-- FRIENDS are --
what we all need to help keep us
inspired & moving forward along the trail!
July 1st, 2012
HOWDY!
Little, Lovely Amelia...
flew in from tortuously hot Texas,
graced us with her light, loving presence for 11 days,
then flew away for her next adventure!
Besides enjoying her immensely as did our other 3 guests,
I used Little, Lovely Amelia's visit as...
an excuse to landscape The Bear Cave,
a reason to try young coconuts and vanilla beans,
& an affirmation that my "tiny houses" are FUN! FUN! FUN!
Ride On! Read On!
For Amelia's "THANK YOU!" note & her
Instead of SAD-Caramel Pudding Recipe!
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Ameila called me. She wanted to do a short fast on water-only before going on to her next adventure in California -- "to clean out!"
I dropped her price down to just $300 for 11 days, if she would stay in The Bear Cave during her visit. This is a brand-new, little building I got last summer, but it had never been properly landscaped, and weeds had taken over the area. The Bear Cave was meant to be for my own occasional visits or to be used as an overflow spot when The Guesthouse that takes 4 books full or an unexpected visitor drops in. The Bear Cave is very private and my favored spot of all the choices. It is 40 feet from The Guesthouse and faces the corner of the tall cedar fence and towering maples and evergreens behind it. Four lifelike bear statues and tiny trees surround a big fire-pit encircled with boulders and centered with a wood-burning cast-iron stove. Now, one can either sit outside to enjoy the fire, camping style, or lay in the new bed with "instead of Mink" blankets all around and enjoy the fire in luxury!
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.Since Amelia was involved with recycled, tiny buildings in Texas, I was certain she would be thrilled to find out about The Bear Cave! My rates are half the going rate of $1,000 a week and sometimes less, especially if a barter is possible. But since she would be forfeiting her airlines ticket to California and would have to buy yet another to get up here, I asked for just a fraction of my already low rates. She was so happy! I used her $300 to landscape her tiny, temporary house to a delightful perfection, complete with twinkling night lights! And I was honored that she would drop 1 airlines' ticket and purchase yet another-- just to swing up to Washington State to visit us!
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Dressed as if she had stepped out of the 60s in a long skirt and ever-so-delicate blouse, Amelia carried no stress with her at having been up 48 hours without sleep getting her ducks in a row to get here in short notice, held no irritation at having missed her plane trying to get out of Dodge, and was totally relaxed about her luggage getting delayed 24 hours God only knows where! I thought back to a woman who visited last winter. She was so stressed out at enduring similar circumstances that she greeted me with: "If I had known I was going to have to go through all this just to get here, I would have never come!" It took her 2 weeks of intense Natural Hygiene education and of getting wined and dined on our Live-Food dishes that she called: "SIMPLE AND ELEGANT AND DELICIOUS!" to whisper softly to me in the kitchen one day as an apology for being so stressed out:
"I'm glad I came. It has been a really good thing that I came here."
But Amelia was way ahead of that game. She had learned at an early age to let stresses turn into water off a duck's back. And from the moment I picked her up until she packed to go... we had... FUN! FUN! FUN! She had never seen the lush greenery of The Pacific Northwest. She was in awe! Perhaps in most awe when she found one of our flowering, wild-growing plants that looked like giant Texas state flowers Blue Bonnets. Only Washington's variety was 3 feet tall compared to the 6-inch Texas Blue Bonnets. Every day, Amelia went on walks. And every other day, she brought back little harvests from her outings and made us delicate, miniature arrangements of grasses and wildflowers. She fasted correctly for 6 days, packed up, and flew away -- like one of our summer birds, off to her next adventure.
She left me this note and a wonderful recipe!
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"DEER"
VICTORIA WILDERNESS WOMAN & HIGHJOY!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH
for creating such an inspiring environment for me and all of your guests! In my short stay here, I feel that I have experienced an entire lifetime!
