Think and Grow Rich

 

1. In the vein of your post - even though I would like one of us to be employed - I have begun to realize that in more than one way, it is working to our advantage. We have no credit cards sucking up to us (and believe me that is one temptation worth being gone), we haven’t gone out to purchase a new vehicle, we can’t take out loans and the best one - with none of that our credit report finally cleared up.

   We will make it - as we have still not jettisoned even a single bill yet (the storage unit is the first to go). Because we are used to living without.

   If the (P)resident is ousted in 2012 - we can make it ok - if not, well then maybe we can start killing the deer, raccoons and squirrels out back.

   Posted by wardmama4       10/14/2011  at  12:55 PM  



2. Got an interesting email from -lr

   That’s right. From -lr

   And it came through my ‘BMEWS account’. Didn’t know I had a BMEWS account.

   Anyway -lr says, and I quote:

   Thanks for the reminder about Think And Grow Rich. Its probably time for me
   to read it again.

   I’m a bit of a student of this genre. If you haven’t already discovered Earl
   Nightingale, I think you’re in for a treat. His classic _The Strangest
   Secret_ was the first spoken word recording to ever go gold. Most of his
   other stuff is at least very good, some of it exceptionally good. There’s an
   ‘omnibus’ collection of about 14 CDs; some real gems there.

   Congrats on jumping ship from your traditional employer. In my case, they
   had to shove me out, right after 9/11. Coming up on 10 years now, and I
   haven’t looked back yet.

   Best of luck on whatever comes next,

   Thanks -lr. I think. Note that I’m treating you like the Earl Nightingale spam that I suspect you are. Else you’d have just commented here and not found my public email. Public email, yes, but even most BMEWS members don’t know it.

   Posted by Christopher       10/14/2011  at  03:58 PM  



3. well then maybe we can start killing the deer, raccoons and squirrels out back.

   Can’t help you with raccoon, but I’ve some great recipes for deer and squirrel.

   Squirrel is difficult. Anything larger than a .22 won’t leave much to eat. But if you’re good with a .22, two or three squirrels will feed three people. Once.

   And yes, they taste like chicken. I know. Grandpa used to take me squirrel hunting. Grandma would cook ‘em. BBQ squirrel, good squirrel!

   Note: grandma would not cook a squirrel unless we’d ‘cleaned’ it. That’s the man’s job.

   Wives take note: never cook anything your man brings home–fish, squirrel, deer, pork–unless the man cleans them.

   I didn’t include chickens. You don’t have to hunt chickens. Chickens have to be plucked. That’s for the kids, if you have any. I hated plucking chickens. But I loved Mom’s chicken cider stew. So I plucked. And if any of my friends from high school were staying overnight, they got to help!

   Posted by Christopher       10/14/2011  at  04:37 PM  



4. Thanks for the offers Chris - my dear hubby bought me a ‘wild’ side butcher & recipe book and in the interim I got another one. The squirrels are going to be a bit of a problem except we have two haveaheart traps and with the right bait - we can catch a lot of interesting food.

   I was told that they were opening up the park deer for a bow shoot - I keep meaning to go to the website to see if that is true - but I don’t know anyone locally who bow shoots. And we just don’t have the $ for a license and the butchering. I am sure my neighbors aren’t like the people of Breckenridge county KY who would want a deer hanging from a tree in the front yard - although I’d be decent and do it in the back.

   We aren’t financially there quite yet (and shh, we still haven’t touched the savings) - and with 2 cars - even if one breaks we can get through until spring. We just need to get going on the box thing - as that bill is so unnecessary - and if the lawyer hadn’t been such a putz last summer - I’d be paying half the amount and bringing it here in manageable van loads. And of course a job would be nice.

   Oh well - it is what it is and we will make it through.

   Posted by wardmama4       10/15/2011  at  09:30 AM  

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