LET CLASS WIN
L - LODGINGS
We use one of the many abandoned large warehouses in the cities and turn it into a shelter-lodging. Persons pay $350 a month and get a place to sleep; a shared big living room; a large kitchen set up for groups making meals; multiple places called offices that can be used for the day or week for working out of the flow of traffic; workshops for making paper, generators, clothing or other items; laundry and mail service. Some of the buildings would have enough space for stores and cafes. We’d have paid persons called lodgemasters to watch over things. This provides a place to be ‘home’ for a year or for many years. Persons who grow old would be able to stay with government workers coming in to assist with needs, just as if they went to an assisted living home but they are not confined to a living room with the television blaring all day and no place “in house” to go for a different atmosphere. We would want to have also disabled as it is perfect for normal life and they can learn the simple patterns which would be consistent from lodging to lodging. (ie. Breakfast is ready from likely 6 to 9:30 a.m. Sack lunches in the refrigerator with excellent sandwiches, a serving of vegetables in a baggie (SO tasty that they look forward to more), maybe a milk, and fruit. Laundry done easily. Workshops would be located on the building map, as is the garage to ask the mechanic to drive your car and listen to the dog howling in the back seat (just kidding), likely a second hand store (which is also our clothing room for those who need immediate or replacement clothing items) and a few fun places. Everyone gets a tour with the map in their hand. We might make the tour self-done with a requirement to pick up something like a bookmark from the different places so they are confident in their ability to find each place and we have a nice surprise for a reward when they return.)
Recap of "Lodgings" -
Unused buildings remade into lodgings. Start with one a city, change to more, people can move to another city with it prearranged so they know there is room. They can go for three weeks for vacation and be able to afford it. Places can have from 30 to 2000 persons with the same consistent good rules and standards. Mail, a bed, meals available, ‘offices’ for a day to rent (maybe $5? Maybe nothing)(some looking like fairy tale, some like a cave, some look modern and to clean it, we simply hit the button that says “flush.”)
Other housing options- Using connexes stacked in groups of eight and making eight homes out of them, living room/kitchens on one end, full of windows and maybe with a balcony, bedroom on the back end with a good window, bathroom by the kitchen plumbing, and a thin bedroom that is still wonderful for the baby or for the teens on bunkbeds. It is absolute luxury compared to what many have now. One idea is to equip the kitchen and bathroom with the sink, stove, refrigerator, toilet, taken from the mobile homes of America and we sue anyone who makes any more. Indians in the American Southwest have had temperatures of 110° F. inside. Alaskans have tried to heat theirs, made with only 1.5” of insulation, but they have ice three inches thick on the windows, and mold and ice in the closets. How are connexes different than mobile homes? They are stronger, we can have engineers put them together into groups that are insulated, sorry-they ARE skinnier but we could put two next to each other and cut out a ten foot wide doorway to make the living room big, and then put one on top and a stairway down and that gives four biggish bedrooms and five miniature bedrooms for miniature persons (commonly called children). We can stick them underground in dry places and have them cooler in a hot climate and warmer in a cold climate. We can have spaces between them that are outdoor sitting and eating and kids shouting areas. We can have places on top of them that we call cupolas and walkways.
Another housing option – For hot and cold climates.
What I’d like to do in the American Southwest – replace homes with “underground homes” – one side or half of the house has all windows and the rest is tucked into the earth for its stabilizing temperatures (and NO wind leaking through). Not needed but nice would be a culvert or a connex up to the back door with a hill on top so the back door leads into the (culvert/connex) shed which has a good aisle, shelves on both sides, and a door with (doublepane) windows built in on the end. Cool in the desert temperatures and a good place to work on things. Maybe a few 'pipe' windows with three layers of windows for natural daylight to be overall.
And- I’d like to see the same in Alaska’s climate. The homes maybe built in a half-circle so the moms can see the little kids playing nice in the half-circle play area with picnic benches and tables. A dome of sorts built over it? Or even if not, I still like the connexes attached at the backside to the houses (and, YES, covered with dirt) so the residual heat keeps them almost or totally comfortable and the firewood and the storage is kept in them. And, if tundra is a lot like the peat bogs of Ireland, can we get wet-use chainsaws and cut out tundra to dry it in 8” blocks in summertimes to stick into the woodstove to smolder and heat the place and hold the fire ready to re-light in the morning?
About weatherstripping –
If the homes in America were weatherstripped, we would have no energy so-called crises, we would not need oil from the Middle East, and we pretty much don’t need it now. What is weatherstripping? It is looking for and solving the problem of that pesky “weather” sneaking in around windows and under doors giving us a draft of cold air into the house.
Recap of "Lodgings" -
Unused buildings remade into lodgings. Start with one a city, change to more, people can move to another city with it prearranged so they know there is room. They can go for three weeks for vacation and be able to afford it. Places can have from 30 to 2000 persons with the same consistent good rules and standards. Mail, a bed, meals available, ‘offices’ for a day to rent (maybe $5? Maybe nothing)(some looking like fairy tale, some like a cave, some look modern and to clean it, we simply hit the button that says “flush.”)
Other housing options- Using connexes stacked in groups of eight and making eight homes out of them, living room/kitchens on one end, full of windows and maybe with a balcony, bedroom on the back end with a good window, bathroom by the kitchen plumbing, and a thin bedroom that is still wonderful for the baby or for the teens on bunkbeds. It is absolute luxury compared to what many have now. One idea is to equip the kitchen and bathroom with the sink, stove, refrigerator, toilet, taken from the mobile homes of America and we sue anyone who makes any more. Indians in the American Southwest have had temperatures of 110° F. inside. Alaskans have tried to heat theirs, made with only 1.5” of insulation, but they have ice three inches thick on the windows, and mold and ice in the closets. How are connexes different than mobile homes? They are stronger, we can have engineers put them together into groups that are insulated, sorry-they ARE skinnier but we could put two next to each other and cut out a ten foot wide doorway to make the living room big, and then put one on top and a stairway down and that gives four biggish bedrooms and five miniature bedrooms for miniature persons (commonly called children). We can stick them underground in dry places and have them cooler in a hot climate and warmer in a cold climate. We can have spaces between them that are outdoor sitting and eating and kids shouting areas. We can have places on top of them that we call cupolas and walkways.
Another housing option – For hot and cold climates.
What I’d like to do in the American Southwest – replace homes with “underground homes” – one side or half of the house has all windows and the rest is tucked into the earth for its stabilizing temperatures (and NO wind leaking through). Not needed but nice would be a culvert or a connex up to the back door with a hill on top so the back door leads into the (culvert/connex) shed which has a good aisle, shelves on both sides, and a door with (doublepane) windows built in on the end. Cool in the desert temperatures and a good place to work on things. Maybe a few 'pipe' windows with three layers of windows for natural daylight to be overall.
And- I’d like to see the same in Alaska’s climate. The homes maybe built in a half-circle so the moms can see the little kids playing nice in the half-circle play area with picnic benches and tables. A dome of sorts built over it? Or even if not, I still like the connexes attached at the backside to the houses (and, YES, covered with dirt) so the residual heat keeps them almost or totally comfortable and the firewood and the storage is kept in them. And, if tundra is a lot like the peat bogs of Ireland, can we get wet-use chainsaws and cut out tundra to dry it in 8” blocks in summertimes to stick into the woodstove to smolder and heat the place and hold the fire ready to re-light in the morning?
About weatherstripping –
If the homes in America were weatherstripped, we would have no energy so-called crises, we would not need oil from the Middle East, and we pretty much don’t need it now. What is weatherstripping? It is looking for and solving the problem of that pesky “weather” sneaking in around windows and under doors giving us a draft of cold air into the house.
E - EATING - Sources, and Eating at Home and in Restaurants
Eating, at home and away: Restaurants and At home.
The obtaining of food – grocery stores. Behind them, stocking them - farms and productive back yards.
For those who want it, instead of customary consumption of fake food, let's change our diet so we live longer and others can buy if they want to at our grocery stores.
The obtaining of food – grocery stores. Behind them, stocking them - farms and productive back yards.
For those who want it, instead of customary consumption of fake food, let's change our diet so we live longer and others can buy if they want to at our grocery stores.
The Farm for Food Crops
Can you or a near-by person run the land you own as a little (big) farm? About thirty crops and sheltered areas for the plants that want more heat? I'd prefer rounded areas of plants instead of rows. And raised beds such as tires filled with dirt so that the roots don't get overwatered in a wet season, and, the plants not pulled up during harvesting but left so they grow to eight feet tall. Tires could be covered with burlap to be pretty but I love the idea of not having to build 150 different planter boxes. If they are boxes, the planters CAN'T be all-weather wood (to save us from getting cancer and weakened bodies) but regular wood would rot in five (?) years and the tires would last. Maybe a pond? Two feet deep is swimable and can collect rainwater. And if the plants aren't in the rain, such as in a greenhouse, could we aim the house/greenhouse roof drain-off inside to water the plants when we are gone and because it's raised, the roots don't rot. And you can leave for weeks (months?) as you go travel or visit the mom for a great time and let God watch over it. Could we try avocados and coffee in a greenhouse? If tires seem not cool enough, each of you make one box, and suddenly tires might be the best idea since wheels and can be stacked two high as well.
Composting, Light, and Watering
Watering
In a very hot area, I watched field after field being sprayed with water from sprinklers. The mist of water rose into the hot air and 30% was gone instantly, and the rest barely made it the named "ONE INCH DEEP" that was recommended. What if we instead had water put INTO the ground in different ways depending on the crop. Such as for the trees, we put a pipe (with side holes) straight down about ten feet, with a wax plug at four feet. We water the smaller tree at the two or four foot level and when it is larger, we punch through the wax and let the watering be as deep as the ten foot level. The trees grow roots downward, instead of running them along the ground. Instead of "mopping" the trees with 45 gallons per tree with a trickle line that puts an inch puddle on top of their roots, we give them five gallons at the deep depth and the trees rejoice. And, we give them a solution of baking soda and vinegar twice a year to strengthen them. There are several other things which would make their fruit more nutritious and would make us live longer, things that are not oil-sludge fertilizers.
