Good morning. ☕️☀️
Please forgive the grammatical errors.
I just realized that blogging on my phone distorts my blog and makes it hard to read. Sorry about that! I've been blogging on my phone while on the go. This is the first time in many months checking my blogs on my laptop. Oops!
Once again I am leaving Las Vegas. *I've left Las Vegas.
"You'll acclimate to the Vegas heat."
LIES!
You never acclimate to the heat! You're stuck indoors for three months.
I'm an outside gal. I can't be trapped indoors for three months. 10⁰ (with no wind) to 80⁰ is my comfort zone. Grateful to be standing on cooler grounds thank you.
Americans have gotten way too comfortable around each other especially in business. Sometimes I wish America would go back to calling each other by Miss, Mrs., Ms., and Mr. Why did we ever let this go? Last name first. We need to know who your father or husband is. Spidey senses background check. Where do you come from? Back in the 1800's this was a class identifying measure but in 2026 it's more of a protective order against criminals. In the 1800's class meant money. In 2026 money has absolutely nothing to do with class. In the 1800's money meant respect. In 2026 respect means respect.
AND ANOTHER THING
WHY do y'all care so much about other people business? Why? I couldn't care less what my own brothers do on the daily, why care what strangers do? Again, this could be a generational thing. American Gen X'ers raised themselves to mind their own business. When a GenX wife asks her GenX husband why his best friend and his wife are getting divorced, GenX wife don't really care why they getting divorced, we're adults, we can guess, the GenX wife is just trying to engage in a bonding conversation with her husband. Talk about your buddy's failing marriage or talk about her perimenopause, your choice.
Voter fraud absolutely does happen. At the end of May I received mail-in voter ballots in my rental mailbox for several different people I don't know. I handed the rando ballots over to the employee working at the mailbox counter and it made me wonder if people were using my rental mailbox because they knew I would just hand mail that's not mine back to the employees working the counter 'cos I'm just honest that way. I'm not saying employees at rental mailbox places are shady, but I'm also not saying it. It's just a little strange that all of a sudden I got rando mail for other people during voting season, nothing but mail-in voter ballots. 🤨 Voter ID!
So anyway...
Eaglet selfie! 😛
Iknowright?! (Sigh) For the love of America please don't vote another Trump into what remains of the White House. UFC fights, really? 😒
I been feeling very nostalgic lately.
I happened upon this Jon Oliver reel on a late night doom scroll.
CORN 🌽 I'm amazed when people think all these cornfields are used for food. No my guy, 40% is still used for ethanol.
Where's the lie?
I'm very blessed to have had a childhood on one of America's natural prairies - all the wildlife you can imagine. I didn't appreciate it then as I do now. Where I grew up there were woods, acres and acres of prairie (like in this photo) in between all different kinds of farms, mostly grain, then fruit and vegetables.
This just breaks my heart.
Real estate developers have never given a single damn about nature. They just build on top of it, ignoring the eco system like their grandmothers, you know, shoving them into an old folks homes. Out of sight, out of mind.
This reel would be perfect if they didn't show the twin cities. As a kid we never went into the city except for medical reasons. I like the North Loop. That's where all the old mills and factories are, but other than that, Minneapolis, no thank you. IFYKYK 😏
Okay, here we go.
