At least someone's willing to say it!

I'm glad to see that someone is finally waking up to what's really going on, wise enough to take off the blinders, and willing to say what needs to be said:

After advocating for COVID-19 vaccination for over a year, Ben Shapiro says he was deceived: "We were lied to by everyone"

If only he'd realized this a year ago (which many of us did realize early on, being distrustful of what we believe is crooked, high-level collusion between many powerful people that has resulted in an unscientific, Orwellian narrative on this whole thing that is destroying our society, economy, health, and freedoms), he could've been a strong advocate for personal choice, a wise voice of reason against the vaccine mandates ("illegal and wicked vaccine mandates," in my estimation - no one should be forced to inject themselves with something they don't want to, no one should lose their jobs because they won't inject themselves with a foreign, questionable substance).  But at least he's starting to see it now and willing to speak up.

Thank you, Ben.  May the light continue to overcome the darkness.  

Update: And another person is seeing it and willing to speak up: 

Is that weird?

Is it weird to mourn the death of folk music legend John Denver twenty-five years after his death?  To feel really sad that we lost him so early and for how his life ended?

In honor of John Denver, my favorite song from him:

Take Me Home, Country Roads

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Giggle Translate #18: Yes, I am a Christian, but ...

The original stuff I wrote somewhere else on my blogs:

Yes, I am a rock-solid Christian, but sometimes I just want to do bad things.  I want to say bad words and watch bad movies and listen to bad music and drink bad things and be all mean and cranky toward annoying people.

            

But what I usually end up doing is just watching my 80’s movies, listening to my 80’s music really loudly, drinking no more than an ounce-and-a-half of mildly-alcoholic hard cider (because I really don’t like alcohol ... honestly, I drink no more than one bottle of hard cider a year!), muttering bad words under my breath, and telling my husband all of the whip-smart, snarky things I wanted to tell others but didn’t think of till it was too late. 

Starting the new school year with Creation vs. Evolution

If there's one thing I would go back and change if I could when homeschooling my older two children (grown and graduated now), it would be that I would have them watch more great educational videos online, instead of focusing mostly on textbooks.  

(And I would let them have more time to pursue something they were passionate about.  I'd rather have a kid who was passionate about something, anything - studying bugs, piano, building, classical literature, writing stories, etc. - than have a kid who did all the boring bookwork but never developed a passion in any one area.)   

Sometimes, for some people, watching things is more inspiring and memorable than reading about it.  It brings things to life more, helping you feel more and remember more.  My boys would have really enjoyed and benefitted from more educational videos.  There are so many interesting, good ones out there; what a shame we missed out on them.

So this year as I start school with my younger two, we are going to add some good videos, maybe starting our morning with them while the kids are still too groggy for reading.  And we are starting right from the beginning, with videos on creation.  God's Word and creationism has been under such attack in recent decades, and I want my boys to understand that science affirms - not contradicts - the Bible and a biblical worldview of creation.  I want to give them reasons now to believe it, before the world tears their faith down (which it attempts to do at every turn).  

I've always known!

When I'm online, I don't normally click on articles that are suggested to me, but I just had to check out this one: "What your dream home would be like based on your Myers-Briggs personality type", because at the beginning of the article, it showed a few different houses - one of which was a Hobbit hole - and I knew, just KNEW, that it would be my dream house according to my personality type (INFP).

And I had to see if I was right.

And so I pulled up the article, clicked on INFP, held my breath while muttering "Come on, be the Hobbit hole!  It's gonna be the Hobbit hole; I just know it!" ... and then ...

"Yes!  Hobbit hole!  I knew it!"

And I've always known it.  Because like I said in this post years ago, I'm a Hobbit deep down.  I just know it.

It's Late Summer!

As a gardener, you know it's late summer when the sight of one more overgrown zucchini or ripe tomato makes you groan. 

Can I get an "Amen"!?!

Just had to share ...

Oh my goodness, I just made a sweet-and-sour cabbage recipe for the first time.

It smells like a biological weapon and tastes like vomit.

Never again!

And now you'll have to excuse me while I air the place out. 

Book-lovers will understand!

A conversation between my husband and me as we were leaving for a hike:

Me: Am I gonna need a book?

Him: No, we're just hiking.

Me: Yeah, but are we gonna stop anywhere for a few minutes where I might need a book to read?

Him: That's not the plan.

Me: I'm going back to get a book.

I'm not a fan of country music but ...

... this video is good, worth watching and sharing:

John Rich - Progress

Watch it before YouTube takes it down.