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Online Ticket Booking
It is possible to buy tickets online for most events at Kentwell.
For Concerts and Theatre it is recommended to book in advance to ensure the performance and seat of your choice. Remaining tickets will be available on the gate.
For Re-Creations and General Opening Days, it is not essential to book. Tickets may be purchased at the gate on entry, however booking ahead is easier and quicker for you, and advance tickets are sold at a discounted rate.
Tickets vary according to the event, including when they are valid for, and if it is necessary to book. For all the information regarding a particular event, please visit the specific event page on our main website: http://www.kentwell.co.uk. From there you will be able to add tickets to your shopping cart.
Buying tickets on-line
Calendar gives all the events in a calendar form.
Upcoming Events lists the events coming up for the entire year in a table.
Re-Creations & General House Opening
- Tickets bought for these events are collected on entry. We do not post them out.
- On purchasing you will receive an email receipt with instructions. Bring this email or details of your booking (the name, address and transaction reference number) in order to collect you tickets.
- Please ensure you have booked the correct tickets before travelling, and contact us if there are problems with your booking.
- For Re-Creations and House, Gardens & Farm, tickets must be purchased prior to the day on which you intend to visit. You cannot purchase tickets in the morning and collect them the same afternoon.
- All tickets are non-refundable.
We hope you find it easy to buy tickets, if you have any problems or suggestions do not hesitate to Contact Us .
Open Air Entertainments
The above conditions for Re-Creations & General House Opening apply. However, please refer to the web pages for advance booking cut-off times on the day of the performance if available. Remaining tickets will be available on the gate. Navigate to the performance for which you wish to book using the Forthcoming Events or Calendar links.


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You are a Warrior, full of strength and mental toughness. Think of this Talisman as your shield that will protect you and carry you through to your desired dream. The white diamond represents the purity and goodness within you. Wear this pendant to guide you through whatever life throws your way.
- Hand fabricated out of sterling silver
- 18k gold bezel and jump ring
- 2.5 mm white diamond
- Necklace chain is 18" with a lobster clasp

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Original title: Het geheim
Ben Stikker and his father are huge fans of magic and spend their time trying to perfect and perform the tricks for their act Stikker and Son. Their hero is well-known magician Hans Smid, who Ben wishes to emulate. At a public performance, Ben and his assistant Sylvie attempt a new disappearing act that seems to work too well. Sylvie promptly vanishes and can't be found.
Soon reality and illusion begin to blur as Ben is forced to confront whether he truly has magical powers or if something is at work that has yet to reveal itself. With his family falling apart, and the media and Sylvie's family scrutinizing his every move, he is confident that the great Hans Smid will come to his rescue. The Magicians is an accomplished and exciting film, with great performances by its young leads, and an exciting mystery at its heart that will keep the audience engaged.
Themes: reality vs. illusion, family relationships, magic, and economic class.
Recommended for grades 2-5/ ages 8+
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Arabia. Bostra. Hadrian, 117-138 AD. AE 20 mm. Weight: 7.66 gm. Obverse: laureate bust of hadrian right. Reverse: bust of Arabia to front, head right, wearing turreted crown and mantle, blown out by the wind, holding in each arm small figure of seated child, APABIA below. Dark green patina. About very fine. Spijkerman 1. Rosenberger 1.
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Lorraine McCarthy
Club: Bruff
Position: Full Back
Occupation: Nurse
Club Honours: County Junior, Intermediate, Senior B Titles
County Honours: Munster Junior, Intermediate League, Intermediate All Ireland titles.
Most Admired Player: Judith Mulcahy
Toughest Opponent: Niamh Mulcahy
Biggest Influence: My brothers Sean and Noel
Favourite Things (Food/Music/Film/TV/etc.): Outdoor activities, Gardening, Traveling, Reading.
What does playing for Limerick Mean to you?: It's a great honour to wear a county jersey any day you go out to play and it's also a great way to spend time with your friends while all aiming for the one goal at the end of the year.
Any advice for young players?: Practice the skills daily not just on the days your training and enjoy every second of playing.


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Read this poem. Do pause to reflect first on the poet's visualisation of mushrooms and then ponder as to what the poet is actually talking about.
Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.
Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,
Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,
Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We
Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!
We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.
Sylvia Plath was a very sensitive and complex poet and writer who explored through this poem a suppressed issue – the rights of women after World War II.
