The airlines announced today massive layoffs in the tens of thousands. No one can travel.
Disney announced they are firing over 38,000 employees because no one can come to their theme parks.
In NYC, over 90% of restaurants are going to close their doors forever. No one can dine in their establishments anymore.
Over 70million people in America are out of work. They are considered ‘non-essentials’.
Over 61million of those unemployed people are eligible for unemployment benefits. Some are receiving the funds. Some are not. Many may never work again because there isn’t any jobs in their line of work anymore. No worries. Amazon is hiring 100,000 people and so is WalMart. For the holidays. As if anyone really has any money left over to buy holiday presents.
Oh, and by the way, our president Trump and his wife just came down with the coronavirus. You know the one? The one that killed my brother in like a few days because both the Governor of New York and the Mayor of New York said back in March 2020 that Manhattan was a safe city to tourist in. So, my brother believed these politicians and lost his life when he came to NYC to visit with a cancer specialist.
Oh well.

I made a discovery yesterday while I was tending to my garden. Ever since I started eating vegetables that I have grown myself, I found that I have been connected to the earth more. I’m not connected to a government. I’m not connected to another human being. I have found a soul mate and she is Mother Earth. The bees and birds that flap about here aren’t worried about jobs or rent or their next meal. The deer, the squirrels, the chipmunks, the beavers and the coyotes don’t give a hoot about what goes on in Washington DC. And neither do I. God said he’ll take care of everyone and He does.
No matter who gets or stays elected won’t be making any dent in my life. Long as I pay my taxes on time, no one really gives a hoot about me. Jesus said to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and I do. After that, we’re each on our own.
I don’t live rich, but I live well. I don’t buy new but I buy like-new. I have a standard and I’m not being separated from a standard I have set up for myself. I’m not utilizing hand-me-downs or toss-aways. But I’m utilizing style and comfort. I have always saved for a rainy day. I have never lived paycheck to paycheck. I live the ‘what if’ lifestyle. What if things go wrong because they always do. Always. When they do, I have a Plan B or a Plan Z. I don’t live to impress you. I live to impress me.

I’m just happily tending to my garden. Picking the last of the harvest, cooking up and either canning or freezing what I prepare. And I’m planning for the next growing season. I’m preparing the raised garden bed soil to rest, recoup and restore back to its natural balance so the soil can happily produce Mother Earth’s fine vegetable and fruits next year. Hopefully, God willing, I’ll still be here. Not up to me. It’s up to ‘Him’.


















I cooked up some new dishes (to me) with my eggplants: moussaka and baba ganoush. I ripened my tomatoes in a cardboard box with 1 apple inside with them. The gasses from the apple helps the tomatoes ripen faster. I made great BLT sandwiches with the tomatoes as well as a 40 year old soup recipe I’ve been cooking every summer: tomato/carrot/dill. I made butternut squash soup using my own chicken broth that I boil up with just the often discarded chicken backbone. Roasted chicken over potatoes, onions and peas. I roasted up a great piece of pork butt to perfection, served in its own juices. I baked a fresh pumpkin pie and I’m back to making Friday night $2 pizzas with my freshly picked tomatoes. All delish!
As for my final closing comment on the state of our world, on the surface it doesn’t look good. Hopefully this pandemic taught the majority of us what is important. Family is Number One. We need to be kind to our neighbors. We need to cherish our friends. We need NOT be judgmental and we need to honor and respect each and every one of us. There is NO government that is going to help us anymore. It is each one of us who is going to help. If you see someone struggling on the cashier line to pay their food bill, help them out as best as you can.
Hubby and I have started giving away some of our stockpiles to our local food bank here in town. Every time I shop, I always round up if the extra cents goes to a food bank or helps out the poor and more needy, if possible. No one should go without a meal. NO ONE! Our library is asking for donations of necessities like toothpaste, shampoo, kotex. We’re donating whatever we can.
The game is over, people. It’s check mate.
(please, please, please, do not send me nasty political rants or obscurities. as i said, we’re all in this now. we all need to work together. we will get through this. and pray, pray, pray.)
I could not have said it better myself. And I love that your refrigerator looks like mine inside!
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Thanks Lana.
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Hi Cindi, Good Post! Life changes on a dime. I Myself feel the game is not over just it has gone to a new level. This week sorely tested me personally -having to go to urgent care waking early on Wednesday with the poison ivy swelling my face, eyes, and throat looking like a Red face pumpkin fighter.
While I was there five people came in and requested Covid19 testing. They gave them a form and send them back to the parking lot and test them out there. They don’t get even in their reception area or back to their examination rooms. So happy for that protocol! I had to get prednisone and topical steroid cream and a new home blood pressure machine for home. The medicine had the swelling down very quickly. Thursday my neighbor had a tree guy out and he came over and gave me a fair quote to take down the 200 ft triple trunk massive Ash that was done in by a mere beatle! If it fell towards my home it would have been a real catastrophe! His crew started it that afternoon. I knocked on my neighbors doors and gave 3 cords of firewood to a family dealing with unemployment and Even my 75 year old neighbor is hauling away two cords of wood. I have a cord for my daughter and one for me. I had bags of Food items not on my new diet from my pantry That I was taking to a food bank-beans, rice, pasta – and gave them those too. We all have to help our locals when we can. Self preservation first, second Family, friends, and then our neighbors. I pray all the taxes I pay are being directed properly to our hurting Americans while I stay focus closer to home. Sincerely, Lara
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Gee Lara, I hope your poison ivy rash goes away soon. I know how painful it can be because hubby had a bad case of it two years ago. Please take care.
The one thing we are missing here is a wood burning fireplace. We had it on order with the new home building but when the contractors finally got here and started, they forgot all about the fireplace! It would have delayed our moving in by 3 months and hubby didn’t want to wait any longer so we had the house built with out it. We’re thinking of a pellet stove? Of course, hubby doesn’t do anything till the last minute. It should have been put in this summer. NOT this winter! Oh well.
Thank you for helping out others. yes, that’s what we all need to do. Ditto for the taxes we pay. Hope its put to very good use!
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I vouch for the value of a pellet stove. We have one here in the mountains at the 44.9 parallel so plenty of cold days (and just a 70d growing season). A ton of pellets is $264 delivered (50 bags). It heats nicely our 1250sf.
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I heard great things about pellet stoves. But I think, unfortunately, you still need electricity to run them? We’re trying to find an older model that didn’t need electricity. Our power goes out here A LOT! over the winter.
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No need to thank me. It’s how I was raised by my depression born parents in Ohio. Sincerely, Lara
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Yes. Pellet stoves require electricity.
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Cindi, do you have natural gas? We are putting in a natural gas ventless fireplace in our new home. Something to look into. You can get it with an ever lit pilot light- so you don’t have to worry about electricity.
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We have propane. I’ll check in to this. Thank you so much for the tip!!!
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