January/Hartmânôd 1, 2017 Manostag

(Hartmânôd = Harsh month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: New Year’s Chop-suey, go to The Gun Church
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag (2nd great grandparents) David   A. Schmidt (1822-1892) and Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
David A. Schmidt (1822-1892)
Birth 19 May 1822 in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna South, Russia
Death 18 Dec 1892 in Marion County, Kansas, United States
*Married 15 November 1849
Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
Birth 23 Jan 1828 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie, Duchy of Poland, West Prussia
Death 01 Apr 1911 in Goessel, Marion County, Kansas, United States
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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.
* 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: Fehu (U):  Cattle, wealth, Ing-Frô; the god of abundance, Audhumla; the primal bovine, the ability to create and maintain wealth and the accompanying power, creative forces, Odhumbal, the primeval bovine, fire, beginnings, productivity, positive energy, life force, self-respect, personal power, one’s condition in life, generosity that needs to come with the social responsibility of wealth.
Conversely:
The negative blessing of prosperity, stagnant finances, lack of creative energies, productivity failure, and the inability to and/or create wealth, greed, disconnected from the life source, fear of failure, an ending, an unfortunate condition, fiery powers extinguished, atrophy/decline, failed ambition, lack of self-esteem, an ineffective beginning and an irresponsible misuse of power.
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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: A beginning (Fehu) leads to learned knowledge (Laf).
*EXCELLENT Runes to start the year!
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Outcome: 3 scrambled eggs, ½ potato for hashbrowns, 2 Morning Star Farms sausage patties https://www.morningstarfarms.com/products/morningstar-farms-original-sausage-patties-product.html
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Got right onto preparing bread for going over to niece’s.
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I absolutely LOVE going over to my niece’s house…love them!  Now I must have all the luck in the world with all that New Year’s chop-suey I ate.
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Not long after getting back from my niece’s, Long-tail came over for a visit.  I greeted him warmly.  “Well hiya Long-tail.  Where the hel have YOU been?”  Then I noticed how emaciated he’d become.  He sauntered up onto the porch and assumed his feeding station just like always.  I immediately went in to open a full can of wet food and a generous handful of kibble.  I gave him the once-over.  OMGs, he looked horrible.  WHAT THE HEL IS GOING ON ACROSS THE STREEET?  I didn’t leave Long-tail until he had eaten his fill and walked off the porch.  He turned back and gave me a “thank you” glance.  I just hope that wasn’t a “good-bye” glance.
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Toby and I out for a well-behaved 30min sunset walk.  He had to spend some time on the retractable, not because he was bad, but because of external situations. 
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Call in from the Ob-Meister.  Gun Church will have to be tomorrow as the day has moved on and Gander Mountain was getting ready to close.  That’s okay, that will give me time to load some clips.  I want to run one clip through each weapon:
9MM Glock
WASR-10
Beretta shotgun
.22 Ruger rifle
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The 13th Warrior for the 121st time
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Nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Paltar, you're the blameless god, gloriously shining god, rising god, restoration god, husband to the faithful Nanda, beloved son of Wotan and Frija.  Just as you restore Mittigart after Godotuom, restore us after we experience our own Godotuoms of life.  Let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help is to avoid evil, and seek the good. Inspired by your example, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and our leaving his life a tragedy. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, PALTAR, as we honor the Paltar that resides in us all!
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Comments:  last check on all fur-kids
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Alaf Sal Fena!