- Back-lit mushroom – Eric Meyer's image is licensed under GFDL and Creative Commons SA 3.0 at Wikimedia Commons.
- Sylvia Plath's image -Copyrighted. Used non-commercially here under fair use.
- Moldovan stamp image – Public Domain. see here.
A special thank you to all my visitors ! Many of you may have come here on a quest for Sylvia Plath or her famous poem rather than in quest of nature or my blog. So many of you have come here that my blog's visit rate and rankings have gone up.
I thank you all for that and have made a "Do you know – Mushrooms" here for your viewing pleasure as a gesture of thanks.
Please do look around. If you find a nice post and enjoy it, I will feel happy that I could repay you in some way for your gracious spending of your time here!


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Great to hear what is going on in Durham (little bit jealous that you get to go so often but I don't). Will make sure I remember to pray for you and Susanna and Zach. Great to hear about the lifezone you will be leading – sounds good!
A Postcard from Durham
Next week is reading week at Cranmer Hall. That means that I am almost half-way through the epiphany term already and roughly half-way through my degree. Deadline day for essays this term is 19th Feb so I am going to be a busy bunny for the next fourteen days or so!
Let me give you a super-quick breakdown of how assessments work at Cranmer. There are two types of assessment- Formative and Summative (Common Awards, for those in the know). Formative assessments do not count toward your degree but give the tutor/lecturer the opportunity to assess your progress 'on the hop'. Summative assessments do count toward your degree and so you need to marshal your energies wisely for them. The three essays due on the 19th are 2,500-word Summative assessments, so it's time to stock up on treats and caffeinated beverages!
If you are at all interested, the titles for the pieces of work in question are 'Does the Social Model of the Trinity Offer the Most Convincing and Attractive Understanding of the Doctrine of the Trinity?', 'How Far is it Justifiable to Read the Book of Ecclesiastes as Offering a Hopeful Message?' and then a couple of pieces on the gospel of John/1 Corinthians. They're all at various stages of construction at present so if you are a praying person, please pray for my sanity and for Susanna and Zach as they have to live with me though this period.
(Some of the content mentioned above might make it onto the blog in a slightly less academic format once they're marked- wouldn't want the plagiarism checker to penalise me for ripping off my own work!)
I've blogged about how this studying needs a sense of 'Controlled Overflow' and the last week or two has thrown up a couple of cool opportunities for that very thing- I met with Jeremy Simpkins (a good friend and the leader of Christ Central Churches) today, and he has asked me to teach at a wider leaders gathering next month. For those of you who are familiar with Devoted, I'll be leading a LifeZone at this year's event, specifically focussed on exploring a book of the bible in some depth (probably Mark's gospel) which should be great fun (I'm a bit of a Markaholic to tell you the truth!)
Anyways, that is a slightly stream of consciousness account of my life this week for you- I'll try and do this on a semi-regular basis so that you can keep up with what's happening.


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If you have been reading The Baby Sleep Site® for a while or if you have just found us, you know that we've helped thousands of babies and families get on the path to healthy sleep. Nicole and our team of highly qualified Sleep Consultants have decades of combined experience among them, and have been known to produce some truly miraculous results with even the most challenging sleepers. I know what you are probably thinking: "Our team must have perfect little sleepers at home, right?" Well, you are right in that we have many tools in our arsenal, and when a sleep issue comes up, we tackle it right away. But, we are here to share that our little ones, like many of your little ones, are not perfect sleepers!
Like all of you tired (or once tired) parents, we, too, have struggled with frequent night wakings, short naps, regressions, bedtime battles, early wakings, and more. We, too, have broken "sleep rules," and have needed to take the journey back to healthy sleep habits. And just as there is no "one-size fits all" at The Baby Sleep Site®, our solutions were as unique as our babies and our families. We are honored that you share so much with us on your journey to better sleep, so we wanted to share some of our own Sleep Confessions with you. If you are struggling, remember that you are not alone!
There is nothing harder on a parent than when their child is sick. Most of our sleep consultants still rock and hold their babies, toddlers and even older children to sleep when they are not feeling well. Danielle shares, "I always rock my boys to sleep if they are sick and need the extra snuggles. I love the extra snuggle time too! Since we established good sleep habits, they are able to bounce back to sleeping independently pretty quickly as they know what to expect."