(I have seen dead fields with the poisonous weed killer and fertilizer so strong that few corn stalks grew at the lower elevation. The ponds as the lower end of the fields were thick with gross slime and the little ducklings were on their way to a slow death. It is said that ONE corn cob from the few corn stalks in the concentrated dosage area is enough to give a man prostate cancer. One. They are scooped up and thrown into the for-sale bin.) For the opposite, aiming for good, let me give two surprising examples: compost water and electromagnetic light.
Compost
(I am trying to write as if the readers had never heard of the topics.)
Composting lets us have very little garbage. It makes dirt work better to grow plants for eating. The plants have good things in them that they get from the compost. It is how good dirt is made in the first place, we are just planning where we want good dirt to be.
We intentionally gather from restaurants and other cooking places such as homes the food debris such as cobs and peelings, mix it with farm manure from livestock, and put it in a roller bin to save the hassle of turning the pile by hand.
Recap: (to edit later) We put leaves and plant material in with the waste of animals in a pile. We can have three piles that we start months apart so the things can rot together and the first pile is ready to use as the other piles are still rotting. We add to it all food scraps such as the peelings or the core if only the outer part is eaten. We don’t put on meat or the white ‘bread’ we currently have. Soured food is good to put on the pile. It will stink. Over about six months in summer, it will stop stinking and will be good soil mix. We put it on the garden and it makes the plants grow taller and better. The animal waste must be only from animals that eat plants and no meat. It must not be from humans. Goats, birds, cow waste is excellent if it is available. And, it gets rid of the waste as it turns into dirt. If we can make a round drum such as a 50-gallon drum with holes in it, we can simply generally roll it to turn the compost inside. Can we have a grate for a place to access it?
We make a point of adding 1) dark colored berries such as grapes, blackberries, cranberries, things with that "zing" to them. (More are implied). And we gather seaweed at the beaches and put it in as well for the minerals and beloved ingredients from the sea. You can spread the joy by soaking the compost with water, draining the water and giving it to the trees once or at most twice a year.
If we have access to the sea or lakes, can we find the plants in the water? The murky ponds have the little tiny green stuff called algae. Can we get it with a net with a cloth in it? It is good for the compost pile and makes it richer. In the sea are wonderful plants that wave underwater like curtains. Sometimes they are left on the shore by the waves. They do smell strong. It is green-brown or red. It can be dried at the seaside if you have time. Drying it will make it lightweight and easy to carry. An armload will be enough.
Light for Crops
We add some ingredients that we cannot name. We put a tanning bed on a truck with mirrors that spray the light over the field and let it light the field for four hours. On another night, we have an electric arc welder emitting its zappy different kind of light and the mirrors spray the light outwards. A welder can work on a project on the truck for ten minutes and it is enough. We have blue lights on the field at night for a few nights. We do the same with a black light. And this is fun, we give it radio-waves light with 1) we play music for the field about three times. I recommend Rhapsody in Blue and Hillbilly music. And, 2) we take an antennae of any size and aim it at the stars, attach it with wires to a satellite light-ray gathering dish - at the center receiving point - and aim the dish at the field. If we do these things, the nutritional content of the food will increase to the point that we can live for decades more. I think(!)
Seed Saving and Stockpiling
We save seeds if we can. If we buy something in the market and it is a fresh plant, is there a seed in it? We can plant it in a protected hollow till we have a garden close to our house.
In a very hot area, I watched field after field being sprayed with water from sprinklers. The mist of water rose into the hot air and 30% was gone instantly, and the rest barely made it the named "ONE INCH DEEP" that was recommended. What if we instead had water put INTO the ground in different ways depending on the crop. Such as for the trees, we put a pipe (with side holes) straight down about ten feet, with a wax plug at four feet. We water the smaller tree at the two or four foot level and when it is larger, we punch through the wax and let the watering be as deep as the ten foot level. The trees grow roots downward, instead of running them along the ground. Instead of "mopping" the trees with 45 gallons per tree with a trickle line that puts an inch puddle on top of their roots, we give them five gallons at the deep depth and the trees rejoice. And, we give them a solution of baking soda and vinegar twice a year to strengthen them. There are several other things which would make their fruit more nutritious and would make us live longer, things that are not oil-sludge fertilizers.
(I have seen dead fields with the poisonous weed killer and fertilizer so strong that few corn stalks grew at the lower elevation. The ponds as the lower end of the fields were thick with gross slime and the little ducklings were on their way to a slow death. It is said that ONE corn cob from the few corn stalks in the concentrated dosage area is enough to give a man prostate cancer. One. They are scooped up and thrown into the for-sale bin.) For the opposite, aiming for good, let me give two surprising examples: compost water and electromagnetic light.
Compost
(I am trying to write as if the readers had never heard of the topics.)
Composting lets us have very little garbage. It makes dirt work better to grow plants for eating. The plants have good things in them that they get from the compost. It is how good dirt is made in the first place, we are just planning where we want good dirt to be.
We intentionally gather from restaurants and other cooking places such as homes the food debris such as cobs and peelings, mix it with farm manure from livestock, and put it in a roller bin to save the hassle of turning the pile by hand.
Recap: (to edit later) We put leaves and plant material in with the waste of animals in a pile. We can have three piles that we start months apart so the things can rot together and the first pile is ready to use as the other piles are still rotting. We add to it all food scraps such as the peelings or the core if only the outer part is eaten. We don’t put on meat or the white ‘bread’ we currently have. Soured food is good to put on the pile. It will stink. Over about six months in summer, it will stop stinking and will be good soil mix. We put it on the garden and it makes the plants grow taller and better. The animal waste must be only from animals that eat plants and no meat. It must not be from humans. Goats, birds, cow waste is excellent if it is available. And, it gets rid of the waste as it turns into dirt. If we can make a round drum such as a 50-gallon drum with holes in it, we can simply generally roll it to turn the compost inside. Can we have a grate for a place to access it?
We make a point of adding 1) dark colored berries such as grapes, blackberries, cranberries, things with that "zing" to them. (More are implied). And we gather seaweed at the beaches and put it in as well for the minerals and beloved ingredients from the sea. You can spread the joy by soaking the compost with water, draining the water and giving it to the trees once or at most twice a year.
If we have access to the sea or lakes, can we find the plants in the water? The murky ponds have the little tiny green stuff called algae. Can we get it with a net with a cloth in it? It is good for the compost pile and makes it richer. In the sea are wonderful plants that wave underwater like curtains. Sometimes they are left on the shore by the waves. They do smell strong. It is green-brown or red. It can be dried at the seaside if you have time. Drying it will make it lightweight and easy to carry. An armload will be enough.
Light for Crops
We add some ingredients that we cannot name. We put a tanning bed on a truck with mirrors that spray the light over the field and let it light the field for four hours. On another night, we have an electric arc welder emitting its zappy different kind of light and the mirrors spray the light outwards. A welder can work on a project on the truck for ten minutes and it is enough. We have blue lights on the field at night for a few nights. We do the same with a black light. And this is fun, we give it radio-waves light with 1) we play music for the field about three times. I recommend Rhapsody in Blue and Hillbilly music. And, 2) we take an antennae of any size and aim it at the stars, attach it with wires to a satellite light-ray gathering dish - at the center receiving point - and aim the dish at the field. If we do these things, the nutritional content of the food will increase to the point that we can live for decades more. I think(!)
Seed Saving and Stockpiling
We save seeds if we can. If we buy something in the market and it is a fresh plant, is there a seed in it? We can plant it in a protected hollow till we have a garden close to our house.
There is someone accessing my webpage, who is NOT weebly, and he/she is doing things like changing words to misspelled and repeating large sections so it is redundant. Is there anyone who can watch over the website and, uh, encourage persons to not sabotage me?
The Local Store
Grocery stores
I want (boring) grocery stores. I call it boring so the big chains don’t worry about us boring folks. I want grocery stores with under 200 items. The average big-marketplace store has four thousand items. Nah. I listed the groceries that I wanted the most and the food came up to 115 items. Milk is always whole milk, no two percent or nonfat (It DOES NOT matter for a diet and you are avoiding healthy fat and eating four ounces of oil sludge. You need the satisfaction of the good milk.) The sizes are Gallon, Half-Gal, Quart, and Pint so you can buy for a family or just a serving for your bountiful, not meager, lunch. That is four items. Vegetables and Fruit in three ways – fresh, frozen, and canned. Meat – beef, chicken, pork and bacon, and (frozen) fish (Fish have fins and scales). No shellfish or groundfish. Bread, only wholegrain (?) and great for you. Grains and herbs and spices in bulk, premeasured in ounce or pound bags.
Then, at the store, we have bags of the glorious good, pre-planned dishes. The ingredients are measured and assembled and ready for you to dump and mix, set the stove timer, and stay close enough to hear the timer. Dinner is done. The family cook can make a meal of two or three special dishes with five minutes of work. We could even have, at the store, a drill that you use to drill a hole in the rutabaga to make it cook faster. (Rutabaga is very hard to peel until after it is cooked but it is sweet and tasty and goes very well along with potatoes.) We need a good variety of plant foods and with the right assortment, you can live up to twenty years longer.
That kind of grocery store would be nice to have as ‘the store with the gas station just outside.’ It would not have the oil-sludge and yuck-fat chips or the chemically-made sodas and coffees but, never fear, LOTS of places long for you to come buy that stuff from them. Give them your business if you want those things. With the food items that I figured being under 200 items, there is room for other items of practical normal use, and we would still be able to stay under 200 items. Notebooks, cigarette lighters, matches, flint-and-steel lighters, seeds, simple use items such as plates, cups, bowls, and such.
