Some Help For Our Military People

"The Fighting American. There's no better Soldier.
Bernard Iammatteo, Korean War Veteran, 2002

 

My sister sent this to me she had posted it on face book it is concerning my nephew. It is horrible that our government will not feed breakfast ( The most important meal according to that same government) to our troops on the front line, that are risking there lives for all of us. My sister is asking for help for my nephews unit and any extra that is received will be passed on to others in that battalion. All help will be greatly appreciated

Ok friends and family, I normally wouldn't ask this but I need y'alls help in this mission of mine. That is to assist my son and his unit that has been deployed to Afghanistan here recently. After talking with him last night, he mentioned to me that the only meals that they are getting is lunch and dinner. No in between meals or breakfast is being supplied anymore. When they are on a mission and don't return at the allotted time for meals time they don't get a meal. So any help would be so, so appreciated to send out food care packages to Chris and his unit. If any extra packages are sent they will be forwarded to others in his Battalion. All Non perishable foods will awesome (pop tarts, trail mixes, dried fruits, are some examples). His address is as follows: Lobato, Christopher, TF Pacemaker, HHC 864th EN BN, Fob Sharana, APO AE 09311. You can go the PO and pickup Military APO large mailing boxes. Your help would be so greatly appreciated in more ways than one. God Bless and Thank you!

　

Even if you do not send to Chris’s unit, if you know someone overseas in the military send to them, these guys need to know that we support them.

Our government never ceases to amaze me any more, I can not believe how stupid and incompetent they are getting with each passing day.

Now This is Poor

 

 

My brother sent this to me and I just had to share. When things get bad I will have to remember they could be worse.

 

 

 

 

Have you ever wondered where phrases like “Piss Poor” and “Raining Cats and Dogs” came from? Well here ya go!!

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".

But worse than that were the really poor folks who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the “lowest of the low”.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained, it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly
vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old“. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat“.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a “wake“.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, “saved by the bell” or was “considered a dead ringer“.

And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring?!?

 

 

 

 

 

Concealed Hand Gun Class

Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.



　
I hope I don’t step on any toes here, but I highly believe in the 2^nd Amendment. If you have questions or do not understand it as well as you would like or want to be able to answer others questions when you are defending the 2nd Amendment you can go here
 http://www.nraila.org/second-amendment/the-second-amendment.aspx    They explain a lot of the issues concerning the 2^nd Amendment.
That being said we took a concealed handgun class this week end it was great I learned so much. I would highly recommend everyone one take this class even if you do not plan to carry concealed you will learn so much.
This was one of the print outs that we got.

A FEW RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM by M. L. McPherson

Why does freedom exist for us now? As we look back along the distant tendrils of recorded history, we note the conspicuous absence of one thing.... In those thousands of years and throughout those hundreds of “civilizations,” we see mirrored practically every aspect of modern society, good and bad alike. We see war, famine, oppression, strife, and grief. We see advances and setbacks. We see literary, engineering, artistic, and scientific marvels. We see the continuing inevitable overall advancement of knowledge.
What we do not see is the existence of personal freedom for the masses. In fact, throughout recorded history and throughout the world, until about three hundred years ago that little feature of human existence was never seen anywhere.
Now, one could argue that personal freedom is highly overrated but that debate is not my purpose here. Technically, that point is moot. For the purposes of this treatise, I will hold that nothing could be more precious. Those who do not agree have a different battle to fight.
What was that magic potion that changed the face of history, so that, sometime around three hundred years ago, we began to see individuals who were able to claim their right to personal freedom? The answer would astound many modern scholars, if only they would bother to study history in the cold light of facts. That magic potion was in the form of cold hard steel. In that era, for the first time in “civilized” history, the average individual could afford a means of defeating the armor, and therefore the hired and trained mercenaries, of the wealthy few. How so, you might ask? The answer: The Gun!
At that time, the advent of the steam-powered, external combustion engine for the first time ever provided an effective means of ridding mines of water. That little detail was crucial to the nascent industrial revolution. With that revolution, the price of guns and ammunition components plummeted.
As a result, for the first time, the average citizen had a chance of affording a weapon that was capable of defeating armor. Of course, then as now, the ruling elite fought tooth and nail to try to prevent the average subject from owning such a weapon – in that era, the reasons for that legalistic oppression were somewhat more obvious to the average person.
It is a fact that, without the affordable gun, freedom for the masses would never have happened. It is equally a fact that as soon as the masses lose that means of preserving their God-given rights, freedom will perish, as has repeatedly been proven throughout this modern world’s brief history.
Those who gnash their teeth in response to all the supposed carnage brought about by the “evil gun” continue to ignore all the vastly more damaging facets of a free society. But I shall not argue that point, as I find it an exercise in banality. The point I will argue is the undeniable fact that we have a choice: We can choose to live in freedom and accept that such liberty must needs be include a certain admixture of evil and bad; else, we can choose to live in a police state, for there is no enduring in-between condition. My standard statement is thus: "There is a price to pay for freedom. Society is either willing to pay that price or it is destined to suffer under the inevitable consequences… a Police State or worse”
This article reprinted from the SHOOTISTS' NEWSLETTER Holiday Issue - 2003




　
On February 23 2013 Wayne LaPierre gave a speech titled The Real Consequences of Universal Background Checks you can link to it here.

And if you are not member of the NRA I highly recommend that you do so. I know they have a few issues, but as someone said you will always have issues as long as you have people in your organization. They are the only reason that we still have gun rights in this country and they need all the support that they can get, now with all that is going on in the government. If you are not a member you can go here to register it is 35 dollars for a one year membership.

I know this is kind of long and if you link to the two other places it is a lot of reading but I think well worth the time.

We all need to be aware of what our government is doing ,to not only the 2^nd amendment but to all of them they want to act as though there is no constitution, and when we let them get away with it we will be lost and we will never again be the great nation that we have been.

　
　

Going to get corn stocks

 

 



We have been feeding the cows corn stocks from the Ute farm to help stretch the hay. The cows seem to like them and it sure has helped. We went last Wednesday to get some.

 

 

I love this bench it is outside the office. It is hares to see in the picture but it is very detailed the bear corn stacks and sunflowers are on the sides.

 

 

They have several stacks like this all over the farm.

 

 

 

I love this loader, wish we had one it moves these bales so easily and quickly.

 

 

They loaded two at a time.

 

 

 

We got four in front and four in back.

 

two on top

 

for a total of ten.

 

all strapped down and ready to go.

 

We are hoping to go next Wednesday to get one more load.

Week 11 Self Sustaining Pantry

We are still working on counter tops so it has be hard to get much done in the kitchen ( They are stating to look so good).

Did get a dehydrator full of potatoes.

Went after corn stalks for the cows, they sure have helped to stretch the hay.

Got 8 bottles of saline solution for our contacts ( The girls and I all wear contacts) for storage.

I signed up to sell Young Living essential oils I use so many oils I figured I should try to sell some to try and help pay for what I use.

　

A friend that works for a slaughter house brought me about 50 pounds of beef fat I got all that rendered down.

I have taken a 400 dollar cut in pay so I will be trying to find more ways to save money. One thing I am going to do is start paying more attention to my electric usage I should get the new electric bill in the next couple days and I will look at the usage and start trying to lower it. I have the water bill about as low as I can get so that is taken care of.

This next week I am going to try and work on the rest of the potatoes. I also need to get started on Joleens prom dress. Now that I have the tallow I need to get some soap made .I am thinking about making soap and selling it to help make up for the pay cut.

　

What were you able to get done this week?