General comments

When I tried to crop this picture it came out grainy/fuzzy so I left it alone. If you could see it close up you would see that it quite a nice piece of statuary. I may try to crop it again, but not today.

While in Evansville yesterday we stopped at the day old bread store and I bought several loaves of bread and loaded up the freezer.

I am glad to see that the new Farmers Almanac(just out) agrees with me. It predicts a long, numbing, cold winter for the center of the country. I guess the lack of sun spots may have something to do with the coming winter. The National Weather Service does not agree with me and predicts a warmer than usual winter. We will see.

I have just about every thing I may need to get through a harsh winter if it something nasty does come blowing down out of Canada. I need to get some kerosene for my kerosene heater just in case. I didn't need it last winter in spite of the ice storm, but it is best to be prepared.

I suppose the desire to be ready for anything is born out a childhood of being poor and living in upstate NY's snow belt. If you were snowbound in the boondocks of upstate NY you were just "stuck" in more ways than one. The survivalist who advocate beans and rice never really tried it in most cases. Ain't no fun and I hope that the people of this country never have to live in privation 'though I am sure many do in this present economy.

I read that our government has quietly sold off the wheat reserves and it is now at a "zero reserve." You may see a raise in all products that require flour for food production. And why not; the price of everything else is going up by the week. We will be depending on what the farmers are able to harvest this year.

I would love to have some venison in my larder. My mother would can venison in her big canner and it was the best; tender and juicy. It isn't likely that I will have venison now or in the future, but one can wish.

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