I have been at YouTube again... so many things to learn, have to sort through all the videos I still need to watch or categorize. I think it was a shipping container link that got me there today... wow, I keep looking for homeless housing options that can be purchased like a regular home... to be permanent, stable, forever... and the right price hasn't been discovered yet. (By me.)
Crafting videos, some art journal videos which have changed my view of art journals :-), and Ted Talks... which sometimes are great. I looked into the options to have live YouTube like they have live Facebook, but I haven't figured out any live video options yet. I need the camera to get figured out first.
I did my yardwork for the day, sent off five letters, and had to take naps. I still don't have a lottery ticket yet... tomorrow is the big day, so I hope I get one before the drawing. :-) It's just the idea of being able to "win" a BILLION dollars... I think this is the second time the prize has gotten this high.
My voting ballot arrived today, and my pro-life voting guide. I still have to read up on both of them.
I haven't decided what the best way to vote is... eventually, we will probably vote from home... but they have to figure out the security issues for the internet first. I wonder how many years that will take.
Before I go to the store I need to check my budget and see what I have left to get on my list for this month, and how much money I might have to get these things. My food budget is a bit low, so I am looking into my biggest food needs. Two weeks, maybe more, is a long time for being without food items you forget you needed... running out of things is really a pain. I have been trying to stick to my budgets the past several months... going without instead of going out of the budget. My "back up" supplies have been changing because of the past experiences I have had... some of them I have shared here.
I watched two videos tonight -- one to check out a caramel recipe and one about homemade bread tips. Both had things that were good to learn. Now I have to see if I can use those ideas.
I have decided the pan is really important in making candy... since I lost my favorite one, it has never been the same. I liked the pan I saw in the caramel video, but have to check it out more. It is hard to find a TALL certain sized pan for making some recipes... that is my challenge... heavy, thick, tall. :-)
The homemade bread tips video showed a "proofing box" design. I'm going to try the hot water at the bottom of the oven next time I make bread to see if it really makes it any better. It's a new thing for me. I have read recipes for some kind of Boston bread that has water attached to it, but not regular bread.
I am trying to develop my own recipes for things I want to sell... caramels are one of those products. I love them... so it seems like a good idea. I will have to keep working on it. I accidentally created a fudge-like caramel once, and it was so good I have wanted to figure out how to make it again... my problem is that I was just using up things I had at the time, so I have no idea how to recreate that "fudge" taste. That recipe was so strange... it took several DAYS and then it died in that crystallization issue. Usually it goes sugary right away... I was shocked that it took many days before that recipe did that. So, I learned a big lesson... I may force my creations to sit at least a week before I ship them...
I am deeply interested in creating systems that utilize every aspect of their process... like making leather if I grow meat to eat, leather without chemical processes. I saw a video tonight that reminded me of that goal, but my inspiration is Native Americans... they processed their hides without chemicals... I think they scraped them until they were processed enough to use... that's what I remember from something I saw way back in my youth.
This would be the idea behind growing your own food, composting the scraps, creating better soils, selling for income, sharing with ministries, preserving for non-growing seasons, and other food processes. Natural grazing for animals is something I am trying to discover. I haven't figured out the winter process for natural grazing, but I have some ideas to try out if I ever get the chance.
I think it is all related to being self-sufficient for me... knowing the day will come that Christians will not have a lot of resources so we have to make sure we don't waste anything. Off-grid is wonderful. How much we need is the big question for me.
Food issues are important because of the need to be self-sufficient... the size of the community we will feed and shelter and provide for is still unknown. These are all the details that only GOD knows right now.
And every part of the world has different needs... different resources.
I think about these things every day... waiting for GOD to provide the ability to get them started and operating and moving toward their participants.
Well... it is late. I get carried away with all the links I find... I better get to bed so I can do my budget tasks in the morning.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD show us how to deal with the growing oppositions we face as Christians... and the technology that is used to hurt out lives... and the people who are our hidden enemies. It makes me very sad that they hate us but call us the hate-filled people, always looking for ways to violate the lives of people who have never done anything to them. How do we "fight" that kind of people? I don't know. I keep praying for GOD to show me the way through all this. May we find that path soon. Amen.