As parents who have traveled with babies and toddlers, you also know how challenging it can be to stick to routine. You prepared and tried to recreate their home environment as closely as possible, hoping that your hard-earned sleep independence wouldn't go down the drain. Many of our parents are nervous about traveling with kids, especially when their babies are not exactly "go with the flow" and are sensitive to changes.
Shaye, who has been with The Baby Sleep Site® since 2011, shares, "When traveling, we co-sleep and look forward to it. But once we return home it's back to business." When her daughter was younger, it could take a few refresher training days to get back on track, but it was worth it. Now that she is older, it's a lot easier to get back to routine since she knows the "rules." Nicole co-slept with her boys on many vacations and got back on track when they got home. "We wanted to enjoy our vacation and they hated the hotel cribs!" she shared.
Some of the toughest challenges to get through are the sleep regressions. They happen every few months and it can sometimes feel like just when you've survived one, another pops up! Jessa recently struggled for an entire month with the 2 year sleep regression, and spent many sleepless nights with her son waking, crying, not wanting to be left alone in his room, and being scared of "roars." It took some trial and error, but they were able to get back on track by changing his schedule and being doubly firm about sleep rules. Shaye shared that her daughter's toughest regression was at 18 months and there were many nights she was ready to throw in the towel and bring her daughter into bed! "It shocked me how awful it was for us, really. But with toddlers, consistency was our key! It was a tough few weeks but we made it through and are glad we didn't cave." She stayed diligent about her daughter's schedule and stuck with their coaching method of checking in intervals, and her daughter went back to sleeping through the night.
Sarah, who has been with The Baby Sleep Site® since 2013, has also had her fair share of toddler sleep struggles. Her youngest was an absolutely wonderful sleeper as a baby – that is, until Sarah started her job as a Sleep Consultant! Her persistent little princess must have had a sixth sense about what Sarah's new position was because "she gave me a run for my money," Sarah shared. She lost count of how many times she had to walk her daughter back to her room. Sarah even slept in her daughter's room several times while taking a break from coaching, just so she could catch up on some sleep herself, and then jump back in. If you have ever tried to reason with a 2-year old, you know that it often takes some creativity to get them on your side. It took creativity and commitment, but Sarah found what worked for her daughter and they got back on track! 🙂
As a reader of The Baby Sleep Site®, you likely know by now that we believe one of the most important pieces of a child's sleep puzzle is their schedule. An overtired child will always have a harder time falling asleep and staying asleep. But what do you do when there's something you just don't want to miss and you can't stick to the schedule? Amy, who has been with The Baby Sleep Site® since 2015, really wanted to take her preschooler and toddler to see the fireworks, and "bubble" snow for Christmas, but knew it was going be past their bedtimes. "It was very late and at least 2 hours after their regular bedtimes. As a sleep consultant, I knew my kids shouldn't be out so late and I was actually nervous someone might see me and 'call me out!'" But it was worth it for how much both kids enjoyed it and they went back to their stricter schedule the next day.
Sometimes you feel like things are going well and you are in a groove . . . then something changes that just throws your routine for a loop. Jen, who has been with The Baby Sleep Site® since 2012, shared that her daughter crawled out of her crib at 18 months and ended up sleeping on the floor behind a gate for at least 6 months! This was a challenging time in Jen's household. But she's not taking chances the second time around! "I've kept our youngest in a tight sleep sack so he can't get his feet over the railing. He's almost 3. :)"
Bonnie, who has been with The Baby Sleep Site® since 2014, shared that she nursed her daughter to sleep for naps until she was 21 months-old. "It worked for us and I loved it. She knew how to fall to sleep at night and back to sleep on her own so until we had to make changes (our new baby coming), I snuggled that girl." When you hear us say that we don't believe in "one-size fits all," and that each baby and family are unique, we truly do mean it! Success may look very different from one family to another and if "breaking the rules" works for you and you are happy with how you and your child are sleeping, we absolutely encourage families to do what is best for their situation to help you reach your individual goals.
I also have a "nap confession," to share. Since I was fortunate enough to have a flexible schedule, I also chose to continue to nurse my very sensitive and persistent daughter to sleep for her naps, as she was doing so well during the night (after many tears and a lot of help from Nicole!). I was happy with it and eventually she was even able to lengthen her naps on her own without my help. But it only worked because we were both getting the sleep we needed at night.
