Iggy

Underwear does not a sexy, feminine woman make. Outerwear does not a sexy, feminine woman make. What makes a woman feminine is your attitude, the way you present your self to the world. How you treat others. What you think of yourself. My mother was probably the most feminine woman on this earth. She was not LDS until very late in life. BUT her underwear was utilitarian, IOW it served it's purpose. Boxy, old lady kinickers, bra that was downright ugly. Slip that was no more than 1 inch above the hem of her dress. Yes, she wore dresses and never, ever pants/slacks. Even her shoes were ugly. She wore them to protect her feet and give support to her arches. When Mom came down the stairs in the morning, the look on my Dad's face was pure love. He adored her. NOT the underwear she wore. He loved her modesty. Had they been LDS when us kids were growing up, they both would wear their garments and never thought once whether they were sexy or not.

Eowyn, did I read correctly that you were late in coming to pick her up at her house so the mother and her WALKED the 10 minutes to church? Why in the name of [fill in the blank] are you picking her up in the first place? If she can't walk then parent can drive her.

Because TP costs way too much. Put school paste all over her personal car windows.

I have a Singer that I bought from a girlfriend. I made some dress shirts for Ex. and modified muscle pants for myself, then Ex's niece came to visit with her two toddlers. The youngest (3) played with my machine. She took the needle out so he wouldn't hurt himself, thanks a lot, not! Any way he turned all the knobs every which way and I have never been able to get it back to what they should be. Their oldest did the same thing to our $3,000.00+ stereo/receiver/cassette player-recorder. It never worked again either. I have hung on to this sewing machine for over 30 years. Taken it to three repair men and still it is non-functioning. I want to have a working sewing machine- so I looked at Walmart at the new ones. I know Singer and Brother, but these other brands - Michley, Sunbeam, & Janome. I wish I had Mom's Singer Treadle in it's solid oak case. Do I need one with the multitude of different stitches?

Nearly two years ago, Hubby and I were asked to give a 5th Sunday presentation on Emergency Preparedness. Hubby emphasized emergency, I emphasized food. What I focused on was treating your food storage as an In Home Grocery Store. Do NOT store foods that you do not necessarily like, or have never cooked before or do not know how to cook. If you are storing XX pounds of whole wheat, do you have a wheat grinder. Do you know how to cook whole grains? I did a power point presentation, plus I had written as large as possible on the portable dry erase board: DO NOT STORE FOODS YOU HAVE NEVER EATEN OR EVEN LIKE. One thing I would like to compile is a list of foods with their actual shelf life. Like Mayo - unopened, in a room temperature cupboard/closet - 6 months max. Opened in the fridge - two months at the max. I write the date I actually bought it, then when I open it, I write Opened dd/mm/yyyy. When it gets to be two months later and there is at lease 1/3 of a jar left, I use it to make a cake. Mayonnaise Chocolate Cake. I also stressed the need to protect your food & storage items from pests. Take a walk through your store and write down what is in each aisle. Using the hanging aisle markers, then adding other items that are in those aisles. List them in the order they are on the shelf. Top to bottom. This project is going to take your hours to do. Going with your spouse will make it go faster, and both of you will then know what the current prices are. Now, set up your food storage in the same order as the store. Because I do not have a garage or basement, my storage is my kitchen, two large cupboards in my dining room and two larger cupboards in the master bedroom, plus all of the toilet paper is on the top most shelf in the master bedroom clothes closet. Oh, I forgot the two top shelves in the hall linen closet - that is where all of the personal hygiene and medical stuff is. There is a cupboard above the closet, but I can't reach in it. I can't even get up to where I can see in it. Right now there are some empty (MT) boxes in there that are over 5 years old and need to be broken down and put in the recycling. BUT I can't reach them. The last 4 sets of full time missionaries were short, we now have one who is tall (6'3") so I will ask him to climb up on the ladder and empty out that cupboard. BUT, because it is too high for me to put things in and get things out of, it will remain unused. My kitchen cupboards are set up with my most commonly used foods. When I run out of canned corn, syrup, tuna fish, etc., & before I add items to the shopping list, I check my grocery store aka food storage. When I take the next to the last item from storage that is when I write it down on the shopping list. To me that is Preparedness. That is how I grew up. We were not LDS until my brother started scouts at the LDS church when he was 15 (1959). Grandma owned a Cafe/Bakery during the depression. Her business thrived. She grew her own vegetables and bartered for fruits. For the price of a meal for a family of 4-8, the family would bring in their ration chits for sugar &/or flour. Farmers would bring her cow and goat milk, & eggs for a pie or cake. Her oldest son knew where free honey could be got and she baked more with honey than with sugar. Her customers also sweetened their coffee/tea with honey rather than sugar. By storing the foods you like and will eat, you will thrive rather than survive when the S.H.T.F.