The grocery stores only have non-hormone food. Little grocery stores could be as small as eight feet by eight feet plus a back room if I could get the right cabinets. The little stores could be open 8 to 6 and I do not want the slim-thin screen cash registers but paper receipts with the under-200 items listed with the price and you check off the item with the quantity if over one (For example, --- x 3 = ____) or the weight ( ---- x 1.5 lbs = _____). Prices not $1.09 but $1.10.
I want (boring) grocery stores. I call it boring so the big chains don’t worry about us boring folks. I want grocery stores with under 200 items. The average big-marketplace store has four thousand items. Nah. I listed the groceries that I wanted the most and the food came up to 115 items. Milk is always whole milk, no two percent or nonfat (It DOES NOT matter for a diet and you are avoiding healthy fat and eating four ounces of oil sludge. You need the satisfaction of the good milk.) The sizes are Gallon, Half-Gal, Quart, and Pint so you can buy for a family or just a serving for your bountiful, not meager, lunch. That is four items. Vegetables and Fruit in three ways – fresh, frozen, and canned. Meat – beef, chicken, pork and bacon, and (frozen) fish (Fish have fins and scales). No shellfish or groundfish. Bread, only wholegrain (?) and great for you. Grains and herbs and spices in bulk, premeasured in ounce or pound bags.
Then, at the store, we have bags of the glorious good, pre-planned dishes. The ingredients are measured and assembled and ready for you to dump and mix, set the stove timer, and stay close enough to hear the timer. Dinner is done. The family cook can make a meal of two or three special dishes with five minutes of work. We could even have, at the store, a drill that you use to drill a hole in the rutabaga to make it cook faster. (Rutabaga is very hard to peel until after it is cooked but it is sweet and tasty and goes very well along with potatoes.) We need a good variety of plant foods and with the right assortment, you can live up to twenty years longer.
That kind of grocery store would be nice to have as ‘the store with the gas station just outside.’ It would not have the oil-sludge and yuck-fat chips or the chemically-made sodas and coffees but, never fear, LOTS of places long for you to come buy that stuff from them. Give them your business if you want those things. With the food items that I figured being under 200 items, there is room for other items of practical normal use, and we would still be able to stay under 200 items. Notebooks, cigarette lighters, matches, flint-and-steel lighters, seeds, simple use items such as plates, cups, bowls, and such.
The grocery stores only have non-hormone food. Little grocery stores could be as small as eight feet by eight feet plus a back room if I could get the right cabinets. The little stores could be open 8 to 6 and I do not want the slim-thin screen cash registers but paper receipts with the under-200 items listed with the price and you check off the item with the quantity if over one (For example, --- x 3 = ____) or the weight ( ---- x 1.5 lbs = _____). Prices not $1.09 but $1.10.
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Grocery stores list of items -
Vegetables (The "dash" is to signify that we want them fresh AND frozen and/or canned) Asparagus- Alfalfa seeds / sprouts Beets- Broccoli- Brussels Sprouts- Cabbage- Celery Cauliflower- Corn- Carrots- Garlic- Onions- Green Onions Parsnips- Potatoes Peas- Little Pumpkins- Rutabagas- Spinach- Sweet potatoes- Summer squash- Turnips- Zucchini- 23+20 Spices / Herbs Allspice Anise Basil Cumin Capers Coriander Caraway Cardamon/Cardamom Celery seed Cinnamon Cloves Curry Dill seed Fennel Ginger Mint Mustard seeds Nutmeg Pepper Salt - ordinary Salts-mineral Tarragon Thyme Turmeric 24 |
Fruit
(The "dash" is to signify that we want them fresh, AND frozen or canned. Likely would vary.) Avocados Apples- Apricots Bananas Blueberries- Blackberries Cantaloupe Cranberries- (sauce) Figs Grapes Lemons Limes Oranges- Peaches- Pears- Raspberries- Raisins Watermelon Grape juice Orange juice Lemon juice Jam - three kinds 23+7 Baking Brown sugar Molasses Honey Chocolate chips Yeast Baking soda Cream of Tarter Baking Powder Olive Oil Vinegar Wine - two kinds (includes things such bourbon or rum for variety) Vanilla extract 13 Drinks (Milk)- already listed Coffee - beans and ground coffee Tea Herbal Tea Cocoa 5 |
Meat
Beef - steak and ground Sheep Chicken Fish Ham Bacon Meat Slices Eggs Mushrooms - 3 kinds Walnuts Two other kinds of nuts 15 Milk Whole milk - Gallon Half-gallon Quart Pint Cheese - 2 kinds Butter Keifer Ice cream Cream Half-and-half 11 Basic Kitchen Cups Plates Bowls Silverware Peeler Can opener Pancake turner Long spoon Long fork Aluminium foil Wax paper Napkins Paper towels 13 Desk and Bathroom Notebook - 2 sizes Pens Stamps Trash Bags - two sizes Baggies Toilet Paper Some feminine supplies Liners 10 |
Grains and Bread
Barley Millet Spelt Wheat Lentils White beans Red beans Lima or fava beans Loaf of Bread Two slices of Bread - (for a sandwich with a filling to go in it) Flatbread Oatmeal steel-cut flakes Boxed oat cereal Boxed wheat flakes Wheat flour 15 Item Count 23+20 23+7 15 11 15 24 13 5 13 10 181 |
The items come from the farmer in 5, 10, 20, 40 pound bags. The store divides the items into smaller portions. Ie. Cumin into small sacks 3"x3" so it is already done. Flour into one pound sacks.
The cabinets in the store, IF we want or need to fit it in an 8x8' space, the cabinets in the store go up to about seven feet high. The spaces for each item can be 8" x 8" so that 10 rows ten wide go to 6"8" high. The items sit in trays that can be pulled out. The highest and lowest shelves are for less purchased items (such as kitchen dishes). One cabinet on one side is partly refrigerated and frozen food space. The lower shelves might be double spaces (bigger for potatoes and smaller for the small spice bags) and all in drawers or trays as well for easy access. The items can be in the back on trays and the store person just puts the half-empty tray in the back, scoots in a full new tray, and repacks the empty tray in the back. We could have shelves open to the back room and have a blue light shining into the shelf spot so it can be seen if the shelf is empty (and blue light sanitizes).
One idea, not necessarily useful, is having a list of the 200 items in the store, the customer checks off what they want, and the store person assembles the list? We keep it simple, such as the notebooks have either a blue or a yellow cover this time and that is your choice. The customer pays for it and puts it in their bag to take home. I’d like to start a small store like that. Probably serve coffee on the side. And sandwiches for $4 just because. Have a counter with a sink handy.
The cabinets in the store, IF we want or need to fit it in an 8x8' space, the cabinets in the store go up to about seven feet high. The spaces for each item can be 8" x 8" so that 10 rows ten wide go to 6"8" high. The items sit in trays that can be pulled out. The highest and lowest shelves are for less purchased items (such as kitchen dishes). One cabinet on one side is partly refrigerated and frozen food space. The lower shelves might be double spaces (bigger for potatoes and smaller for the small spice bags) and all in drawers or trays as well for easy access. The items can be in the back on trays and the store person just puts the half-empty tray in the back, scoots in a full new tray, and repacks the empty tray in the back. We could have shelves open to the back room and have a blue light shining into the shelf spot so it can be seen if the shelf is empty (and blue light sanitizes).
One idea, not necessarily useful, is having a list of the 200 items in the store, the customer checks off what they want, and the store person assembles the list? We keep it simple, such as the notebooks have either a blue or a yellow cover this time and that is your choice. The customer pays for it and puts it in their bag to take home. I’d like to start a small store like that. Probably serve coffee on the side. And sandwiches for $4 just because. Have a counter with a sink handy.
Meals - at home and away
Restaurants – If we had a simpler menu choice, and it changes each night, then we can stop having to have elegant cuisine made in complexity for each and every person who is eating, causing the cook to come up with eighty or a hundred fancy dishes in one night. If we have Internet, we can post it on a SIMPLE one-page website for persons to check before they come. But, if we go to a friend’s house for dinner, it is expected that you eat what is put before you, even if you don’t adore spaghetti. You don’t order her to go fix you something else. So, keep a lookout, check the calendar, and the nights they have your happiest wishes, go out to eat.
By doing this, can we bring the price down to where every one could afford to go out to eat. Regularly?
At home – Meal making could be made SO much simpler. Why is it a difficult big chore to cook for an hour for a family’s meal (as often the husband is away at work for eight hours and commuting for two hours) when you and I would prefer if we could make the meal in record time? I don't want you to worry about the 'not done,' but start to live now. Leave the past behind and put the candles on. If we plan ahead for the month, and don’t use the book that has the meat choices that your family can’t afford, then we can pre-prepare.
Changes in the schools - I want the children to start learning to do this in first or second grade. Mommy helps them check off the meal choices that have the price of the ingredients next to them. They take it back to school and the school has two people work for one week or less, for an hour a day, to have the ingredients purchased in bulk and divided. For an example, flour can cost $11 for a 50-pound bag, $5.79 for a five-pound bag, $1.90 for a one-pound bag. Beef is $3.70 to $8 per pound, but if the bulk buy is for a whole cow, it is $1.25 per pound. The school does not take the savings, the student’s families get it. Then mom (often it's mom) goes to school on the planned day and she and student-child work at a cafeteria table for the day, dividing and marking the baggies of food. They finish before the ice melts in their cooler or cardboard box, take it home, and put it in the freezer, the cupboard, and the refrigerator. Dinner for the entire month is half done and not a stress. If a family has three children in school, then with each child is doing it, three separate months are done at school and the family can choose to do it on the other months of the year or not. Older students, such as Sixth Graders, can do fancier things such as making little pastry berry pies. So can Second Graders.
