BERJAYA

Unleash the power of the sun

My dad is a prepper. He is very seriously preparing for TEOTWAWKI. He has taken it upon himself to be prepare for ALL his family, all my Mom’s family, even family friends.

Naturally he is concerned for his family in AZ. Knowing when something happens the chances of us making it to SLC are very slim. He does what he can to convince us to get our year supply of everything and has helped where he can. Christmas of 2009 he gave us a Berkey, which is the best water purifer out there acording to him, myself, and others. Christmas of 2010 he gave us a Global Sun Oven.

I am very happy to be the recipient of these wonderful “tools”. Unfortunately when we were given the sun oven we lived in an apartment. The patio did not received enough sun shine to cook food. Then we moved. There was no room to take the sun oven to our temporary home at the in-laws. So it got packed up tight in our storage unit. Until finally seven months later we bought our condo (Dave Ramsey style). Out of the darkens of storage came the light. There it was my Global Sun Oven, time to harness the power of the sun.

As I watched the instruction video for my sun oven, the guy instructing said that it can hard boil and egg without water! I was immediately intrigued.

Amazing, it worked just like he said. I didn’t heat my house up one bit which was excellent seeing as how its 110 outside. Here’s my lovely egg salad sandwich which wasn’t so lovely to eat after all the salt I added. The children’s faces were priceless when they took a bite.

This boy threw the biggest fit when I was taking the picture of the four eggs. He wanted to eat an egg so bad. I was a mean mom and made him wait in the bathroom until I had finished my photo session.

And this little girl…well how could you not love her. She patiently waited to eat her egg.

thE garDEN

We have been looking for a house for the past 4 months. Our criteria is 1500+ sq ft of house, 10,000+ sq ft of yard, located near the freeway, decent neighborhood, and $75,000 or lower (Yes there are houses for sale that fit most our criteria). We hoped at the end of our lease in February we would have had a house, but none of our offers have been accepted. So instead of resigning our 600 sq ft roach infested lease we moved in with the In-laws (Don and Debbie) and hope to only be at their home a short time. We have recently put an offer in on a house that we think is awesome; hopefully we will get this one.

I have been keeping myself and Creed busy the past couple days by playing outside and planting the garden. It has been quite challenging to keep Creed from digging and playing in the plants. He loves to drive his dump truck over the lettuce, through the onions, and around the cilantro. He also likes to fill up his wagon with dirt and dump it all over the house when his dad is suppose to be watching him but decides to take a nap. He has his own section of dirt he can play in and a pot to plant rocks in, but we all know that it’s not as fun or exciting as the real thing. I tried to have him help me with the plants we got at the garden store but his idea of planting is pick up the plant by the top of the leaves and throw it on its side in the dirt… The most success I had with Creed and planting was with him planting the seeds and watering the garden. Which was a sweet thing to watch him put one tiny little seed in a little hole cover it with dirt and water it with the watering can. But all things must come to an end, as we finished planting and watering he threw a fit and wanted to plant and water more and more.