Safe!!!! Natural!!!! Non-Toxic!!!! Weed Killer!!!

  CHEAPER Than Round-Up!!!!!!

   I might have been a little bored. I shouldn't  have bean, but I've been seeing this posted about lately so I figured I'd post something as well.

   For the past few years I've seen people share the natural weedkiller recipe posts every spring and summer.

  If you want something to turn something brown where it's not growing, it WILL work!!! I used it last summer!!!!
   See, I've proved it's effective. I used CAPITAL letters and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! That proves it is true.
   Common Household Ingredients:
1 gallon of Vinegar
2 cups of Epsom Salt
1 cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid
   Start by heating the vinegar on the stove and stirring the Epsom salt in with a wire whisk. (Dang i forgot how bad vinegar can smell when it's being heated on the stove😝) Then let it cool down before putting it in the sprayer. Oops, I don't have a sprayer. So I went to town to get one. Hmmm. There a gallon of roundup ready to use for $14. The sprayer cost $15. So the ingredients are cheaper than round up, but it's gonna cost me more this time. But I'll have a sprayer that I can use next time.
   Then after you pour it in the sprayer you add the cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid..stir it up. Spray it on the weeds and the next day, they're dead. They looked dead. The leaves turned brown and fell off. But a week later they started to come back..so I bought more vinegar, Epsom salts and added the Dawn and sprayed them again. I was beginning to think I had fallen for some

   Well they looked dead, again. 2 weeks later they greened up again. So I bought more vinegar, more Epsom salt, and a new bottle of Dawn.  And sprayed them again.
   You guessed it. They started greeniing up. 😠.
  I went back to the store. This time I bought a gallon of roundup ready to use, sprayed the plants and they died. And that time, they stayed dead. 
   So yes the natural safe non-toxic weed killer is at least non-toxic. Non-Toxic means it didn't kill the plants. 

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🏆 World's Greatest Mom! 🏆

   I had a fantastic Mom!
   She did the best job raising a trio of boys. 
   So when I found a wife I found a good thing.
   My wife is the best mom on the planet. She held our family together when I was falling apart. (Well they kind of cut me up, but you know what I mean)
   I don't know how she did it. I just know that she kept us fed, clothed, sheltered and transported.
   I definitely got a winner.

The kids are lucky to have a mom like her, and I am blessed to have her for a mother of my children!

Unfamiliar Territory

   I've not been here in a while. About 24 years to be honest. And I'm still a long ways from my goal. 
"What goal is that?", you might ask.
  Since you asked, I'll tell you.
   I set 3 goals after I finished my treatment. To get under 200 pounds. Then get to 180 and eventually get to my "ideal" weight of 165.
   I've reached the first goal. I'm under 200 pounds for the first time since 1995. I know it was then because that's when I started getting my teeth pulled to get dentures. Not when I got the dentures, when I started getting the teeth pulled. I gained weight while I was having teeth pulled every other week. 
   My next goal is 180. I haven't been at that weight since 1990. Around the time I start ed working at Venture I. Working right across the road from a store where I could go get food right as I left work in the morning. I went from 175 to 185 in a month. But I stayed between 185 and 190 the 3 years I was there.
   The next goal after that is 165. It's been 32 years or so since that weight.


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Genealogy - My Heritage

IThis isn't my great-grandfather's church. This isn't my grandfather's church. 

This isn't my father's church.

This isn't the church of my childhood.

    Yet, it is. Physically. And even that has changed. 

   The activity center/fellowship hall didn't exist when I was a child. The basement and the classroom where we have Sunday school class didn't exist when my father was a child. The sanctuary where services are held didn't exist when my grandfather was a child. Cool Springs Cumberland Presbyterian church didn't exist when my great grandfather was born.

   As far as congregationally goes, my first cousin 3 times removed (great grandfather's first cousin) is listed on the plaque in the vestibule as the minister when the church was organized in 1891.

    Denominationally, my 1st cousin 4 times removed (great great grandmothers first cousin) organized 4 or 5 churches. And my great great great great grandfather was a pastor who preached at several churches back on the 1840's.

   I'm not sure where this was intended to go when I started it, but I know when I was younger I remember hearing about a church getting rid of its pastor because his wife had an affair. Another church getting rid of an elder because their child ran into trouble with the law. Another church that told a pastor if his wife took an outside job, they would let him go.
   At camp, we used to sing "they'll know we are Christians by our love"
   Watching the news, listening to reports, seeing what's going on in the church world; sometimes I wonder now as I did then, where is the love?

This Is Parenting

   This morning, Brayden said "I'm hungry"
   I, of course, said, "Hi Hungry, I'm Daddy"
   Brayden then said, "I want cereal!"

   I told him that he needs to ASK for cereal if he wants cereal.
   He sighed and asked for cereal.

   Then I thought, cereal sounds like a good idea. Maybe I should have cereal, too.
   Frosted Rice Krispies looked appealing. But so did Froot Loops. Oh, and Golden Grahams.
    And we have ALL 3 in the pantry!

   That's what was left. 3 boxes of cereal. Made 1 bowl. I have teenagers.
   On the positive side, I got 3 boxes cleared off the shelf. 

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What The ?????

   WHOOOMPH!

I looked at the clock, 5:57.

   That's sort of what it sounded like when the house woke me up. Whatever it was it shook the house.

   Reminded me of when the limb fell out of the neighbor's tree onto our roof. Except this time we still had electricity.

   "IS THAT A TORNADO?" Yvette asked me nervously. 

   Then the bed started shaking and I asked her if somebody was washing clothes cause sometimes one of the kids will over load the washer and it gets out of balance and it will vibrate. 

   Nope, nobody is washing clothes.

   Checked at the end of the bed to see if the 100# dog is laying touching the bed and scratching behind her ears. That will make the bed shake. No Dog.

   Open the front door and go outside and the neighbor across the street is looking out their door.

   So I go back inside and post on Facebook asking if anybody felt any shaking. 

So then I go to check CERI. Nothing is showing there yet cause it's on a delay. Finally it shows up:

   Then I read that it was a 3.6. Since there was nothing else I could do, I went back to bed. I read this afternoon they've upgraded it to 3.7. 

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It WAS Beautiful

   Maundy Thursday was dark  and rainy. Good Friday was cold and rainy. Saturday warmed up and the sun was shining for the Easter Egg Hunt. 
Then Easter Sunday. Resurrection Day. 
   Here's the entire service.

 Easter Service 2019.

The prelude, the cantata, the sermon, the postlude. Every part of the service. Beautiful.
   There were 80 people there. They came from 3 corners of the state. And from the middle of the state. And one from out of state. A 90+ year range in ages.
   BEAUTIFUL.
   Then we came home and while we were gone, singing about the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, these had showed up:

   It was a beautiful day!
   I am so thankful for the opportunity to be here to celebrate another Easter with my family and with my church family. I look forward to many more. 

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