Never heard of ginger beer. When I am sick I drink room temp ginger ale. Used to drink 7UP, but it isn't the same stuff from my childhood.

When I have a real, knock you to your knees upset stomach I eat saltines in whole milk (or half-n-half). Must needs be salted soda crackers. Place a bunch of crackers, whole in a bowl, pour milk on them, then break them up with a spoon as your eat them. Since I no longer eat plain white rice, I no longer eat cold white rice with milk, sugar and cinnamon. That used to be my preferred breakfast when I was in school. Elementary through High School. When berries are in season, I pour chocolate milk over cold steamed rice and what ever fresh berries we had at the time. All fresh fruit is made even better when covered with chocolate!! Also, the only way I can eat Cream of Tomato soup is when it is made with 1/2 water and 1/2 milk. Put no more than two squares of saltines in a bowl, coarsely broken up. Pour a bit of the soup over them and eat quickly before the crackers get soggy. I have an old, thick ceramic 2 Cup pitcher that I put the soup in to pour from. Because the pitcher is nukable, I nuke the soup in it. Stays much hotter that way. I much prefer Oyster Crackers to squared saltines. They don't get soggy as fast, and I prefer Tomato Bisque. Love the small chunks of tomatoes.

And they have two long hair dogs and one cat! I did see two corners in the house that were not pristine. Another thought that came to mind was why are their baseboards done in high gloss???

I absolutely love this. He is oh so right!! All I know about Day Trading and investments is what my Hubby does - actually what he says, moans about when his investments don't grow.

Bread w/sugar and nearly any sweet spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, etc.) then topped with milk is called Poor Man's Pudding. My folks hail from South Dakota. Paternal Grandparents are immigrants from Norway, Maternal GGGGrandparents are from the British Isles, then their descendants are from Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and southern Canada. Store bought white bread is NOT to be used. It turns into the nastiest glob of glue. Home made white bread that is at least three days old is T.H.E. Best!!! Same goes for cooked white rice. Place hot in a bowl, top with spice, sugar and top off with milk (fresh from the cow is really the best). This is the one of the ways my Mom would eat rice. That or with hamburger, tomatoes, onions, celery, and Italian spices, IF you are using canned and watery tomatoes, then add uncooked rice. Bake at 305 degrees F until dry around the edges.

Not just speed, but to keep the animals and varmints out of it! I have been coveting a rotating composter for 6 years now. What I can buy at Walmart or Fred Meyer costs $117.00 and is 8.7 cu. ft. Totally out of my price range.

Thanks LiterateParakeet, I have been embroidering since I was 7 years old. I quit for about 20 years - then in 2005 I got this maniacal urge to start up again. I did the top piece to show the activity day girls some of the basic stitches. That pattern wasn't available for the girls, it is too hard for first timers. Right now I am not embroidering as my natural light drives Hubby to distraction. Sitting at my computer is not a good place for embroidering either. Eventually I will get my living room flipped and can sit at my portable work table with my natural light on and color and embroider away and not bother Hubby. I tried cross-stitch, I just don't like it. It is pretty to look at, I just don't like doing it.

I really don't draw anymore. What I do is photocopy the embroidery pattern I like, color it, then embroider it to match.

Ah, Eowyn, you have said it beautifully - Thank you.

