"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

~ Benjamen Franklin  ~

For years and years and years our meat came from Perry's Butchers at Mylestom.  It was a sad day when Perry's Butchers were no more.  They sponsored our Soccer club with meat and were always a pleasure to purchase from.  Happy butchers with awesome manners, you never left the shop without  feeling special.   My children loved to go here - the butcher would give them a cold sausage (little boy) to munch on if they wanted while they waited for me to get the meat order. 

Reminiscing again today... Its Montana-Star's 20th Birthday today.  She is with her father and brother and sister for her birthday enjoying herself.  You guessed it ... I am not apart of it.  Kept neatly out of the Baldwin picture. Only Baldwin's allowed is how it looks to me, Montana's grandmother Meg Baldwin said I was never good enough and her son lives by her wishes even in her death.

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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live." -

~ Socrates ~

And so now everyone is eating cake . . .

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How could we ever have believed that it was a good idea to grow food with poisons?

~ Dame Jane Morris Goodall ~

Farms use round up ready seed to grow Canola and Cotton in Australia.

Dame Jane Goodall is best known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life. She began studying the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, in 1960.  She is an activist,  primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Jane is correct in her observation that poison and food do not go hand in hand and this should never have begun in the first place.  

To see this mess unfold in my lifetime makes me feel like I am drowning from within.

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

~ William Blake ~

We are held here on this Earth planet by magical forces such as gravity and magnetism and this also has a way of holding back our perception of the infinite. 

There is another element called aether. This is what is returning now and this raises our consciousness level to a place where seeing the infinite may well be possible.  When this returns we will have to adapt in our mortality to the divinity returning and other parts of our body will assume processes not before used in our life for thousands of years.  

When the light changes and the resonance changes this is responsible for turning off and on the switches in our bodies via the hormones and our DNA.  The moon and other planets do exhibit magnetic effects over all fluids in our bodies and this will be markedly effected as this element flows back in. 

Food for instance may not play the role it does today or in our past knowledge.  We may be nourished by different means.  By light perhaps like plants are.  We will see as no one can escape this inevitable occurrence.   Its all food for your thoughts.

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“Most people who go to bed hungry, both in rich and in poor countries, do so in places where markets are filled with food that they cannot have.

~ David Korten ~

Woolworths is expensive.

I know what it is like to go without, we go with out a lot to make sure we have food to eat on a regular basis.   It is crazy how much things cost in Woolworths and Coles supermarkets, and the quality is not great.   Aldi prices are more affordable and I can budget well shopping there regularly.

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Moderation is the secret to Survival.

~ Manly Palmer Hall ~

Aye,  that it is lassie.  Moderation is something that will serve us well.  The human body is very resilient as it has so many back doors for re routing messages through our body so as to adapt.  The loss of a limb for instance.  The entire body is effected here and the entire body would have to come to terms with the loss.  The other arm becomes stronger, writing is even possible. 

Just shows how wonderful we are.  But that type of stress leaves holes in us and its those holes we have to be concerned with.  

Moderation in food, exercise, light and love.  A nice mix of these in moderation should keep one relatively in sync with the world and disease free mostly.  

Moderation (Photo credit: Bunches and Bits {Karina})

Keeping it going and not stopping is the key also,  as nothing in nature stops by itself.  Even in death everything is breaking down and  moving still until it is once again joined to the creator through the vibration of the soil if buried or in the ether if cremated. 

Plant lots of trees like you will live forever,  carry on regardless I guess is the plan.  Travel and love and say goodbye in peace.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.   Manly Hall

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Images @ Melopopzdropz Flickr

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"Eat honey, my child, for it is good." ~ Proverbs 24:13

"...every spoon of honey contains TINY quantities of these floral flavonoids...usually referred to as antioxidants. There are at least 16 of them found in honey at last count...Trace amounts of these floralflavones exert POWERFUL influences."
~The Honey Revolution, 2008 p.5

 

Bees are not mammals but as far as extinction goes Australia has the worst record for the loss of mammals in the entire world.
Images @ Melonpopzdropz Flickr

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

This is the blossoms of amazing colour.  Reminding me once again that which was once dormant is again alive and well and wanting to be a part of something again.  This is such a nice time to remember that the worlds people are not indicative of the true nature.

The nature of the universe is supportive and therefore much can be gained for your personal state of mind from responding to the innate nature of something. 

A birds call, if you listen closely will tell you what sort of day to expect.  If you listen to this, then you will hear the plea of many others echoed in their song.  Too many times humanity misses the call.  Listen to your intuition and the still small voice inside, it will always speak truth.

