My husband keeps on having these dreams that show what our Family Ranch or rather City of Truth is going to look like. He is actually even seeing it at different stages of development. It started with him seeing what our first house will look like. Next came night visions of what the main Ranch house that is a log cabin prototype looks like. The last dream showed an octagon with rooms on both walls all surrounding a glassed-in indoor swimming pool. He even saw behind the pool with plants at one end, nonetheless!! Clearly this is an advanced stage of our Family Ranch.

My first response is that our Internet Marketing business is still in the foundation stage where little money is coming in. So why is he not having dreams, or myself for that matter, about the internet marketing strategies that we should be attempting and the strategies to carry them out??

Then I am brought up short to the motivation issue. I was always motivated to study so that I would be seen as knowledgeable, given recognition and get a good paying job. Somehow that good paying job has eluded me, but the other two have been achieved at times. However, since I have done a variety of jobs, I feel like I have been given a vast array of education and experience on people and life in general. This should all come in handy at the ranch, since I will be dealing with all types of people.

My husband never saw the value of book learning, as he is a hands-on person. You should see this big man’s wooden chair that he built out of two by fours. I feel like a wee person in a king’s chair when I attempt to sit in it. It makes a great herb drier during the summer months!

Hence, my husband, like many men I would surmise, needs to see the goal ahead to keep on working toward it even when it is not physically apparent. And, yes, I did actually see him get online yesterday and start working again at our Internet Marketing business. It is truly amazing that what motivates one, may not motivate the other.

Thanks for being patient. You can contact your Congressmen
and your Senators . The Alliance for Natural Health USA has so graciously provided us with the text of our appeal to Do Not Co-sponsor Senator McCain’s Attack on Dietary Supplements

When you are at the congressman site, you can leave your 4 digit postal zip extension blank.

When you are at the Senate site, click on Senators and select your state in the first drop down box. Immediately your 2 senators should appear. After selecting the first one, click on the web form to enter your name and address and your all important message. I picked nutrition and dietary supplements, respectively, from the drop down boxes for topic/subject areas.

Please note there is some talk of adding portions of the DSSA to other bills as a way of getting around the huge outpouring against this bill. So continue to let congress hear your voices, especially that portions of the bill are not to attached to other bills. Just kill this bill and banish all portions of this bill. Bury it please!

To the text that the ANH USA provided, I added the above portion. With all the links I have supplied you with, it now should take mere minutes to contact your congressmen to let them know how you feel.

What exactly is this all about? Read on below.

Occasionally I bring you important news!! This is one of those times. Although I have not spoken much about herbs, this is a right we all must protect. The right to choose which dietary and herbal supplements we wish to buy.

Your rights to supplements are under attack! Should DSSA Bill pass, the federal government will take over the dietary supplement industry!

The misleadingly named Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) will limit which supplements you can buy and reduce what can be sold!!!

HEALTH FOOD STORES NATIONWIDE ARE IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY. IF SENATE BILL S.3002 PASSES Contact your congressmen Tell them to vote NO to Mccain

Despite supplements safe record, the DSSA Bill would allow the federal government to take over the dietary supplement industry!!! Vote No to DSSA Bill

If FDA takes over dietary supplement industry the prices are going to drastically increase!! Health enthusiasts need to speak out!!!

Senate Bill S.3002 will limit which supplements you can buy, while substantially restricting the number of acceptable ingredients. Vote NO!!

Tomorrow I will add a link to your congressman, unless you know it already. If you do know it, then by all means Now is the time to contact your congressman and tell him to vote no!! Tell him you want to choose the dietary supplements that you wish to take. Tell him that this is your constitutional right!!!

Some additional thoughts are: do not become locked in your generation.  Interpretation:  do not seek out only those of the same age as you.  Cross those generational boundaries. Live a little.  Enjoy life.  Two of my suggestions do just that: selling door-to-door and biannual family camps.

For some reason, once a sibling becomes a preteen we allow them to live only in their generation.  They want to hang out with their friends all the time —we let them.   They have to have a cell phone- an ipod, a nintendo, etc –we let them, no questions asked nor any restrictions put on the use. 

