Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

Did you know, that Annie Oakley was a Victorian LADY? She was not a hard talking, fast living, un-ladylike woman who wanted to be ‘one of the boys’. She was dainty, genteel, well spoken, a lady through and through. She was also an advocate of women being armed. At all times.

In the wake of yet another mass shooting, I hope the voice of reason will prevail. I truely believe, that had there been another armed student at either university, well trained in the use of their weapon, that, as in the case of the New Life shooting, the shooter would have been taken down before so much destruction and devastation had occurred. History has proven that restrictions on guns do not prevent gun violence. You don’t need a gun to kill people. You could kill someone with your bare hands, a kitchen knife, etc. If someone is determined to kill, they will. Whether or not they are armed with a gun.

Please, let us not act out of fear and anger. The knee jerk reaction is to tighten gun control. That is not the answer. I believe that the impersonal way in which we all live, contributes to the violence that permeates our schools and open areas. We do not view each other as humans. We do not treat each other as we would like, demand, to be treated.

Do not allow your right to bear arms be taken away or restricted. Once one right goes, it opens the door for the rest of them to be taken away.

Annie Oakley

Colorado Weapons Training (you should know how to use a gun)

Pike’s Peak Gun Club

Firearm Safety Courses

I’ve been trying different recipes for what I like to call, ‘Super soup’. It’s all the same basic ingredients but I look for ways to make it more interesting. I think I’ve found a winner.

When I start feeling like I’m coming down with something and my throat starts to feel funny and my ears and glands start to tingle, here is what I do.

1. Drink green and/or white tea. Four to five cups a day. Really.

2. Eat dark chocolate 70% and up if you can find it or as a last ditch desperate attempt to get better, 60%. The higher the cocoa content and the lower the sugar levels the better.

3. Drink Airborne.

4. Eat my ‘Super Soup’

Super Soup recipe

2 leeks chopped into small pieces

1/2 sweet onion in thin slices

2-3 cloves garlic

1 can pre-cooked chicken (why do more work than you must?)

1 TBS of fish sauce

2 cans of low sodium chicken broth (fish sauce has sodium you will not need salt for this recipe)

1 C water

1 ‘chunk’ mung beans (these are the bean strands you buy dried in the Asian food isle. They are very hard when dry but soften up when soaked in water or our soup broth)

In skillet on medium heat, place 1-2 TBS of coconut oil and fry up the leeks and onion.  Fry until soft. Add garlic cloves. I press them in my garlic press first. Add can of chicken right after you add the garlic. Allow it to simmer for a bit. Add in fish sauce. Saute’. Add chicken broth and water and simmer adding chunk of mung beans. When beans start to soften, cut them into manageable pieces with kitchen sheers.

I use my kitchen sheers for almost everything. They are a very important part of my kitchen gadget repertoire. I even use them to open mail which was a huge thorn of contention in premarital counseling  until those in objection realized metal could be washed and sharpened. Hello!

When beans are soft, the soup is done. I hope all of my home remedies help those of you who need to get well soon, to get well soon! lol

Do they still exist?

Black Market Cadavers

Religious Persecution

Toy Recall

Tainted Chinese Imports

It’s all happening in China and we are still doing business with them and going to the Olympics. Why?