The journey to better sleep can be a bumpy and unpredictable one. Nicole and our team has truly been through it all, and, everything that we have learned in the process, we are committed to sharing with you to help you in your journey. We are honored to a be part of your sleep and wellness team – your village – and want you to know that when you are discouraged, we are right here to help you dust yourself off and get back on track. And when you are celebrating, we are right here to cheer you on! Like health and fitness, for many of us, sleep can be a "work-in-progress" in our lives and something we have to always be mindful of, even as our children grow.
"I would still call our eldest (the inspiration for The Baby Sleep Site®) an 'imperfect sleeper,' as he's just my sensitive one," Nicole shared. "If he watches a movie or TV, we know it can't be anything even remotely scary anymore for that reason. He still wakes me up at night 1-2 times a month and he will be 11 soon! :)"
We would love to hear your "Sleep Confessions!" To learn more about our team and all the expertise they bring to The Baby Sleep Site®, go here.
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The Bent Mast bar, inside an 1870s Victorian house, is said to be haunted by a ghost who touches, pinches and pushes folks. In, some reports say it's haunted by three ghosts: A man and two children.
If you've had a paranormal experience here, or have any additional information about this location, please let us know!
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- Address:
- 512 Simcoe St
Victoria, BC
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- 48.4153122, -123.37350249999997
- Region:
- Capital
- Nearest Towns:
- Victoria, BC (1.6 mi.)
Esquimalt, BC (2.3 mi.)
Oak Bay, BC (2.9 mi.)
Langford Station, BC (6.3 mi.)
Goldstream, BC (7.7 mi.)
Goldstream Station, BC (7.7 mi.)
Metchosin, BC (8.1 mi.)
Rocky Point, BC (10.6 mi.)
Malahat, BC (11.5 mi.)
Saanichton, BC (12.3 mi.)
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|What is the current wait time for orders being built?
|As of December 1st 2019, I have approximately a 2 - 3 week wait time. Due to holiday shipping delays that come along with this time of year, I cannot guarantee a package will arrive before Christmas! Please reach out to me if this is an issue.
|What is your shipping policy?
|As a security measure, signatures are required for deliveries.
Couriers will provide multiple delivery attempts if necessary. If no one is available to sign, they will drop off the package at a pick up warehouse/location in your area. If the package is not picked up within their stated time frame (usually 5 days/ 1 week) they will ship the package back to me.
In this situation, I would deduct the cost of return shipping and a 10% restocking fee and refund the remaining amount to the customer.
|I am from the Saskatoon area - can we meet up/ you deliver instead of ship?
|If you are a local from the Saskatoon SK area I am willing to personally deliver / meet up some where close by for a small fee (~$10 depending on location) please contact me directly to set this up.
What is vagina steaming?
How do I do it?
What herbs should I use?
When it comes to v steaming how-tos and specifics I always refer people to Steamy Chick (Keli Garza & Kris Gonzalez ) and/or their directory of certified steam consultants world wide! The Steamy Chick website / platform is FULL of resources, tutorials, blogs and herb mixes that will provide you with a good understanding of how to set yourself up for safe steaming and also who to contact for more information near you. If you are steaming for a specific issue(s) or reason I strongly recommend talking to a consultant to fit your individual needs.
Disclaimer: By purchasing products from Brazen Bloom Creative you agree to take full responsibility of safe steaming practices into your own hands. You understand that vaginal steaming may have positive or negative side effects as a result of doing a session. You accept all legal responsibility for yours and/or your clients/affiliates individual choice to vaginal steam and waive the responsibility of Brazen Bloom Creative and it's associates in the case that any adverse reactions or side effects occur.
|Which burner do you recommend for use under your stools?
Bella Stool : I recommend the " Imusa usa gau-80305r electric single burner 1100-watts " It is available both in Canada & the US, online and in stores. Since it is a smaller stool, not all single burners fit beneath it.
Lush Stool : Most portable single burners will fit below (anything between 18" x 16 " )
Why is there no wood finish on your stools?
no finishes, paints or stains = no leeching of chemicals near your delicates while you steam.
If you prefer to have a finish, then apply one of your choice once you receive your stool.
|What is your return policy?
|Yoni Stools are final sale because of their intimate nature.
What materials are used to make your products?