18 October, 2018
17 October, 2018
Lottery Dreams -- Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Another day is nearly done.
I found out the Mega-Millions lotter drawing for Friday is nearing the BILLION dollar mark! Wow! I think I will invest in one more ticket! I am waiting for a big financial miracle... maybe this will be it! :-) One ticket. One GOD. One hope for funding. That's all it is.
I think I would go into total shock if I did win... I have been waiting for GOD to provide for WT for so many years... I would be able to spend all of it in a reasonable amount of time.
When the lotteries decided to go up to $2 I was forced to figure out my options again... I just wanted to invest $1 and see if GOD provided that way. I found my solution in the $2 dilemma by deciding that $1 would be from WT and $1 would be from me. If we win, the money (big money only) would be shared 50:50. It solved that issue.
Money is such a terrible threat to faith that I had to pray about money issues for a long time... just in the creating of any work for Christians. So I worked through all the details so that before any blessings come I would be ready for them.
If GOD provides a LOT of money, initially, the plan is to make sure my past debts from this journey are paid, and some basic needs are met, but then the rest will be for lots of different things. I guess I mean that my part will eventually be 10% and GOD's part will be 90%... after I take care of the damages the past has created in the journey.
If I won a billion dollar lottery prize, I think that would all be moot... my ten percent would be able to cover any past and future needs. It's any other amounts that will have to be prayed about.
I tend to think GOD will provide big money someday... so that is why I have to work this out.
Many years ago I did the "exercise" of deciding what you would do with ONE million dollars, tax free, the whole amount, if you had it... seriously decide what you would do. It was quite a challenge. Now I am older, and life is nearing the end, so I don't know if I would worry so much about retirement funding, but owning a good house and property would be my retirement need... probably some kind of car, too.
My school loans went from about $30K to probably near $200K now. That is one of my casualties of the past. Other than that, I have small debts to catch up with... nothing much. If I won a BIG amount of money, you know that "family" would come out of the woodwork, so that would have to be settled... anyone who did anything for me or my kids would want some of it. All those amounts are not firmly decided yet. It is all a lot of money to me now, but if I won a big lottery prize, it wouldn't be much of the total.
I was thinking earlier today that I would finally be able to buy from the ORGANIC options if I had that much money. I could do a lot of things, finally.
Dreaming is fun.
Working Together is a very expensive dream, so it would require many millions just to get going... to start the process. Growing it would probably take more millions. Once the process is worked out, it will have to support itself in each region... but the start-up process will cost a lot.
The programs that are planned will also need to be financed in the beginning, until they can support themselves, get more organized and efficient, and are in their forward motion.
I hope I live long enough to see it heading in those directions. It's been a hard battle so far. I don't know if I will be like Moses kept from going into the Promised Land, or be able to enjoy seeing it become all it needs to be.
I always hope GOD will provide today, but I never know what He has planned. I just keep going. It is all I know how to do, it is my life, it is my purpose, it is my hope... I have seen the needs that are not met, and I can't bear the thought of so many Christians suffering through them with nothing to help them, or their kids, or their grandkids, or others that may be living until the Antichrist gets here. I am just one Christian. GOD has to provide.
That is what I wait for... that moment when GOD provides.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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I hope this is the time when GOD will bless. Amen.
I found out the Mega-Millions lotter drawing for Friday is nearing the BILLION dollar mark! Wow! I think I will invest in one more ticket! I am waiting for a big financial miracle... maybe this will be it! :-) One ticket. One GOD. One hope for funding. That's all it is.
I think I would go into total shock if I did win... I have been waiting for GOD to provide for WT for so many years... I would be able to spend all of it in a reasonable amount of time.
