Did you know that there is a difference between hunger and HUNGER? HUNGER is when there is absolutely nothing to eat and hunger is when you want something to eat but can't decide what.
Woke up this morning and became real nervous when we found out once again the government was late with the paychecks. You see we came here with just barely enough money to get us through the first two weeks until payday. Sure enough, the pay period hit wrong so we were going to have to stretch it for a month. Okay being young and naive we said, "No sweat". Well, back in the olden days, the government could pretty much pay when the mood struck and you guessed it, the check was late.
My survey of the pantry revealed one cake mix. No problem, we can eat cake for this day and the checks will come today. Did you know cake without frosting is really quite good.
Next day, you are ahead of me, no checks again. This time no cake mix so we take our bean flips, they were called something different back then, and went into the woods hunting for grouse. For you city folks, grouse are similar to pheasant. God was good to us and we got a big fat grouse. Boy did it taste good.
Remind me to tell you, at a later date, about Wee Willy and our food saga.
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That was checks EARNED hard working in the US Forest Service, not government checks as in welfare, which makes that "waiting for the check" even more frustrating! Anxious to hear "the rest of the story"...
So that's what Marie Antoinette meant when she was told the poor were starving and said "let them eat cake" eh?!
I took a lessons once from this lady who used to live in a teepee. She would take us on walks in the woods and point out the amazing profusion of plants to eat, how they were prepared, used for medicine, etc. Things like the inner bark of pine trees and such. Like the grouse, it really opened my eyes to the stuff we've forgotten about the abundance all around us.
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