Oh! oh! Me! Me! Pick me! I'll answer this! 😄
So like... you know there's more than one way to Christian, eh? The Christians YOU are talking about are called Evangelicals and according to Daddy Google they are 78 million strong in America and I guarantee y'all they vote Republican. Evangelicals are non-Catholics, "protestants" but not really. Evangelicals don't acknowledge the reformation anymore as they once did in the beginning. Today their church would never deny a hefty donation for a place in Heaven, their faith can be purchased, and they would never in a million years surrender their wealth if spiritually challenged. Being Evangelical is a Bible based faith HOWEVER 2026 Evangelical ministers are 18th century revivalists who only acknowledge those who blindly follow them, donate to them and their church, and purchase only their gospal wares. "Buy our books, donate to our church and you too will have a spot reserved in Heaven, Amen!" All gimme, no give. No snake handlers even, nothing. (Sigh) Those were the days back when they had snake handlers. Ever see that episode of X Files (season 7, episode 9) dang, anyway, point is, there are unfortunately many different ways to Christian but for most Catholics and Lutherans (like myself) our historic religious blood war literally lasted over 130 years as to the meaning of a being Christian. Imagine being in a blood war over Christ for 130-something years. We Lutherans, we got some meat in this game, know what I'm saying. The war between Catholics and (Lutheran) protestants made one defiant priest (Martin Luther) turn to the Pope with a reformation declaring the Pope, among other things, a hypocrite and never shall a true protestant ever look back. Amen! All protestant churches started with the reformation but then then some churches saw Christ's face on a potato or whatever and it messed them all up. All's I'm saying is if you're going to be an Evangelical/pentecostal then do it old school Appalachian style with snakes and speaking tongues or don't do it at all. No one likes a Pentecostal who only gives 50%. 😏 Real protestants follow Martin Luther's reformation that says you CANNOT purchase your way into Heaven. Only by having a real relationship with Christ, baptized in His name, following His teachings, and obeying God's commandments may you get into Heaven. You know, earning your way, because that's how all good and loving relationships are made, by earning them not by purchasing them. The only "condition" to being a Christian is being a good person who honors Christ. I mean really, how hard is it to not throw rocks at endangered animals? How hard is it to say "thank you" at least once a day? If that's an inconceivable "condition" in your eyes then I have to wonder what type of entitlements you think are owed to you and why? As a Lutheran protestant myself, I would still be honored to meet Pope Leo XIV. I would fist bump with him or shake his hand if he engaged me to do so. I would be honored to receive communion from him because it's him and he seems like a cool dude so far. HOWEVER I will never bow down to him, meaning lower myself to him or kiss his ring. I acknowledge the Pope's title and role he serves to his followers but no Pope, no Catholic, no fake protestant minister will ever tell me how to serve Christ. I know the Lord and the Lord knows me.
(Sigh)
Again? Girl. Who hurt you? I think seeing you kiss anyone would be deeply disturbing at this point. Your disdain for Christians is clearly a YOU thing. I'm starting to think you had a crush on someone who turned you down because you're not Christian, as is both your rights, but then you went all "10 episodes of SNAPPED!" and here we are.
You know there are gay Christian ministers, right? 🏳️🌈
See above.
And if you think that's crazy wait until you read in the Bible how God intended humans to eat!
"I'm allergic to shell fish!" Yeah well, God instructs the only sea food humans are designed to eat is fish, as in trout, salmon, cod, etc., FISH. I mean, the maker of your body knows the best diet it should be fed. After that you're on your own. "I'm allergic to gluten." Look, I can't help you there. Maybe you're just dehydrated. Do you drink 7 cups of water a day? God instructs humans to eat a very basic clean diet to keep the body going strong and healthy consisting of (hold on to your butts!) mostly fruits, vegetables, and grains. If your diet consists mainly of red meat, pork, and greasy fast food then YOU need to go back to the manufacturer and get reset. Pork is not native to North America. Swines, pigs, pork was first brought to North America with Christopher Columbus. If you believe native honey has all natural healing properties then it would be reasonable to think that foods not native to your country have destructive properties like pork.
AND STILL
We do what we do because we're stupid humans.
EXAMPLE:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE! I'm so over gender reveals. Remember when gender reveals happened when the baby was born. "Congratulations it's a girl!" Like why did this stop being a thing?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!
Thank goodness!
Fixed it for you.
Loving relationships are earned. Christ does the heavy lifting but you have to do your part also. I thank God every day for putting certain people in my path. Did I accept all the people He has put in my path, no, but I'm getting better at identifying them.
Maybe these social "justice" one-liner Christian bashers ought try reading the Bible first or just do a thirty minute Google search with their questions before clumping all Christians in with one another, eh? Just a thought. And stop rage baiting please and thank you.
I just learned THE_PASTAQUEEN is a scientologist and I'm not sure how I feel about that yet. I just started getting into her.
Here's the thing, I do not believe in missions of conversion and I frown on religious recruitment. Once Tom Cruise started to include missions of conversion in his interviews I stopped watching him. The only place I openly talk about Christianity is here because it's my blog, and church of course. I'm good with people making their religion publicly known, cool, do your thing, but once they start going into conversion/recruitment mode I'm out.
Moving on.
Totally random.
Stay with me especially all you American military folks and military brats. 🪖
If you grew up in a military household you know what chipped beef is. More specifically you know what chipped beef on toast is. Chipped beef is the hotdog of red meat that's been dried, salt packed, cut into thin slices, and preserved in jars. It's cheap meat that travels well and American military everywhere carried it on them. There is literally nothing else on the planet that tastes like it. Nothing! Chipped beef cannot be mistaken for anything else, much like Spam, which I also love originated in the factories of Hormel in Minnesota. In military households back in the 70's and 80's the traditional way if eating chipped beef on toast is by making a basic milk and flour roux as thick or thin as you like, stir in ripped up pieces of chipped beef, and then pour it over try toast. I absolutely love it still to this day.