When I was still in grade school, Mom taught me how to embroider. All of the un-embellished white cotton dish towels ended up embellished by my embroidery. I took pictures from the coloring books, outlined them with black crayons, then ironed the pattern on the towels. She taught me the four basic stitches and from there I *invented* more stitches. I embroidered on my blouses and on a few of my skirts and pants. Then when I was traveling with my S.O. through the 8 states of the west coast and bored to tears, I bought a dozen blue chambray shirts (6 men's & 6 women's) put iron on designs on the back shoulder and across the front (sometimes). The threads I used were the silky threads that were wrapped around the telephone wires. S.O. worked for Stromberg-Carlson installing telephone communication systems for: business's, telephone companies, hotel chains (think Ritz Carlton), etc. As we drove from job to job (sometimes going from Portland, OR to Kalispell, MT, or from Bremerton WA to Elk Grove CA) about every two weeks, I would embroider on the shirts. S.O. sold the shirts. Oh, I also embroidered on the birthday, christmas and anniversary gifts for family and friends. I also color. Found some adult coloring books at a shop in Rochester NY back in the early 70's. Clean adult coloring books. Bought the largest box of crayola crayons AND crayola colored pencils I could find. S.O. and I would watch TV and color together. On christmas 1973 S.O. bought me a set of Cray-Pas. http://www.walmart.com/ip/24419308?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222227017589124&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40941939752&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=78879313592&veh=sem Prior to the coloring books I have always colored. Since as far back as I can remember I have created my own pictures and colored them in using crayons. Then my older brother left out his navaigation & drafting tools. I found his drafting compass and discovered the world of circles. I still have that same compass - never gave it back to him. ;>} All during my Jr. High and High school years, I created pictures with the drafting compass, colored them in, then sent them along with letters to my Great Uncle & Great Aunt who lived in Tucson AZ, to my cousins who lived in various cities/towns in South Dakota. When S.O. was sent to Manila, Philippines on a job for Stromberg-Carlson, I stayed with my Mom in SD. That is where I learned how to make cards. Using plain stationary, matching envelopes, kleenex brand tissues, Rite-Aid brand wax paper, Elmer's liquid school glue, sparkles, tiny pictures cut from old cards, tiny pieces of artificial plants-flowers. When I got tired of cutting tiny things out and up - I would do a swipe of color from water colors or hand draw an abstract design with my crayons/ cray-pas, colored pencils, etc. Then follow up with the tissues, glue and sometimes glitter. Later I used rubber stamps. Years and years later my older sister introduced me to making my own custom envelopes. I bought the envelope templates and a new obsession was born! Instead of buying paper (scrapbook paper is what they call it now), I went to carpet/wallpaper stores and got the outdated wallpaper sample books. My first score netted me 22 outdated books! The only wallpaper that doesn't make into envelopes is the vinyl textured paper. Got 4 books of those. Used them to patchwork wall paper a wall. Turned out fantastically!! When you use a wall paper envelope, you will need to use labels for the address's unless the wall paper is really pastel and not *busy*. After the first three years of envelope making, I got into rubber stamping. Well so did my older sister - and yes, again she introduced me to it. ONLY she was doing the more elaborate stuff - embossing. Not for me. Now that the Adult (clean) Coloring craze is upon us again - I have bought 6 to 8 books and two gel pen kits (48). Still have all of my colored pencils (three different brands) and only one box of 48 crayons. Husband doesn't like it when I embroider or color because I need to have my work light http://www.walmart.com/ip/Trademark-Fine-Art-72-0890-Trademark-Global-5-Sunlight-Floor-Lamp/21346033?action=product_interest&action_type=title&item_id=21346033&placement_id=irs-2-m3&strategy=PWVUB&visitor_id&category=&client_guid=3e4d6bb0-b1c1-48d3-86e3-81b07ffe6dc1&customer_id_enc&config_id=2&parent_item_id=41221397&parent_anchor_item_id=41221397&guid=fbda30f5-5bfe-48eb-a7d3-c6e8f1f3428f&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&beacon_version=1.0.1&findingMethod=p13n on, and it bothers his eyes. Yet when I sit farther away in my work area, he thinks I am not interested in the programs he is watching. Even when I embroider I need the work light - I taught the Activity Day Girls how to embroider. Simple stitches (created a book-let on the stitches for them), lined a basket and made matching Sunbonnet Sue needle/pin holders for each girl. She got her basket, needle holder, embroidery hoop and she got to pick out one of three flower patterns. The finished product was framed (another sister & I framed them) and given to their mothers on Mother's Day. Most were pretty good. One was fantastic and the girl has continued to embroider. So to sum up a rather long post: I embroider, color, rubber stamp, make my own cards & envelopes, create my own designs to color for fun and to put on cards.

I mostly experience a Clarity of Thought.Though I have heard my name said OUT LOUD along with MOVE, or TURN HERE, or STOP-LOOK, etc. And in listening to the Prophets, Seers & Revelators I get: 1) Goosebumps; 2) Tingles down my spine; 3) Tears to the point of nearly sobbing. When our recent Branch President was called, and as he stepped up to the podium to give his testimony I saw an aura encase his shoulders and he had a glowing aura about him. In talking with other members at a recent pot luck at church, they also saw the same thing. So Eowyn, from my experiences and in listening to the testimonies of others the Holy Ghost speaks to all of us according to our own capability of *hearing*, *feeling*, *seeing* Him. PLUS our capability of Understanding what we *hear*, *feel*, and *see*. When I reactivated back into full - active membership every time I saw (TV, Computer AND Ensign) or heard Pres. Hinckley I would cry. I honestly thought I was hit with early menopause, until my sister hugged me and told me that no- it is not menopause, it is the Holy Ghost testifying to me the truth of what Pres. Hinckley was saying. Yep, she was right - menopause hit me with a vengeance 5 years later.

