Good afternoon lovely blessed ones. I hope you are doing well. It was a very cool morning this morning with more of the same tomorrow morning. 38* in my neck of the woods. I worked on the deck all week getting my garden under control. I don't have much left but several different pepper plants. I'd had a few tomatoes left but took them out. So, yesterday I got the bottom of my little greenhouse cleaned out and got a mat made to put in the bottom of it to help insulate it from cold air coming in the bottom. Then I put my pots of peppers in the greenhouse for the night and tonight. For my green stalk towers, I put some frost proof cloth zippered bags over them both of them and then for my strawberry tower, I used a smaller frost proof non zippered bag to go over it. It's supposed to help keep frost off them, plus it will also let water pass thru them. I checked on them several times today and everything looks ok. We are supposed to warm up this week, we'll see. I just want to get as many peppers as I can from what's left. I can't help it, I just want them all. hahaha I have had a great time growing my peppers this year. I can't hardly wait to start planning my deck garden for next year.
With this cool morning came a new problem that we'll have to check out tomorrow. Well, I should say my honey will have to check out. We may need a new heat and air system. I pray not though. I was going to knock the chill out of the house this morning and it just made a little grunt noise when I turned the heat on and it didn't do a thing!!!!! Just praying that it's an easy fix. With covid still being rampant around here, I sure don't want to have to have anyone come out and do anything. But we'll do what we must do. We'll just have to try to find someone that is adhering to some covid safety protocols. I hope that's possible. We'll see.
About the title of this post, well here goes. You know what I'm talking about if you're on facebook. You see a group that looks interesting and you join it. This particular group was about a certain mail order "discount" produce box. In the title it said for the "not so easily offended". That actually meant that the group owner was ok with people using "f" bomb and cussing and sharing pictures of food "porn", meaning food that looked sexual in nature. Well, being an adult, I've laughed at my share of that stuff, but I've never shared it, because I just don't think it's appropriate. Anyway, one day this week someone shared about their veg being so small and it has been, and that it was getting hard to justify keeping on getting the boxes. Several people had already shared how hard it was getting for them to keep on subscribing to this company. I responded back to that post and said that it has gotten to where I really have to decide if I want to spend that money or just go to my local store. I went on to say that it's not as much of a bargain as it used to be and that it really breaks my heart because I was a #1 fan for a long time and still want to be. And also that it's tough having to make decisions like this based on a fixed income. There was LOTS of people that agreed with my comment and the author of the post actually gave me an award on her post. A lot of people knew where I was coming from. I wasn't complaining, just stating fact. If I had been cussing and throwing out trashy pictures, it would have been ok. But, this morning I woke up to find that the "admin" had deleted my comment because she said I was complaining.
Well, I stewed on it for a little bit and got on there and made a new post that said I was sorry that I had offended someone to the point of having my comment removed when the title of the group actually has "for the not so easily offended". hahaha Yeah, I did that. And NO, I have no regrets!!
She said well if ya was complaining then you need to go. I told her that if she read my comment, she would have seen that I wasn't complaining, just stated a fact. That's when she commenced to tell me that the name of the group is implied towards cussing and food porn. That's the kind of stuff that's ok. I stewed on that for a few hours. I went back to the group and scrolled down and in the very next post, this "admin" was complaining. hahahaha I had already told her that I guess it depends on who you are. When I seen her complaint on someone's post, I clicked the little "WOW" icon and then left a message under hers for her and asked her if she was complaining. Well, "mean girls" don't like to be caught in their own web. She responded back with a lot of cussing and carrying on and asked if I wanted to be removed from the group. I told her I didn't care what she done, but that I could carry on a conversation with out threatening to kick someone out of the group and without cussing and that I had never been disrespectful to anyone and that it showed more about her character than it did mine.......and that when a group cares more about allowing cussing and food porn than they do about whether people on fixed incomes can make ends meet, then maybe it's not for me. And I did tell her that she needed to GROW UP!!!! Well, boohoo, I am no longer a part of that group. I am so sad. Mean girl kicked me out, but at least, at least she heard truth from me!!!! That's what it was, she couldn't stand hearing the truth.
I don't go around dropping the "f" bomb or any other ugly words purposefully and I'm pretty sure, somewhere in her lifetime, she will remember this conversation. Whether it does any good or not, now that's a different story all together. But I promise you she will remember it. When she does, I hope it helps her to grow up some. Who knows, maybe it will now, but I doubt it. If and when the day comes that she's on a fixed income and has to be careful about her spending, she will think back on this and have some remorse, maybe. Hopefully by that time, she will have given up cussing and food porn. hahaha
The stuff that we invest our time in tells where our heart is. That's sad too. It really tells what is near and dear to our hearts. "Cussing and food porn" being ok and the norm for some. Drugs and alcohol for others. Defying the government for others. Yet others invest their time in supporting the right to have abortions. Some invest their time in telling people not to get the vaccines that saves lives. Some invest their time in supporting everything on the extreme left, and others on the extreme right. Others invest their time telling others they are all wrong in everything. And still others invest their time in beating their chests and screaming about their "rights".
And we do it all LOUDLY, on social media for all to see. That's why I don't like social media, for the last year and a half. You have people with NO filters telling others that they have a little power and they will use it. That is what I seen in this mean girl, no filter and a little power, and too much pride to admit she was wrong. There was some that had already left the group over this very thing, this very subject and they had contacted me this morning also. She knew she was wrong, yet she would not admit it. I feel sorry for her and her generation who are so special that they can't hear the truth because their head might explode or something. I wish I had thought to ask her how well she liked the tide pods. Oh well, that would just make me look petty. I guess the the most disheartening thing is that she couldn't have an adult conversation. She is of the "cancel culture". If you don't like something or someone, cancel them, they don't exist, the situation didn't exist. Well, sad to say, this situation did exist, but it's ok. I've prayed for her and I'll keep praying for her. I'm reminded that God uses every situation for His good. I hope He uses this situation for His good. Maybe He'll show both of us something that we both need to learn from it.
Alrighty now, that does feel better to have that off my chest. hahahaha I just don't like the cancel culture we live in. Some think it's ok. It's not. One thing I know for sure, we can't cancel God and we can't cancel everything that is good and right. As long as I have a voice, I'll try to stand up to the cancel culture, like I did with this person. If she can cancel, she can get canceled too. Everyone's day is coming and we'll either stand up or shut up. That's the choices. What side will you you be on? What or who will you be talking about and taking up for? I hope that we will be talking about Jesus and letting Him take up for us. It makes no difference how many groups we get removed from, just as long as we leave truth behind.
I pray blessings upon you all. I pray that we can always make the right decisions. I pray that we keep Jesus first and foremost in out hearts. It will certainly direct and determine how we handle situations we find ourselves in. Always remember that God loves you and I do too!! hugs, patty
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