> Dear Mephibosheth,
>
> I saw that you updated the BiblicalScholarship site, so I take it you
> are back online.
>
> Thank you for the link to the Deception email. I watched all the links
> on it as well. That man, even to look at him and hear him speak, seems
> to have different passions than a normal man to me. He seems very
> unnatural to me. I didn't realize he has said so many blasphemies.
>
> How is the progress in your garden doing? My decorative plants died (i
> believe I overwatered them) but the edible rosemary is doing fine. I
> am about to start school again, so I won't have this garden, but I can get some pots to put in the windows.
>
> In Christ,
>
> Youngman



Dear Youngman:

Greetings.  Someone called and wanted to contact me by email.  
I told him I was off line, but eventually agreed to correspond 
by email.  That is why I've periodically checked my email this past week.

In terms of updating BiblicalScholarship.net, I tried to keep a running
tally of things I wanted to add to the site in September.  As a result,  I
have all kinds of little notes I've put in the website folder.  As those
items mounted, I decided to go ahead and add some things as they come to
mind--like today I put a note on the index page about how the website is
not for most people.

I hope that you are well.  Soon after I emailed you the Deception link, I
went and took off the link to Obama's "Call to Renewal" speech.  I hoped
that you had not watched it.  I replaced the link to a page overviewing
how he blasphemed the Old Testament and the New Testament, Moses and the
Lord Jesus Christ.  I apologize if I sent you there and you watched it.

That man, Barak Hussein Obama is activated by something that 
others are not activated by.  Someone from Chicago, IL wrote me 
about him years ago when he was running for the senate.  I had
no idea at that time of the man's coming meteoric rise to the United
States presidency.  It was by design that "I-have-no-answers" John McCain
was his opponent.  I was in a used bookstore before the election and heard
some men talking about the presidential race.  One man said, "but is
anybody really going to vote for a black guy?"  Another man said a loud,
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhh...."  He must have seen me come in the store earlier.  I
actually thought that the man saying "Shhhhhhh...." was funny.  Well,
somebody did vote for a black guy but the powers that be made sure they
selected the most inept "white guy" that they could find.  If they had
allowed Senator Ron Paul of TX out there, lover of our constitution and
clear minded, those powers would have had a real run for their money. 
I've filed some of Sen. Paul's writings.  He reports what is happening on
those committees behind closed doors.

The garden project is proceding well.  It is a war garden, a victory
garden, a survival garden, and more.  It started out in a little corner of
the yard as a plat I gave to Hannah.  We had prayer in it.  We bought some
Biblical plants and called it the Biblical garden.  That was the
beginning--and how it has exploded.  Give God the firstfruits and he will
take care of the rest.

I like the All New Square Foot Gardening method but I have had to make
adjustments to the soil mix.  Author Mel Bartholomew has done mankind a
great service in that book.

**We've grown things that we like to eat.
**We've examined what it takes to keep a man alive.
**We are identifying and eating wild edibles.
**I've looked at raising fish in a barrel--we already have goldfish
outside eating the floating native plants in a Rubbermaid tub.
**Our marish is wonderful and I look forward to eating cattails, common
reed, pickerel and arrowhead.
**Hannah read that  some fishermen are scared to kill and eat the fish they
catch.  This upset her.  She went outside killed a frog that was in the
pond, skinned it and we ate it.  The next day, she killed and ate another
2 or 3.  Then she killed another and ate it.  I told her to leave some so that
they can eat the bugs.  Today she caught a grasshopper and said, "He looks
like somebody could eat him."  She said she ate two crickets the other
day--one she retrieved out of a spider's web.  Many people in the world
meet protein requirements through eating insects.  There is a photojournal
book I want to get on this subject.
**Our fig tree is producing
**I am preserving our modest harvest.  Drying is my favorite method though
I'm doing some canning.
**I am planning experimental beds to put to the test the writings of Geo.
W. Carver.
**We are eating from our own ground.
**I'm fighting fungi (with apple cider vinegar and water) arisen from all
the wetness.
**We're finding and killing new pests.
**I'm marvelling over the power of dung.
**I'm learning about more superfoods.
**I'm learning about non-dairy calcium sources.
**We've built four garden frames and finished our workbench.
**We each made a loom and started projects.
**I eat 6-8 bitter feverfew leaves when I have a headaches.  It has an
action like aspirin and should not be taken with blood thinners.
**I learned aspirin comes from willow trees.
**Hannah ground up corn into cornmeal and beans into flour on our hand grinders hooked up on the workbench out back.
**When we had some trees cut down last year, I asked the tree people the
names of trees I did not know.  It was important that we know the names of
the trees in our own yard first before exploring the sequoia and every
other tree.  When I see a new weed, I take mental note of it and keep my
eyes open for what it can do.  I also keep my eyes open for what my
ornamentals can do.  I learned that juniper berries are used as a season
and used to make gin--alcohol is antiseptic.  Lamb's ear was once called
"Woundwort" and used after surgery as a bandage.  These are two of our
ornamentals.  Weeds, gardens and ornamentals can live in harmony.
**I am interested in winter gardening--always having something growing. 
With an unlimited manure supply, I can keep things warm.
**We made a photojournal of our yard.  One day, perhaps, the Museum of
Biblical Scholarship will be open to all who are led to come.  At this
time I am straitened, yet I feel like a curator getting all things in
order.

We've spent a lot of time outside this summer.  It seems like the summer
has gone by far too fast.  I am looking forward to one day growing all we
need.  Persimmons will be rippening soon.  We'll eat them in season and
preserve the rest.

Navy beans are one of those "refuse not to grow" plants.  They are called
Navy beans because they were a staple of the U.S. Navy.  If growing in
husbandry is something that you desire, I have seeds of my favorite things and
will gladly send them to you in due season.  I keep them in alphabetical
order in a cardboard box in my armoir.

I recently put some radishes in the basement under some shop lights and
aphids (from a "bloody dock" plant) moved in.  In indoor and greenhouse
gardening, pests can proliferate--no predators, no plants to move on to. 
I still have my watercress, aloes, and comfrey.  Each day, I try to make
it my goal to eat something I've grown or gathered first.  My small
response to the situation in which I find myself and a step toward my goal
of feeding myself--and one day my animals.

Good bye for now.  Take care and don't listen to man.  I want to know if
you are growing and what you've been doing.  The other day I purchased a
sign from the thrift store, "Most of all, let love guide you."   I became convinced the other
day that I can have love and joy and that I do not have to let anyone take
these things from me.  The road is rough, but you have to fight your way
through the tough times.  When you get tired, keep on going anyway.  You
may not be able to take it, but you have to--a man told me that in a dream
years ago.  For me, I have to refocus continually lest I be swallowed up
whole.

Mephibosheth