Top 10 Ways You Know it is Spring In Alaska

spring in Alaska

  1. The sun comes out from hibernation
  2. You see long lost friends and neighbors in town, that you thought moved away
  3. Snow Birds return (Snow Birds are people- usually retirees that stay in Alaska just long enough to get a PFD check each year)
  4. Geese are spotted coming north
  5. Motor Homes are spotted coming north
  6. Gas prices go up for tourist
  7. We find more Canadian quarters and pennies in our change
  8. Temperatures are above zero!
  9. You hear studded tires on the high way
  10. You find items that were lost under the snow for months!!!

Microwave Cooking?

Here is a Top TEN List I found on the net. It is about how bad microwave cooking is for human consumption.

1.) Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term – permanent – brain damage by “shorting out” electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2.) The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3.) Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4.) The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5.) Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6.) The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7.) Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.

8.) The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9.) Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10.) Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Do you believe it, or not? And why? What have you done for re-heating and such if you have gotten rid of the “beast”? We have not but are wondering how many people have?

Top Ten “Fun Games” to Replace TV Time

Top Ten “Fun Games” to Replace TV Time

Try one of these to pass time instead of TV, your family will love you for it!

1.) Skip-bo
skip-bo

2.) Phase 10
phase10

3.) Rummy
aces

4.) Uno, or Uno Attack (as pictured)
uno-attack

5.) Rummikub (Rummy Cube)
rummikub

6.) Ten Thousand (10,000 is a dice game played with six dice, it is more fun than Yahtzee)
dice

7.) SET
set game

8.) Aggravation
Aggravation

9.) Othello
othello

10.) Scrabble
scrabble

TOP TEN “Simple Living” New Years Resolutions!

TOP TEN “Simple Living” New Years Resolutions!

Happy New Year

1.) De-Clutter / Have a Yard Sale.

2.) Build on to the house, for room for more “additions” (children).

3.) Remember to warm hands BEFORE milking goats. (we better buy some Goats first)

4.) Make Wooden Toys for next Christmas

5.) Reconsider the value of placing the phone on the pole in the yard with an answering machine, so as to be less intrusive into the home. Maybe the Amish have something.

6.) Build a bigger chicken coop.

7.) Have Firewood ready BEFORE SNOW!

8.) Sew headcoverings for Christmas gifts next year.

9.) Sew matching outfits for next years family photo’s.

10.) Call about trading in the van on a horse and buggy! (OK, I know its not realistic for life in Alaska, But it sounds fun!).

Top Ten “Simple Living” Gift Choices

Simple Living Alaska’s Top Ten “Simple Living” choices, for gift ideas for those hard to shop for family members.

1) Modest dresses from “Plainly Dressed”.

2) Headcoverings from “Plain-n-Simple Headcoverings”.

3) Wide brim mennonite/amish black wool hat from “Plainly Dressed”.

4) TV-B-Gone Universal TV Power Remote Control Key chain (you gotta check this out- I want one!)

5) A pair of breeding goats (no link here… just see any local goat farm)

6) Some hand made wooden toys (and confiscate ALL video games)

7) Preaching CD’s from “Charity Gospel Tape Ministry” on modesty, headcovering, headship order and submission, or any other subject.

8.) Gift certificates for “Lehmans” (Specializing in non-electric living, and homesteading needs)

9) Books on being “Quiverfull” (See our “Quiverfull Resources” posted in Quiverfull, for a book list)

10) Trip to Lancaster county to stay in an Amish bed and breakfast!
(WOW, We might not come back) :)