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Everyday Math Milk, bread, eggs... the necessities we need, to feed those we love every day. They are getting harder to buy, and they are not easy to raise. Life is becoming more expensive. It is changing everything about us, that we were, before this time. Yet, there is no going back. I put half a gallon in my grocery basket. When I get home, I will add water, to make it stretch. It will be the same color, but the flavor will be gone. Cereal will be wet, and eatable. I learned to make bread, last summer... but it is hard. It rises when it likes and lays there lazy when it chooses. We eat it anyway, every day, without complaint. We are full. The eggs are now from the quail. They are the stars in the park... The place? My back yard, a jungle of my own design. The birds, they give and never take, they have a lovely heart that is part of the greater picture of life. When will we be, the way we were? When will we return? The answer is earned, by those that realize, and open their eyes to the rise of the end.

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Date: 7/20/2022 7:59:00 PM
people need to store things and learn to grow things. Bad times coming. I can store but no good at growing. Maybe I should take a class. Great thoughts here.
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Ann Foster
Date: 7/21/2022 9:54:00 AM
You can learn nearly anything on the tube these days... I make bread now, nearly as well as any artisan. It was not easy, and I had to learn to pray first, but everything works in earnest effort. Plant flowers they are easy and make you smile... along with all who pass. Blessed poetess, you are so kind. Love your writes. Ann
Date: 7/20/2022 7:38:00 PM
Learning to tread gently on Mother Earth, fulfilling need, not greed, in bubbling mirth
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Date: 7/21/2022 9:52:00 AM
So many so lost... We really need the King's return. Best, blessed life to you. Ty for your kind comments always. Ann
Date: 7/20/2022 7:26:00 PM
'Hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul... / and never asked a crumb of me.' Birds do it; we can too.
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Date: 7/21/2022 9:52:00 AM
I love birds, and you are so wise... Ann
Date: 7/20/2022 4:24:00 PM
Life is becoming more expensive. It is changing everything about us. Ann, this is really stunning, right to the point, and wonderful! I really hope that things will get better before the pandemonium gets any worse.
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Date: 7/21/2022 9:51:00 AM
Praying, is our only hope. Ty for your kind comments. I love your prose, as well. Excellent work, from the heart. Ann
Date: 7/20/2022 1:27:00 PM
I wish I had a back yard like yours Ann, your designs I bet are wild and rustic! But we must have something in common because Anil Deo has written a message for us! 6/13/22 Anaya and Ann Foster is the title. Just saw it today, Good day! :)
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Ann Foster
Date: 7/20/2022 1:29:00 PM
I love that we have the same interests... I do not understand the Anil remarks...

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