Rest

After months of being booked 100% of the time with doctors!, today, believe it or not - is free!!!!!
No time conflicts,
No doctors,
No exams of any kind!!
No idea how this happened
But I am currently sleeping in!

No doubt Gaelic Girl has a day filled with work planned for me.
But, this boy is tired!

 might do some reading in one of several 18th century cookbooks I have to investigate.
Just a quick peek has only made me more interested!
Recipes not so unlike my own cooking but also simpler!
And I am into simpler ....
Just have to see if they are any better
or not!

I really need some chocolaye cake ....
..... sigh ......

Musical Saturday Morning

Gess, I honestly do not remember hair being this long in 1972!
1975, sure, but 1972?????
No way!
So, perhaps the dating of the video is bad?

Anyway, one of Bad Finger's best:

Screening

So, if it is not one thing - it is obviously another!
The past five years have been health disaster after another!
So, how do you follow that up?
Obviously with another health issue!

Yeah, this time cancer.

So, I went to tje doctor back in May with pains and swellings.
He referred me to a cancer screener for the local hospital.
Oh lovely.
Just lovely.
When you catch up with me in Heaven. ask me how i feel about cancer!

Been through it 7 times,
Each time different,
Each time it went into remission - surprisingly.
That includes one episode where Kris gave up!

Yeah, I had ben in unbelievable pain for weeks,
The specialists all gave me under 3 months to live,
That was 30 years ago!

And a very grateful Kris watched in real time as the tumors shrank!
Very surrealistic!

Of course my diagnosis, this time, and request for an MRI was back in April.
And no one was doing MRIs!

And  today, I finally was in queue long enough to warrant booking a cancer exam!
Gees, sure glad it is nothing fatal like some over hyped flu variety!!!!!!!
So you take your narcotic pain killers and curse stupid politicians!

That is what will be keeping me busy for the next two weeks!
(I think I am going to go throw up from thinking bout this!)

Cookbook

I collect cookbooks.
I like to read them,
Think on how to improve the recipe,
Then try it out.

Oh, the bombs I have created!
Conversely, I do manage a gem now and then ...

So, it was with surprise I received a box from my American "nephew".
Inside was a cooking scrapbook.
Spanning 170 years of recipes,
It is his family's only legacy.
I felt very touched he shared this with me!

And how I wished anyone in my family had bothered to write out something as simple as a cookbook~
But, no, not my family!
They have cherished cooky recipes only.
And mot of those can be found in a Betty Crocker's anyway.

What did they eat other than cookies?
How did they prepare eggs or other meats?

Oh, I realize that my Scottish family would have boiled everything,
My mother's cooking has echoed their inability in the kitchen ...
But, what of father's family?
I know he cooked a great deal of hashbrowns.
He had one other potato recipe but I have no real memory of it.
And once he visited towards the end of his life and whipped uo coqcoq vin for the kids.

Well, he sort of messed up the preparation and then I had to deal with 4 drunk children.
Last time I let him cook!

And back to the cookbook,
I am transcribing it,
Will photograph the results,
And build a little cookbook out of it.
He, his children and other relatives should enjoy that.

And I will get to try some new and very old recipes!

Musical Saturday Morning

Ah, the memory of those early morning jams session at the IHOP!
The best of times!

(munch-munch-nunch!)

Hope

What is you hope in?
I mean why bother to get out of bed each day?
What keeps you going?

I used to walk a great deal,
Hitch-hiking everywhere!
Of course this was during Ted Bundy's terror reign in the Seattle area
And NO ONE would give this skinny geek a ride.
So, I just got used to walking most of way to where I was headed!

I lived in Tacoma,
My Grandmother I was caring for lived in Auburn,
My church I joined was in Kent.
So, averaging 25 miles between everywhere!

Outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is a natural hitch-hiking point.
The meeting of two highways,
Sheltering trees for cover from the rains,
Or privacy for, toilette au natural!
And someone with a sense of humor was there before me.

Tacked to a small cross, under one of trees:
"No Dope,
No hope,
No ride,
I died."

I had a long wait for a ride,
So, I had plenty of time to wander around,
and ponder that sign.

Later, I was to learn that some bears took to doing their meal shopping here!
Leading to many maulings and killings of hitch-hikers!

But, back to hope!

And I have only remembered this little poem because it is important to checkup on myself once in a while and see where I am coming from and going to.

Is Jesus really my hope in this life?
Or is my goal "heaven", with or without Jesus in tow?
Is my hope really in Jesus forgiveness for Kris being Kris,
Or in my ability to balance the books?

Oh make no mistake,
Kris has the ability to royally screw up!
Bur thankfully, Jesus seems to have infinite ability to forgive!
Which is good!!!!!!

Which an understanding of this,
Leads one away from a belief in theology upon which most of our songs are based on!
Yeah, if it comes from me - it is totally fallible!
If it originates from God - darn hard to argue with then!

So, my hope is not in my faith.
Nor my understanding.
Nor a crucified Jesus.
Nor a buried Jesus.
It is in that empty tomb!
The one Jesus left behind!

Yeah .....
Jesus resurrected alone,
Changed to a immortal body,
Ready to return and assume His rule.
In the meantime,
We wait .....

Youtube on Prophesy

I have been surfing the word of Youtube lately.
really bored
But, I have been stunned by what I have been seeing!

I should not be surprised
The world system is opposed to all I believe in
So, if you are going to search on the word Prophesy
Guess what you will find.

Yeah very little that is Biblically based!

Oh, make no mistake, there is tons out there that would pretend to be Biblically based,
However, they are not.
I got a Bible, and I know how to check their references!
So much is taken out of context!
So much is flat made up references!
Gees, really?

So, frustrating week for me,
I had hoped to be learning something of value,
Not what not to learn!
Falsehood, my tired brain does not need!

sigh

So, lots of wasted hours.
Guess I need to find my old Ironside's commentary.
Aged at over a 150 years now, but at least
Ironside knew what he was talking about!
Which is amazing,
if you think about that ...