Pain in the neck..the jaw..the tooth and everything else

I won't write much tonight and here is why.  I didn't get to the dentiset today.  I go tomorrow.  In the meantime I am having a lot of pain and swelling on the left side of my head and face, even down into the carotid artery.  I found a bottle of amoxicillin in the med. cabnet and am loading up on that.  I will take two before I go to bed and a pain pill to help me sleep.   I hope we don't get  ice overnight because I really need to go to the dentist.

I went out long enough to take books back to the library.  I had to get them back.  While I was there I picked up a couple more easy reading books.

That's all for tonight because...because...because.  END.

Look at the prices on these old gravity gas pumps!

We will never see such low prices again!

The  price of gasoline is already up even 'though Wall St. is closed and the speculators can't speculate.  From what I can understand of the news the riots in Egypt would effect Europe more than us-we, of the Western hemisphere.  Never let a good riot-havoc-go to  waste.  They(bankers, speculators, and Wall Street Tycoons) will rush to cash in where we peons fear to tread.  The Robber Barons will be at work and play, and thus, history repeats itself. As written "The poor will always be with us," and to clarify the words of Christ in a more modern vernacular, we will always have the  "good, the bad and the very self-serving UGS(uglies).  So, what can we do about it?  Very little other than stock-up, store up your treasures in Heaven and try to survive.

I did drive out a little and checked the price of gas:  some prices were up 10 cents per gallon from yesterday evening.  It is hard to say what it will be tomorrow or on Monday when Wall Street and the banks open.  "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."  I suppose I sound like a paranoid scare monger, but it worries me.

The two men that said they wanted to buy my old Rambler never showed up today.  That doesn't surprise me.  Everyone wants the car, but no one wants to pay for it.  The car will soon be 52 years old and is a rare model.  Maybe I will put it up on E Bay.

I walked in the garden and got mud on my shoes.  The moles are tearing up the garden spot; they are really bad and I need to get rid of them.  I did pull an over-wintering green onion that I missed last fall and spotted several more.  Onion breath!!

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I MYSELF AM THE LIVING BREAD.

IF ANYONE EATS THIS BREAD

HE SHALL LIVE FOREVER.

THE BREAD I WILL GIVE

IS MY FLESH,

FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.

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John 51

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Storing up/Stocking up

ADDING TO THE LARDER.

I went shopping a little bit this afternoon  I am slowly replenishing my "pantry" and hope to do so next week, as well.  I got a few items that were on sale and a few items that I really didn't need, but got them anyway.

1. 2 cans of tomato juice for 98 cents each.
2. 4 jars of spaghetti sauce for 98 cents each.
3. 2 cans of creamed corn for 50 cents or 2/$1.00.
4. 2 loaves of bread for 85 cents each.
5. 2 large jugs of  washing machine detergent-2/$5.00

I did have to pay full price for 1/2 gal. of milk and $2.89 for a small jar of honey.  The one thing I didn't really need was the plate lunch form the Deli. for $5.49, but it looked good and smelled even better.  They are not stingy with their plate lunches, so I can get two meals out it which equals out at about $2.75 per meal...and I didn't have to cook it, use energy or wash the dishes later.

I would like to go back and get more stuff, but I won't have the money to spend before next week.  Next week may bring about more sales, too.  I am really watching the sales as the price of groceries go up, up, and sailing away.

I am about to change this blog again.  I don't know what direction it will take, but blogs need "freshening" now and again.

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"THE BIBLE MAY BE

OUR BEST RECORD

OF ANCIENT HISTORY"

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GRUNTS

The snow is gone-for now.  I went to the Dollar Tree to get a few things.  Came home with more than I intended to get, but that is OK.  One more payment to the dentist and then I am out of debt..or am I.  Getting toothaches on the other side!

Not much going on.  Nothing to write about. The phone is ringing.  Debt collectors trying to find the woman who had  this number before.  Can't win!

How many disciples did Jesus have?  Just 12? More?

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NOW AFTER THIS

THE LORD APPOINTED

SEVENTY TWO OTHERS,

AND SENT THEM FORTH,

TWO BY TWO BEFORE HIM.

INTO EVERY TOWN AND PLACE

WHERE HE HIMSELF

WAS ABOUT TO COME.

AND HE SAID TO THEM,

"THE HARVEST IS INDEED GREAT,

BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW.

PRAY THEREFORE

THE LORD OF THE HARVEST

TO SEND FORTH LABORERS

INTO HIS HARVEST."

Luke 10:1-2

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We never hear much about the 72 that were sent forth as emissaries-laborers, to prepare for arrival of the teacher/preacher.  They were the "grunts" of the day.  Are you a "grunt" for the Lord?

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SNOW-HO

We had a little more snow than predicted; just over two inches.  Owensboro, about 30 miles south of here, had over five inches.  We may have some flurries now and then.

