Lost Box by Amanda McKinnon 2024 @ Coastal Carolina University
The first Monday back on February 24, 2025 after my brother’s untimely death, I saw this art display on my walk to the Athletic Ticketing Office. I was in route to catch up on a few projects we are in the planning stages of the the 2025/2026 academic year.
It is Spring break for the students and faculty this week. The campus is very busy doing all the task we cannot get done while the clients are on campus. It is a peaceful time.
This display was a real message from God to me on that day saying, hey others are out there hurting just as much. This I know, but sometimes you feel you are the only person hurting/missing someone or something in the world.
Posted on my whiteboard at my desk that is read daily, Joshua 1:9 (NKJV) 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
As we go into the first month anniversary of the loss of our major love-one in our short time here on Earth, I watch the flowers grow weaker and weaker at holding their pettles in some cases. In other cases, the flowers are just closing up with time. The evergreens are still holding on strong to the memory.
God bless
Screen Capture February 10, 2025 10:15 – Passed 13:01
The verse that day was: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Cor.13.1-1Cor.13.3&version=NKJV
It’s only been 28 days. I can’t believe/accept the reality that my best friend and only real friend has left me. It so fucking hurts.
He’s got a lock on the 10th of the month the rest of my life, at this point.
I was walking across campus and found this treasure from God to me via one of the Arts students similar to Ashley. (zoom in to read)
So pray for our family all three branches. In the last six months our family has taken a 90, 70+, 60+ hit to each unit but the main center has taken over a 100 impact.
Timothy’s flowers day 29
BTW: 3 out of 4 voted MAGA in November and actually 2 more I can name so sorry we are feeling the pain of the Demoncraptic Party with their buddies (RINOs much like Sen. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.
Got to the doctor. $100 later after about 5 minutes, I had three prescriptions ordered at the pharmacy. *cheers*
The fires on International Drive have caused it to be closed to through traffic. Gee East Cox Ferry didn’t get any additional traffic due to the only cut through to Carolina Forest and/or Hwy 501? Ohmygoodness
Dad’s happy the taxes are done. Good for him. Mom just figured out they have been here for three months now (well almost but by name sure). An hour later, not a bit about it. *sigh & cry*
The technical issue at work that has hung on way too long, appears to have been fixed. We’ll know for sure in the morning. That’s a lot of data to move after this delay. *Praise the Lord*
This day started out as a grand adventure into the known and unknown all intertwined.
The first cup of coffee @ 06:00 – 06:30 out back with the dogs first. A second cup in front of the comp. I was still exhausted from the game night before so I waddled back to bed for a couple of more hours. Groggy as all get out I rise @ 10:00 to walk out to a barrage of questions regarding the electronic filing of paperwork the day prior.
Ohhhh Let me get on that one right now!
It was my clerical error of putting numbers in the wrong boxes which prompted a call of an expert with the software that worked out my two issues. One was hugely satisfactory *cheers* the other no so much, but I got the (cost us $1,000) Bailey Issue resolved with all documents arriving at the correct destination.
All alone at the end of the evening.
It was cold to cool today (29 – 51 F) so sitting/napping in the shed was peaceful rest. Thanks God. Woke up to come start the hamburgers planned for dinner and it seems someone ate a pound of cooked bacon all by themself. *cries* (burgers were scrapped)
I was thinking ’bout a woman Who might have loved me I never knew
Take It To The Limit (Eagles 1977 Live) 4K Remastered Official Music Video for “Take It To The Limit” (Live from the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland in 1977) performed by the Eagles.
Sleep tight and God bless you all.
You know I’ve always been a dreamer (spent my life running round) And it’s so hard to change
dsc month one
P.S. And it’s so hard to change Can’t seem to settle down But the dreams I’ve seen lately Keep on turning out and burning out and turning out the same So put me on a highway Show me a sign Take it to the limit One more time You can spend all your time making money You can spend all your love making time If it all fell to pieces tomorrow Would you still be mine? And when you’re looking for your freedom (nobody seems to care) And you can’t find the door (can’t find it anywhere) When there’s nothing to believe in Still you’re coming back You’re running back You’re coming back for more… Put me on a highway Show me a sign Take it to the limit One more time Take it to the limit Take it to the limit Take it to the limit One more time (take it to the limit) W-e-e… (take it to the limit) Come on (take it to the limit) One more time (take it to the limit) W-e-e… (take it to the limit) We gotta (take it to the limit) One more time… (take it to the limit) (take it to the limit) (take it to the limit) One more time (take it to the limit) W-e-e… (take it to the limit) Come on (take it to the limit) One more time (take it to the limit) Aaah-aaah-aaah (take it to the limit) Aaah-aaah (take it to the limit) One more time… (take it to the limit) (take it to the limit)
Written by: Glenn Lewis Frey, Randy Meisner, Donald Hugh Henley
Taxes – I’m so glad I can assist my father with the IRS via TurboTax (not endorsed). TurboTax cannot process the Bailey option in the North Carolina State Tax Return beware you may lose $1000s too in refunds due to the application. (Electronic Filing)
70+ F today – enjoyed nap in the sunlight.