How are their grades?  Good? Then moderate use of the game toys. Not good?  Take them away until Good is reinstalled.  Why moderate, because these are tools not our life.  Our–their life revolves around relationships whether we like it or not.   Who says?  Jesus does. 

I challenge you to find where Jesus mentioned heaven as such and not in terms of relationships to others.  “I go to be with my Father.” or “I go to prepare a place for you”    Relationships rule.    Do not let the younger generation have their way of living in the vacuum of only their age group. 

Did you know that in the Jewish households of years ago, that the grandfather taught or educated the children?  How or why so?  Well, the father was busy working, and the mother was busy preparing the daily meals and keeping the house.  So it was the grandfather that educated the children.  This is way cross generational.  Tell me about it. 

Why the stories that that grandfather had to tell the children. I am sure they were spellbound and I am sure they had respect for their elders.  I’m also thinking it went beyond respect to comradeship, another term for friendship.  Wow! Think about it.

I’ve put forth a lot of problems. What about solutions? They are as varied as the trees in a forest. All arriving at one end. We must teach our children about Jesus in our/their lives and that we have a responsibility to live out the life God has called us to. We were bought with a price. So let the Holy Spirit guide you here.
Some possible suggestions are twice per year take your children away to family camps where you can share responsibilities in a more primitive way of life. No couch potatoes here!!! LOL

Or…you could encourage them to be paper delivery boys. Or, they could earn money doing chores around the yard, like mowing the lawn and weeding the garden. Already doing that? Then step it up a notch and get them to become door-to-door salesmen and they get to keep the profits. Take time to teach them how to make simple dishes. No cheating—only good wholesome food–no Kraft macaroni and cheese. That is easy enough to learn without assistance. Teach them how to make bread. Use the breadmaker. I have been given a refrigerator bread recipe that if I get permission to share I will.
Remember the goal is as parents to make responsible adults out of our children or to get them on the right path. This is not an easy task, but with the assistance of the Holy Spirit you will make it. The entire next generation depends on it. Whatever the Holy Spirit tells you to do, Do It. (Sound familiar?)
I will think upon this as a dog worries a bone and come up with other suggestions.  Please do comment and include your own suggestions. The easiest one is that we all move to the country or live on a farm.  LOL But for most of you, that is not an option, at least, not at the moment. Again, tell me or others what you are doing or plan to do as an entire generation depends on it.

We are continuing the thought that teaching goes a long way toward helping a person enter the stream of society.

About a month ago my husband burned himself from some hot oil on the stove. I calmly told him to stick his hand in the freezer.  Now, I found him some wrapped frozen meat to put on his hand. I told him as long as his hand did not hurt he was successful in taking the “heat” out of his hand burn. (I am not a medical expert, so I will explain things as I understand them. )  So should it begin to hurt again, then we went looking for another frozen item to put on it.  I let him know I have past experience in this burn thing and to keep at it until it did not hurt anymore. It took a few hours and then my husband filled a ziploc bag with water and froze it lying down about 1 inch thick.  Future insurance. LOL

Now, why did I have experience? With my first husband, years ago, I burned myself nearly every other day. Why, again? I was told by my mother that I would do and understand certain things when I was “grown up”. Guess what? I was never taught before that time. And so, once “grown up”, I had to learn things the hard way. When did I learn to cook? After I left home. Now, at 4-H meetings I did learn how to bake. They are project- oriented and so each item taught has to able to be presented at the County Fair. Meat might spoil sitting out over 2-3 days. Yes, I even asked them for meat lessons and that is the answer I received.

Lastly, especially since it is Christmas, all religions are taught at the public school as a spectator, an observer. Where are the young men and women who will stand up for Chist? They are in that 25% that I left out. But that is not enough!!! Where is the honor that a boy shows for a girl when he protects against those who might try to harm her in word or deed? For a young man to do that he has to know where he comes from—whom he is loyal to. He has to know that he belongs to Jesus and that Jesus would never let him down. However, should he try to protect a girl, would she appreciate the effort he has shown? Do girls today know whose they are and who is their Lord and Savior? Or would she laugh in his face, and say “It is alright—it doesn’t matter.” because she doesn’t think highly of herself. She hasn’t been taught.
This thought is to continued in the next post.