Image by Mezza - Winter Blossoms in Armidale

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Sir Winston Churchill, author and former U.K. Prime Minister..
 

Coloured Eucalypt Gum Tree.

With power does come a responsibility and this has become lost in the translation of time.  The effectiveness of learning and waiting and forging and trialing and above all learning from former wisdom has been replaced.  People have allowed governments to make us breed out our wildness and to forget about taking care of trees.  Trees have a spirit and it is proven they feel and therefore they are like outer entities here along side of us and we are meant to look after these not rape the earth of them.  Sad face.

Age and wisdom are no longer valued as essential components of existence.  Sad but true in a very civilized society.  Not my society, and not the way I would ever really want my society but it is this way.  The uncivilized were more in tune with this real living and respect for the earth.  Gaia is avenging for her people who have suffered for so long under tyrannical rule and slavery both ancient and modern.  The modern being a slavery though amassing debt.  We cannot vibrate to the earth being in this cycle of living. 

Good Morning (Photo credit: Images @ Melonpopzdropz)"There is something very beautiful about being uncivilized."  Mary-Ellen Peters 2012

This brings about a numbness to the subtle vibrational forces the universe and all of the planets draped in the heavens so beautifully  above us.  These influences are seen by only a gifted few, and others are really like tuning forks to these energies,  they feel it but don't see it.  The latter are on the journey to the first.  Sadly though these are sight unseen to most.

Image by Mezza - Colourful Eucalypt Gum trees at Hungry Head NSW

“Well, if you put it that way, I think you’ve got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.””

Eddie Lizzard..

Making biscuits is such a good piece of fun.  Up early and made a batch of Anzac biscuits because our friend Frank was visiting to look at my computer fan for me.

It was a nice day yesterday and I accomplished much by transferring photographs to Flickr.   I had been slack and some stuff had slipped through my little net of cares regarding the computer and its ability to hang on to crap even after you try to get rid of it.  Well we dealt with this and had coffee and I listened intently to Frank's instructions.

A nice drive to North Beach after this,  the weather is lovely and clear and the mornings are certainly chilly now. 
Image by Mezza -

Deadly mistakes

Life is about choices.  Good choices and bad choices.  Choose well my friend.  Some are obvious mistakes.  Choose to take some responsibility for yourself.

I think I want to save some canned goods and UHT Milk and matches and cooking oil. I have already built a library of true knowledge in books during my entire life. I have already collected a huge amount of  seeds. 

Look after yourself from here on in because the governments of this world have come to the end of this and their time is all but over.  Support local groups like  The Bello Food Box and the Garden on the hill.  Learn how to skin animals.  Get something to purify water that requires zero power ie. a personal water distilling device.  Water which is clean is very important to your on going health.  Devise something to protect you from the elements of war.  Store some ammunition if you have weapons or gather some make do weapons and keep all of your shovels.  You will need them to bury bodies and to dig to grow more food.

Get in touch with the sun and the suns energy both for yourself and your survival.  This is a must as the sun has been made into a big boogy man and the sun is God.  The sun is creation because without it we would all not exist.  So you work that one out for yourself.  I will help if you ask me.

Don't lose sight of your sense of humor in all of this.  Humor is the best medicine.  If you have a good belly laugh from reading this, then it won't have been written in vain.  Laughter is the best stuff and it raises the levels of chemicals in the body that are required for optimized health. 

Image by Mezza - Smoky  Quartz crystal

A real friend is one who walks in when everyone else walks out. - Walter Winchell

Unexpected is always great..

Montana in 2008

 Today I was more than pleased to receive a phone call from old friends and former Brisvegus / Bellingenites.  What a surprise to see how the twins have grown.  How gorgeous is Leanne, like not a day has passed!  So beautiful,  I will probably never see them again.  Not now,  they are supping with the King this evening and I don't mean Elvis.
I want to be wrong!  I know this will never end.  The king will keep issuing proclamations and not a thing will  be resolved and once again what ever the king will wish will be the way it is!  That will be the end as usual.  Nothing is ever the same after the king waves his sepulcher in the air. 

Image by Mezza - Montana eating Pavlova.

“For a moment, nothing happened.

 “For a moment, nothing happened.

Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen

 Douglas Adams (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)

The Early Garden and the Vegetables in late 2010.  When we came to this magical spot the soil for any sort of gardening was sadly missing .. we kept finding little tiny coloured rocks everywhere from past discarded fish tanks and that was about the only thing colorful.  We first had to fix the shed floor and the rubble and dirt made the basis of the first garden.  It was there for one season and we moved the entire garden down closer to the house.