Dinner with my brother. I had Hunan Beef with fried pork rice and an egg roll.
Ashley asked me to send her my recipe for Stew. To be honest I don’t recall when it was from so many months back after her and Jacob’s move to Colorado, but I’ve been waiting for the weather to turn here in South Carolina. The changing of the weather is either a hard hitting event or a brief passing of Northern Winds blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean from the North-Eastern territory of The Republic of Horry County.
Grocery items for scratch stew
First things first – grocery shopping here is the scratch group of gathering:
1 The meat is important if you want some in your stew, if not, then leave out the animal and go for the plant stew. (I love beef so this’ll have that in it, sorry Mr/Ms Rabbit out there). This was a London @ $6 a #, and I was using beef broth with a water additive so I didn’t need the fat that can be found in other cuts. It’s your call if you don’t want to cut the meat up, but it’s more costly to have the bloke in the back wack your meat. You can go ground-what-the-heck-ever from 1# to 3#. A note you should learn is too much of any meat really overpowers the flavors.
2 The Vegetables can be just a frozen combination of your liking or the fresh market items. Potatoes aren’t diabetes friendly, but I still use them when I can. Okra a stew must. I went ‘mixed vegetables’ frozen to save a bit, celery rarely cost much more than the chives (grass) @ $1. You must have a green pepper (or it could be yellow/red – your call or not), onion/garlic a must. You can pick your burn, warm/hot/insane peppers – don’tbut if you must warn folks, broccoli, cauliflower, beans and any other optional vegetable you and your guest care for should be fine.
3 The spices – it’s is so easy to get a good season company’s premixed seasons for a stew, or if you must it’s not covered here what to gather other than a mix, pepper, salt, and herbs of your liking to flavor the meat in the first stages.
Prep – wash everything! You got no clue what snot-nose touched that stuff.
After washing all the items that need a bit of a bath, you’re ready to start chop’n.
Cut the meat into @ 1 inch or 3 Centimeters pieces each.Lightly bread the meat in flour
While the onions, garlic, and 2 to 4 Tbls of Olive Oil caramelizing in the Dutch oven or your two quart (no clue liter while writing this may get back to it or you can do it yourself; phuck in the time it took me to type all that sh!t up I could have converted and said 1.8927 litre) pot, get nicely combined we will start adding the breaded-animal-parts at this point. Be sure to constantly stir the pot, or your breaded meat parts will start to stick to the bottom.
Browning of the animal parts [captured here is beef]
It’ll take a bit to get used to the right stove top heat you need to brown the meat while not burning the starter vegetables. If you need to add another dash or two of olive oil, do not hesitate. Mushrooms will add liquidity Broccoli will add liquidity Canned vegetables with water add liquidity I try to keep about an inch of liquid above the total ingredients.
Stirring occasionally now that you have reduced the temperature after it came to a boil.
StartStir (get the bottom too)When it taste, “OMG Yum! More please.”
Then you have pulled it off.
You end this adventure with whatever toppings you prefer on your stew. I love oyster crackers and cheddar cheese. Let me know below what you love on your stew, if anything.
I bet you didn’t think you would ever see an election stolen by less than 16% of the total counties in the total United States of America. There are a total of 3142 counties (per WorldAtlas) in the United States of America. Mr. Biden only won 527 of them (per AP News). But we are supposed to think that a guy that couldn’t get 1,500 people to show up at his campaign events, or that he even campaigned the last six months of the 2020 cycle some how beat the Kenyan’s votes in 2008. By some miracle of Satan this 79 year old life-long political hack from Delaware got 11,000,000 more votes than the half-white communist Obama.
Well, as “social media” and our colleges outlaw Christianity as “hate speech” we can draw comfort that the bible forewarned us of these days ahead. As we have to watch hypocritical idiots of the lighter pigmentation claim they hate their “whiteness” and want socialist democracy to rule the land, we who actually know what happens in a socialist democracy (Nazi Germany) are labeled as bigots, fascist and (by some rather wacky stretch of imagination) Klu Klu Klan / white supremist as we attempt to point them to the thousands of books on what socialist democracy is like in the real world. The “news,” if you can call it that anymore, pushes propaganda more than actual facts to keep the weak-minded in line with the group-think they want them to follow. Hitler would have a massive hard-on for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and even (it’s a fucking sports network) ESPN.
It can’t be much longer till Christ returns, and we have to keep that as our real focus. I’m not giving up, but I’m getting real tired of trying to fix issues within the parameters of the rules being “played” only to have the rules be ignored for some and forced on others – just like Russia did for 70 plus years. We keep praying.
So I started dailies of The Focused Life with my “New Year Resolution.” I missed a few days, but all-in-all it went well in January. So, we begin again in February.
Proverbs 30:32-33 New King James Version (NKJV)
32 If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, Or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth. 33 For as the churning of milk produces butter, And wringing the nose produces blood, So the forcing of wrath produces strife.
