Monday Message

"I wish to urge again the importance of self-reliance on the part of every individual Church member and family. None of us knows when a catastrophe might strike. Sickness, injury, unemployment may affect any of us. We have a great welfare program with facilities for such things as grain storage in various areas. It is important that we do this. But the best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary." (President Gordon B. Hinckley)

I cannot stress this enough. We are waiting to see the fallout of this new insurance company to assess  the damage to our budget. So we are using all storage this month unless something has to be gotten.

That is the beauty of food storage, it allows me the ability to free funds from time to time. And storing what you like is so important. I would have a hard time eating things we don't like.

Tomorrow is the day before my b-day and yes, I will make my chocolate cake (get the recipe HERE).

This month will almost be over with by the time you read all of this, but just wanted to share the flexibility of having storage and how much it helps. Since I store what we like, our eating will be pretty normal. If ever there was a catastrophe, we would eat the same foods we are used to.

Not bad having homemade swirl bread...low spend months or not, yum! This bread pictured here I put craisins in, yummy!

I have been doing some deep cleaning and organizing and I think most is as I want it now so enough of the heavy things. I still want to put fabric scraps in colored order so I can just grab a box of whatever color to make some small quilting items, so that is a plan yet to work on.

One of the things I want to learn this year is how to do krokbragd on the inkle loom. The classes are not in my budget so learning on my own is what I will do.

https://learn.longthreadmedia.com/courses/weave-turned-krokbragd-on-an-inkle-loom - this is what it is as I know you all have been wondering. I want to make that sheep band in the picture.

Another is to learn more on my knitting machines.

Watercolor is also on my list.

Find more time to spin and weave and sew....

Also, how to utilize my kitchen appliances more, so learning those will also be on my list. You know how without thinking we pop toast into the toaster? Well I want to have all my appliances be like that.  Just automatic so to say.

What do you have on your list this year?

Today I will be repotting my apple trees that I have growing. Hopefully they will survive.

Be sure to check on people you know to see if they are doing alright as we are headed in to darkest time of winter and it is hard on so many.

Missy says you need to take some cozy time.

Tippy Longstockings says put a puzzle together. She is anxious to see the cats in it when it is finished.