As today is Christmas please bear me a moment of reflection. These past 5 years being a substitute teacher has been great–and I mean that. I do applaud the public school system. They do attempt to teach all students with excellence. However, why is there unrest in 75% of the high school students? Not for lack of education…but has it been the right kind?  Even though we are aghast at the ages, 100 years ago, 15 and 16 year old men (boys) and women (girls) frequently got engaged and subsequently married. That is unthinkable today. What made the difference? What they had to look forward to. 100 years ago this country was mainly composed of farming communities and the whole attitude was towards self-perpetualization of the community.  Hence, a farmer might give a cow and some hens to his daughter and another farmer might give a steer and a rooster to his son, along with a couple of goats. Those two youngsters would start a farm on a piece of the farmers property. Sure it was hard work for the girl and boy, but they both knew what they had to do.
Recently, I saw a neighbors boy of say 12 run from snow bank to snowbank each time tumbling himself in the snow. That boy was desperate for something to do. As he lives in the city on a very small lot, there isn’t much for him to do. To his father’s credit or discredit, whenever the dad works on a car, or makes a fence, or adds on a new porch the boy is no where to be seen. The dad does all the work himself or with a another neighbor who is the dad’s brother. How do expect the boy to end up with skills that he has not been taught?

Tune in tomorrow for more thoughts on this subject.

Time.   Seems I used to write poems about time when I was in high school.  Still fighting time.  Except this time since I have a few websites—blogs—I do ask the readers to be patient as I navigate the waters as author, blogger, technical support and internet marketer.   Sometimes I do really well.

Gardening-by-cathy.net has had streaks of 7 days running of posts.  Then, came the huge pothole in the road.  It went offline through no direct fault of mine.  It wasn’t my intention to go offline.  However, after 4 weeks of investigation, and getting it up to immediately go offline again, I realized by not keeping Wordpress up-to-date that it was my fault.   Since all my websites are wordpress, they all went offline.

I have spent more than 1 month cleaning and purging my wordpress websites.   Only after I did that did I dare attempt to bring them back online with brand new up-to-date wordpress versions.

Tomorrow, I will get technical as to what was the problem and how I fixed it.  Sure helped to have access to all those good folks at Wordpress forums.

Welcome to my ranch.   I may not have horses, yet, but mark ,my words I will.

It has only been 4 weeks, but it seemed like a lifetime.  My site had been hacked.  The hackered entered code to change himself into a user, and then inserted his website as a script into many of my php wordpress files.  I finally had to either clean all my files or delete my base files in wordpress and begin again.  I have done a little of both.   I also upgraded this site to the newest version of wordpress.

Tell me if you have experienced hacking in your websites or blogs and what you have done about!  Thanks!  We can all learn from the sharing.

Like most people I have tried everything from Chromium picolinate to Acai berry and while they were healthy for me they were healthy for my weight too.  That means that I did not lose any weight.  I even have been on the Sugar Busters diet just to maintain my weight, to not increase.  That means I have stayed away from corn and carrots and potatoes as the theory goes that these easily turn into sugar in the body.

I have just discovered a whole new way of life and I love it.  I was going to call them green Slurpies but have just discovered that it is a trademark so any suggestions as a name is welcome.  Most people call them green smoothies, but I would like my own personal name.

For example, I raise red worms for the organic fertilizer they produce as well as really being wigglers for fishing.  Well, my husband called them “squirmies” and the name stuck.  So what can I call my green smoothies.

I try to drink them warm every other day for supper.  I am now at 215 down from 225 in 2 weeks time.  One person had testified that she lost 105 lbs in one year which is over 2 lbs per week, so my 5 lbs per week is not far fetched.  The amazing thing is that the energy is there and I don’t have to drink them every day.

Well enough for now I just had to share this amazing discovery and ask you all to pass the word.   Being overweight can now truly be a thing of the past!!!!

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