Throwing away money

I have just taken out about $3000 of computers to be thrown away. Well, they cost that much when they were new anyway. What awaste it seems, all to be able to use the computer, be online to the WWW, and yet obsolete so quickly, and of virtually no worth at all anymore.

It has discouraged me seeing how much money I have spent on temporary things, which rust break down and clutter my home and use up the precious time that I have. Oh, if I had only gotten off the worldly merry-go-round of accumulating stuff, thinking it would make me happy. How untrue.


Striving after things o fthis world is such an empty endeavor, and it pains me to see that I have not been as good a steward of the Lord's funds as I should/could have been. I continue to repent of my selfishness in wanting more and more, yet it comes back to me time and time again.

Someday soon, I will be in that Golden city, where the cares of this world and it's desires have passed away. Then we will be able to spend time in worship and fellowship with each other and with YHWH. Boy I look forward to that.

Too much 'Stuff' to move!

Sigh! Since we discovered that my wife was unable to live at the altitude here in Datil [7500' MSL], and we realized that we would have to move, I have been trying to clear out all the stuff that I have in the house. The task is daunting, because when I moved here 15+ years ago, I thought I would never move again.

Being a bit of a pack rat, I squirreled away and kept just about everything, because I thought I might have a use for it someday, and it would beat buying something brand new.


SO now I have to throw away, sell , and give away all this stuff that, in reality, I had stopped own, and was instead owned by. Gives one pause for thought, doesn't it.

So, I have set up a store at ecrater where I am listing a bunch of the extra items I have that do not sell on eBay. I tell you, taking photo's, editing them, uplaoding them , writing descriptions, and all that takes a LOT of time. Time I don't seem to have anymore these days.

Please take a look at what I have, especially Creftsman tools right now.

It was 4° [F] this morning!! Bbbrrrr!!!!!!

But praise the Lord for Electric blankets, which really do keep one warm in a cold house. Speaking of the house, when you heat with wood, and the wood burns up in the night, by the morning, it is really cool in the house. For instance, this morning the atomic clock/thermometer read 44°.

I started the fire up from the coals that were still in the bottom of our airtight stove, but the extremely cold temps outside were making more headway against the very hot , but small in total BTU put out by the stove.

Now it is evening, and the temp in the house is 67-68°, but it will start to drop as the night wears on, because it is clear outside and there aren't any clouds to hold in the meager warmth from the sun today.

A frugal ti[ that I am using is to light candles in the farther parts of the house to add a bit of warmth and ambiance. Especially the large candles that We weren't able to use when Apryl was here because the scents aggravated her allergies.

Better wrap this up and put a few more logs on the fire to keep it going nice and hot.

Music and how it impacts me

Recently, I have been listening to an album that I bought from ebay.
Cities of Gold, And thus it led to me renaming this blog.

I also like Maranatha music and have been making it available on Amazon.com.


Love of Heaven So here is an album that I just sold. Pretty nice. Even if it is not by Maranatha Music.

Day That Will Live In Infamy

So today is the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Sort of ironic, since I am married to a woman of pure Japanese ethnicity. Most o fher relatives were polaced in internment camps in the US during WWII, and they don't like to talk about it much. They were 1st generation Americans, and play golf today, like most retired Americans.

Ebay Reduced listing fee frenzy

I have spent all day listing about 50+ auctions on ebay. They had reduced their listing fees 33-50%, ending at midnight tonight.

It takes a lot o ftime to get pix of the things in the house, and having them clean and tidy and in one place. [see organization!!]. I am done for now, and hopefully I will do better with all my other things that need to be sold and taken out of the house.

Frugality - Grocery Shopping: Coupons for Health

I like to shop at Wild Oats Health food grocery stores. One reason is they carry coupon booklets from Mambo Sprouts, which offer very good savings, often on sale items.
For example, Wild oats has Kashi TLC [Tasty Little Crackers] on sale 2 boxes/$4. Yes, that is $2 a box for about 9 oz. In the summer Mambo sprouts coupon booklet, there is a coupon good for $1 off any sized box. And these are all natural cracker, quite palate pleasing, and I am really happy because I missed the sale at Smiths food week before last when they were priced 2boxes/$5, and I did not have the coupons then.

What a deal! Only $1 a box after the coupon.

I truly enjoy getting a bargain, and thank the Lord for His continued provision.

Finally went on MySpace.com and started my profile

My kids have been using it for several months now, and keep in touch with their cousins and friends from church fellowship.

I read what my nieces and nephews have put it is a little sad to me when I see that they are following in the ways of the world. It is a atrong reminder to keep them in prayer as well.

I can really see that this social networking aspect of the web can hog a huge amount of time, and also bandwidth, which is applicable to me because I access the internet through Wildblue.net, a satellite based provider. It is expensive, and has data bandwidth limitations that are irritating many times.


I don't foresee spending much time on MySpace, because the format is so wildly varying all across the different people. Basically just getting a space on their to make sure I have my name.

Cloud Watching

Do you watch clouds? Are you intrigued by the colors, shapes and size of clouds. In the mountains of New Mexico are some of the best topography and terrain for massive summer thunderstorms, of course I mean the 'summer monsoons'.

When I was driving home from Albuquerque Friday evening, there were some massive clouds to the south and west, and it was awe inspiring to see the creation in such glory.

Maybe I will post some links to pictures later.

Datil New Mexico

I've returned home from working in Albuquerque. Very tired, but thought I would make a space to write up what I like about living here.

So many country life blogs out there, but I will go ahead and add mine to the stewpot, mix well, and add my own special seasonings of words and pictures.