Monday Message

"Today, I emphasize a most basic principle: home production and storage. Have you ever paused to realize what would happen to your community or nation if transportation were paralyzed or if we had a war or depression? How would you and your neighbors obtain food? How long would the corner grocery store—or supermarket—sustain the needs of the community?" (President Ezra Taft Benson)

Finally we got some rain last night so I didn't have to water the garden on the last day of July. It was a nice treat. And last but not least it is a bit cooler, enough so that I could bake a loaf of bread.

Check out the recipe for making your own bread HERE.

My sister shared a wonderful healthy recipe with me that I now will share with you...

Chocolate Nice Cream! - This is so like chocolate ice cream - yum!

You cut three good size bananas in less than half inch coins and freeze.

To make up, you pull out your bag of frozen bananas and put in your blender.

Add a half a cup of milk to start with, you can add more as you go to get the thickness you would like.

Add two tablespoons baking cocoa.

Blend and add milk as needed.

Oh this is soooo good.

I finally finished this pink dress for the last sheep so now everyone has clothes.

I finished a hat for winter...

So those are what I have been working on to build skills. I am making a cardigan sweater for the sheep to share.

I want to urge you to be getting things in. Remember what happened in January 2020. I knew this virus would not stay in China so I picked up what things I would need like batteries and lightbulbs, etc. I was going by Sam's Club and thought I would stop and get a big package of toilet paper and maybe another package of yeast. When I got in there only a few packages remained of toilet paper and not the big package, so I got one and went to the baking aisle to grab one more thing of yeast. When I got there...no yeast, no flour. I did pick up baking soda and powder. It was so unreal I thought I must be in another aisle, I literally turned circles. Here I had been teaching bread baking and all the supplies for it were gone. That was so strange.

So while I had some another person might not. So think what you will need and what you did need. I had no idea what to expect but I knew it was coming. I have that same feeling that this will get worse before it gets better. If it doesn't, it won't matter, I will still be prepared.

So, please, vaccinated or not, wear those masks and stay safe.

We had an unmasked visitor… Missy looked out the window and asked, “what kind of cat is that?!”

A woodchuck came a-calling.

Even Gus took a second look.

They both agreed he should be wearing a mask to stay safe and they want all of you to remember to wear your masks. Also, keep up your safety protocols. We are still in the thick of things.

Our granddaughter says she doesn't like wearing the masks. I told her that none of us do but we need to just like none of us like wearing pads but we still need too. Only when you don't wear a pad you will only die of embarrassment, whereas not wearing a mask you might just die.

We all have to do things we don't like at times, it is just the way life is. No one gets out of this life never cleaning the toilet, well, if they do they are lucky. We do the hard/no fun things then move on to the fun things.

Everyone be extra safe, I do not have a good feeling just like in the beginning.