Savings Accounts and High Stakes Gambling

"A penny saved is a penny earned," right?  Isn't that what they always say?  And accordingly, the crustimony proseedcake (customary procedure for all of you non-Pooh readers) for people of my age bracket is to have savings in a number of formats.  There is the simple savings account, of course, but there are many others as well.  There are IRAs, 401Ks, stock portfolios, insurance policies and surely many others that I don't even know about.  In our society, people feel like they are flapping in the breeze if they do not have a diversified portfolio.  Well, I have a diversified portfolio of my own, but it does not involve a single of the formats mentioned above.  What I have is this:

Amendment and Alternatives

This post refers back to yesterday's post.  Though it sounds like I have some new true believers, I must confess to having committed an error in the recipe.  Instead of just dropping the lemon or lime quarter into the cup, squeeze all of its juice into the cup first.  Then, if you feel like putting in the remains that's fine.  What I found yesterday was that the peel eventually made the tea taste bitter. 

Now, if you do not have time to go through the whole process, there are two alternatives that will give you large jolts of healing power in a fraction of the time.

It's Magic Potion Time

Good morning fellow sickos!  There seems to be a pretty virulent nastiness going around these days.  My babies are all visiting this week and the house is full of hacking coughs, throat clearings, and nose snorklings.  This morning it finally caught up with me too, and I remembered that a year or so ago a dear friend shared a recipe for a most potent magic potion.  I will share it with you all now.

What Gandhi Taught Me Last Night

Sometimes I feel like I have spent most of my life blind.

Last night Joe, Micah and I were discussing saltpetre production.  Though this may seem like an odd topic it will be common in our household over the next several months, seeing as how we are working at Mammoth Cave again and it was once a major supplier of saltpetre.