Yoni stools:
Canadian Red Western Cedar (sustainably sourced), screws , wooden dowels & non toxic glue
What are the dimensions of your stools?
bella stool: approx 15" x 13" and 15.5" tall
lush stool: approx 19.5" x 17.5" and 15.5" tall
lotus stool: approx 16" x 14" and 11" tall
If you would like the stool's height to be adjusted within an inch or two (either taller or shorter) just ask!
What are the weight limits for your stools?
I was recently sent a 50+ page document about the strength capacities & test results of the fasteners/jigs I am using!
Which stool is the right choice for me?
The size of the stool seat is a good way to determine which stool would be the most comfortable fit for you. The bella seat is approx 15" x 13" , the lotus is 16" x 14" and the lush is approx 19.5" x 17.5"
If you are having a hard time deciding, sit down and measure from the outside of one hip to the other. Based on that number would a 16" (lotus), 15" (bella) or 20" (lush) wide seat be more comfortable?
Do you ship to the USA and internationally?
To date I have shipped all over Canada and the USA. I currently do not ship outside of North America.


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Technology once you get familiar with it becomes invisible. Many of everyday activities leverage on technology that we don't see or don't perceive. As we move around we generate data. Even the fact that we might not generate data is … a data. And these data are becoming a sort of digital shadow that tells a lot about us.
The interplay of atoms and bits is now continuous. As I shown in previous posts you can observe an aircraft flying six miles above you and an application can provide you with the identity of the plane, where it took off and where it is flying to, its speed, its altitude. You can take a photo of a boarding pass of a nearby passenger at the airport and by sending it to a QR code decoder on the web you can get info on the flights he has already booked with that airline company and much more. You can pick up the GPS coordinates of the exact spot where a person snapped a photo and by searching the web after a few days you are likely to find information on that person by searching for a photo taken at that time of the day at that place.
You can even look at the face of a nearby person with a special app and see how his heart is beating… and much more.
Notice that we have just begun. As the first stumbling block will become smaller and smaller thus letting more and more people to become seamlessly part of the cyberspace, the lack of perception of this parallel world will create more and more problems.
We are not culturally prepared to live in a bit world, in a data economy. And our capacity to digest the implication of the cyberspace on our life, on business and on Society is increasing at a slower pace than the increase of digitalization.
Most of the people I am talking to are not aware of the existence of a digital shadow. Nor of its implication.
This is a real challenge that Society is facing.
Youngster are at ease in the cyberspace but by large they do not understand the implication of being in the cyberspace. HR department are checking on the web prospective hire. In a short while you'll walk into a restaurant and the waiter will call you by name, even though you have never been into that restaurant before (the magic of face recognition). A shop clerk will likely know what you are likely to like the very first time you enter the shop. Profiling will be a real time service provided by some web service.
And those that are more at ease in the cyberspace, that surf the web, post their images, tweet their thoughts are the ones that will "suffer" the most.
A lot of head scratching awaits regulators as well as "educators".


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Four Against Darkness Followup
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Two weeks ago I posted my playtest of Four Against Darkness (4AD).
There were some follow-up questions and I also promised to give away 5 PDF copies of the game.
First, the questions:
How does this compare to Ancient Odysseys: Treasure Awaits 1?
They are similar. ADTA is an introductory role-playing game with a focus on dungeon-crawling. ADTA can be played as a standard RPG with a Game Master. Or it can be played solo.
The mechanics are also very easy.
I must admit that I've only played it once and it's been some time. Without re-playing the game I can't really say if one is better than the other. I've skimmed ADTA and it looks like it will give you the same experience as 4AD.
The dungeon-generator looks to be simpler and there are no boss monsters.
The game is a tad cheaper (USD $6.95 instead of $8 for 4AD).
How does it compare to similar boardgames such as Descent? (Other than waaaaaaaay cheaper)
I've played Descent once, a friend of mine has the game. I can't remember the mechanics anymore. Descent has some story elements and AFAIK you can't play it solo. But the board game parts are of course much cooler.
I'm not sure how you can compare these two. They are probably both dungeon-crawlers but I still see Descent as a board game and 4AD as a pen and paper game.
Now, the giveaway. Done with random.org:
- Steven Kornegay
- Nikolay
- Rynath
- John Payne
- Bob Bersch
I'll contact the winners via email.
Thank you for reading my blog. I will do some more giveaways in the future, so stay tuned.