These people poured it over crispy hashbrowns instead of toast and I am SO trying this!
It was also called SOS (Google it) but I'm a girl and no man in his right mind back in the day would use that kind of language to a little girl. I have always called it chipped beef on toast. And another thing, if you don't like Spam you clearly have never had good masubi. I make my masubi with a sweetened teriyaki soy sauce. Its good. You'd like it. People who don't like Spam are the same people who don't like hotdogs and just SHAME ON YOU. How dare you call yourself an American. 😏 You're also the same people who think camping involves a 5 star resort and once again SHAME ON YOU. The reason I brought up chipped beef on toast is because...
I recently had an Arby's beef and cheddar. I don't eat fast food much but I was craving a beef and cheddar. The last time I had one I was maybe in my late teens, early 20's, so like a hundred years ago. The only thing I ever ate at Arby's is the beef and cheddar.
A week or so ago I ate a beef and cheddar at Arby's and bagged two to go. First of all, it didn't have enough cheddar on it, and second, the beef tasted like chipped beef.
As I said if you grew up with chipped beef you know what it tastes like FOREVER. It cannot be mistaken for anything else, that is, until now. Arby's beef in the beef and cheddar, hand to God, I swear it was chipped beef or at the very least heavily mixed with chipped beef. I two cent Google sleuthed online and Arby's swears up and down it's all roast beef. 🤨 There's an IG and Tiktok trend going on right now with the kids underdogging Arby's beef and cheddar. Indeed, because its not a bad sandwich in my opinion also. Needs more cheese tho. Still, it tastes like chipped beef. Gave me big time childhood nostalgic vibes. I dunno boys and girls, check it out for yourself. I love me a conspiracy.
AND SPEAKING OF:
A conspiracy that's been floating around for a while now is time speeding up. A current minute being approximately 45 seconds instead of 60. Influencers are quoting the Bible for reference, book of Mathew, but before I get into that I want to remind people that the Bible mentions both 'end times' AND 'time reckoning' all throughout. To the people saying remember when a minute count was done by "one-Mississippi, two-Mississippi..." That was a made up slow second count by your parents to give you more time to stop punching your little brother in the head. No one performing life saving chest compressions ever said, "One-Mississippi, two-Mississippi..." that patient would die. All my life the second-count was always a nonstop quarter count of "tick-tick-tick-tick". To the people relying on electronics for their minute-count, here's a science project for you, no really, I'm serious, go find an hourglass sand timer, start your cell phone timer (all your electronic timers) and spin the hourglass. See what happens. Will your electronics match the sand pouring through the hourglass? Don't know what an hourglass is? Google it! I've never owned an hourglass but I imagine it is much harder to speed up sand in an hourglass timer. I don't know, give it a shot. AND...
Keep in mind I don't have the entire Bible memorized by heart. I just want to point out a few things that social media trends like to hop onto, especially in regards to Biblical trends without ever having read the Bible.
Book of Mathew: Mathew is the first book in the second testament. The Biblical reference influencers are using to "prove" time is going faster is in Mathew 24:22 HOWEVER did y'all read the passages after 24:22? Well here it is.
Social media influencers are saying the great tribulation (end times) is shortening the hours of time. Welp, boys and girls, please keep reading.
"For there shall arise a false Christ, a false prophet, and shall shew great signs and wonders..." So no, Mathew is not referring to end times. He is warning of false prophets.
Throughout the Bible "time reckonings" occur at specific times. The only mention (that I know of) where time is being altered is in Mathew's warning of false prophets using end times to spread their agenda liiiike social media influencers. Blindly believing/following an internet influencer who is against Christ is the same thing as blindly following an internet influencer against tacos - and guess what, both the Bible and tacos can be fact checked by doing your own investigative work. Who doesn't like tacos?! 🤨
I still say try the hourglass time check. It would be a good science projects among the curious and the believers that time is getting shorter AND might I suggest throw in a few wind-up watches along with the electronic timers and hourglass. Remember Judge Ito's desk with all the hourglasses on it? What was that about?
ANYWAY
Google maps is THE WORST.😭 And this sign is funny.
Go back, Google maps did you dirty AGAIN. "Get off my lawn!"
Same. I could zone out, stare out the window, and knit for daaays.