Are you willing to join a group of dinner-makers that works in one kitchen a month and you all make the meal-prep for your family/household for the month? Can I help organize it to be in your neighborhood? Can you call the Home Economics Agent at your local Cooperative Extension Service and ask her/him to help and decide if it is to be done by family size or by geographical region? I once offered to do this with a family of nine. The idea was if we made 30-meal-preparations for ten people, then we'd divide the food by me taking one-tenth of what we made and she would keep nine-tenths so her family was fed. I of course would pay for one-tenth of the costs of the food (as that's all I would take) and I would do half of the labor of the task as we worked together on it. It would have been fun.
The schools have wanted to seem changing and new and they have changed the "Four Food Groups" to things like round charts or triangular charts with up to sixteen food categories. Kids don't need that. The things such as sugar and oils can be understood to be part of food but one does NOT have to seek them out.
The Four Food Groups are:
Vegetables and Fruits
Milk
Meat
Bread
Vegetables and Fruits - Lack of vegetables is making the brains of the future world population not develop properly. I have been at about three homes that, AFTER the meal, I was staring with hunger. It wasn't the quantity, it was the lack of a TYPE of food that I needed, namely vegetables. The lack of dark green and dark yellow vegetables make the baby growing in the womb to be missing key neurons and connections.
If you don't think you like vegetables, please try this recipe to save your life:
Cumin
Tarragon
Basil
Two mineral salts (the colored ones)
One strip of bacon
A bunch of vegetables, mainly dark green (asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, spinach) and I put in a potato or two when cooking for myself.
Cumin has something in it that makes amends for our fast-food low nutrition diet.
Try this: Cook the bacon in a pan and leave it and don't pour the fat out. It's fine. Add the cut up vegetables - make sure you have dark green vegetables, and spinach counts. You can mix the green vegetables. I'm not so impressed with kale. You can add potatoes. I add a bit of water and put the lid on to let it cook till soft. The chefs who were preached at to serve food half done ("Al dente") are wrong. The person who eats it does NOT get the best nutrition in the vegetable. There is a California craze that the universities fell for (because they have to come up with sumting new to talk about to keep their job) - the fad was to serve vegetables raw - they are wrong when they say it is more healthy. It is NOT. It makes your stomach feel upset too.
When the food is fully cooked, I add some more of the above herbs because I adore the feeling better and not sickly and it tastes fantastic. I pour on a little bit of olive oil as it satisfies something in the core. If you aren't used to olive oil, just add a bit, like a tablespoon. (I add more. Do what suits you as you start feeling better and more whole.) The olive oil in fancy restaurants, put on your restaurant table, often tastes rancid and stale - because it is old and has sat exposed to the air.
I carry that spice mixture with me and put it in everything from vegetables and starches to meat sandwiches to up the nutritional value AND make it taste twice as good.
After the Cumin, Tarragon, and Basil (the most important), I also add coriander, cardamom, thyme, caraway, and a few others. Depends what I find. The rule for tasting good is to NOT use Oregano or Rosemary, they dull the food and make it not so nice. And I'm seeing lavender being called an 'herb' for food, which is unbelievable. It is full of estrogen. It's not so unhealthy for women but men should never use it as food or lotion or soap. It makes men bland and faded. I heard that that is why the shampoo that was purple was the cheapest, like a dollar compared to the other same size ones that were $2.29. The Olympic Peninsula has several lavender farms which are owned by Koreans pushing the substance. Hmm. If a boy uses the purple soap all the time, he has a problem with growing too large in the upper chest area. THAT is from hormones and it is NOT his fault and can be mostly corrected. The best instant advice I've heard is to rinse with cider vinegar in the shower to slug the estrogen back and stop it from doing its manipulation. And taking a tablespoon of cider vinegar in a cup of hot (or cold) water starts the body clearing it out. I knew a Venice Anderson who took that solution daily and swore by it and she was NOT a shy woman. My oh my. (Run for the hills)(!) Just kidding. I did like her. She has gone on to glory. So look before you go.
Milk - You are NOT allergic to milk. That is a fad and I protest the universities for not correcting it. The problem is lack of enzymes that you should be getting from well-cooked dark green vegetables and dark yellow vegetables (such as pumpkin once a month). If your body can't process the milk, you are not eating rightly. You need milk and not just for calcium. Girls are getting hunchbacks at age 32. Because mommy read an article that said that babies don't need milk, children are actually being denied it and the consequences are dire. The lack of milk in their youth does things such as one boy that I know whose mother read, when he was an infant, an article about milk not being needed and she didn't give him hardly any. When he was a teen, he could hardly run because he couldn't breathe. There was not room in his skinny scrawny chest for his lungs to expand. The only solution the doctors had was breaking every rib in his chest and let the bones heal together with HOPEFULLY some more bone building between the broken parts. It was agonizing. He gained a quarter inch of space. He is prone to having a hunchback from a collapsing spine before he is thirty-five. Eat vegetables and you'll be fine with drinking milk.
A comment about non-fat milk and other low-fat milk like two percent. The fat in milk is great for you. You who think you have to live on a diet - start eating two more servings of vegetables a day. You will stop being hungry. You will be not into eating the fatty chips. If you refuse yourself whole milk because you are "on a diet," it is not wise. Whole milk has 3 or 4% milkfat. It is not 100% fat. What you are getting is so good for you. It makes you more satisfied so you aren't wanting the goopy four OUNCES of oil-sludge fat.
Meat - People are wrongly told that eating meat is mean. It should not be. I PROTEST vehemently the bad treatment of animals at some places. I am interested in getting a nationwide humane society set up, (likely) using the good places that we have already. I was in a place in America and found two HORRIBLE situations of mistreatment of animals. I called and called trying to find someone to report it to and there was NOTHING for it. The animals were not dogs or cats and rescue places for dogs and cats were all I could find, all that was available. The police officer I talked to shrugged.
Next, if the animals are given a good life, such as not living in a cage all the time, such as not walking with hooves on hard concrete all the time, but fields and running area and good eating, that is good. Cruelty is never condoned.
About meat. If you are a total vegan, eating no meat, you will die in about 20 years. (If you accidentally get some of the nutritional ingredients from meat, such as in vitamins, it extends that time.) Your body can't continue to make the things it needs from plants or milk and cheese. If children are raised with vegan eating, do NOT call them healthy - I see them puny and tired. If you became a vegan after you became an adult, your body has a reserve of the needed proteins which will sustain you for a time. Your kids do not have that reserve. I propose that you start eating at the stores I'm hoping to make and the lack of hormones will at least help.
Hormones - The FEED that cows eat has cut up udders in it. It is FULL of hormones that make the cows grow up fast, such as in months instead of in two years. This makes meat faster but YOU are the sufferer (as WELL as the cow that does not like it). I don't believe a lot of the milk containers that say that it has no hormone stuff in it and they add, 'but anyway, scientist-guys don't think it makes a difference.' It does. It is horrible for you. I wouldn't have gotten breast cancer. Sobering. I want farmers who are willing to take a subsidy from the government for not giving that feed to their cows. Where do we get the money from? Are you listening? WE have about 400 land owners across America who are being PAID for not using their property as a farm. I know a lady who gets $17,000 a YEAR from the government for NOT using a "farm" that is abandoned and not even real. And do you recall those pictures of farmers pouring milk onto the ground so the "market wouldn't be flooded with too much milk"? Hog wash. There are things we could have done, including putting it into the biscuits made with water for the school lunches. And let me mention the word "starving children." Have you seen the trucks giving out the "food" to the starving children, such as in Africa? They have a big pot and dip out of it, it's white and goopy. It was too hot for some and since they didn't plunge their faces in, the bowl was taken away. But it was basically cous cous and is of doubtable nutrition. Because of that, the providers said they added vitamins. The vitamins were often stale and made the children's stomach's churn. And a meal of just one food makes one feel sick. Blah and ick. THAT is why the kids looked dull and had food smeared around their mouths afterwards. They WERE hungry and the food was so bad that the providers should have been sued.
When animals are killed, it needs to be instantly done. A bullet or a nail to the brain to kill it instantly so it does not suffer. A bullet to the heart is not good enough, the creature lasts too long. I protest hunters. I have heard them chuckling and telling stories of, "I got that moose at a hundred yards and boy, did he jump! We had to go two miles to find him." And "We knew he'd been hit because he jumped but never found him, boy, I hated to lose that meat." No. STOP. You can go camping without killing a wild creature. It's cleaner? Then we need to raise cows cleaner.
Bread
I adore it. I don't live on it and you should not either. Makes you dull. What is white bread? Bread made with flour that had the kernel, the core, of the wheat taken out so it has half the nutrition. Whole grains are better for you. Yum. Yes, I approve, as you should, of additions such as butter or cheese or olive oil with salt added. Remember, if you need to diet because you are fat, increase the VEGETABLES to get THREE servings a day (using that recipe will make you adore it, do NOT forget the bacon, it is loverly). And you will lose weight to the tune of a pound a week or so. You will feel better to eat that way.
And contrary to the the current fad, wheat with gluten is not bad for you. It might be for one percent of the population because your mother ate badly when you were in vitro. The gluten is needed for the glial to be effective. The glial is what makes your brain connections work. If we ate normally, barley and wheat would be our top breads. If you get a stomach ache from eating it, it might be that you are eating excess and it might be that you are missing the dark green vegetables (broccoli, brussel sprouts, spinach, asparagus) and dark yellow vegetables (pumpkin pie). If you have those in your diet daily, you will have what you need to digest the bread.
To lose weight, don't throw out the grain, the meat, the vegetables, and the dairy (WHAT the HECK do you EAT?!), but eat three servings of vegetables a day and replace the yuck oils and the good butter with olive oil with that herb mixture described above. Try it on a good serving of potatoes. Cumin makes up for a lot of the lack in our American-fast-food diet. If you take three to five tablespoons with water or apple juice, separate from putting it on a dish, just glug it down, you will feel better. Some people on heavy drugs would do well with eight tablespoons of cumin straight shot like that. Buy the ground cumin instead of the seeds, or put it in a coffee grinder, so there is no chewing.
