HUM I COOKED SPAGHETTI YESTERDAY AND TODAY I MADE CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE AND VEGGIES AND HOT PEPPER CORN BREAD.
SO WE HAVE ENOUGH LEFTOVERS TO CARRY US TO SATURDAY. WAHOO.
I JUST LOVE THIS HOT PEPPER CORN BREAD. ITS NOT JALAPENO ITS ANOTHER TEENSY CHILI THAT'S VERY HOT.
I AM READING COSMIC TRIGGER VOLUME II BY ROBERT ANTON WILSON, HE'S MY HERO. ALSO I'M READING THE THING THAT ATE THE CONSTITUTION. STARRING GHW BUSH ...GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH AND DID YOU KNOW THAT PERMUTED HIS NAME SPELLS HUGE BERSERK REBEL WARTHOG?
LOL.
HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS LIKE LIVING IN A SURREALIST PAINTING.
HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF A "POOKAH"? WELP,IT CAN TAKE MANY FORMS, IN AN OLD MOVIE CALLED HARVEY IT TOOK THE FORM OF A GIANT RABBIT. BUT WHATEVER FORM IT TAKES, HE RETAINS THE SPECIAL ABILITIES OF HIS SPECIES.
LIKE HERE IN THE DESERT WE HAVE THE COYOTE AND MANY INDIAN LEGENDS AND STORIES INVOLVE THE COYOTE AND ITS MANY TALENTS.HE CAN MOVE FROM ONE UNIVERSE OR BELIEF SYSTEM TO ANOTHER AND LIKES TO PLAY GAMES WITH OUR "REALITY".WELL, I BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF THE POOKAH HAVING HAD A FEW ADVENTURES MYSELF WITH IT. BUT IT'S OK IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN YOU EITHER. HAHHA.
HAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO YOU THAT IF SOMEONE COULD FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BOTTLE AIR AND SELL IT TO THE MASSES THEY WOULD? AND IT WOULD NOT BOTHER THEM IN THE LEAST IF YOU COULD NOT AFFORD IT, THEY WOULD CONTENTEDLY ALLOW YOU TO DIE WITH NO QUALMS?
AAAH HUMANITY WHERE IS YOUR SPIRIT?
THAT WAS NOT MY ORIGINAL THOUGHT BUT I DID THINK IT IMPORTANT TO SHARE WITH YOU. THE AUTHOR WAS ROBERT INGERSOLL.
WHEN I WAS A CHILD WE LIVED IN AN ADOBE HOUSE WITH AN OUTHOUSE AND WATER IN A PUMP OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR. ONE HOUSE I LIVED IN WITH MY FOSTER PARENTS HAD A WELL AT THE BACK DOOR AND WE COULD BRING UP ICE COLD WATER ANYTIME AND DRINK IT FROM AFRESH WATER WELL. THE WOOD STOVE IN THE KITCHEN WAS WONDERFUL AND THERE WAS A WATER TANK ATTACHED SO WE HAD HOT WATER ANYTIME THE STOVE WAS BURNING AND MY AUNT CHOPPED WOOD EVERY NIGHT FOR THE NEXT DAY FOR THIS STOVE. SHE MADE THE MOST DELICIOUS TORTILLAS ON THIS STOVE AND BAKED YUMMY BREAD PUDDING IN THE OVEN COVERED WITH SHARP CHEDDAR CHEESE AND PLUMP RAISINS . THIS HAPPY STOVE WARMED THE KITCHEN VERY NICE;LY AND IT WAS SO TOASTY AND DELIGHTFUL TO GET UP FROM YOUR COLD BEDROOM AND RUN TO THE KITCHEN AND DRESS BY THIS WARM STOVE.
IN MY BEDROOM WAS AN OIL BURNING STOVE THAT WAS FILLED AND TURNED ON AT NIGHT AND BURNED DOWN TO NOTHING BY MORNING BUT IT WARMED MY BEDROOM SO I COULD GET TO SLEEP AND BE WARM ALONG WITH A FEW QUILTS. WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE THAT WAS.
