Travel light Has someone ruined their life for travelling the world, I just read on the internet when I typed the prompt 'world travel'. I didn't read this question, which may have been asked on a forum. It does make you think. My first reaction is: how can a travel ruin your life? People can do that, your own actions can do that, an accident can, but travelling itself or travelling around the world? What happens to someone always happens at a certain time in a certain…
Growing own food **Is it worth it?** I'm not sure but I like to give an update about my garden en growing my own food. Last year I decided it wasn't worth the try. The last time I had a great harvest if it comes to tomatoes, cucumbers and so on was in 2015. That is a long time ago and I still have syrup and some other food saved in jars. Since that year growing own food was a disaster. No matter what people say about what is easy to grow it is not if you deal with low temps,…
Bread beer Some weeks ago I intended to make bread beer. One of these bread beers turns out to be Kvass. Till today it didn't come that far (too busy gardening and hanging around) but for a few weeks, I do buy bags of old bread. The bread is sold by a pet shop, dry and is leftover from a bakery. It's cheap but good enough to use (animals and us included). I have no idea if each bag contains the same weight (most likely not) but the one I put on the scales was 5.5 kilograms.…
The greatness of cherries I have a cherry tree, a tree with sour cherries. It is the only tree that does well. Sour cherries taste different from sweet ones but they are good and healthy. I consider myself lucky that at least this tree didn't die and grows. Dying plants give me a bad feeling. After a walnut tree that died, now an old mulberry tree seems to be dying too. I had noticed a black spot on the trunk a year ago, but it has regained its leaves and fruit. Yesterday I…
Gardening update June 9, 2022 **Let me show you around what I have so far.** I can tell you that living self-sufficiently is not easy. Meanwhile, the chickens have arrived and they are not laying eggs! They stopped doing so immediately. Chickens do not always lay eggs and besides, every chicken is born with a certain number of eggs. In warm weather, in cold weather, in stress and when the chicken gets different feathers, no eggs are laid. The chickens get new feathers and it…
Money talks Does it? Most money in circulation does not say a word. It is untouchable and not even longer in the wallet. Instead of money, people walk around with plastic cards. That card is the payment method, at least if you have enough balance in your account. If this is not the case, you will find out at the cash register when you do not have your finances in order or when you are shopping like crazy. I don't do the latter anymore. At this very moment, I think: *why…
Single colour vs Us I don't like my children wandering the streets every day until there is finally a bus going home. I, therefore, decide to get up at 5 o'clock this morning to drive them to the bus stop in the village and pick them up later. The youngest is out earlier. The last two weeks before school closes, nothing is done. The teachers don't feel like it and roam the streets with the children. Children who are too old to play games that are already done in…
Stainless steel While driving back home I thought about waste. I don't believe I, my parents and their parents produced as much waste as people do these days. Most of what we had, bought was meant to last a lifetime if not at least 5 or 10 lifetimes. What was produced was quality and that's what people paid for. Plastic was rare if it came to items, clothes, shopping bags, shoes, medication, furniture and so on. . No plastic taps, buckets, bottles, tubs or bathtubs were…
A cherry update - bread beer *No, I haven't forgotten that I wrote about my cherry harvest earlier (Morello cherries, the sour cherries) and what I made out of it in addition to the fact that we ate cherry for days. I'm surprised that 'cherry connoisseurs' write on the internet that sour cherries are so inedible. I can guarantee you that it is, and we easily eat 300 grams per person per day. That being said my children do too.* Cherries are healthy and the sour cherry is…
Frustration I am sure that many people recognize this feeling. No matter how busy your day was, you have the feeling that you did not do anything meaningful. It feels like a wasted day. Today my day felt wasted. Not because I had nothing to do or others were keeping me from my work but because I was waiting for an order to be delivered. An order that was to be delivered on the same day. The courier company even has that name: same day. The order is from 17 June and today is…
Garden update - fighting sun/lack of water *Twice today I got lost. I don't know why but in a way I lost my mind or wasn't focused or it was because I was distracted because of the traffic jams. The days pass by fast and it doesn't matter if I start at 5 am or 7 am I'm always running out of time.* This morning one child started at work later and so I arrived later at the market. Fortunately, I was just in time because they were almost out of milk. Good to know for next time.…
Christians & the freedom of abortion **Abortion... Am I for or against?** By abortion, I mean human intervention to terminate a pregnancy. Abortion is not new and has been done for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Religion is not new either. Man always believes in something and before Christianity was spread there were gods and goddesses. Childbirth is for some a way out of their miserable existence, a form of retirement provision and for others a burden. The modern…
Children & Memories Once older you might discover that what you thought happened never did or it's worse than you remembered. One of my memories is about walking out of kindergarten to my grandmother's house because my mother wasn't home. Years later (about 40) I drove the distance by car. I can tell you I was shocked as I saw, through the eyes of an adult, the road I once took. What kind of mother lets such a young child (at most three years old) walk such a distance? *What…
I'll be fine how about you? The days pass and I am aware that I am not as often present as when I first started on this platform. Is this bad? I don't think so, because a lot has changed since that day. People come and go, those with whom I had built a relationship, but the fact is many have long forgotten me. That is the reality and I am convinced that everyone tries in their own way to live or survive life. We can talk about the current war, but to be honest I don't really…
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