Currently Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life By Jenna Woginrich see related

Time for pictures

Kaintuckee-LOLT style

I am a hillbilly. Spent the holiday most of the time in my room to stay out of trouble, but the time was very profitable. The book Stinking Water has been in my box several weeks. I had looked at the photos, and wanted to read the words, also. The book was published in 1967, and I am sure that life has changed greatly in the hollows of southern Kentucky but the time portrayed was enthralling and much like my history, which has also changed greatly.

Stinking Creek a small area at the extreme bottom of Kentucky. Barbourtown seems to be the nearest town of any size, and the author/photographer told his tale well. When I finished the book, I had to get out the US atlas and learn some facts about Kentucky. It is about half the size of my mountain state, and about 20% larger in population. My state is roughly twice the length and several hundred miles wider.

It was amusing to read of an older couple on Stinking Creek who has 45 yrs of accumulated boxes filled with 'treasures' gathered in the marriage. Sounds just like us. Most of the folks I read about are long gone, and the young ones probably moved out. I will have to do a Google search.

Blech!!!!

This has been an absolutely terrible horrible day from the very start, and will probably continue to be so. I am just enduring it and thanking You that none of the absolutely terrible horrible things hve been serious. I didn't feel like exercising but went anyway, only to find that the mp3 had no power ( I had recharged it, but must have left the power button on) I had to drop the car off to get a new motor put on the front window and a new regulator on the passenger side front seat. 2d was going to ferry me back and forth, instead of me ferrying her, but her pickup is so high, she has to bring a stool for me to get in. When I found out the player wouldn't play while I swam, I pouted (silently) and stayed in the dressing room cleaning out the locker. It was so grungy. The Bible study was ok, but a little tense because two attenders are at odds over their family matters. Not really bad, and I don't know much of the situation, just enough to feel tense and apprehensive.

Then back to pick up the car only to find that a regulator cannot be found for a 96 Marquis, and I'll have to live with the passenger seat back reclined a bunch, and squeezing the leg space for the backseat passenger. This may be a permanent condition. Blech, blech!

Whine, whine, whine. Both my knees hurt very much at the same time today, and so do assorted joints in my hands. I have umpteen-doodle sacks of groceries to carry from the garage downstairs to the pantry, umpteen-doodle-two piles of assorted clutter to clear up in my bedroom, umpteen-doodle-three plants to put in the ground, and four sacks of soil stuff to spread around them. In my present state of emotion, I could continue in this state for at least another hour but......This is the day that the Lord has made, I WILL rejoice and be glad in it.

Currently Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse By James Wesley Rawles see related

LOLT strikes a blow for political incorrectness

The lil ole lady terrorist ungreened greatly yesterday.  I picked very green asparagus ruthlessly.  Got enough in about 50 feet to fill a two quart saucepan to the brim.  I had to leave today before I could make a mayonnaise/lemon sauce for it.  I hope 800 leaves me some.  That is what I'll have for supper.

Things are getting scarier day by day. Ordered some Rawles books by ILL. One is just basic survival tactics, most of which we have practiced off and on during our married life depending on finances or job situation.  Back to basics is fairly common when there is no money, or the job is way out in the boondocks.  The other is a novel about TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) It was written in the late 90's but the unfolding of the end sounds eerily familiar.  So does Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and that was written much longer ago.  I know that because I read it for the first time in my teens and then every decade after.  It is time again.  I'll bet I recognize alot of familiar headlines.  She dealt with the movers and shakers, but occasionally the little guys were alongside.

Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.

lil ole lady terrorist