Everything written by Gordon B. Hinckley: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/313356.Gordon_B_Hinckley

My sides hurt from laughing, and neither of my cats will sit with me since I guffawed and scared them. All of you are so precious,

1. My first massage was a Chair Massage. You sit in a special chair with your face resting in a horse shoe cushion. With all of your clothes on, your scalp, neck, shoulders, arms and back get massaged. I would recommend at least a 15 min. massage. Anything shorter and your don't really get relaxed. Every month where I worked, the employer gifted all of us with a 15 min. chair massage. I LOVE IT. When I moved to AZ, Hubby gifted me with a day at the spa. Facial, bull body massage, mani/pedi, shampoo/set/style. I paid extra for cut. The only part on my front was from my neck to just the cleavage and then my legs. The first masseuse only knew Swedish style. I felt abused and bruised when she got done even though I told her repeatedly to ease up, that it was too rough and hard. The next year, when I called to set up the appointment I wanted to know how long their masseuse had been with them. New gal, NOT swedish style. This one was much better. She was older and she included full scalp massage in with the full body. She never blinked with I told her to not include belly or breasts. Since moving back to Oregon, the gal who did the chair massages has open up shop that she shares with another masseuse. I go once a year, because she is booked up and I can only get in once a year. I like her. She is not upset or nasty regarding me being LDS and the fact that I insist on keeping my garment bottoms on. My first time for a full body massage, Hubby went with me, and he got a chair massage. He wanted Deep massage and she complied. I was gifting him this for his birthday and paid for a 30 min massage. 2. If my masseuse retires, moves away and there is a male masseur who is just as good or better than her, then I will go to him - -BUT Hubby will always be there with me. 3. Like I said, I go to my masseuse (female) alone. AND always after I have gone to my chiropractor. 4. I have claustrophobia, so would never do a SD tank. 5. Hubby would never go without me. As LDS neither one of us is alone with the opposite sex ever! One thing I would like to stress is that ALL masseuse and masseur ARE professionals. At least the ones I have gone to here in Oregon and Arizona. They have to go through schooling, put in lots and lots of hours practicing on friends (for no pay) and keep up their schooling when they renew their licenses. Day spas are just as professional as 'shops' that are just for massages. My chiropractor now has a masseuse in his offices. If I so chose, I could go to his office in the next town, have his masseuse work on my AFTER he has 'seen' me. Hubby just might go if the Dr. also had a masseur. His back/ hip problems are so deep that it just may take a masseur with strong hands and muscled arms to work them out. BUT I like my gal better. She knows where I hurt the most, and after, we sit, drink water and then she 'levels' out my chi. Too often one thinks of those 'shops' in the back of Adult Stores where prostitutes give 'massages' as massage parlors. I would love to find a place where I can get a facial though. Man oh man did I love the ones I got in AZ.

