https://youtu.be/7DQHFSFDKFU 

• 2-3 tbsp mashed potato
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• a few drops of Vanilla (optional)

It would be interesting to try it out.

https://www.thedarlingacademy.com/articles/1940s-ministry-of-food-mock-chocolate-spread-recipe/  

And you know who got Tesla's papers right? The ones the government didn't confiscate? 

John Trump (President Trump's uncle) who was a legend at MIT. 

The question is not what Tesla believed about old buildings. The question is what he found in those buildings that convinced him. Tesla did not theorize in the abstract. He worked from measurement, experiment, physical demonstration. If he became convinced that Gothic cathedrals and neoclassical civic halls were electrical infrastructure, it was because he measured something inside them that standard architectural history does not explain.

What did he measure?

In 1934, Nikola Tesla traveled to Paris for a series of lectures on high-frequency electrical phenomena. While in the city, he requested access to Notre-Dame Cathedral — not to admire the rose windows or the flying buttresses. He wanted to examine the crypts and foundation level. The request was approved under the pretext of acoustical research. Tesla spent four hours below the cathedral, alone except for a custodian, examining limestone blocks and metal anchoring systems embedded in the foundation walls.

He returned to New York and immediately wrote to the Rockefeller Foundation requesting funding for what he called acomprehensive survey of pre-modern civic architecture across Europe and North America. The request was denied. No reason given.

But in private letters to Arthur Matthews, Tesla described what he had found beneath Notre-Dame: copper grounding systems embedded directly into the cathedral’s foundation blocks — not modern restorations added during 19th-century repairs, but original construction. Deliberately insulated with natural resins. Geometrically arranged in radial patterns extending outward from the central nave. Still conductive after six centuries.

Tesla called themearth batteries— passive electrical storage systems using the compression of stone, the mineralization of groundwater, and the conductivity of copper to create standing charges that could be drawn upon without fuel, without generation, without metering.

https://voxday.net/2026/05/25/the-energy-of-the-old-world/ 

I also note how many of the women and girls walk arm in arm. You read that described in older books, but to see it in real life is striking. I wonder when that went out of fashion and why.

My sewing basket to this day is a Longaberger I bought when I hosted a party around 1995. It has a green fabric floral lid and liner that goes over the edge. I still love it. 

I have a basket on my desk and another small one on my office door. 

I think that's all I have. Mine all have liners so they have lasted very well. 

They are beautiful baskets with fun memories. 

https://youtu.be/vQ6e1hM6saM?si=zwNzqZxvPkazWcpS 

Sept = 7

Oct = 8

Nov = 9

Dec = 10

Why doesn't our calendar have 13 months?

What is the purpose in changing it?

Most importantly, how does it link to denying the Creator?

I prefer the sound of a CD over anything else.

I refuse to pay for streaming on any scale. We have SiriusXM in the car so I can listen to Symphony Hall on the rare occasions I go somewhere. I'll pay $5/month for it, but as soon as the deal ends I cancel it. I won't pay $25/month for streaming. 

If I'm spending money, I want to own it. If I like something such as a movie or TV show, I want to own a hard copy.

I think more and more people are beginning to realize that if you don't hold it, you don't own it. 

https://youtu.be/WUccRBb9pvA 

https://www.graafschapcrc.org/about/heritage-center  

From the video description:

Mark Osterman, Process Historian, Kay R. Whitmore Conservation Center, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film Mark Osterman discusses the origins of photography and the history of manipulation.

Using rare examples from the George Eastman House's collection as well as his own artwork, he illustrates the historical methods used by many photographers.

The exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop is on view October 11, 2012--January 27, 2013 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

https://youtu.be/uq8JGzZ9ql4