Bustednuckles is back up. My refrigerator pickles turned out excellent! The recipe was from here:
Refrigerator Dill Pickles
It is super stormy outside, but we are cozy in our little home and having breaded flounder with homemade tarter sauce (with my yummy pickles in it!) and french fries. The Lord is so abundant in the little things of life. Things are peaceful here. All is well.
Take care out there!
Cederq called me when he saw Anon's comments so he gave me an update to post to you guys.
Unfortunately, bustednuckles is down for the foreseeable future. It is hosted by Blue Host and they are telling Phil that all the videos that people are posting is too much for them to handle. They are suspending service to everyone. Ouch. Phil is looking for another place to host the site.
Meanwhile they are posting on their back-up channel, The Vulgar Curmudgeon.
Link is here: The Vulgar Curmudgeon.
Hopefully we will see Bustednuckles again soon.
Take care out there.
Just a little update. Cederq is home from the hospital and BearClaw is looking after him, so he is in good hands on his road to recovery.
Work is literally chaos with new surprises everyday, but the Lord is getting me through. There is a reason they call it long suffering! I even have to work tomorrow. So much for a three day weekend.
I want to talk about pickles, but first let's talk about calcium chloride. Calcium chloride is a chemical that they use as a de-icer. It is what they spray on the roads in the winter time. It is also now in every jar of pickles. It is considered GRAS (generally recognized as safe). Generally recognized by whom????
So I went to the grocery store for a jar of pickles, specifically dill pickles because I like to have some pickles on my cheeseburgers or cut up in my tuna – or sometimes just pull one out of the jar and eat it plain. Well, not anymore. There were 100 different varieties of pickles at the store; sweet pickles, bread and butter, spicy, kosher, organic. Every single jar had calcium chloride in it. Even the organic brands. How can you call it organic if it has de-icer in it? So yes I was very irritated. They say it is a firming agent. They say a lot of things.
They suck.
So instead of buying pickles, I bought some mini cucumbers and I'm going to attempt to make refrigerator pickles on Monday. Please pray for my success.
My husband is doing well for the most part. Status quo mainly but that is good. We are trying to survive the heat.
I have other things I could write about but I don't feel like the Lord wants me to spend my time on that stuff anymore (Spokane for instance). The enemy isn't far away in some war anymore or the next town over. He is here in my own backyard. He has infiltrated my computer and nothing works the same as it did back in the day anymore. I'm surrounded by people who hate the Lord and plot to do evil to their neighbors. The spiritual war is hot now and I'm under constant attack. People will look you in the eye and lie to your face. And they are not even convincing lies anymore either. Just utter garbage. But we wrestle not against flesh and blood and we have to remember that.
My advice: Lean on the Lord with all your might. Pray without ceasing. Bring every need to the Lord and trust that He will take care of you. We weren't promised a pantry that would make the top prepper's drool, but our prayer is that He will give us this day our daily bread. The Lord will protect us from what is coming. Trust the Lord with every detail of your life, no matter how small.
Not quite sure how to end this, so I'll just sign off. Love you guys.
Take care out there.
CederQ called me this morning. We often talk on Saturdays. I had last talked to him when he got to South Dakota on the long journey from Oregon. I haven't been reading any of the blogs I usually frequent because I just haven't had the time, now I'm kicking myself. CederQ is in the hospital. I went to bustednuckles.com and Phil has been documenting the details:
CederQ Takes A Turn For The Worse, Goes Under The Knife Again.
Please pray for my friend CederQ - that he can get well soon.
Thanks and God Bless!
Hi guys. I'm not sure if any one is still checking my little blog since it has been so long since I posted. Real life takes up all my time and I have tons of overtime every week. When I do have a day off, I take care of my husband and try to catch up on chores.
At work, our census (how many residents we have) is the lowest I have ever seen and the referrals we get are for people that have complex medical and behavioral problems that far exceed our facilities capabilities to care for them.
I am in charge of the scheduling for the nursing department. I had four nurses decide to quit in April, although two of them ended up coming back. The grass is not always greener on the other side, although it apparently pays better. No matter how hard I try I can't seem to get any CNAs to show up for their first day of work. They go through the hiring process, come in to watch the training videos and get on the schedule, but for whatever reason, they are a no call, no show. I've literally had 4 CNAs and 1 RN do that to me. I hear it is like that everywhere. Even the hospital can't get nurses and aides. Tell your kids to go into nursing because I'm pretty sure it's one of the few jobs that won't be replaced by robots anytime soon.
I see the pending AI takeover at work. I get little demonic entities popping up on my screen telling me they have ideas on how to improve my daily scheduling sheets. Well, unless you can find some bodies to fill all these open shifts, stay away from me. Of course you can't delete the little suckers. They just sit in the corner of your document waiting to say, “Hello! What can I help you with today?” Ugh.
Captcha has become a nightmare. Instead of picking all the bicycles and crosswalks, which is annoying enough, now they want you to scan a QR code to prove you are human. How does scanning something on your stupid phone prove that you are human? The beast system is slowly being built around us. They have plans to eventually tie your health records, banking and internet access to your genetic code, thus the reason to have huge data centers popping up around the country, stealing your water and land right out from underneath you.
I'm not afraid of the future and the tech billionaires evil plans for us. My trust is in the Lord Almighty. Jesus told us to give no thought for tomorrow because the evil of the day is sufficient. So true. Very dark days are coming but we dwell with the Most High and He will fight for us and protect us.
Love you all. Take care out there.