From your enthusiastic spirit to the barrels topped off with precious rocks, to the love-surprise-presents you gave me to our many excursions up into the green, green woods and into the fragrant fields to pick clovers for your color-changing, stunt-performing, wannabe stallion white Arabian Knight of a Horse to the abundant guidance, tender moments, bear hugs, to our song fests driving down the road and to your absolutely exceptional juices and wonderful, organic melons of all sizes, shapes, and colors, I want to say...
"THANK YOU!"
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I will miss My Little Bear Cave and the super-fluffy, soft-as-stardust blanket that wrapped me up so warmly these 11 days! I will also miss the beautiful spirits that I came to know who shared Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods with me.
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Fasting correctly for 6 days was an experience that I would have never otherwise been able to afford at the other places.
I could not have accomplished this on my own, either.
THANK YOU FOR AFFORDING THIS TO ME!
I hope to return for a longer stay at some point down the trail! May you and HighJoy be well always.
I was always be honored that he would do
his "Rocking Horse" trick for me while you were gone!
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IN LOVE, AMELIA
DEER livefoodfactorfriends!
I started this broadcast 2 full weeks ago. And then my computer quit. So, I am happy to have it fixed and to write to you today! Amelia is long gone, but I have a landscaped Bear Cave and a yummy "Instead of SAD Caramel Pudding" recipe to remember her by! Just days ago, a Health Seeker found
www.
naturecurerawfoodhealthretreat.
com.
He had been quoted $1,000 a week for a 40-day fast and 2 weeks refeeding at Dr. Goldhamer's = about $8,000. He had been quoted $3,000 for the same on a work-study program at a far-away place in Central America called "Tanglewood."
But we swung a barter for $1,000 up front + a solid week of computer/website building, instead!
He arrives at the midnight hour!
My manifested intense desire to landscape The Bear Cave will now be enjoyed by this man -- THANKS TO AMELIA! But first, we will, for 7 days, build the frame for www.health4thebillions.org!
I will keep you posted on our progress!
This man joins 2 other guests who are at the tail end of completing 40-day fasts on water-only!
I have 1 spot open in July.
Most spots in August are open.
If you are wanting "A GETAWAY SPOT" for July, if you are in need of living and learning The 10 Energy Enhancers, please call me. We are having cool summer days, often blessed with a shower that leaves the warmed-up pavement giving off steam!
AND NOW...
Amelia's
Instead of SAD-Caramel
Pudding!
The meat of 1 or more young coconuts
The water of the young coconuts
Soaked nuts of your choice
Pitted dates, the softer the better
Vanilla bean scrapings
Here is my Live-Food Formula
for Young Coconut Pudding
young coconut meat + soaked nuts + vanilla + liquid
Use your VITA-MIX. After cracking open the young coconut and pouring off the water and digging out the young coconut meat and rinsing it, put the meat, the dates, the vanilla bean scrapings, and the soaked nuts into your VITA-MIX container. Then add the slightest amount of coconut water at first. Experiment with the exact amounts on your own. Add more coconut water to get the consistency you want. Amelia was disappointed with the consistency and flavor made at The HighJoy Homestead compared to what she has always made at home. We used dried nuts rather than soaked.
We used my Cocodates rather than whole dates.
She said she used "way too much vanilla bean scrapings."
All I know is that it was...
YUMMY!
I surmised that the "way too much vanilla bean scrapings" is what made the pudding taste just like caramel!
NOTE: The young coconut meat is very, very mild in taste. If you add some stronger flavor to this recipe, you will not even taste the coconut -- at all! But by using just these 4 ingredients in proportions that leave a pudding consistency, you will swear it tastes "just like caramel pudding!" Maybe, you too will want to add "way too much
vanilla bean scrapings," as well!
NOTE: a young coconut does not yield very much meat. So, if you want a goodly serving for 2 or more, do crack open more than one young coconut!
Happy Trails to You,
until We Meet Again!