When the lotteries decided to go up to $2 I was forced to figure out my options again... I just wanted to invest $1 and see if GOD provided that way. I found my solution in the $2 dilemma by deciding that $1 would be from WT and $1 would be from me. If we win, the money (big money only) would be shared 50:50. It solved that issue.
Money is such a terrible threat to faith that I had to pray about money issues for a long time... just in the creating of any work for Christians. So I worked through all the details so that before any blessings come I would be ready for them.
If GOD provides a LOT of money, initially, the plan is to make sure my past debts from this journey are paid, and some basic needs are met, but then the rest will be for lots of different things. I guess I mean that my part will eventually be 10% and GOD's part will be 90%... after I take care of the damages the past has created in the journey.
If I won a billion dollar lottery prize, I think that would all be moot... my ten percent would be able to cover any past and future needs. It's any other amounts that will have to be prayed about.
I tend to think GOD will provide big money someday... so that is why I have to work this out.
Many years ago I did the "exercise" of deciding what you would do with ONE million dollars, tax free, the whole amount, if you had it... seriously decide what you would do. It was quite a challenge. Now I am older, and life is nearing the end, so I don't know if I would worry so much about retirement funding, but owning a good house and property would be my retirement need... probably some kind of car, too.
My school loans went from about $30K to probably near $200K now. That is one of my casualties of the past. Other than that, I have small debts to catch up with... nothing much. If I won a BIG amount of money, you know that "family" would come out of the woodwork, so that would have to be settled... anyone who did anything for me or my kids would want some of it. All those amounts are not firmly decided yet. It is all a lot of money to me now, but if I won a big lottery prize, it wouldn't be much of the total.
I was thinking earlier today that I would finally be able to buy from the ORGANIC options if I had that much money. I could do a lot of things, finally.
Dreaming is fun.
Working Together is a very expensive dream, so it would require many millions just to get going... to start the process. Growing it would probably take more millions. Once the process is worked out, it will have to support itself in each region... but the start-up process will cost a lot.
The programs that are planned will also need to be financed in the beginning, until they can support themselves, get more organized and efficient, and are in their forward motion.
I hope I live long enough to see it heading in those directions. It's been a hard battle so far. I don't know if I will be like Moses kept from going into the Promised Land, or be able to enjoy seeing it become all it needs to be.
I always hope GOD will provide today, but I never know what He has planned. I just keep going. It is all I know how to do, it is my life, it is my purpose, it is my hope... I have seen the needs that are not met, and I can't bear the thought of so many Christians suffering through them with nothing to help them, or their kids, or their grandkids, or others that may be living until the Antichrist gets here. I am just one Christian. GOD has to provide.
That is what I wait for... that moment when GOD provides.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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I hope this is the time when GOD will bless. Amen.
16 October, 2018
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
I need to find a better way! :-) Yardwork is very exhausting !! So, I rested a lot today, again. Oh, well, winter will be here soon enough... that will solve that problem. haha.
I am still thinking about the film "22 July" and wondering what it means for our world. The killer was sure he was doing the "right thing" for his cause. He was called a "right wing extremist" -- which I didn't understand because he didn't have any faith in GOD... and "right" usually means people of faith, with "left" meaning socialists/liberals/no faith.
Another Christian program I happened to hear today says that Canada is planning to let kids end their own lives without parental involvement at any level. This is a sign of what we are heading into. It seems that anyone diagnosed with mental illness can also be killed by the government against their will. The real reason is medical costs... MONEY... taxes. This is how much you matter to the government, yet the government wants to force you into their care. Think about your future.
I am still too tired and sore to think about all these issues... and write about them right now. It is becoming such a nightmare just to exist anywhere. How can we "opt out" of this kind of government control? It's not a good future for those who are growing up right now... it won't take long.
When I heard projections about how much technology is going to change our lives, our jobs, our world, they said ten to fifteen years... that was at least five years ago, probably more. The idea is that technology is exploding in growth... not slowly growing... the changes are faster than we can keep track of them.
