Interesting, but at this point, I’m glad that I can still walk with my walking stick. Arthritis isn’t fun. It was passed on down from great, great grandma on Mom’s side. I had 50+ years of hiking, walking, climbing, fun outdoor adventures, more than most people, and at a young age. I can still drive quite well, so if I can afford it, I drive the back and dirt roads, the local places and logging roads few ever see!  People around me only know the highways. I learned the back roads through the old neighborhoods of homes made from the summer cottages and a few mansions of the 1910’s-1960’s. At rush hour, I bypass the highways all backed up with irritable commuters. The back roads aren’t necessarily shortcuts; may take more time, but are much less stressful. There are even rural stretches left here and there, county parkland for nature or preservation of the excellent water table in the pine barrens. It supplies 2/3 of Long Island with excellent tasting, chloride, and chemical free water. The pine barrens are God’s remarkable filter, so you can’t build on or develop them into industry, housing developments, shopping centers, etc. There are paved roads through sections and access roads for off-readers and fire trucks. That’s one thing you live with, naturally occurring pine barren fires in the Spring and sometimes Fall. They’re not like the fires out west. They’re also managed to allow small areas to burn safely away from houses on the outskirts. Fire opens up the brush and allows refreshing of new growth, also opens pine cones and certain seed pods that grow in sandy soil. Could one bug out and live there? Maybe. But as the lady says, it’s spiritual prep that’s most important. 

Post a half-hour video with no summary or even state the main point?

And the video starts with that damn side-to-side ghetto attitude neck move?

Fuhgedaboudit.

I didn’t watch the video but how else could she accept donations as a content creator? She could do bitcoin as an alternative I guess. Or people could send her Amazon stuff.

I think taking money out of the bank is assuming that the banks could collapse or fail one day which I guess could happen.

I followed her for many years until I realized she a con artist.  Caveat emptor.

I followed her for many years until I realized she a con artist.  Caveat emptor.

Yeah, many of them turn out to be like that, grifters too.

Interesting, but at this point, I’m glad that I can still walk with my walking stick. Arthritis isn’t fun. It was passed on down from great, great grandma on Mom’s side. I had 50+ years of hiking, walking, climbing, fun outdoor adventures, more than most people, and at a young age. I can still drive quite well, so if I can afford it, I drive the back and dirt roads, the local places and logging roads few ever see!  People around me only know the highways. I learned the back roads through the old neighborhoods of homes made from the summer cottages and a few mansions of the 1910’s-1960’s. At rush hour, I bypass the highways all backed up with irritable commuters. The back roads aren’t necessarily shortcuts; may take more time, but are much less stressful. There are even rural stretches left here and there, county parkland for nature or preservation of the excellent water table in the pine barrens. It supplies 2/3 of Long Island with excellent tasting, chloride, and chemical free water. The pine barrens are God’s remarkable filter, so you can’t build on or develop them into industry, housing developments, shopping centers, etc. There are paved roads through sections and access roads for off-readers and fire trucks. That’s one thing you live with, naturally occurring pine barren fires in the Spring and sometimes Fall. They’re not like the fires out west. They’re also managed to allow small areas to burn safely away from houses on the outskirts. Fire opens up the brush and allows refreshing of new growth, also opens pine cones and certain seed pods that grow in sandy soil. Could one bug out and live there? Maybe. But as the lady says, it’s spiritual prep that’s most important.

You are an inspiration to the rest of us!  I hope to meet you one day...in the next life if not in this one.  🥰🙏

Thank you for sharing you experiences especially with the arthritis.  I remember Hildegard von Bingen in her book Physica says that Spelt flour is better than normal wheat but that if you don't eat the whole grain together that it causes mucus (inflammation) in the body.

We recently started making 90% of our grain foods at home.  Just about every morning (Unless we have enough leftover) I grind fresh spelt flour and make bread, rolls, biscuits, pancakes, cookies, pizza dough or something with the whole spelt flour.  I generally don't add any white flour at all. 

My husband was having some major health issues.  We changed our diet almost completely to homemade whole grains, fresh fruit, veggies and meat.  I also make around 4 gallons of kombucha and 4 gallons of half-power (watered down) fresh pressed lemonade every week.  It is amazing how much of a difference it has made for him.

Your bringing up horseback riding  reminds me of my youthful carefree days riding double bareback at full gallop with friends, making bridles out of hay twine and practicing standing and kneeling while on horseback.  I am not as flexible as I was before children though...  Now I generally stay on the ground and leap the ponies our children ride.  It probably doesn't help that since we have been married I have almost always been either pregnant or nursing a baby.  😅🤣

Hello! Regarding the spelt flour - what did you mean by "Spelt flour is better than normal wheat but that if you don't eat the whole grain together that it causes mucus (inflammation) in the body." We do try and use spelt flour or sourdough but for the time-being I am trying to avoid all of the grains. My sister-in-law passed on some of her Kombucha to me and while I was faithfully diligent for the first week or so, I then got lost in my "other" life and forgot about it. So now I simply buy it weekly from the Health shop. I'm rather a hopeless case in the kitchen and am blessed than none of our daughters takes after me :)  All of them are great cooks/bakers (case of necessity they joke!!). That's why I love perusing through the Home-schooling thread and  threads like it - my 'baby' has graduated so my home-schooling days have come to an end - but its nice to keep in touch and now that I have more time, learn from everyone especially when it come to cooking and crafts. Oh and I'm delighted to hear you used to ride! And bareback! That's impressive. I have found that its not so much the riding that's difficult these days, but the getting up!!!! Like yourself, gone are the days when you could just grab a handful of mane and leap! My children are more or less reared but I'm really looking forward to the grandchildren and yes, leading them around the field too! Thanks for that.

I followed her for many years until I realized she a con artist.  Caveat emptor.

Sure. You’re likely very right. Con artists abound online! If you give money or take advice  based on one video by a total stranger, you’re pretty foolish.