BURN!! I mean... Burn? I don't know. Wut? Astrophysicists. 🙃
I couldn't care less about sports. I like hockey, grew up with hockey even though Minnesota didn't have a team in like FOREVER. Back in the day I was an Oilers fan (follow the puck!) and then a Kings fan. Us Minnesota kids were forced to learn how to ice skate in elementary school because that was the norm for Minnesota circa the 70's but I'm not ride or die fan of any sport, although I will admit I kinda sorta want to learn how to play golf in my senior years, but not really. All this FIFA and basketball hoobaloo all over my late night doom scrolling is forcing me to actually go back to sleep, the nerve!
I like BTS too but seeing 55 year old ARMY making Tiktoks with the 15 year olds is a little cringe to be honest. Good news, we adults can admit to liking BTS now that most of them are in their 30's.
I've never been to a baseball game (so un-American!) even though the Twins won the world series in '89 and '91. A girl friend once forced me to go to a college football game with her ONCE, USC vs UCLA game which is a big deal in Los Angeles, aaaaand that was enough football to last me the rest of my life. I was SO bored. I like hocky in part because it's a fast game as in speed. Follow the puck!
Same with leaf blowers.
Every time I try to end this blog...
I'm exhausted.
Just spent my third night back in Los Angeles and my right ankle has been chewed to pieces by low flying mosquitoes, one in particular that I been chasing around my room since I checked in. Yesterday evening I found it floating in my water pitcher. Apparent suicide, either that or evil really does flow through my veins. 😏
Sigh. Bro. FIRST OF ALL it's okay to not like something. It's not okay to commit violence in the name of not liking something. Just like it's not okay to blame Christians in a lump sum because rage baiting is the only way you know how to get attention, like a toddler. Y'all know there's openly gay & lesbian Christian ministers right? RIGHT?! Your lack of tolerance to allow people to simply live and let live tells me you need Jesus. 😏
This person is describing my dad. Dad converted to Catholicism to please his second wife. His second wife who was first his mistress for many, many years, with whom he had a second house with and second family with, all while still married, ripping apart our family once again. I'm Christian also. I'm a different kind of Christian who forgave my dad's trespasses. I gave it to God and moved on with my life. People aren't going to like you, and guess what, that's their right. They're also going to vocalize not liking you, and hey guess what, that's their right also. Freedom of speech. I'll defend it with my last dying breath obviously.
ANYWAY
I finally finished my second blanket for winter donation '26/'27. Way behind schedule. Blankets take so long to make.
I've decided to knit more winter hats, scarfs, socks, and mittens for donation. I'll call it my 52 knits a year. One knit per week. Probably more. I can knit a winter hat in two days easily.
My square toe house socks are so warm and cozy especially to sleep in on those cold winter months, boys can wear them too! keeping your feet warm is not gender specific. I prefer square-toe over round-toe for more toe wiggle room.
Hats take about 2 days to knit.
The hat currently on my needles.
Acquaintances have wanted to purchase my knits but they are not for sale. This has caused a rift between myself and those acquaintances but that's on them. Several people over the years have generously donated yarn to which I am so deeply grateful. I love showing the finished projects. I want people to see what's being donated through their thoughtfulness and generosity. Inflation being what it is, one skein of yarn is anywhere between $6 - $16. One skein of yarn typical produces 2 hats, or one short scarf, and it takes at least three skeins of yarn to make one thick winter blanket for a child, 4 to 5 skeins of yarn for an adult blanket. "If you're buyin', I'm flyin'!" I remember when that used to mean something else entirely. 😏
In Jewish terms I think it's called a Mitzvah. In Christian terms it's called performing an act of Righteousness, an act of kindness commanded by God. (Priest) Martin Luther reminded all Ministers of the Christian faith to perform Righteousness alongside their parishioners. Take care if your families needs first but do not forget others, do not squander in indulgences. Luther wrote it in his thesis:
My knitting isn't perfect I know, but everything I knit is made from my heart like a kindly old grandma knitted it, or as I like to call them 'Aunt Lisa knits'. Although at 57 years of age, '"grandma" might be more accurate.
It's so easy to lift up others, and so hard to fall into Hell, I always wonder why people choose the latter. Work smarter not harder.
Never forget what Isiah said about fallen angels:
Remember that the evil you rule
It's waiting outside bringing pain by you
No wait. That was Ronnie James Dio. 🤘🏻😏 🤘🏻
Here's what Isiah 24:21,22 really said. Still kinda metal.
God bless us all. 🙏🏻
Okay bye! 👋🏼