WHAT IS A REAL MEAL?
My mother did something that makes me grateful. She told us girls what a dinner was. She said that she was taught that every dinner meal should have:
-- a protein (meat or sometimes cheese)
-- a starch (potatoes, rice, or bread)
-- a vegetable and
-- a fruit
-- And we had a glass of milk usually already poured at the table setting. It was expected and wanted.
We sat down for dinner. When I hear how many people eat while standing and talking on the phone or while walking or in the car driving to work, that is not the good life that I dream of you having. (And yes, I have eaten on the road and I have braided my hair at a traffic light, REALLY fast.) But, back to the food, with that balanced meal for dinner, we did better than most. For the vegetables and fruit, we often just opened one can for the family. It was enough for each person to get a spoonful. It didn't take much. Our bodies use the tiniest nutritional amounts that we can imagine. It can't make everything go right without the right chemical (nutritional) ingredients. I understand that if a boy gets served asparagus four times before he is four, he will NEVER get prostate cancer.
Did you know that asparagus can grow even in unlikely climates? My neighbor, an engineer, told me that he had a successful patch of asparagus in a sunny sheltered spot on his yard and we lived in ALASKA. Asparagus keeps growing year after year. I would love to take asparagus, and seeds of trees such as apples, pears, walnuts, lemons and plant them in forty states. In the wild, or in your backyard. What if you take the pumpkin seeds (not salted) from your pumpkin and plant it when you are hiking? Even a three inch pumpkin found in the future is wonderful. Don't worry about if the deer can figure out how to take a bite. You have given them happiness.
I would like to take four fifty-gallon drums full of barley up to the burned out forests in Alaska and plant it by throwing it and, maybe, raking it a bit. Doing this in the fall is the best. It lies on the ground, the freezing is good for it, when the snow starts melting in the springtime, the seed gets moisture and starts working on growth, The melting snow keeps it watered so that it is maybe two inches high by the time the snow is gone. This is good. The spring rains, which are not much, then give it the next growth spurt and suddenly we have caribou and moose and other satisfied grazers.
I observed a farm in a place not Alaska that had a large fenced in area and the place was OPEN to the woods on the far side. They put out grain and hay for the animals and the pasture was filled with the very large creatures and their babies, then they left and went to the hills. And yes, they returned. The females were there with their bulls and it was a FAMILY. Wonderful. (And yes, I think they took legally, as it walked out of the fence, one a year. I'm okay with that, if the creature isn't shot from so far off that they have, for example, what I observed in a cow moose up in Alaska, trembling from lead poisoning from having been shot, the bullet was not killing her quickly but was emitting lead as it stayed in her renal cavity. She has had three baby moose so far which have the same trembling, though not as bad. She needs to be put down and also the babies, now big. It is a sickness and we need to stop their suffering.
WATER
Another comment: In school, for decades, they have taught that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Hogwash. That is false. I went to a John Powers class as I wanted to be "more ladylike" and they had a visiting teacher come in who told us we should drink a GALLON a day. She had a gallon plastic container of water that she kept tipping to her mouth to drink some more. She was wrong. I find that people love fads so much that they crave weirdness. Kindly stop. Consider craving normal. About two glasses a day is the most you should drink. You don't need more, not to "flush your colon" or to "rinse your kidneys." Nope. And most of us drink enough other drinks that the water doesn't have to be that much. Coffee does NOT dehydrate you. It is a little that way but not enough to worry about it.
FADS
May I suggest that you let me find people who actually run farms to write articles about them? That we get new magazines for different topics (and some might be fine). But we have girls reading their magazines as Bibles, believing that 1) their hairdo is the most important thing in their life and is worth paying $125 for even though they aren't eating well, and 2) that every diet that comes up in a magazine has GOT to be the coolest thing around. When I was in high school, we were hearing about women who were "successfully" losing weight by eating carrots and carrots only. It was called "the carrot diet." The women who got pregnant during the time they were on that diet, had babies who were and are still heavily physically disabled. They didn't have what they needed while in the womb. I have had in the distant past an acquaintance who was in my writing group. She had had a cleft lip as an infant and they had done plastic surgery but it wasn't perfect. If her mother had eaten three servings of broccoli and one serving of asparagus during her early pregnancy, the cleft lip would not have happened. She ate white bread and cookies and 'whatever I FEEL like' and wasn't mature enough to know that she would FEEL like vegetables if she had fixed them with some tastiness.
By doing this, can we bring the price down to where every one could afford to go out to eat. Regularly?
At home – Meal making could be made SO much simpler. Why is it a difficult big chore to cook for an hour for a family’s meal (as often the husband is away at work for eight hours and commuting for two hours) when you and I would prefer if we could make the meal in record time? I don't want you to worry about the 'not done,' but start to live now. Leave the past behind and put the candles on. If we plan ahead for the month, and don’t use the book that has the meat choices that your family can’t afford, then we can pre-prepare.
Changes in the schools - I want the children to start learning to do this in first or second grade. Mommy helps them check off the meal choices that have the price of the ingredients next to them. They take it back to school and the school has two people work for one week or less, for an hour a day, to have the ingredients purchased in bulk and divided. For an example, flour can cost $11 for a 50-pound bag, $5.79 for a five-pound bag, $1.90 for a one-pound bag. Beef is $3.70 to $8 per pound, but if the bulk buy is for a whole cow, it is $1.25 per pound. The school does not take the savings, the student’s families get it. Then mom (often it's mom) goes to school on the planned day and she and student-child work at a cafeteria table for the day, dividing and marking the baggies of food. They finish before the ice melts in their cooler or cardboard box, take it home, and put it in the freezer, the cupboard, and the refrigerator. Dinner for the entire month is half done and not a stress. If a family has three children in school, then with each child is doing it, three separate months are done at school and the family can choose to do it on the other months of the year or not. Older students, such as Sixth Graders, can do fancier things such as making little pastry berry pies. So can Second Graders.
Are you willing to join a group of dinner-makers that works in one kitchen a month and you all make the meal-prep for your family/household for the month? Can I help organize it to be in your neighborhood? Can you call the Home Economics Agent at your local Cooperative Extension Service and ask her/him to help and decide if it is to be done by family size or by geographical region? I once offered to do this with a family of nine. The idea was if we made 30-meal-preparations for ten people, then we'd divide the food by me taking one-tenth of what we made and she would keep nine-tenths so her family was fed. I of course would pay for one-tenth of the costs of the food (as that's all I would take) and I would do half of the labor of the task as we worked together on it. It would have been fun.
The schools have wanted to seem changing and new and they have changed the "Four Food Groups" to things like round charts or triangular charts with up to sixteen food categories. Kids don't need that. The things such as sugar and oils can be understood to be part of food but one does NOT have to seek them out.
The Four Food Groups are:
Vegetables and Fruits
Milk
Meat
Bread
Vegetables and Fruits - Lack of vegetables is making the brains of the future world population not develop properly. I have been at about three homes that, AFTER the meal, I was staring with hunger. It wasn't the quantity, it was the lack of a TYPE of food that I needed, namely vegetables. The lack of dark green and dark yellow vegetables make the baby growing in the womb to be missing key neurons and connections.
If you don't think you like vegetables, please try this recipe to save your life:
Cumin
Tarragon
Basil
Two mineral salts (the colored ones)
One strip of bacon
A bunch of vegetables, mainly dark green (asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, spinach) and I put in a potato or two when cooking for myself.
Cumin has something in it that makes amends for our fast-food low nutrition diet.
Try this: Cook the bacon in a pan and leave it and don't pour the fat out. It's fine. Add the cut up vegetables - make sure you have dark green vegetables, and spinach counts. You can mix the green vegetables. I'm not so impressed with kale. You can add potatoes. I add a bit of water and put the lid on to let it cook till soft. The chefs who were preached at to serve food half done ("Al dente") are wrong. The person who eats it does NOT get the best nutrition in the vegetable. There is a California craze that the universities fell for (because they have to come up with sumting new to talk about to keep their job) - the fad was to serve vegetables raw - they are wrong when they say it is more healthy. It is NOT. It makes your stomach feel upset too.
When the food is fully cooked, I add some more of the above herbs because I adore the feeling better and not sickly and it tastes fantastic. I pour on a little bit of olive oil as it satisfies something in the core. If you aren't used to olive oil, just add a bit, like a tablespoon. (I add more. Do what suits you as you start feeling better and more whole.) The olive oil in fancy restaurants, put on your restaurant table, often tastes rancid and stale - because it is old and has sat exposed to the air.
I carry that spice mixture with me and put it in everything from vegetables and starches to meat sandwiches to up the nutritional value AND make it taste twice as good.
After the Cumin, Tarragon, and Basil (the most important), I also add coriander, cardamom, thyme, caraway, and a few others. Depends what I find. The rule for tasting good is to NOT use Oregano or Rosemary, they dull the food and make it not so nice. And I'm seeing lavender being called an 'herb' for food, which is unbelievable. It is full of estrogen. It's not so unhealthy for women but men should never use it as food or lotion or soap. It makes men bland and faded. I heard that that is why the shampoo that was purple was the cheapest, like a dollar compared to the other same size ones that were $2.29. The Olympic Peninsula has several lavender farms which are owned by Koreans pushing the substance. Hmm. If a boy uses the purple soap all the time, he has a problem with growing too large in the upper chest area. THAT is from hormones and it is NOT his fault and can be mostly corrected. The best instant advice I've heard is to rinse with cider vinegar in the shower to slug the estrogen back and stop it from doing its manipulation. And taking a tablespoon of cider vinegar in a cup of hot (or cold) water starts the body clearing it out. I knew a Venice Anderson who took that solution daily and swore by it and she was NOT a shy woman. My oh my. (Run for the hills)(!) Just kidding. I did like her. She has gone on to glory. So look before you go.