Because I had to go to the drug store, like it or not, I did use my cane.  I do not use or like to use the cane often, but I can not afford another bad fall.  The snow was melting and then freezing.  You know: "Pride goeth before a fall," and I don't want another messed up arm and I don't want to fall-eth.  So, I made use of the cane.

I miss summer salads.  Since I was already out I stopped by Windy's and picked up a small salad at the window. I think I may start mixed salad seeds in a container sometime next week.  Salad greens don't take long to grow and I am ready for something green.

Last week Tomato and Chicken Noddle soup were on sale for $.50 cents a can .  This week they are up to $1.00 a can.  Gas has come down to $2.98 if you pump it yourself.

Obama's speech: heard it all before.  Glenn Beck: heard it all before.  Financial collapse: heard it all before.  Rumors of war: what else is new.  End of the world: orTEOTWAWKI.  The Bible says we won't know when.  There is "nothing is new under the sun."

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THE LORD WILL OPEN UP FOR YOU

HIS RICH TREASURE HOUSE

OF THE HEAVENS

TO GIVE YOUR LAND

RAIN IN DUE SEASON,

BLESSING ALL

 YOUR UNDERTAKINGS,

SO THAT YOU WILL LEND

TO MANY NATIONS

AND BORROWER FROM NONE.

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Deut. 28; 12

Ahem:  The President, the Republicans, and the Democrats might need to read this verse-but won't.

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NOT MUCH

The picture above reminds me of a very old book that was in a house we lived in when I small.

I wasn't supposed to look at it as a child. It had some very reveling prints of the naked and suffering sinners in hell. I wish I had that very old book as it was a work of art in itself.

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A nice day today...or was to me.  I needed to get out of the house and run the car a little so that the battery doesn't go down.  Maybe the sun wasn't out there with me, but at least the temperatures were up in the high 30's.

Someone came to the door today asking if I would sell my old Rambler.  I guess I will, if they come back on Saturday, as they said they would.  I would be selling at a loss, but that is the way of cars.  I can't restore it now, as I don't have the strength of arm.  Selling it at a loss is better than having it rust away.  Something of something is better than nothing.

My hair is slowly growing out and I was able to trim it a little bit...even it up from where the helicopter clippers gobbled out chunks of hair.  I  think I may be able to appear in public again in a week or two.  Yes, it was that bad.  It is still a little raggedy, but improved.  No beautician could have done much with such a bad haircut: only time is the healing cure.  LOL's!

I hope to get to the grocery store tomorrow now that I am more presentable to the general public.  I need to get some milk and a few odds & ends.  I am making a list and checking it twice.  I may look for seeds, too.

We are to get a little snow overnight, but not enough to worry about.  Maybe an inch.  And guess what!  The phone has been silent all day!  That's what I like!

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THEN GOD'S TEMPLE IN HEAVEN

OPENED AND IN THE TEMPLE

COULD BE SEEN

THE ARK OF THE COVENENT.

THERE WERE FLASHES

OF LIGHTNING,

AND PEALS OF THUNDER,

AN EARTHQUAKE,

AND A VIOLENT HAIL-STORM.

(a great hail)

(also as the Apocalapes of Saint John)

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Rev. 11:19

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FROM THE KITCHEN WINDOW

You can't see much from these pictures that I aimed out the kitchen window.  You sure can't see the mess and the doggie dodo that doggie has to live in.  It's there.  I made the pictures as large as I could, but you can't see the details.  The kitchen window is really as close as I want to get.

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I had to change my phone number.  Apparently you can't block cell phones and I know that WHO has two.  After having the same number for 40 years I have had to change it and now have to call everyone and give them my new number.

Here is a thought for you.  We have been at a continuous war in the middle east for 20 years now.  The Russons pulled out of Afghanistan after about 10 years, knowing that they couldn't win a Gorilla War.  It broke their BANK and now it is breaking ours.  Veit Nam tossed the French and..us out on our ears with gorilla warfare.  America gained it's Independence from England through a kind of gorilla war and so did(not so free) Cuba. Nearly 50 % of our budget goes into the military machine.  I am all for protecting our boarders, but will the old men of Washington and Dogs of War never learn?  Never, because there is money to be made through blood and guts, military machines and the spoils of war.

We had about an inch of snow overnight followed by warmer temperatures and rain.  Most of the snow is gone.  It will get cold tonight and freeze, but warm up again tomorrow.  We are in more "normal" tempertures.  I think I see sunshine at occasionally at the end of a very cold Dec. and Jan.

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MY MOUTH

SHALL SPEAK

WISDOM:

PRUDANCE

SHALL BE

THE UTTERANCE

OF MY HEART

MY EAR IS INTENT

UPON A PROVERB;

I WILL SET FORTH

MY RIDDLE

TO THE MUSIC

OF THE HARP.

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Psalm 48; 4-5

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I continue with my effort to diet.  I lost five pound, but stayed the same this past week, not losing or gaining.  Too much bread, me thinks.



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