Not sure but it does seem at times here that you can see things growing.  We just love the garden and we love growing some of the things we eat on a regular basis.

Image by Mezza - Garden in Morgo August  2010

On the Garden grows

This garden is amazing, it has given us both so much  pleasure as we watch new life happen.  Life that truly nourishes the body, mind and spirit emerges from the earth.

I tend to get emotional at times during this process.  Not because I am strange.  I feel the vibrations of the plants.  Sometimes they tell me they want to move or they want to be somewhere else to thrive. I feel them say hello to me in the morning and each day I purpose to go and say hello first thing.

This process of wanting to move or be moved imitates our human existence or does our human existence imitate this process of nature?... Either way they are connected and I feel blessed that I feel what I do.  A sky full of lighters up to the true nature of everything.

It does not matter what others think of this, the message is for me and I received it.

In the end this is all that is matters concerning this

Image by Mezza - Down the side early Aug 2011

2455 REPRESENT

 And so we are trying to rein things in here by transferring my other gardening posts from my poetry and writing blog Melonpopzdropz.. 

You already know that I have dedicated this page to blogging about my yard!  I spend so much time there that really it deserves a page all of its own!  Special place my backyard and my garden.

 I could be accused of being biased, however I don't care.  I think that we live on the most awesome piece of the Australian coastline!  The Mid North Coast of NSW.. The Pacific Ocean greets me each morning as I look out my back door and look at her!  She is a terrifying and powerful force.

Hearts

 They figure big around here, look closely for more hearts in unusual places.

My  flower of a  Billbergia sp.

So this just happens to be the best photograph of any flower I have ever taken! I am so glad to share it here with you.  What do you think?

Images by Mezza - Plants and special things

So much to grow

 Sentimental Rox is going to begin blogging our other most favorite past time and that is the garden. 

 It is something I eat from and feel so close to like "they" the plants are all my friends. 

Tomato Plants

I am an avid believer in growing what you need and use on a regular basis.  For instance it would be madness for me grow something I don't eat or cook.  I try to stick firstly to the staples of onions, potatoes, beans, spinach, parsley, thyme, carrots and following that the list is endless and it is hard to stop.

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The garden is a major source of enjoyment and fulfillment to my partner and myself.  Each day there is something to do and tend.  I go and greet the garden each morning with so much joy.  I am more than sure they know that I am there everyday.  Everything has and is growing wonderfully.  

Strawberries in Coke planters on the fence

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The strawberries who I call Good charlotte berries are prolific.  I have now made purpose built strawberry planters from halves of coca cola plastic bottles and attached them to the fence with zip ties that are removable.  This way they are able to cascade down with their beautiful nutritious fruit ... they love it there!

The main focus of the day today is the compost heap.  We have decided to re position it  as it went where it was by default.  The rest of the vegetable garden has a new home so now the compost will as well.

Cow manure is my saviour

“Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.”

Quote from ~ Alec Baldwin quotes  (American Actor, b.1958)

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Mezza

Cow manure is my saviour

Cow manure is cheap fertiliser that build up the nutrients in soil.  I get cow manure from a local dairy farm.  I need to do this regularly as the soil here on the headland is just empty! Well I have been working hard over the past year to build it up and add much to it!  I have a compost now / new house and new garden. 

Good Charlotte's Strawberries

I use what ever I can to build up the soil. I even go so far as to bring a bucket of soil home from various places in so making like a soil soup!

Remember, that organic matter is depleted every day as it is broken down by the soil micro-organisms and their friends. So replenishing organic matter in the soil to continuously supply the hungry vegetable gardens with the nutrients they need is a never ending job.

This is why its is so sparse in the yard; we rent.  We are making better friends with the owner of the house and I think he doesn’t mind us adding the gardens that we have so far! After all how could anyone get into any strife for growing things!  Yes it would be immoral don’t you think.

IMAGE BY MEZZA – STRAWBERRIES IN THE GARDEN ON MORGO

SLOW UP

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. 

Aesop Fables

The universe has a wonderful way of making life slow up a bit, if your too busy you could end up nursing a sprain or a break for instance!  Anyway its best to do most things slowly and an evening meal is one of them!  Lest ye choke on thy last morsel.

Poor appetite results from a decrease in the desire to eat and is commonly seen in the elderly. It is not known why this occurs but may be due in part to negative emotions, such as anxiety, depression or sadness.

Image by MezzA - Kookaburra at hungry head.