Milk - You are NOT allergic to milk. That is a fad and I protest the universities for not correcting it. The problem is lack of enzymes that you should be getting from well-cooked dark green vegetables and dark yellow vegetables (such as pumpkin once a month). If your body can't process the milk, you are not eating rightly. You need milk and not just for calcium. Girls are getting hunchbacks at age 32. Because mommy read an article that said that babies don't need milk, children are actually being denied it and the consequences are dire. The lack of milk in their youth does things such as one boy that I know whose mother read, when he was an infant, an article about milk not being needed and she didn't give him hardly any. When he was a teen, he could hardly run because he couldn't breathe. There was not room in his skinny scrawny chest for his lungs to expand. The only solution the doctors had was breaking every rib in his chest and let the bones heal together with HOPEFULLY some more bone building between the broken parts. It was agonizing. He gained a quarter inch of space. He is prone to having a hunchback from a collapsing spine before he is thirty-five. Eat vegetables and you'll be fine with drinking milk.
A comment about non-fat milk and other low-fat milk like two percent. The fat in milk is great for you. You who think you have to live on a diet - start eating two more servings of vegetables a day. You will stop being hungry. You will be not into eating the fatty chips. If you refuse yourself whole milk because you are "on a diet," it is not wise. Whole milk has 3 or 4% milkfat. It is not 100% fat. What you are getting is so good for you. It makes you more satisfied so you aren't wanting the goopy four OUNCES of oil-sludge fat.
Meat - People are wrongly told that eating meat is mean. It should not be. I PROTEST vehemently the bad treatment of animals at some places. I am interested in getting a nationwide humane society set up, (likely) using the good places that we have already. I was in a place in America and found two HORRIBLE situations of mistreatment of animals. I called and called trying to find someone to report it to and there was NOTHING for it. The animals were not dogs or cats and rescue places for dogs and cats were all I could find, all that was available. The police officer I talked to shrugged.
Next, if the animals are given a good life, such as not living in a cage all the time, such as not walking with hooves on hard concrete all the time, but fields and running area and good eating, that is good. Cruelty is never condoned.
About meat. If you are a total vegan, eating no meat, you will die in about 20 years. (If you accidentally get some of the nutritional ingredients from meat, such as in vitamins, it extends that time.) Your body can't continue to make the things it needs from plants or milk and cheese. If children are raised with vegan eating, do NOT call them healthy - I see them puny and tired. If you became a vegan after you became an adult, your body has a reserve of the needed proteins which will sustain you for a time. Your kids do not have that reserve. I propose that you start eating at the stores I'm hoping to make and the lack of hormones will at least help.
Hormones - The FEED that cows eat has cut up udders in it. It is FULL of hormones that make the cows grow up fast, such as in months instead of in two years. This makes meat faster but YOU are the sufferer (as WELL as the cow that does not like it). I don't believe a lot of the milk containers that say that it has no hormone stuff in it and they add, 'but anyway, scientist-guys don't think it makes a difference.' It does. It is horrible for you. I wouldn't have gotten breast cancer. Sobering. I want farmers who are willing to take a subsidy from the government for not giving that feed to their cows. Where do we get the money from? Are you listening? WE have about 400 land owners across America who are being PAID for not using their property as a farm. I know a lady who gets $17,000 a YEAR from the government for NOT using a "farm" that is abandoned and not even real. And do you recall those pictures of farmers pouring milk onto the ground so the "market wouldn't be flooded with too much milk"? Hog wash. There are things we could have done, including putting it into the biscuits made with water for the school lunches. And let me mention the word "starving children." Have you seen the trucks giving out the "food" to the starving children, such as in Africa? They have a big pot and dip out of it, it's white and goopy. It was too hot for some and since they didn't plunge their faces in, the bowl was taken away. But it was basically cous cous and is of doubtable nutrition. Because of that, the providers said they added vitamins. The vitamins were often stale and made the children's stomach's churn. And a meal of just one food makes one feel sick. Blah and ick. THAT is why the kids looked dull and had food smeared around their mouths afterwards. They WERE hungry and the food was so bad that the providers should have been sued.
When animals are killed, it needs to be instantly done. A bullet or a nail to the brain to kill it instantly so it does not suffer. A bullet to the heart is not good enough, the creature lasts too long. I protest hunters. I have heard them chuckling and telling stories of, "I got that moose at a hundred yards and boy, did he jump! We had to go two miles to find him." And "We knew he'd been hit because he jumped but never found him, boy, I hated to lose that meat." No. STOP. You can go camping without killing a wild creature. It's cleaner? Then we need to raise cows cleaner.
Bread
I adore it. I don't live on it and you should not either. Makes you dull. What is white bread? Bread made with flour that had the kernel, the core, of the wheat taken out so it has half the nutrition. Whole grains are better for you. Yum. Yes, I approve, as you should, of additions such as butter or cheese or olive oil with salt added. Remember, if you need to diet because you are fat, increase the VEGETABLES to get THREE servings a day (using that recipe will make you adore it, do NOT forget the bacon, it is loverly). And you will lose weight to the tune of a pound a week or so. You will feel better to eat that way.
And contrary to the the current fad, wheat with gluten is not bad for you. It might be for one percent of the population because your mother ate badly when you were in vitro. The gluten is needed for the glial to be effective. The glial is what makes your brain connections work. If we ate normally, barley and wheat would be our top breads. If you get a stomach ache from eating it, it might be that you are eating excess and it might be that you are missing the dark green vegetables (broccoli, brussel sprouts, spinach, asparagus) and dark yellow vegetables (pumpkin pie). If you have those in your diet daily, you will have what you need to digest the bread.
To lose weight, don't throw out the grain, the meat, the vegetables, and the dairy (WHAT the HECK do you EAT?!), but eat three servings of vegetables a day and replace the yuck oils and the good butter with olive oil with that herb mixture described above. Try it on a good serving of potatoes. Cumin makes up for a lot of the lack in our American-fast-food diet. If you take three to five tablespoons with water or apple juice, separate from putting it on a dish, just glug it down, you will feel better. Some people on heavy drugs would do well with eight tablespoons of cumin straight shot like that. Buy the ground cumin instead of the seeds, or put it in a coffee grinder, so there is no chewing.
WHAT IS A REAL MEAL?
My mother did something that makes me grateful. She told us girls what a dinner was. She said that she was taught that every dinner meal should have:
-- a protein (meat or sometimes cheese)
-- a starch (potatoes, rice, or bread)
-- a vegetable and
-- a fruit
-- And we had a glass of milk usually already poured at the table setting. It was expected and wanted.
We sat down for dinner. When I hear how many people eat while standing and talking on the phone or while walking or in the car driving to work, that is not the good life that I dream of you having. (And yes, I have eaten on the road and I have braided my hair at a traffic light, REALLY fast.) But, back to the food, with that balanced meal for dinner, we did better than most. For the vegetables and fruit, we often just opened one can for the family. It was enough for each person to get a spoonful. It didn't take much. Our bodies use the tiniest nutritional amounts that we can imagine. It can't make everything go right without the right chemical (nutritional) ingredients. I understand that if a boy gets served asparagus four times before he is four, he will NEVER get prostate cancer.
Did you know that asparagus can grow even in unlikely climates? My neighbor, an engineer, told me that he had a successful patch of asparagus in a sunny sheltered spot on his yard and we lived in ALASKA. Asparagus keeps growing year after year. I would love to take asparagus, and seeds of trees such as apples, pears, walnuts, lemons and plant them in forty states. In the wild, or in your backyard. What if you take the pumpkin seeds (not salted) from your pumpkin and plant it when you are hiking? Even a three inch pumpkin found in the future is wonderful. Don't worry about if the deer can figure out how to take a bite. You have given them happiness.
I would like to take four fifty-gallon drums full of barley up to the burned out forests in Alaska and plant it by throwing it and, maybe, raking it a bit. Doing this in the fall is the best. It lies on the ground, the freezing is good for it, when the snow starts melting in the springtime, the seed gets moisture and starts working on growth, The melting snow keeps it watered so that it is maybe two inches high by the time the snow is gone. This is good. The spring rains, which are not much, then give it the next growth spurt and suddenly we have caribou and moose and other satisfied grazers.
I observed a farm in a place not Alaska that had a large fenced in area and the place was OPEN to the woods on the far side. They put out grain and hay for the animals and the pasture was filled with the very large creatures and their babies, then they left and went to the hills. And yes, they returned. The females were there with their bulls and it was a FAMILY. Wonderful. (And yes, I think they took legally, as it walked out of the fence, one a year. I'm okay with that, if the creature isn't shot from so far off that they have, for example, what I observed in a cow moose up in Alaska, trembling from lead poisoning from having been shot, the bullet was not killing her quickly but was emitting lead as it stayed in her renal cavity. She has had three baby moose so far which have the same trembling, though not as bad. She needs to be put down and also the babies, now big. It is a sickness and we need to stop their suffering.
WATER
Another comment: In school, for decades, they have taught that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Hogwash. That is false. I went to a John Powers class as I wanted to be "more ladylike" and they had a visiting teacher come in who told us we should drink a GALLON a day. She had a gallon plastic container of water that she kept tipping to her mouth to drink some more. She was wrong. I find that people love fads so much that they crave weirdness. Kindly stop. Consider craving normal. About two glasses a day is the most you should drink. You don't need more, not to "flush your colon" or to "rinse your kidneys." Nope. And most of us drink enough other drinks that the water doesn't have to be that much. Coffee does NOT dehydrate you. It is a little that way but not enough to worry about it.