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Homosexuality and The Apostle Paul: A Study on Romans 1:26-27
Dia touto begins this verse, which translated simply means "For this reason." This harkens back to the previous verse and indicates that what is about to be said is the result of the idolatrous culture. God has not been worshipped, but rather He has been usurped by the idols of creatures, and even the idol of mankind, itself. This verse is the result of exchanging the truth of God for a lie.
Paradoken – this word is repeated from v.24. God again gives them over to their desires. In v.24, He gave them over "in the lusts of their hearts" to impurity. Morris (NICNT: 1996) notes that this phrasing "shows that those who were handed over were already immersed in sin" (p.110). In v.24, these people already had an inborn desire to sin and were beginning to flirt with impurity. God simply allowed them to do so and they indulged. Likely, the same emphasis is found here in v.26, just as we will see that the same is true of the term for "exchange."
The next phrase is "to degrading passions" – (eis patha atimias) – literally, "to emotions of dishonor" or "passions of dishonor". This phrase is parallel to "impurity" in v.24, and while the word for "impurity" was somewhat ambiguous as to whether it dealt with sexuality, this phrase is not. Regarding this Morris says, "Paul's use of the word 'passions' ... makes clear that he refers to illicit sexual passions" (pp.113-114).
"For" (gar) signals that Paul is about to explain in what way these people were given over to "dishonorable passions." He goes on: "their women exchanged" – the word for "woman" (thaleiai) here is found rarely in Paul. Regarding this, Morris says in a footnote, "Paul's use of the antonyms thelusi/arsen [female/male] (v.27) rather than, e.g., gune/aner, stresses the element of sexual distinctiveness and throws into relief the perversity of homosexuality by implicitly juxtaposing its confusion of the sexes with the divine 'male and female he created them.' For the pair thelus/arsen is consistently associated with the creation narrative (cf. Gen. 1:27; Matt. 19:4; Mark 10:6…)." Schreiner picks up on this and adds that in "selecting the unusual words thelus … and arsen … rather than gune and aner … he drew on the creation account of Genesis, which uses the same words." The same words, that is, in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the OT that Paul exclusively used in his letters and with which his audience would have undoubtedly been most familiar. Again, this ties together the overriding theme of creation explicit in this passage.
Let's now examine the word, "exchanged." Paul uses the same word as he did in vv.23 and 25, again adding to the parallel nature of the passage. He says they exchanged "the natural function for that which is unnatural" – literally "the natural use to the [use] against nature." This is the crux of the verse, and dare say the entire argument Paul is making regarding what I will later argue is homosexual relationships. The word that is translated "natural" means "belonging to nature, innate, a natural condition." The word chresin here is translated, "function." It is used only one time in the NT, and this is it. It is used often though in Greek to denote "sexual intercourse" and is found used this way in works by Lucian, Plutarch, and coincidentally in Plato's Symposium, which we will get to in just a moment. This seems to again clearly show that this text is dealing with sexual relationships, specifically those of a homosexual nature.
And speaking of nature, the "exchange" ("exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural") is clearly made from natural sexual intercourse to that which is para physin, or "against nature." This phrase is incredibly important in this passage. But, first let's deal with the word physikos, meaning "natural" in this passage. It is used only three times in the NT. Twice it is used in this passage and once in 2 Peter 2:12 where it is used to describe animals. The general definition is "given by, or according to nature" (TDNOT, V.IX, p.271). Now looking at the word, physis, translated "nature" at the end of this verse, is used often by Paul to denote things common to all people. In Romans 2:14 it is translated, "instinctively" and refers to all Gentiles. In 2:27 it again refers to all Gentiles. The same is true of 11:24, 27. In 1 Cor. 11:14 he uses it to refer to a universal principle which is observable in the physical world. In Galatians 2:15, he refers to the fact that all Jews are so by physical ancestry. In Gal. 4:8 he is referring to fact that idols are not "by nature" gods. And Ephesians 2:3 refers to all people's status as being objects of wrath were it not for the grace of God. So, in every case, Paul uses this term to refer to a universal principle and/or complete group. He is lumping all people or items together into one category. Never does he use it to denote a minority group separate to the majority group. So when one says that this is in reference to the nature of an individual person separate from all women or men, it seems unlikely given Paul's normal usage. If such a strange reading were legitimate it would be the first time he is using the word in that regard and does not fit with his usage of the word in other parts of the book of Romans, which he likely wrote all in one sitting with one purpose – to lay out the Gospel for the Church at Rome.