I have been to way too many funerals. The majority of which have been open casket. NOT one of the deceased looked anything but dead. UGH! My oldest sister passed in Nov of 2004. She was morbidly obese (nearly 700 pounds). The cost of a cemetery plot was beyond what the family could afford without mortgaging all of our homes, as well as a casket. No way could there be pall bearers either - at her request she was cremated. In Washington State the cremains do not have to be in a restricted vessel. Our next oldest sister found a beautiful locking jewelry box that once the parts that held rings, necklaces and earrings was removed worked wonderfully as her Urn. As for the Church's official stance on cremation - as their Stake President said, it is not really a "Thus Saith The Lord" stance. You have your own personal preference and the church pretty much will not interfere. As for burning the ceremonial clothes, letting them rot on the body in the ground is better??? There was no way my sister could be 'dressed' - her clothes were in the envelope and placed atop her body. Is the Church going to condemn someone who was killed in a fire and whose family just cannot afford a casket AND plot of land? We would have had to cremate my Dad and Mom if it had not been that Dad was a Veteran and the cemetery plot AND caskets were paid for by the US Government. My MIL knew of the church's views on cremation, yet that is what she told her boys and wrote to all of her blood kin that she wanted. She wanted a memorial too. A celebration of the life she had led, not a mourning of her passing. In Arizona we had to place her cremains in a flood/earthquake proof metal Urn AND when placed in the ground next to her husband in a flood/earthquake proof vault. The vault was made out of some kind of space age super strong plastics. The Urn cost just under $75.00 with the etching of the Mesa Temple and her name and stats engraved on it. The vault cost over $600.00!! Hubby and I will be cremated. I have to research what Oregon's law is regarding the disposition of the cremains. I want to encase the cremains in a cement bench and place the bench in the local cemetery rather than have them buried in the ground. The available plots are diminishing at the cemetery - BUT there is plenty of room for benches. They prefer cement over wood.Lasts a lot longer. Regarding MIL. With the help of my RS Pres. we dressed her. It was haphazard as MIL passed while she was in MO visiting her second son. MO laws are that all deceased must be autopsied. Because her funeral expenses were pre-paid and included the cost of shipping her from any state in the US to her residence in AZ, the funeral home in MO got a stipend ($65.00) compared to what they tried to charge us. ($6,000.00) thus they did a seriously bad job of it. They also delayed shipping her to AZ. She passed 11 Feb and she didn't arrive in AZ until 14 March. By law we couldn't actually remove the protective plastic the funeral home place on her, so we had to 'drape' everything. Not actually dress her. We also had to wear protective clothing provided by the funeral home: gloves, mask, covering over our clothes. I had never dressed anyone before. After the RS Pres explained that what we had just done was not the 'normal' dressing. About 4 months later she called and asked if I would assist her with the dressing of one of the sisters from the ward. This sister had no female relatives to do it. I was more than happy to assist. This sister had been one of MIL's best friends and in doing this I felt as though I was helping to get her ready to meet up with MIL. Before my RS Pres and I went in to dress MIL, her husband and the two ward councilors met us at the funeral home to offer a prayer before we went in. I was so afraid they would be in attendance too, MIL would have been mortified, she was so very modest. It was bad enough that the funeral director had to be in there, BUT he kept a respectful distance so he actually couldn't see in detail what we were doing, putting on her. ONE good thing, he too was an endowed member of the church.

First and foremost the questions and answers in this book were when Joseph Fielding Smith was NOT a prophet. The Norwegians eat blood also, as in blood pudding, blood sausage. It is cooked. My Dad loved it. He made it. He also ate animal brains. Mom and us kids wouldn't touch any of it. We wouldn't eat Gammelost or Lindberger cheeses or pickled pigs feet either. Me thinks that this subject has been kicked around, asked and answered - ad nauseum.

Growing up the birthday child picked the dinner, kind of cake and flavor of ice cream. We got 1 gift from Dad & Mom,1 from the siblings, and 1 from Grandma. The one from the siblings was generally a piece of clothing. The one from the parents was a toy and from Grandma it was money. My birthday is the beginning of June, before school lets out. Seldom did I want cake (My mother's chiffon cake won ribbons at the school fair and was much soft after. I hated it. Bleh.) I wanted blackberry pie or blackberry shortcake. No fresh blackberries in June. So, Dad took me to the old railroad tracks in september so I could pick my blackberries. Mom put them up and NO ONE was to open any of jam, jelly or pie filling unless they got my permission first. One year I wanted blackberry in jello with chocolate angel food cake. Not chocolate frosting but chocolate powder in the angel food cake. That was another of my Mom's award winning cakes, Angel Food. For dinner I usually wanted bar-b-que hamburgers on slices of Mom's home made white bread. Sliced fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and yellow onions and potato & macaroni salad. We didn't have a bar-b-que, so Dad made up a fire pit in the middle of the back yard, and he and my oldest brother cooked the burgers out there using Mom's 21" cast iron griddle. First husband never remembered my birthday, ever. Even when I would leave him a big note on the bathroom mirror the day of. After nearly 30 years it became a non-day. Same for all of the holidays. He celebrated all of them, the week before, the week of and the week after - by being drunk the entire time. During those 30 years I was not to send anything to my family either. They did not exist to him. If I forgot his mother, or sisters & niece then I paid a very painful price. 30 years worth of not remembering is pretty hard to undo. I have been married to Hubby #2 now for 12 years (will be this Aug) and I remember his birthday, but for the life of me I cannot remember my own family members. I have to go into my genealogy program to find the dates. Two years after we moved to Oregon, we agreed to not give each other cards or gifts. We go out to dinner. For my birthday I prefer to go to a restaurant where I get waited on. Hubby prefers Sizzler's, or Arctic Circle drive in, or to a little restaurant where you can get anything on the menu any time of day. Breakfast for dinner, dinner for breakfast, etc. They know us by name and what we like to drink. Ice water for me and Sierra Mist, no ice for him. Funny note: for the first 8 years we habitually forgot our wedding anniversary. As I was unpacking our framed pictures, the glass on our wedding certificate was shattered. I made sure that the paper wasn't broken and as I looked up at the calendar - sure enough it was our wedding anniversary. Hubby's favorite home made meal is spaghetti - so I made that for an early dinner (late lunch), then after I told him that we had to get to town. We went to see a movie. We haven't celebrated it since then. Keep forgetting.

