When I had chickens, before I developed a lung sensitivity, I would pick up and pet my rooster every day. It taught him who was boss and I didn't have any trouble with him.

That would definitely teach him the difference between boys and girls.

You aren't the only one having that feeling. I think we are nearing the end and need to be ready.

Also try the Uncle Eric books. They are easy to follow, but a bit deeper and probably for slightly older kids. My son had studied a bunch of the Uncle Eric books like "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy" before the Tuttle Twins came out, so he was beyond Tuttle Twins. I still quite like the Tuttle Twins.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its

victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under

robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber

baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point

be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment

us without end for they do so with the approval of their own

conscience.

-- C. S. Lewis

I used thesaurus.com. Is that cheating?

beasts

We constantly hear that taxation is theft, and it is, but it is also slavery.

All of the people calling for taxing others and calling for more freebies are proponents of slavery. They are calling to steal another person's labor for their own benefit. That is making the taxpayer their slave. It is morally wrong.

I love mine even though the open button now sticks after being used for several years.

They are almost worth more as fertilizer factories, but I like their meat as well.

I agree.

Although there are people who deserve death, I'd rather a million people that deserve death not receive it if it prevents just one innocent person from being put to death. When you have politics and power, there will always be innocent people convicted wrongly.

I was already coming to the conclusion that our time was very short, but this sight has some good information on current events and how they relate to end times.

https://endtimes.substack.com/

I definitely think so. Every thing seems to be lining up with Bible prophecy and all of the technology necessary to make Revelation a reality exist at least in an experimental fashion now. That wasn't true even 5 years ago. Iran, Russia, and Turkey are aligning and seem to be setting up the Gog/Magog war. Israel has plans for a new temple without the outer court (matching the description of the outer court being trampled by gentiles. They have several perfect red heifers necessary for cleansing the new temple. They've found multiple men who meet the requirements to be priests and can trace their genealogies back to Aaron.

Honestly, I'd guess we have a better than 50% chance that the rapture happens before the end of the decade and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it happened before the end of the year.

We can't know the day or the hour, but the signs are telling me that our time is short. I am definitely preparing for it happening any time including trying to make arrangements for my special needs son who has not trusted Jesus.

Only producers should be able to vote. If you give takers the vote, they vote to steal the producer's stuff because it is easier than working and producing something themselves.

mind, not wind

It took me about 4 hours to get to sleep last night. I didn't like where my wind was going, so I got up and wrote for a while and then finally went to sleep. I then spent the entire day writing a new book. I wrote 16,800 words for my new book.

I haven't even gotten my final proof for the paperback copy of my first book. Hopefully I'll have it fully published before the end of the month.

Now I am working on another. I'll admit my books are on the short side, but I'm definitely a glutton for punishment. I run a business, homeschool my special needs son and take care of a large household. I don't need more to do. I always hated writing and now I can't stop. My eldest son asked if I needed an intervention.

We don't usually get much rain here, but it is really coming down right now.

There aren't many things worse than a boy getting his kicks beating up women. He needs to be shamed all the way home.

What could possibly go wrong?

I basically quit watching the news more than a decade ago. Every once in a while there is some breaking news that I want some info about that I will turn on, but that happens at most, once a year. Usually it is before they have consolidated their talking points, so there is at least some truth to it.

Just sitting, listening passively to the news is a waste of time and more likely to indoctrinate you than to actually inform you.

Homeschooling has been so good for both of my kids (both gifted & special needs), for me, and for our family. They have excelled academically and learned to love learning. We are all closer to each other. It has been so wonderful I can't help but encourage everyone to homeschool.

Most people are logically and morally inconsistent.

Two trips ago, I made a list. Somehow I checked off loading my bathroom bag in my suitcase even though I hadn't done it. In that case the checklist didn't help.

The whole West seems to have gone full tyrant. Are there any free Western countries left?

When I was younger, I had some friends from New Jersey who made fun of my southern accent. I worked hard to get rid of it. Now, even though I don't live in the South anymore, I almost wish I still had the accent.

I'm now making my own yogurt using a sous vide cooker using recipes with specific strains that help and with some pre-biotics. It "cooks" for 36 hours instead of the 4 hours common with commercial yogurt so it has a massively larger quantity and breaks down most of the lactose and even some of the other proteins (casein). It is naturally thick and I like it with a bit of vanilla stevia.

The temperature you "cook" at differs based on the strains. One I make uses 106F and one uses 109F. I just make one or two quart canning jars of the yogurt at a time and mix them together when done.

The specific strains come from the book "Super Gut". I make it with goat milk because of my new food sensitivies.

It is possible to be positive and still see and act appropriately the the bad/dangerous things in life. Never seeing or reacting to problems is not being positive. It is being naïve or intentionally blind.

America definitely does still have Christians, but it hasn't been a Christian nation for decades. It is sad how many people, especially Christians, don't realize this truth.