Businesses are going bankrupt. That means their jobs are gone, their stock is gone, their taxes are gone. I heard that SEARS stock fell to less than a dollar because of their efforts to reorganize and build a better business for this environment... they have declared bankruptcy to protect themselves from billions in debt. I was most distressed to hear that the person in charge sold their best asset a long time ago... Craftsman tools. If they can find their place in the online market, and organize their retail options strategically, they may survive.
I hope they do.
This is one illustration about our dependence on stock portfolios for our retirements. AMAZON faltered and it's owner/founder lost almost 10 BILLION dollars of value with it. We praise the wrong people as wealthy. We need to value hard assets, debt-free assets, characters that will stand through trials of life, wisdom, and things that are not found on a balance sheet. I wonder who that would be? If we had a top ten in those kinds of people, who would be on that list?
I have to say I received some newspaper puzzles back from an inmate I write to... they were not allowed to be received at that (federal) prison. How pointless it seems to focus on newspaper puzzles sent to an inmate... this is suppose to make our prisons safer. :-(
I guess one thing led to another... so many issues to complain about.
But the Democrats are suppose to be the "progressive" party. Has anyone really thought about their views lately... they seem to be more about killing innocent people, babies, children, the mentally ill, and whoever will make the list next... probably inmates, veterans, disabled people, and the people who get in the way of someone powerful.
I better go. I am getting madder and madder.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD help me to channel my anger into better directions, and provide the resources to do that. Amen.
I am still thinking about the film "22 July" and wondering what it means for our world. The killer was sure he was doing the "right thing" for his cause. He was called a "right wing extremist" -- which I didn't understand because he didn't have any faith in GOD... and "right" usually means people of faith, with "left" meaning socialists/liberals/no faith.
Another Christian program I happened to hear today says that Canada is planning to let kids end their own lives without parental involvement at any level. This is a sign of what we are heading into. It seems that anyone diagnosed with mental illness can also be killed by the government against their will. The real reason is medical costs... MONEY... taxes. This is how much you matter to the government, yet the government wants to force you into their care. Think about your future.
I am still too tired and sore to think about all these issues... and write about them right now. It is becoming such a nightmare just to exist anywhere. How can we "opt out" of this kind of government control? It's not a good future for those who are growing up right now... it won't take long.
When I heard projections about how much technology is going to change our lives, our jobs, our world, they said ten to fifteen years... that was at least five years ago, probably more. The idea is that technology is exploding in growth... not slowly growing... the changes are faster than we can keep track of them.
Businesses are going bankrupt. That means their jobs are gone, their stock is gone, their taxes are gone. I heard that SEARS stock fell to less than a dollar because of their efforts to reorganize and build a better business for this environment... they have declared bankruptcy to protect themselves from billions in debt. I was most distressed to hear that the person in charge sold their best asset a long time ago... Craftsman tools. If they can find their place in the online market, and organize their retail options strategically, they may survive.
I hope they do.
This is one illustration about our dependence on stock portfolios for our retirements. AMAZON faltered and it's owner/founder lost almost 10 BILLION dollars of value with it. We praise the wrong people as wealthy. We need to value hard assets, debt-free assets, characters that will stand through trials of life, wisdom, and things that are not found on a balance sheet. I wonder who that would be? If we had a top ten in those kinds of people, who would be on that list?
I have to say I received some newspaper puzzles back from an inmate I write to... they were not allowed to be received at that (federal) prison. How pointless it seems to focus on newspaper puzzles sent to an inmate... this is suppose to make our prisons safer. :-(
I guess one thing led to another... so many issues to complain about.
But the Democrats are suppose to be the "progressive" party. Has anyone really thought about their views lately... they seem to be more about killing innocent people, babies, children, the mentally ill, and whoever will make the list next... probably inmates, veterans, disabled people, and the people who get in the way of someone powerful.
I better go. I am getting madder and madder.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD help me to channel my anger into better directions, and provide the resources to do that. Amen.
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