iamlds how long have you been a baptized member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? And where are you living? I live in Oregon. Longer than 5 years? If so have you read the Ensign from back where there was a Question and Answer section? People would send in questions, and the Ensign would answer them. Well the book by Joseph Fielding Smith that you are quoting from is a compilation of Questions and Answers from the Improvement Era magazine which was from 1897 to 1970. The Ensign's first issue was in 1971. The New Era's first issue was also in 1971. The New Era is for the Young Men and Women. quote: In May 1953, Joseph Fielding Smith, later tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began a series of monthly articles in the Improvement Era called "Your Questions." In these articles, he provided answers to some of the hundreds of questions he received from members of the Church and nonmembers alike. Starting in 1957, Deseret Book Company began publishing many of these questions and answers in a five-volume series entitled Answers to Gospel Questions. <snip> Answers to Gospel Questions provides definitive answers to some of the most important and interesting questions asked by students of the gospel. In this volume, you will find information on topics ranging from sin to sacrament, from forgiveness to Fall, from marriage to miracles. You will also find answers to many intriguing gospel questions, including: Why did God create a world where suffering exists? What is the nature of miracles? How do we know we have a Mother in Heaven? Why do little children partake of the sacrament? Does the devil have power to tempt departed spirits? What is the doctrine of plural gods? It is hoped that in providing this new edition of the well-loved classic, Deseret Book Company can help members of the Church as well as nonmembers find the answers they need to better understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.~ End Quote It states clearly that Joseph Fielding Smith is answering questions on a very wide range of church related topics. He is not declaring new doctrine. Deseret Book is not publishing or selling *False Doctrine*. I have spent nearly two hours on the internet trying to find your quote without having to spend 30$ to get it and read it. I did however find a site that gives another reason for the not eating blood. http://www.gotquestions.org/eating-drinking-blood.html quote ~ The Bible’s first prohibition against consuming blood comes in Genesis 9:2-4, where God tells Noah, "Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it." This prohibition was most likely a ban on eating raw blood (i.e., uncooked meat). For the first time, animals were an allowable food source, and God was making sure that Noah did not eat them raw. A Jewish Targum comments on this verse: "But the flesh which is torn from a living beast at the time that its life is in it, or which is torn from a beast while it is slain, before all its breath is gone out, ye shall not eat." Later, the prohibition of Genesis 9:4 is iterated in the Law of Moses. Leviticus 17:14 gives the reason behind command: “For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life.” ~ end quote I believe that this is what is meant - do not eat/drink/consume raw blood, nor eat of meat that is raw. No doctrine. Just good common sense health wise.

Pam, you can't even get on without resetting the password, so how do you propose to reset it???

Even though it is called stainless, they still do stain. At the same web site it tells how to clean your stainless steel. Also one thing I learned from working in a restaurant (back in the 70's - 90's), cheap stainless steel has more steel, the best quality stainless steel has less steel. So put a magnet in your pocket when you shop for a pot. The magnet will not stick to the best quality. Also as the dishwasher in the restaurant in the late 70's - they had me clean the pots with baking soda inside, and with either Bon Ami or Bar Keepers Friend on the outside every time. Not once a month or once a week - but every time they were washed. I much prefer my enameled cast iron dutch ovens. Both the inside and out. Love them on the stove for making my stews, chili, and Husbands Mexican Chix Tomato Soup (if I am just making a small batch, like for dinner when I feed the Missionaries). I use my 16 & 20 quart good quality stainless stock pots when I am making 24 to 36 serving batches. They hold WAY more, and are much lighter to tip with my left hand when I am filling up the Rubbermaid containers to put in the freezer.