you can read what I’ve written about it in the past, on my Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ blog. For today, we are focusing on the positive benefits, and some great ways to use them. Read on.

Me and My House provides many options for you. Currently we are offering a Sampler of Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory, FREE for subscribing to our FREE monthly e-newsletter. We also have a great sale going this entire month on the 3 L.E.D. HisStory e-resources. You have many other e-resource options from Me and My House also, for home education, home management, and Good for You-Naturally!™ nutrition. You don’t even need a holiday to enjoy these resources.

If you are into holidays there is one coming up in a week, and you can get FREE e-book resources to help you celebrate – and study them. Click on over to CurrClick and get Hands of a Child’s St. Patrick’s Day Lapbook for FREE this week. And scroll down the page while you’re there to get Living Books Curriculum’s St. Patrick’s Holiday Helper, also FREE.

But it doesn’t stop there. Anytime, any week, click over to our eBook site links page for a great list of websites where you can get great ebooks – FREE.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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What’s a Trillion?

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Does $100 cash sound like a lot of money to you? Perhaps not, when it doesn’t even buy a full weeks worth of groceries. Perhaps a thousand? It’s an amount you can picture, but still a pretty good chunk. What about 10 thousand? If you could get enough Franklins ($100 bills,) a stack of them almost 1/2″ high would give you $10 thousand.

Can you imagine a million dollars. That’s an awful lot of zeros, and you probably can’t really imagine that much as an amount, without really thinking it through. Let’s switch from money, to time. 2 weeks worth of seconds is a bit over a million. (1,209,600) That’s a LOT of seconds. A year is (about) 31 1/2 million seconds. 34 years worth will get us up to a billion seconds. (1, 069,286,400) So a billion seconds ago, perhaps you weren’t even alive. A lifetime of seconds, (for some of you – half a lifetime for a lifespan average,) and we have a billion. That’s ONE HUGE number.

Well, with all this talk about bailouts and stimulus for our economy, how about a trillion? My calculator gives me an error message when I try to compute it. It is not only to big for my brain to imagine. It is too big for my calculator to figure. So let’s just add some zeros. 340 years of seconds will get us up to 10 billion. Still quite a ways from a trillion. Add another zero. 3400 years worth of seconds – we’re talking roughly the time of King David. By the time you add another zero, you’re back to Eternity “past.” You don’t have to go quite to 34,000 years, because I’ve been rounding. A trillion is really “only” 31,688 years of seconds – give or take.

Would you like that in a different context? The speed of light is about 6 trillion miles a year, so 1 trillion would be about the distance light could travel in 2 months. No, your mind can’t even comprehend such.

How about in those dollars our government is talking about? Take a peek at what 1 trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills. Times that by 100 to think what it would look like in $1 bills. Or go the other way and see it in $1000 bills.

While you’re at it, take a peek at this on Obamanomics, where credit is thought to take the place of production. Good, simple econ lesson.

President Obama would have us believe that we can all spend the day relaxing in a tub while his printing press does all the work for us. The problem comes when you get out of the tub to go to dinner and the only thing on your plate is an IOU for steak.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Gen X Conservatives

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Alan Keyes answers Gen X “conservatives” who believe we need to leave Christian morality out of our conservatism, in order to advance it.

… If Generation X conservatives have a philosophical view of the world that rejects this understanding, they are not conservatives at all, at least not in any sense that Ronald Reagan or any other American conservative would comprehend. …

Read the whole article here.

Great Quote:

“Freedom exercised with respect for God’s authority is liberty.”

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Grain Mill Cleaning

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I haven’t had customers ask these questions, but my distributor sent this along, stating she gets asked it quite frequently. Here’s her suggestions.

The mill canisters are NOT dishwasher safe.  In fact, you really only need to use a dry cloth to wipe the canister.  Never wash the filters.  You only need to flick the filter to remove any residue flour.  Remember, water and flour make paste! 🙂

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Liberty Quote-of-the-Day

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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 – 2005 ~~~~~

CPSIA Meets Dr. Suess

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Yeah, really. Heather Idoni has written a poem, Dr. Suess-style, as a social commentary about the crazy CPSIA law. She also suggests you pick a current event or controversary in the news today and write your own Dr. Suess-style story. Go to Heather’s site to read this fun story about this not-fun-at-all situation we’re in.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Instant Refried Beans – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgNo, I’m not repeating the recipe from a couple weeks ago. I’ve been asked about another recipe I have for Refried Beans – the Fast and Easy Way!

Instant Refried Beans

Mill clean, organic dried, pinto beans in your NutriMill (or other grain mill that is designed to do dried beans,) at the same setting you use for bread flour, or slightly courser. (No, you don’t have to use organic, but it’s better for you if you do. Yes, you DO have to use dried. DO NOT wet them in any way before grinding. Just pick out any foreign objects.)

Boil – 2.5 c. purified water in a small saucepan.

Whisk in:

3/4 c. pinto bean flour

1/2 t. unrefined salt (Real®, himalayan, or celtic)

1/4 t. cumin powder*

rounded 1/2 t. chili powder

small clove minced garlic, organic – or scant 1/8 t. garlic powder

Stir over medium heat about 1 minute, until mixture thickens. (Lumps are fine.)

Reduce heat to low and cover pan. Cook approx. 4 minutes more. (Mixture will thicken more as it cools.)

Add:

approx. 1/2 c. organic, natural Salsa

Serve with fresh, corn Tortilla Chips or use as a burrito filling, in whole wheat tortillas.

Bon Appetite – whoops, forgot again – Ole!

*Note: Use non-irradiated spices. You can add a bit more salt, if you really must, and less or no garlic, if you want.

– adapted from Country Beans by Rita Bingham

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