BLACK FRIDAY IS TURNING INTO THE SECOND DAY OF HALLOWEEN!

OK I've been online reading about stampedes, pepper spray, physical altercations, robbery at gunpoint, and other nonsense that happens on every Black Friday. It can be potentially dangerous to even take a small child with you on Black Friday with all these crazy people acting up! Going to Wal-mart or any electronic store can turn into a life or death situation, if you meet up with the wrong kind of people! There can be some bad spirits intermingled with obtaining Black Friday Deals! I'm starting to liken Black Friday with the second day of Halloween-trick or treat, a day when all the evil spirits come out! Black Friday can be a profitable, worthwhile adventure, if you are aware of who you are; if you are in control of what you value; and if you know the priority of your values; before heading out. If you don't have an understanding of your values beforehand, you can leave Black Friday broke in more ways than you anticipated! Just a little humor mixed in with some common sense.

GREATER BLESSINGS IN THIS LIFE & LIVING WITHIN GOD'S PARAMETERS

How well we succeed in pleasing God in our actions, our words, & our faith here on earth will determine how well we will succeed in heaven after Christ returns. I keep going back to my original conversation with God where that in heaven, there won't be any pixie dust passed out. We are going to have to pass and master Christianity 101 before we get there.  Jesus said he did all things to please the Father & that he imitated the things He saw the Father do. So I am more convinced, that those little sins the world says are just part of living life here on earth, & that God can't possible expect us to cease, or master, are actually expected by God to be mastered. And, that by doing so, I can live an even more abundant life with greater blessing than I thought were available. Because, God telling me not to do something in His Word is not Him being petty or picky, but about greater blessings in this life. It is about how we are expected to flow in His kingdom. When you live under someone else's roof, you are expected to act within the parameters they have established, in order for their household to exist, and ensue in an orderly manner. God's home is where Jesus will be taking us when He returns again for His righteous ones. It is time for me to prune myself of the little sins, always striving to please God, and in return receive greater blessings here on earth for an easy transition into His kingdom.

I LOVE TO COOK. ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS COLD OUTSIDE

Today is our first frost. Which means everything in my garden is done for the season. So sad! I had the presence of mind to bring in my scented geranium yesterday before the frost hit last night. The building where I work was all a buzz talking about the end of the growing season and the first hard frost coming overnight. When my lil dog Caity and I were out early this morning you could see the effects. I salvaged 3 baby eggplants and 10 cherry size green tomatoes off my plants. I'll fry the baby eggplants and mini tomatoes for sure. They'll not go to waste. By the way I love fried green tomatoes and am on a hunt to find some much bigger ones salvaged. I have the best cornmeal seasoning ready to do its "thang."

Early this morning I put a cornish hen in the oven in my cast iron dutch cooker and a pot of green beans and potatoes on the stove top. Those green beans are good enough to make me stamp my foot and stamp it more than once. They are that good!  I am so glad my mother and grandmother believed in cooking good food. I cook for nourishment and for fun.

Two household items I am buying me after the first of the year. One, is a new gas stove and the other is a front loading washing machine.  I've put aside all year and it is time to buy. Tomorrow I'm going "looking" and see whats out there.

My oven knob keeps coming off and the stove is just too small. I've been without my washing machine for about 3 months now and have decided not to fix it.  So I'm springing for a front loader without the "thingy" in the middle. That "thingy" is forever tearing my clothes.

Oh for the day of washing my clothes in my own home with dinner in the oven of my new stove.

THE ODDEST STUFF HAPPENS TO ME.

O.K. Caity and I went out early a couple of mornings ago around 5 a.m.  So I am standing around waiting for her to find her perfect spot that does not exist, as usual, and I look up and running at neck breaking speed toward us are what I think are 6 pitbulls without a leash or their owners!  The "business owners" on the corner of my block own pit bulls. They are the kind of owners who are open 24/7, if you get my drift. So I yell, "In the name of Jesus you will get, as I point my red Maglight flashlight at them!"  Well as they get closer & before I get my command out fully, I start to recongnize they are not pitbulls, instead they look like Whippets! Whippets are very docile dogs and would not hurt a flea, so I am much relieved.  But as my eyes adjust better, I recognize they are 3 small deer and 3 adult deer! LOL But, I still am quite concerned, because I have never been charged by deer before in my life, especially since I live smack dab in the city! With my red maglight extended like a rod, I am speechless, however, the deer stop immediately! I'm like, alright Jesus, thanks for letting me borow You mighty name! Except all 8 of us are having a Mexican stand off and nobody is moving!  So I get my biblical "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed and I then say, "You will not disobey."  Next, the funniest thing happens, they look around at each other as though conferring as a group, then take off running across the street, and down my dad's empty lot! 

With my red Maglight flashlight still extended and pointed in the direction they were to go, I am completely speechless, no words forthcoming! Caity and I just stand there in awe!  

I'll have to tell you later about the falcon/hawk I found perched on my mailbox facing my front door one day last month. LOL That was an odd experience as well! LOL