Midnight is Still Time.

I really do not have much to say at the point in time. I been working on my projects
I plan to buy this book called The Encyclopedia of Country Living By Carla Emery.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570615535/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
This book comes highly recommended, and it is a DIY book on gardening, horticulture, and some other things relevant to country living. If you follow the link, you can see both the table of contents and the index.

Now my rant:

People need to take care of their health.
Not only can it save you money in the long run, but if you are ever put in a survival situation, if your health is lacking, your chances of survival goes down as well.

I am deeply perturbed with how everything is these days.
I can remember play dodge ball, red rover, and even watching fights at school, but now as I watch a new generation of student attend the same school, with even some of the teachers I had, I shudder at the thought of what they are being taught. I shudder at the thought that they will be the future of this Nation, in a mere ten to fifteen years. That is a very short time.

Don't get me wrong. I do not wish to hurt anyone. However, if we are raising the new generation to be wusses, teaching them that everyone step on them, and drugging or separating anyone that doesn't fit the perfect mold. Is that what we want out of our future?

How is that at the point in time, we have the most amount of availability to the most amount of information, but have the least educated populous both in book smarts and street smarts?

Well this ends my mid-night rant. I hope

More Projects

I like my projects. I know I have too many of them, but there is just so much I want to get done. This past weekend when a friend of mine came to visit, we were talking about composting, which ties right into my gardening project. It is really good way to get nutrition to your plants and safer than manure. I will post more about this later once I figure out what I want to do, and how I want to do it.

"When I woke up this morning, there was ice on my car window, but now I am in shorts."

This morning when I woke up at 7am, there was ice on my window. Not Northern, need a ice scraper, ice, but enough where I had to wait a good five minutes before it started to melt and clear up. However, by 1pm when I saw good friend of mine, he was already in shorts. That's Texas weather for you.

Moving on. Projects. All my project going slowly to my dismay, but all takes time and effort. For my Lost Arts, I am thinking about learning how to make cloth diapers from a good friend of mine. A lot of people depend on disposable diapers. They are not a bad thing, but they can get costly. Cloth diapers are reusable, and it has been said that cloth diapers can be more comfortable for the baby.

Also, as spring is coming closer, I am thinking about planting a small garden. I enjoy cooking, so I think this is a good way to bring many of my projects together. I can add more to my Lost Arts project, cut my costs, and best of all I know what I am putting my food. I doubt I would make enough to last me all year, but I would have plenty to eat for a while. I am in the mists of deciding what to plant, and what I would need to do each for type of vegetable.

Lastly, I have come upon a book that has really struck my interest. I just started reading The Catcher in the Rye. The book starts with "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." If you get a chance to read this book, I highly suggest it.

Keep and eye on the news everyone. Lately, France is rioting already, the postal service wants delivery to move to five (5) days instead of six (6), because they are in the red, and California will be stopping grants, tax refunds, and welfare, as of tomorrow. Watch the news, and be careful.

The Internet Can be a Musician's Best Friend.

One of my many projects is to get my viola back into good condition and start playing again frequently. There is nothing wrong with it, but I need to have it restrung along with some other minor care issues. Currently, I have already cleaned it, and now I have to get new strings for it.

So in my quest of not going broke with my project, I searched online for strings. I remember when I first played my voila, that even the thinnest string (the cheapest) was ten dollars. As the strings got thicker, so did the price. I was incredibly pleased with what I found. Hence the title of this post. Moreover, it has been about five years since I last changed a string, so I looked up how to, which will save me the money from getting someone else to do it. If anyone wants any links to all this, just comment.

It has been said by many that music, well particularly classic music, is a waste of time. Well, I beg to differ. Perhaps my opinion is a bit bias, because I love classical music, but in times of crisis and survival situation, stories and music along with food is how morale is kept up. Moreover, just because an instrument is dubbed as an classical music instrument only, it does not mean it can not play contemporary music.

I like to mention that Music is processed differently than other types of information to your brain. It has been seen many times when an elderly person will cry when they hear a song, but have no idea why. It is because the song is linked to the emotion of the memory.

Stay well and stay warm.