[OLChemist]

I've been down on the coast. As much as I dislike snow on the roads, I do have trouble finding the Christmas spirit when it's 70F and I'm fighting mosquitoes.

Santa was good to me. I got a Smith Handi-Heat acetylene torch under the tree. I think my UPS guy would get a retroactive hernia if he knew he had carried an empty b-tank up the stairs, lol.


The builders were supposed to take out the ailing pecan tree that overhangs the site for the studio (and my roof and my neighbor's roof). They rescheduled into the new year. This moves pouring the slab into Jan. I'm not hopeful that we'll get two days that stay above 40F. Cross your fingers for me.

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Originally Posted by OLChemist

I'm not hopeful that we'll get two days that stay above 40F. Cross your fingers for me.

I do always for you.



I got a workbasket for a lot of my beadwork supplies which comes in handy.

To all my friends here, stay safe and have a woderful year 2019.

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Originally Posted by OLChemist

I'm not hopeful that we'll get two days that stay above 40F. Cross your fingers for me.

I do always for you.



I got a workbasket for a lot of my beadwork supplies which comes in handy.

To all my friends here, stay safe and have a wonderful year 2019.

[Spiritflight]

It'a always amazing how some people pre-judge other people without knowing them in real for real. It'a also amazing how some people compare the grief and agony some people have with other peoples grief and agony and then decide which grief or agony may be worse, so to tell the one with presumingly less pain, look what are you complaining for, other people having it much worse than you. Of course there's always someone having it worse, so? Would it make my own hurt less painful? No. And if you are feeling sorry for yourself, good on you! At least you show that you care and have a feeling for your own needs. And since I am alone and bored on this NYE I just felt like writing this or something anyway. At least the TV-Programm tonite is worthwhile unlike all the other days of the year! Too many violent TV-films in my country. There is enough violence in the world already, no need for actors acting in violent TV-movies and documentaries. A happy New Year for all those having to spend the year change alone, I mean really alone, single and alone at home. And of course a Happy New Year for everyone else as well!

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Happy new Year.

LOL, more "Feinstaub" than by traffic.

Stay healthy otherwise would be bad.

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Went to Louisville with son-in-law. Look at cowhide wholesale for his after hours leather business. I bought him some leather embossing dies and handle. I got a reindeer hide to keep warm. Very soft hide and hair fine and thick. It almost wraps lengthwise around my shoulders about down to my waist. White with some dark hairs in places. From Norway. Around Christmas when the kids ask him what it is, he says , “deer” After a month from Christmas, he tells the kids it is reindeer lol. I guess reindeer is not very pow Wow kosher, but I think things change with regalia. We have an old guy that dances old fashioned fancy dance. No shirt and just a back bustle, I think. He dances different too. I love the old ways and hope I can learn some of them.

[OLChemist]

Happy New Years all!

[ches]

I got a great blessing today. I got on “family search” and traced back through Margaret Elizabeth Tudor to David brown 1771 death his wife was listed as “Elizabeth ‘cherokee’ “ it is a family tree and not documented at all. The ancestry number did not pull up anything. If it pans out, then my great great great great great great grand mother (nokomtha) was Cherokee tribe. May not seem much to you’uns, but I am not looking for tribal enrollment. It helps me explain why I talk to trees.

[subeeds]

Originally Posted by ches

I am old school I do use ATM WITH MY CARD, but never use it in a store. Please explain to me what happens to you. How do they mess up your card?

We have yet to figure that part out. Some people have some sort of thing that can scan cards while they are being used or in your wallet. So, I bought RFID blocker envelopes for our cards. Some card reader machines are rigged to scan cards. Each time this has happened to us, it's been after we have been at the same Flash Foods store. It's a busy store by the interstate, so we can't figure if it's a customer, or an employee up to no good. The bank says crooks can get your number, and make a copy of the card, or just use the number. got it all taken care of at the bank on Fri., though. This time my card has a chip in it. They say that makes it harder to duplicate.

So far, 2019 has pretty much sucked. Our dog died today, and he took a big chunk of my heart with him.

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He is still in your heart and lives on through that.

Knocking on wood, that such a thing doesn't happen to me with the credit card. That is why I like real money in coins and notes though the question is, if that money has much value. Yeah, you can buy a lot of stuff for it but there are values you never can buy through money and those matter more.

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Originally Posted by ches

May not seem much to you’uns, but I am not looking for tribal enrollment. It helps me explain why I talk to trees.

May you don't need to be an ndn to talk to trees. I like to talk to the "Kamerun" sheep of a nearby farmer. They are his green keeper and like to be fondled and feed with fresh bread. LOL.

And I wish I would understand the ravens who seem to talk to me in the early morning but I don't understand.

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Subeeds I know your family dog will be missed. I hear a lot that people say they do not want another pet. Now is not the time to think about that. If I can remember, in about three months, I will mention to you about a pet. God bless you. Maneto our creator made that dog.

[Toolbox]

Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. I think I only used my laptop twice over the whole break and didn't mess around on the net all that much either. Kept myself busy with plaster work in my house, parties, family in town for almost a week, and some lacrosse. Now to work off all of the food I consumed.

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Originally Posted by ches

Subeeds I know your family dog will be missed. I hear a lot that people say they do not want another pet. Now is not the time to think about that. If I can remember, in about three months, I will mention to you about a pet. God bless you. Maneto our creator made that dog.

Ches, our dogs have always found us. Sparky was o exception. He came into our lives about 6 months after our golden had died. He lived down the road and wasn't cared for, so he ran away and came to us. With the exception of a puppy we gout our son when he was little, that's the way it's always been. A mistreated dog, somebody moving and couldn't keep their dog, we just seemed to be in the right spot at the right time. Here's a link to Sparky's story if anyone wants to read it. https://subeeds.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/got-a-dog/

[OLChemist]

Hang in there, subeeds. I sympathize. I was heart broken when Cobalt, my first Siamese princess, had to be put to sleep.

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Originally Posted by subeeds

Ches, our dogs have always found us. Sparky was o exception. He came into our lives about 6 months after our golden had died. He lived down the road and wasn't cared for, so he ran away and came to us. With the exception of a puppy we gout our son when he was little, that's the way it's always been. A mistreated dog, somebody moving and couldn't keep their dog, we just seemed to be in the right spot at the right time. Here's a link to Sparky's story if anyone wants to read it. https://subeeds.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/got-a-dog/

Had a big reply typed and touched the screen and lost it.
We gave rescued a lot of dogs and cats. Sue says that God gives them your address. We have had cats stolen and another one disappeared. For a long time and animal crossing ntrol caught her a few blocks from us with a collar on!

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Anyone have a recipe for “Three sister’s soup”? I want a simple one. I live a spartan life.

[OLChemist]

There are several thousand recipes for three sisters soup and few hundred more three sisters and some in-laws, LOL.

Here are links to a few:

First Nations Development Institute's recipe

Chickasaw Nation website's recipe


These I've tried and enjoyed:

Simple this one is not. But, very good.

Tacobe's recipe

This recipe makes an epic quantity, but can be halved. To save time on the roasting and pureeing of the squash, I've cheated and used canned pumpkin or frozen butternut squash puree.

Mazopiya Market's recipe

[ches]

Thank you. The Chickasaw sounds easy. I am going to try that instead of I got online. It reminds me of looking for fry bread recipes and finding tons of recipes.

[Tsalagi_Phoenix]

Hope everyone had a good New Year.

I know I haven't been as active in the past year or so. The past two years have brought a lot of change for me. Hope everyone has been well.