Now, let's deal with the phrase, "against nature" or para physin specifically for a moment. It is used one other time in Romans and no where else in Scripture. In 11:24, Paul says literally, "For if you [Jews] were cut off from what is by nature [kata physin] a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature [para physin] into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural [physikos] branches be grafted into their own olive tree." The argument goes like this: The Gentiles were grafted into the olive tree of Abraham's descendants (though they were by ancestry not Jews) by the grace of God through the sacrifice of Christ. This was unnatural or [contrary to the laws of nature] to do so. Still if God is able to do that, then surely He is able to bring those Jews who were by ancestry into their own tree as well. So again, we see this phrase used to express a universal understanding of people (and trees). Again, nothing seems to suggest that Paul is using this phrase to denote the nature of an individual or group of individuals within the larger population.
But, what is most interesting about this phrase is Paul's use of it in Romans 1:27 when dealing with an issue with obviously sexual overtones. Remember that Paul is speaking to a Gentile audience and that he is a Roman citizen who was educated according to both Jewish law and Greek philosophy (as we seen when he goes to Mars Hill in Acts 17 and his discussion on philosophy in 1 Corinthians, as well as his use of rhetoric throughout his writings).
Knowing this, we find the either phrase "against nature" (para physin) or the effect Paul may be trying to cause with this phrase often in Greek literature. Let's turn now to Charles Talbert for more on this:
For example, In Plato, Laws 1.2 [626B-C] said same-sex relations were 'contrary to nature'; Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.758, had a girl involved in same sex love say 'nature does not will it'; Ps-Lucian, Erotes 19, said female homoeroticism is contrary to nature (Smyth and Helwys Bible Commentary, Romans, 2002, p.66).We also find evidence from Hellenistic Judaism. Again Talbert says, "Philo, On Abraham XXVI.135, spoke about men, discarding laws of nature, lusting after one another. In Special Laws, 2.XIV.50, he talked about men lusting unnaturally. T. Naphtali 3:4 said: "Do not become like Sodom, which departed from the order of nature" (which lends evidence to the use of "Sodom" throughout Christianity to refer not just to rape, etc., but to general homosexual practice) (Talbert, 66). He goes on:
Ps-Psocylides 190 exhorted the readers not to transgress sexually the limits set by nature. Josephus [a contemporary of Paul], Against Apion 2.25 + 199, said the law 'owns no other mixture of sexes but that which has appointed…It abhors the mixture of a male with a male.' Second Enoch 10:4 regards homosexual practice as a sin against nature.And then we find this phrase used after the writing of Scripture, by the early Church Fathers to speak of homosexual relationships as unnatural, giving weight to the fact that the early Church believed Paul to be using "nature" and "against nature" in this way. Regarding these examples Talbert offers:
This Jewish contention was by the early fathers. Polycarp, Philippians 5.3, for example, said that those given to unnatural vice would not share in the kingdom of God. Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 2.12.55 and 7.10.59, said women who married women acted contrary to nature [see there is talk about homosexual marriage in the early Church]. For him, the Genesis creation narrative laid the framework for understanding nature as gendered. John Chrysostem's Fourth Homily on Romans treats both male and female homoeroticism as unnatural.The evidence here is overwhelmingly in favor of a reading of "contrary to nature" as meaning against the nature of all men, with the term "naturally," as we will see, referring to heterosexuality and para physin ("contrary to nature") referring to homosexuality.
Turning back to the verse itself, were v.27 to have been omitted by Paul, we would still know that:
1. Paul was describing what results from a culture that has turned away from God.
2. This results in a sinful activity.
3. This sinful activity involves women and of a sexual nature.
4. A natural, non-sinful sexual activity has been exchanged for this sexually sinful activity
5. This sinful sexual activity is wrong because it goes against the nature of all women.
Now that we've covered the wording Paul used in v.26, let's move on to v.27.
"And in the same way" is a phrase that indicates that the men described in v.27 were involved in the exact same type of activity. With just this phrase we can surmise that all five of the summarizing statements regarding v.26 are true of these men he going to describe in v.27.
