December/Iulmânôd 3, 2016 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

(Iulmânôd = Iul month)
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My health by the numbers:
Glucose: 118
Weight: 247.6, down from 255 Nov 7th
BP: 130/72
Pulse: 78
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: ?????????????????????????????????????????
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Ancestor Meditation: (gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite and Medford Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you've provided. I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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 Elder Rune: Algiz (U): Protection/shielding, Heimo (the genetic connection between gods and the Folk), guardian of Ensiwëg, the Rainbow Bridge, expansion of archetypal consciousness, awareness, divine realizations, an awakening, drawing on the natural Will, invocation/supplication to the gods, preparedness, sanctuary, embracing the Divine plan, a safe harbor, connection with current events, the Elk, or swan.
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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 Armanen Rune: Laf: 
Havamal 158.
A fourteenth I sing to the assembled Folk
When naming the divine names;
The Aesir and Alves and their various kinds
No one can spell out without learning.
 
Determination, learned knowledge, singing before the All, presentation, Urlag; life fate and destiny, life as law, life following the law, experience, test, temptations by life-circumstances, water, sea, good management, test of life, school of the lives, relations, defeat and the laws of nature, life and primal law, psychic & spiritual awareness, cosmic flow, seeds of thought, the etheric part of the body, initiation that experiences life on earth as a continuous process of initiation, The Cosmic Ocean.
“First learn to steer, then dare the sea-journey” (List, 60).
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Interpretation: An awakening (Algiz) leads to learned knowledge (Laf).
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Outcome: overcast, drizzly, cool, nice…
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Breakfast; 2 eggs, ham, cheese potato coins in a whole grain wheat sandwich
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Lazy morning.
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Huggled with Socks in his house.
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A bit of online research on Krampus:
Pics
http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/who-is-krampus-should-you-be-scared/
http://cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/krampus-for-christmas/
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TDPKzHNq3SM/Vly1ozRAUrI/AAAAAAAAU04/8TCclqxViUI/s640/d9a7f065191d1ee99bde91066ed9e9ae_original.gif
http://www.mrctv.org/krampus
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnl5ZWG4tg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZfG5kcnfxI&t=12s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bF8jsH8iUc
Krampus explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAoC7FOaL40
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Toby, with weather like this we can go on a walk anytime.  Sorry the morning has just gotten away from me for no apparent reason.
*aw hel, Toby, let’s take the time!
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Lunch with Let’m Eat Bräts food truck
On Fb: https://www.facebook.com/LetmEatBrats/
On the Web: http://www.letmeatbrats.net/
OMGs GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Stopped in at Patricia’s http://www.patriciasgiftshop.com/ on the way home.  Man!  If JL and I ever get back together, I could spend A TON of money there!
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Bundesliga http://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Borussia Dortmund v Borussia Monchengladbach
*6th minute tor/goal BMG
*7th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*15th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*@ the half, BVB 2-1 BMG
* 64th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*68th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match
*BVB 4-1 BMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wolfsburg 2-3 Berlin
Bremen 2-1 Ingolstadt
Hoffenheim 4-0 Köln
Leverkusen 1-1 Freiburg
Leipzig 2-1 Schalke
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Me time; if you knew it would scare you.
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Time in the kitchen; enough for the weekend and perhaps into next week:
Potato casserole with onions, turkey kielbasa, corn, and peas.
Experimenting with 10-hour, slow-cooked rib-eye steak in onion soup with potato and veggies added.
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Rain   
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MASL http://www.maslsoccer.com/
Florida Tropics v Baltimore Blast
Harrisburg Heat v Cedar Rapids Rampage
Kansas City Comets v Chicago Mustangs on MASL-TV on YouTube
*2-0
*0-0
*1-0
*3-0
*final score, KC Comets 6-0 Chicago Mustangs
*KANSAS CITY COMETS WIN!  KANSAS CITY COMETS WIN! 
Milwaukee Wave 14-6 St. Louis Ambush
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Everything for my great-nephews’ Yule gifts arrived from Amazon today.
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Socks was smart enough to stay in his house during this rain.
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OH MAN!  You should SMELL the crock-pot!
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Nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Saga, glorious goddess of history, we greatly honor you; part and parcel of our ever-expanding past.  As we share in Minnatranc, whisper to our hearts of the stories about our gods, our ancestors, our heroes and their glories.  Be the resource for our memories should we ever forget from whence we come.  Gently remind us that we all have a rich history from which to pull.  For it is as we remember and respect the past can we deal with our present, knowing that we will someday have to deal with our spiritual debt.  We honor you, Saga, as a repository for the basis of all that we are, all that we are coming to be, and all that our offspring will inherit from us.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, SAGA, as we honor the Saga that resides in us all.
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
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Comments:  last check on all fur-kids
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Alaf Sal Fena!