Saturday, July 11, 2020

Gummy elk

Hi Natty!  Oh, I love it!  So were you resting on the rock, taking a break from running wild in the forest?  Ah, the life of a wolf isn't easy.  This reminds me of some lyrics: "No one can save me from the wolf, because I am the wolf." ("Gunman" by Shadowplay)

I couldn't find any gummy elk for you to chomp on, but there might be something similar in this photo.  Suck, don't chew!  Save your molars!

You have probably already read this book, and I probably already recommended it to you, but this is one of my favorite books: Steppenwolf-By-Hermann-Hesse.pdf












Friday, July 10, 2020

Qur'an 20200711

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

66.  Say, "I am forbidden to invoke those whom you invoke besides Allah, seeing that the Clear Signs have come to me from my Lord, and I have been commanded to to bow to the Lord of the Worlds."

Forgiver 40:66

A little trouble with knowledge

Hi Natty!  How are you, my love?  I hope all is well with you.  I'm doing all right, just a bit full.  Knowing how to cook is useful alhamdulillah, I get to eat what I want to eat and the portions I want to eat, and on a budget too.  So I finished off the rest of the "rendang" I made the other day for dinner, now I'm bloated.  That's my trouble with the knowledge, when I discover something good I tend to binge on it..  I used to buy whole chickens to process into cat food because they were cheapest.  I would keep the legs and wings for BBQ chicken.  BBQ chicken got so good that I gained weight, so I had to give that up.  No more BBQ chicken, now I can fit into my slimmest pants again because of that.  So I guess that might be the last of the rendang too.  It's a good thing I don't make desserts often.  Oh dear.









Thursday, July 9, 2020

Please forgive me for my faults

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are happy and healthy, and are having a wonderful time.  I know I'm taking such a long time to get married, and I'm sorry.  There is so much going on they you can see and that you can't see, I'm doing all I can without betraying my mission to Allah.  I put my life in Allah's care, so please be patient with me.  Please forgive me for my faults.

Ya Allah, please forgive me for my faults.

Check out the flooding in Japan right now:


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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

The garden

Hi Natty!  Oh wow, it looks like you're having a lot of fun!  You look like you're foraging.  That area must have a lot of wild foods available, if one knows where to look.  I hope you have a good teacher- some of those wild foods can be poisonous.  It looks like you're digging for clams.  There are so many different kinds of shellfish available locally here.  The trouble is, they all live in mud.  Yeah, the local coastline is all mud.  It's teeming with life though.  That beach looks like an awesome swim at night, especially this time of year.  I used to go swimming at the beach at night when I was a kid, not really swimming but hunting for crabs.  Coastline crabs around here are small and don't have much meat in them.  But if the crabs are small enough (nickel or quarter size), you can just eat the whole thing crispy cooked.  I used to buy this Japanese snack of crispy fried baby crabs... so good!  Tastes like crab!
There is a prayer to say whenever you enter the garden to harvest, or do any gardening work period.  Say, "By the Will of Allah!  There is no power but with Allah!"  This is actually a mandatory prayer.  You will find the garden to be a very "random" place.









Tuesday, July 7, 2020

A nice day

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are having a nice day.  I'm having a nice day.  A nice, easy-going day.  Any day without labor is a great day for me.  Well, I cleared out the dust in my house and scrubbed the bathroom floor.  But that was it.  The menu isn't that special.  A tofu omelet for lunch.  That's healthy food, you know.  I had to get something at the pharmacy, and bought some glutenous rice for dinner to go with the last of Ramadan's beef jerky.  The rest is computer work and lots of napping in between.  Yeah, a nice day.











Monday, July 6, 2020

Breathtaking

Wow Natty, what an awesome view.  Are you sitting on your roof?  That was a beautiful full moon recently.  The moon was so bright over here, the night was white.  What's that burning on the water?  It looks like a love letter.  You must get a lot of that.  I don't get any love letters, Natty.  I do get a lot of innuendo.  It's gotten so bad that I can't take a shower in peace, people think I have an ulterior motive other than personal hygiene.  So I often run errands first then take a shower later.  Nothing stifles innuendo better than body odor.  That's what fame is, right?  People want to smell you more.

Little Lily is looking so much better!  The poor thing was not a very cute kitten.  Her face was so dirty, her face and ears were caked in fungus.  But after medication, she seems to be improving.  Now she's finally looking like a cute kitten!  She's growing fast though, there wasn't time to be a kitten.  The adult cats absorbed the fungus, now I have to treat them as well.  They don't take easily to being fed pills, so I hide the pill in their chicken every feeding time.