FADS
May I suggest that you let me find people who actually run farms to write articles about them? That we get new magazines for different topics (and some might be fine). But we have girls reading their magazines as Bibles, believing that 1) their hairdo is the most important thing in their life and is worth paying $125 for even though they aren't eating well, and 2) that every diet that comes up in a magazine has GOT to be the coolest thing around. When I was in high school, we were hearing about women who were "successfully" losing weight by eating carrots and carrots only. It was called "the carrot diet." The women who got pregnant during the time they were on that diet, had babies who were and are still heavily physically disabled. They didn't have what they needed while in the womb. I have had in the distant past an acquaintance who was in my writing group. She had had a cleft lip as an infant and they had done plastic surgery but it wasn't perfect. If her mother had eaten three servings of broccoli and one serving of asparagus during her early pregnancy, the cleft lip would not have happened. She ate white bread and cookies and 'whatever I FEEL like' and wasn't mature enough to know that she would FEEL like vegetables if she had fixed them with some tastiness.
T- TRANSPORTATION
Could we have a simple car, for a good price? Not a car with a spaghetti mess of wires under the hood, the oil filter not accessible, and the car talking to you. I want someone to make a car with a push-button radio, bench seats, and a motor that can be worked on. I want fenders that unbolt easily, can be ordered and replaced for a MODERATE sum of money, and NOT 8000 colors but maybe ten. I want my life to be more than boasting about such things. I want my friends to be higher quality than those who boast about such trivial stuff. Save yourself the cost of the $80,000 car and jump in with me and we can have a car-team that sets up the deal with the car makers. Such like.
C - COMMUNICATION
Hmm, there is a frenzy which has filled our lives. The FCC has been overwhelmed with people saying claiming falsely that porn and torture is their 'choice' - No, it is a crime against the person - and is hopefully trying again in several of their appointed areas. The learning of Morse Code would be good. I don't know it yet. I know that I feel that we as a people are saying to our government: . . . - - - . . . (S.O.S. - morse code for "help")
Regarding Communication via Mail - I would appreciate mail outlets in these little stores or in the lodgings and people who don't live there can buy a box and have good mail service. NOT $35 a month but $50 a year and the customer low on money can work it off with simple tasks such as sweeping, mopping, helping to unload a truck. We create a mail system that is either boxes with keys or slots behind the counter and the customer can see if there is something in his mail slot by the crossing colors on the wall (“My mail slot is near where the green and the yellow cross.) Thirty slots high by fifty slots wide is 1500 slots. A bench below them lets the counter person step up higher if needed and the purpose of the bench is to hold packages or large envelopes. If a person gets such, a colored card goes into their mail slot and the counter person knows to look for the item below the slot. The mail items sold would be envelopes (NOT the post office’s price of $7 for the small envelope and the mailing of it, but FIVE or TEN cents and the price of the stamp for the mailing.) Simple NICE postage stamps (not with desperate crying things like breast cancer or prostate cancer or aren’t-you-dead-yet stamps but maybe flowers) for one ounce and the extra-ounce stamp. There would be a postage scale ON THE COUNTER for easy use instead of standing in a line because you don’t know if it is two ounces. And there would be no 14 questions per item but a poster can say “Can’t mail loaded cocked guns, so take those to the regular post office.” We MIGHT have two questions: Airplane or boat? And have the prices listed.
Regarding Communication via Mail - I would appreciate mail outlets in these little stores or in the lodgings and people who don't live there can buy a box and have good mail service. NOT $35 a month but $50 a year and the customer low on money can work it off with simple tasks such as sweeping, mopping, helping to unload a truck. We create a mail system that is either boxes with keys or slots behind the counter and the customer can see if there is something in his mail slot by the crossing colors on the wall (“My mail slot is near where the green and the yellow cross.) Thirty slots high by fifty slots wide is 1500 slots. A bench below them lets the counter person step up higher if needed and the purpose of the bench is to hold packages or large envelopes. If a person gets such, a colored card goes into their mail slot and the counter person knows to look for the item below the slot. The mail items sold would be envelopes (NOT the post office’s price of $7 for the small envelope and the mailing of it, but FIVE or TEN cents and the price of the stamp for the mailing.) Simple NICE postage stamps (not with desperate crying things like breast cancer or prostate cancer or aren’t-you-dead-yet stamps but maybe flowers) for one ounce and the extra-ounce stamp. There would be a postage scale ON THE COUNTER for easy use instead of standing in a line because you don’t know if it is two ounces. And there would be no 14 questions per item but a poster can say “Can’t mail loaded cocked guns, so take those to the regular post office.” We MIGHT have two questions: Airplane or boat? And have the prices listed.
L - LEARNING - (aka Education)
Learning (aka Education) - A wider variety of subjects to meet life's challenges
First, the adults. I want classes offered for adults who want more for their life.
One) A language test that tests several areas and shows the adult, on their own, what goes wrong. I am a great example: I speak English at a A minus level. I recognize more words than I know how to use in normal speech. I have started to misspell words that I once spelled easily. I pronounce about two words in regular speech incorrectly. When I was a child, I could not pronounce the difference between "shoulders" and "soldiers." My tongue got mixed up.
Two) Classes in ballroom dancing, country dancing, line dancing. Workshops in how to sew; how to build houses, septic systems, great farms, and generators small or mid-sized to light and power your own house or your own light in a room. How to cook for a month and you do it there. How to preserve food, garden, and do Morse Code. How to check your car out, how to drive, how to drive a boat, how to back a trailer (without the husband screaming in anger and the wife in tears).
Second, the children.
One) Of course, reading, writing, and arithmetic. I noticed, after I grew up and looked more at languages, that the areas that I flubbed as a gradeschooler could have been explained a LOT better, but the teacher was following the textbook which was not written well. I flunked an upper algebra class but it was not the teacher's fault. He chose to do things in a way that allowed us to chose to start being like adults making choices. I flunked. (I repeated the class.)
Two) Can we have P.E. be less competitive? Can we do things which are exercise but not humiliations, as were the picking of teams by the best players? I was on the list at the bottom almost. Elaine Rook and I were usually chosen last and it was done in such a way as to mortify us. She and I thought there were better ways to do it, such as "If the second letter of your last name is from A to M, you are up the first time. Those with the second letter of the last name from N to Z are on the field the first time." Are competitive sports the natural outcome of exercise?
Three) I want to crowd out the silly stuff. I want to put more into the six hours of the school day. Classes in real life aspects that are more real-life practice than home ec was. I wanted "shop class" and the adviser said, "Oh, no, you need to be in a foreign language." It was either/or, there was not a system that allowed for both. (And it was good - I LOVED being in a foreign language class and it didn't matter if I was perfect or not. It helped lead me on to going to Europe as an international exchange student and such things shape the framework of a life.) The limited lives we are graduating are too tight and narrow in too many ways. Ask a high school graduate to make a meal. The lower lip drops and she stares befuddled and worried. And speaking of textbooks, I have found contradictory errors and downright invented things. What if we do not have to memorize the dates of wars and battles but need to know how to find ore, what it looks like, how to make a furnace be it for metal, cement, glass, or ceramics, and how to recognize the major plants and their uses?
First, the adults. I want classes offered for adults who want more for their life.
One) A language test that tests several areas and shows the adult, on their own, what goes wrong. I am a great example: I speak English at a A minus level. I recognize more words than I know how to use in normal speech. I have started to misspell words that I once spelled easily. I pronounce about two words in regular speech incorrectly. When I was a child, I could not pronounce the difference between "shoulders" and "soldiers." My tongue got mixed up.
Two) Classes in ballroom dancing, country dancing, line dancing. Workshops in how to sew; how to build houses, septic systems, great farms, and generators small or mid-sized to light and power your own house or your own light in a room. How to cook for a month and you do it there. How to preserve food, garden, and do Morse Code. How to check your car out, how to drive, how to drive a boat, how to back a trailer (without the husband screaming in anger and the wife in tears).
Second, the children.
One) Of course, reading, writing, and arithmetic. I noticed, after I grew up and looked more at languages, that the areas that I flubbed as a gradeschooler could have been explained a LOT better, but the teacher was following the textbook which was not written well. I flunked an upper algebra class but it was not the teacher's fault. He chose to do things in a way that allowed us to chose to start being like adults making choices. I flunked. (I repeated the class.)
Two) Can we have P.E. be less competitive? Can we do things which are exercise but not humiliations, as were the picking of teams by the best players? I was on the list at the bottom almost. Elaine Rook and I were usually chosen last and it was done in such a way as to mortify us. She and I thought there were better ways to do it, such as "If the second letter of your last name is from A to M, you are up the first time. Those with the second letter of the last name from N to Z are on the field the first time." Are competitive sports the natural outcome of exercise?
Three) I want to crowd out the silly stuff. I want to put more into the six hours of the school day. Classes in real life aspects that are more real-life practice than home ec was. I wanted "shop class" and the adviser said, "Oh, no, you need to be in a foreign language." It was either/or, there was not a system that allowed for both. (And it was good - I LOVED being in a foreign language class and it didn't matter if I was perfect or not. It helped lead me on to going to Europe as an international exchange student and such things shape the framework of a life.) The limited lives we are graduating are too tight and narrow in too many ways. Ask a high school graduate to make a meal. The lower lip drops and she stares befuddled and worried. And speaking of textbooks, I have found contradictory errors and downright invented things. What if we do not have to memorize the dates of wars and battles but need to know how to find ore, what it looks like, how to make a furnace be it for metal, cement, glass, or ceramics, and how to recognize the major plants and their uses?