BUT MY BEST MEMORIES WERE ALWAYS OF THAT WOOD STOVE IN THE KITCHEN YOU COULD MAKE TOAST ON TOP OF THE LIDS AND IT WOULD BE JUST RIGHT. AND YOU COULD HANG CHEESES TO RIPEN BEHIND IT DELICIOUS HOME MADE CHEESE. ENCHILADAS AND BEANS AND CHILI AND SALADS AND SQUASH WITH ONIONS AND CHILI PODS SO GOOD. OUR NEIGHBORS HAD A COW AND WE HAD FRESH MILK AND CREAM AND CHEESE ALL THE TIME.
BUT... WALKING THAT LONG WAYS TO THE OUTHOUSE WAS HORRENDOUS. AND COLD IN WINTER IN SUMMER I HATED THE SMELL. TOILET PAPER WAS A SEARS CATALOG HAHAH WHICH SERVES ALSO AS READING Material while you did it.
WE DID HAVE A SMALL CHAMBER POT FOR NIGHT PEES UNDER THE BED. BUT THEN YOU HAVE TO EMPTY IT IN THE LONG WALK TO THE OUTHOUSE PLACE NEXT MORNING.
WHEN WE GOT SICK WITH A COLD AND WE DID GET A BAD ONE AT LEAST ONCE EACH WINTER, YOU DRANK HOT LEMONADE WITH A SHOT OF WHISKEY IN IT ALSO CHAMOMILE TEA THAT GREW WILD IN OUR YARD AND WAS SAVED FOR WINTER DRIED IN SUMMER WE USED IT FRESH. I NEVER LIKED THE TASTE OF IT. MADE ME FEEL SNEEZY. THERE WERE M,NY HERBS I WAS GIVEN TO CURE WHATEVER AILED ME WHEN I WAS GROWING UP AND MOST OF THEM GREW WILD IN THE YARD. WE HAD YERBA BUENA WHICH IS LIKE PEPPERMINT TEA. FOR SORE THROATS. THE SEEMED TO WORK AND THE ONLY GRINGO MEDS WE USED WERE MENTHOLATUM AND VICK'S VAPORUB .
ALL OTHER TREATMENTS WERE OLD WIVES MEDS. I REMEMBER WHEN YOU HAD CROUP THEY WOULD TAKE A CANDLE AND PUT A GLASS OVER IT AND TAKE THE WARM SMOKE AND PLACE IT ALL OVER YOUR CHEST AND BACK TO COMBAT THE ILLNESS. IT SEEMS IT WORKED CUZ WE USED IT ALWAYS.
MY CHILD HOOD HAD WONDERFUL TIMES AND HORRIBLE TIMES. WHEN MY MOTHER MARRIED THIS ANGLO MAN WE ALL SUFFERED BUT STILL HAD SOME INTERESTING TIMES . I PREFERRED MY FOSTER HOME, IT WAS STABLE.
OH THERE WAS VERY LITTLE PLASTIC IN THOSE DAYS WE USED CHINA AND GLASS, AND POTTERY. I REMEMBER USING JARS FOR GLASSES . I SORTA LIKED THEM.
I ALSO REMEMBER THAT WHEN WE BOUGHT GASOLINE THEY GAVE YOU A PLATE OR A GLASS A OR STAMPS FRO PRIZES. AND THEY ALWAYS WASHED YOUR WINDSHIELD AND CHECKED YOUR OIL FOR FREE.
THINGS HAVE NOW BECOME SO COMMERCIAL THAT THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES OR FREE GIFTS FOR BUYING STUFF IN FACT SOME STORES MAKE YOU BUY A MEMBERSHIP TO SHOP IN THEM, ITS AWFUL TIMES THESE. THE DAYS OF THE GREED.
WELL MAYHAP I HAVE SAID ENOUGH FOR TODAY....
HUGS
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