Thanks Samantha. I tried to think and write 'outside the Internet'. It's hard to do that! It's wonderful that you grow your own seasonal produce and herbs. It's not primarily about saving money or even about self-sufficiency, as important as those are; the taste is so utterly different from store-bought, that's the thing. And of course you can grow a lot more variety that doesn't have to survive shipping. That's interesting about pomegranates. They have a long history, you know, dating back to Biblical times. Your experiences and observations are amazingly similar to mine.
Hi Peter -- I enjoyed reading this as it reads almost like a view into your thought processes before COVID and after, which came together to solidify where you stand now.
We grow all of our own seasonal produce as well as an extensive herb garden. While we don’t have a pomegranate tree, I’ve been learning quite a bit about the wonders of this fruit, including the peel and pith from Jennifer DePew’s Substack. I’ve even dehydrated the peel and pith from several poms and I often add some to my morning tea.
Even pre-COVID, our family didn’t much rely on traditional medicine, though we needed it on occasion.
This COVID debacle has also curtailed our foreign travel, but we’re traveling far more around the US and have plans for Canada as well, provided they’ve stopped requiring all who enter to show proof of the death jab. That said, we went to Atlanta for a week recently and domestic travel is still a pain in the a*s!
Edward Snowden had a huge part in changing how we view our government and the intelligence community specifically. The Seth Rich murder still hurts my heart to this day. He resembles one of our sons, so I think that’s why it still bothers me so much -- that and the fact that it was senseless and brutal.
Trump had his past issues with women, sure, but he doesn’t drink at ALL, doesn’t do drugs, etc., so pinning him down with a blackmail was difficult. Which brings me to the FBI...it’s disappointing that they have become largely a crime syndicate that perpetrates crime on American citizens, while hiding the crimes of other Americans. They aren’t fit to tie the shoes of the likes of Elliot Ness.
In Texas we never had mask mandates. Some businesses enacted their own mask mandates, so we just avoided shopping at those. We attend a small country parish church about 45 minutes from our home. It never shut down, no social distancing, no masks. I am so grateful for that.
Thanks Samantha. I tried to think and write 'outside the Internet'. It's hard to do that! It's wonderful that you grow your own seasonal produce and herbs. It's not primarily about saving money or even about self-sufficiency, as important as those are; the taste is so utterly different from store-bought, that's the thing. And of course you can grow a lot more variety that doesn't have to survive shipping. That's interesting about pomegranates. They have a long history, you know, dating back to Biblical times. Your experiences and observations are amazingly similar to mine.
Hi Peter -- I enjoyed reading this as it reads almost like a view into your thought processes before COVID and after, which came together to solidify where you stand now.
We grow all of our own seasonal produce as well as an extensive herb garden. While we don’t have a pomegranate tree, I’ve been learning quite a bit about the wonders of this fruit, including the peel and pith from Jennifer DePew’s Substack. I’ve even dehydrated the peel and pith from several poms and I often add some to my morning tea.
Even pre-COVID, our family didn’t much rely on traditional medicine, though we needed it on occasion.
This COVID debacle has also curtailed our foreign travel, but we’re traveling far more around the US and have plans for Canada as well, provided they’ve stopped requiring all who enter to show proof of the death jab. That said, we went to Atlanta for a week recently and domestic travel is still a pain in the a*s!
Edward Snowden had a huge part in changing how we view our government and the intelligence community specifically. The Seth Rich murder still hurts my heart to this day. He resembles one of our sons, so I think that’s why it still bothers me so much -- that and the fact that it was senseless and brutal.
Trump had his past issues with women, sure, but he doesn’t drink at ALL, doesn’t do drugs, etc., so pinning him down with a blackmail was difficult. Which brings me to the FBI...it’s disappointing that they have become largely a crime syndicate that perpetrates crime on American citizens, while hiding the crimes of other Americans. They aren’t fit to tie the shoes of the likes of Elliot Ness.
In Texas we never had mask mandates. Some businesses enacted their own mask mandates, so we just avoided shopping at those. We attend a small country parish church about 45 minutes from our home. It never shut down, no social distancing, no masks. I am so grateful for that.