A - ANIMALS, PLANTS, PLANET - Our Natural World
So much to say, I am going to jump to the easiest. In California, I watched field after field being sprayed with water from sprinklers. The mist of water rose into the hot air and 30% was gone instantly, and the rest barely made it the named "ONE INCH DEEP" that was recommended. What if we instead had water put INTO the ground in different ways depending on the crop. Such as for the trees, we put a pipe (with side holes) straight down about ten feet, with a wax plug at four feet. We water the smaller tree at the two or four foot level and when it is larger, we punch through the wax and let the watering be as deep as the ten foot level. The trees grow roots downward, instead of running them along the ground. Instead of "mopping" the trees with 45 gallons per tree with a trickle line that puts an inch puddle on top of their roots, we give them five gallons at the deep depth and the trees rejoice. And, we give them a solution of baking soda and vinegar twice a year to strengthen them. There are several other things which would make their fruit more nutritious and would make us live longer, things that are not oil-sludge fertilizers.
(I have seen dead fields with the poisonous weed killer and fertilizer so strong that few corn stalks grew at the lower elevation. The ponds as the lower end of the fields were thick with gross slime and the little ducklings were on their way to a slow death. It is said that ONE corn cob from the few corn stalks in the concentrated dosage area is enough to give a man prostate cancer. One. They are scooped up and thrown into the for-sale bin.)
For the opposite, aiming for good, let me give two surprising examples: compost water and electromagnetic light.
Compost: We intentionally gather from restaurants and other cooking places such as homes the food debris such as cobs and peelings, mix it with farm manure from livestock, put it in a roller bin to save the hassle of digging it by hand. We make a point of adding 1) dark colored berries such as grapes, blackberries, cranberries, things with that "zing" to them. (More are implied). And 2) we gather seaweed at the beaches and put it in as well for the minerals and beloved ingredients from the sea. You can spread the joy by soaking the compost with water, draining the water and giving it to the trees once or at most twice a year.
Light: We add some ingredients that we cannot name. We put a tanning bed on a truck with mirrors that spray the light over the field and let it light the field for four hours. On another night, we have an electric arc welder emitting its zappy different kind of light and the mirrors spray the light outwards. A welder can work on a project on the truck for ten minutes and it is enough. We have blue lights on the field at night for a few nights. We do the same with a black light. And this is fun, we give it radio-waves light with 1) we play music for the field about three times. I recommend Rhapsody in Blue and Hillbilly music. And, 2) we take an antennae of any size and aim it at the stars, attach it with wires to a satellite light-ray gathering dish - at the center receiving point - and aim the dish at the field. If we do these things, the nutritional content of the food will increase to the point that we can live for decades more. I think(!)
(I have seen dead fields with the poisonous weed killer and fertilizer so strong that few corn stalks grew at the lower elevation. The ponds as the lower end of the fields were thick with gross slime and the little ducklings were on their way to a slow death. It is said that ONE corn cob from the few corn stalks in the concentrated dosage area is enough to give a man prostate cancer. One. They are scooped up and thrown into the for-sale bin.)
For the opposite, aiming for good, let me give two surprising examples: compost water and electromagnetic light.
Compost: We intentionally gather from restaurants and other cooking places such as homes the food debris such as cobs and peelings, mix it with farm manure from livestock, put it in a roller bin to save the hassle of digging it by hand. We make a point of adding 1) dark colored berries such as grapes, blackberries, cranberries, things with that "zing" to them. (More are implied). And 2) we gather seaweed at the beaches and put it in as well for the minerals and beloved ingredients from the sea. You can spread the joy by soaking the compost with water, draining the water and giving it to the trees once or at most twice a year.
Light: We add some ingredients that we cannot name. We put a tanning bed on a truck with mirrors that spray the light over the field and let it light the field for four hours. On another night, we have an electric arc welder emitting its zappy different kind of light and the mirrors spray the light outwards. A welder can work on a project on the truck for ten minutes and it is enough. We have blue lights on the field at night for a few nights. We do the same with a black light. And this is fun, we give it radio-waves light with 1) we play music for the field about three times. I recommend Rhapsody in Blue and Hillbilly music. And, 2) we take an antennae of any size and aim it at the stars, attach it with wires to a satellite light-ray gathering dish - at the center receiving point - and aim the dish at the field. If we do these things, the nutritional content of the food will increase to the point that we can live for decades more. I think(!)
S - SANITIZATION - Haz mat cleanup, better cleaning practices
I believe. I believe that we can clean up poisoned areas with good remediation that is not "more acid." I believe in splashing bathrooms such as the gas station and such as the hospital with a solution of water with baking soda, vinegar, a slug (not a ton) of bleach (as not much is needed with the baking soda and vinegar neutralizing the bacteria). Add a white flower for faith. Then we have a squeegee and pull the excess water down the drain and leave it to air dry.
S - SIMPLIFICATION
I kept my material and my tools even when I didn't need them. Do you relate? I want to have warehouses with eighty-five tables and huge windows for daylight. (We bring our not-needed material there and get credit for it.) The material is sorted into the eighty-five tables. The solid colors and black and white at the back row, the main color with one other at the next row, such as in the blue row, the next table is blue as the predominant color and red is the secondary color. Then blue with orange, then blue with yellow, then blue with green, and so on. The further sets of tables are for three colors or more mixtures. A person could bring in a fabric and match the shades and tints perfectly. AND, I would recommend that we make material that is not so many shades for better matching. Not yellow with 70 variations but yellow with maybe five variations. We actually don't see it after a little bit. But when colors jar, it is not as good. And, I shall mention here, that asian material makers have deliberately made material with ugly prints, often drawings of children and childish things as if it didn't matter. It is called "f you" material. I am in favor of throwing it away.
Tools - Do you, men, have 'one of everything'? I did. I needed a sledge hammer for two summers and about 14 other things, such as putting my second ground rod into the earth. And then it sat for twenty years. My neighbor needed a wheelbarrow and I had a very stout concrete one, clean, so I would come home and find it borrowed for a few days. It was returned with a sheepish, "Hey, I didn't think you'd mind. Thanks." Another neighbor borrowed a shovel with my knowledge and permission for "one day" and forgot it was mine. It was my only pointy dirt-digging one. I could NOT remember where it could be and bought another. When in Modesto, California, I was at the library and across the parking lot was a place that CHECKED OUT TOOLS. Like the library checked out books. A person maybe paid $10 or $15 to be on the list and they could come and pick up a tool for two days or a week or so. What if we had workshops equipped with tools and tables so persons could come make things? Maybe such could be at the lodgings, and a few people would work for four hours a day to watch over the place and help as useful. Such as if grade school girls are there to make a dollhouse that is good for a bird too and the worker there shows them a book with ideas and after they mark the wood, he cuts the wood for them on the big band saw until the girls are mature, maybe twelve years old, and instructed in safety. (Mom and Dad would have to give permission.) Daddy let us girls use tools in his shop and we girls pounded in nails and put boards together. The items maybe were not glorious BUT that was my practice for building a house. It worked.
Tools - Do you, men, have 'one of everything'? I did. I needed a sledge hammer for two summers and about 14 other things, such as putting my second ground rod into the earth. And then it sat for twenty years. My neighbor needed a wheelbarrow and I had a very stout concrete one, clean, so I would come home and find it borrowed for a few days. It was returned with a sheepish, "Hey, I didn't think you'd mind. Thanks." Another neighbor borrowed a shovel with my knowledge and permission for "one day" and forgot it was mine. It was my only pointy dirt-digging one. I could NOT remember where it could be and bought another. When in Modesto, California, I was at the library and across the parking lot was a place that CHECKED OUT TOOLS. Like the library checked out books. A person maybe paid $10 or $15 to be on the list and they could come and pick up a tool for two days or a week or so. What if we had workshops equipped with tools and tables so persons could come make things? Maybe such could be at the lodgings, and a few people would work for four hours a day to watch over the place and help as useful. Such as if grade school girls are there to make a dollhouse that is good for a bird too and the worker there shows them a book with ideas and after they mark the wood, he cuts the wood for them on the big band saw until the girls are mature, maybe twelve years old, and instructed in safety. (Mom and Dad would have to give permission.) Daddy let us girls use tools in his shop and we girls pounded in nails and put boards together. The items maybe were not glorious BUT that was my practice for building a house. It worked.
W – WORK (changed to not a drudgery)
The money discussion is on another page and can be looked at with your own life in mind. The basic concept is that a young man cannot hardly hope to have a job that gives him time to have a life and money sufficient to pay for a house and a family. Yes, dearie girls, there is more than guys to life, I, after all, am a female and I built a house, but am I allowed to say that when you were little, reading about princesses in fairy tales, you did not dream of working in a roasting kitchen with sweat dripping and people yelling in order to come home and have the husband tell you what happened on the soap opera that day and to complain that his bon bon supply was low?
I - Inventions
Being able to make things is right and good. I want kids in school and adults at home able to assemble a simple generator with five parts that you can find possibly in your junk drawer and, voila, you have a lit lightbulb. If the grid goes out, if the power goes out, you can have the luxury of light and appliances, heat and transportation.
N – New (community feasts, dancing classes, letter writing, paths wandering, world traveling)
We can change things in the travel industry to make traveling the world not only for the rich. We could adjust things slightly to make it possible for the foreign resorts to be able to afford a less rich clientele. There are several ways to do this and the job would not be difficult.
LET CLASS WIN
L – Lodging
E – Eating, at home and away
T - Transportation
C - Communication
L – Learning (aka Education) - A wider variety of subjects to meet life's challenges
A – Animals, Plants, Planet – our natural world
S - Sanitization- Haz Mat cleanup, better cleaning practices
S - Simplification
W – Work (changed to not a drudgery)
I - Inventions to be prepared
N – New (community feasts, dancing classes, letter writing, paths wandering, world traveling)
E – Eating, at home and away
T - Transportation
C - Communication
L – Learning (aka Education) - A wider variety of subjects to meet life's challenges
A – Animals, Plants, Planet – our natural world
S - Sanitization- Haz Mat cleanup, better cleaning practices
S - Simplification
W – Work (changed to not a drudgery)
I - Inventions to be prepared
N – New (community feasts, dancing classes, letter writing, paths wandering, world traveling)
