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The title tells the ingredients for cooking now days if you're looking for a job like exactly half the men in my family. Tom still has his, but last week when we expected our mortgage to go down $100/month, it went up another $200--the escrow account, not an infamous balloon mortgage. We've only been here two years so they're jerking us around on the escrow. So I'm mentally hunkering down for some hard times--and finding a new mortgage company.
Here's a link to a 91 year old grandma's Great Depression cooking videos. Click on "Episodes" for the you-tube clips. I think I'll go with my own "3 Meals from 1 Chicken" recipe before I try her "Pasta and Peas," though. www.GreatDepressionCooking.com
Do you want me to give you the chicken recipes next week? I should have the chicken butchered and plucked by then and be well on my way to a feather pillow and making cardboard insoles for the holes in my shoes. Darn, I should have bought new underwear while we had the money!
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Lots of little writing projects. Today I'll apply for a task at the library for writing press releases each week. Thursday I hope to attend "Dayton Christian Scribes" and hear a writer speak on interviewing skills. On April 1 (appropriately?) I will present a workshop on blogging to a writers group in Lebanon, Ohio, if all our laptops and internet connections come together. In preparation I'm busy finding and evaluating 100 blogs for myself. It's a great learning experience, and will be a very fun, interactive and educational workshop.
WRITING UPDATE: Tomorrow is my writing day. Last week's went really well on "The Blessing of Suffering Women." I'm a little uncertain about the political correctness of the topic I want to touch on tomorrow, though. It's appropriate to the text in Ruth 4:13--"God enabled her to conceive." I just don't know if the world is ready for my opinion in this chapter which would be entitled "Our Illusion of Control." I think people really need to evaluate their thinking about birth control. I'm not saying it's wrong, but often the thinking and reasons behind it are wrong. I'll tie it in with Psalm 139, and show widows that God has knit us together, He ordained our days before we were born. Truly He knows our sorrowful days (and our job-hunting and mortgage spike days). How precious and vast are those thoughts!
Thanks for checking in on me.
The title tells the ingredients for cooking now days if you're looking for a job like exactly half the men in my family. Tom still has his, but last week when we expected our mortgage to go down $100/month, it went up another $200--the escrow account, not an infamous balloon mortgage. We've only been here two years so they're jerking us around on the escrow. So I'm mentally hunkering down for some hard times--and finding a new mortgage company.
Here's a link to a 91 year old grandma's Great Depression cooking videos. Click on "Episodes" for the you-tube clips. I think I'll go with my own "3 Meals from 1 Chicken" recipe before I try her "Pasta and Peas," though. www.GreatDepressionCooking.com
Do you want me to give you the chicken recipes next week? I should have the chicken butchered and plucked by then and be well on my way to a feather pillow and making cardboard insoles for the holes in my shoes. Darn, I should have bought new underwear while we had the money!
That
Lots of little writing projects. Today I'll apply for a task at the library for writing press releases each week. Thursday I hope to attend "Dayton Christian Scribes" and hear a writer speak on interviewing skills. On April 1 (appropriately?) I will present a workshop on blogging to a writers group in Lebanon, Ohio, if all our laptops and internet connections come together. In preparation I'm busy finding and evaluating 100 blogs for myself. It's a great learning experience, and will be a very fun, interactive and educational workshop.
WRITING UPDATE: Tomorrow is my writing day. Last week's went really well on "The Blessing of Suffering Women." I'm a little uncertain about the political correctness of the topic I want to touch on tomorrow, though. It's appropriate to the text in Ruth 4:13--"God enabled her to conceive." I just don't know if the world is ready for my opinion in this chapter which would be entitled "Our Illusion of Control." I think people really need to evaluate their thinking about birth control. I'm not saying it's wrong, but often the thinking and reasons behind it are wrong. I'll tie it in with Psalm 139, and show widows that God has knit us together, He ordained our days before we were born. Truly He knows our sorrowful days (and our job-hunting and mortgage spike days). How precious and vast are those thoughts!
Thanks for checking in on me.
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