Next Paul says, "the men abandoned the natural function of the woman." The word for "abandoned" is best understood as "forsake" or "give up." We have already covered the word "natural" as it denotes the normal activity of a general group. And we have also dealt with the word for "function" noting that it is used in regards to sexual activity. The phrase "of the woman" denotes a subjective genitive (the case of possession) and could be translated, "the woman's natural function" or "the woman's normal sexual activity." This emphasizes that the men gave up sexual relationships with women, or said another way, they "forsook the sexual activity that they could have had with women" in favor of something else. Like the women they exchanged this "natural sexual activity" for something that was "unnatural."
These men, abandoning the natural sexual activity of the woman, "burned in their desire toward one another." This is actually the first main verb in this sentence. So literally, "as they abandoned, they also had a strong desire." The word here is translated as "burned" in order to catch the emphasis in the Greek construction of the verse. Also, the verb is normally an active verb, but here its form is in the passive voice. Literally, it says, "[the men] were made to have a strong desire in their desire for one another." This verse seems to make it clear that the men gave up the sexual activity they could have had with women and instead were inflamed with a desire for each other, which would obviously be other men.
But just in case Paul wasn't clear, he uses the phrase, "men with men." The first "men" in this phrase is in the nominative case (the case generally given to the subject of a sentence). This is strange for a word in the middle of a sentence to be in the nominative case, but this denotes that it has a specific function. Here it is what Daniel Wallace (Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, 1996) calls a "Parenthetic Nominative," whose "use is primarily explanatory and is frequently an editorial aside" (p.53). Paul wants his readers to understand what he means by "burned for one another." He means that men had sex with other men. At this point there is no doubt that he is speaking of homosexual relationships.
Paul doesn't stop there, but continues adding, "men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error." About this sentence James R. White writes,
The mutuality of this desire is emphasized by the phrase "men with men." The apostle leaves no doubt as to his reference: adult homosexuals. And these are active men: they act upon their desires, accomplishing what Paul identifies as literally "the shameful deed," or as it is rendered by the NASB and NIV, "indecent acts." The term comes from an old word that referred to something as "deformed," and hence flows into the concept of perversion and deviation that is part and parcel of this section of the chapter. There is no possible way of reading this term as referring to anything neutral or simply "unusual" or "out of the norm." Paul views homosexual activity as shameful or indecent.
And just in case his readers didn't understand from his argument that these acts were sinful, Paul closes this verse with the words, "and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error." Certainly this act was sinful if indeed those who commit such are given their "due penalty." Scholars differ on what this due penalty may mean. Many point to 1 Cor. 6:9 where Paul condemns certain sins and claims that those who commit such will not inherit the kingdom of God.
This verse is very controversial, however, because Paul uses the term, arsenokoites, which many say is not a legitimate term for "homosexual" given its limited usage in Greek. In fact, there are no known usages of it before the Hellenistic Jew Philo who was likely born just a few years before Paul, though Paul was probably very aware of his writings. So where did the term come from? Likely it came from Philo, who probably found this term in the Septuagint (LXX) and then used the term to refer to male homosexual sex. And then Paul picked up on this himself, for, as we noted earlier, Paul used the LXX exclusively in his letters. What both Philo and Paul would have found was the two words, arsen (men) and koiten (have sex with) in both Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 in the LXX. But what is striking is that in verse 13 of chapter 20 we find the two words directly next to one another. The verse reads in Greek, hos an koimethe meta arsenos koiten gunaikos. It was very common in Greek, and sometimes now happens in English, to combine two words together to form a new word that carried with it the meaning of the two. As the ancient languages had a limited vocabulary, this practice was the chief way in which words were created and the language was broadened. Often, after the word becomes common, it loses its original meaning and comes to have another one, though still reflective in some way of the two words of which it is constructed.
Another view of the "due penalty in their persons" is that Paul is referring to the fact that once one goes down the path toward homosexuality, he or she will be hooked by it and become fully engaged homosexuals, losing the joy they would have been able to experience in "natural" sexual relations. Whatever the meaning of this particular phrase we can certainly gather the following facts from our study of these verses:
- Paul is indicting the Gentile culture for their idolatry.
- Paul's overall argument is based upon the observance of the created order, which the Gentiles were privy to despite their lack of the Law God had given to the Jews. Thus they were without excuse.
- He points out that a culture this idolatrous will be given over by God to pursue their depravity.
- This depravity is exemplified in at least three ways: They ignored the divine attributes of God despite the witness of the created order, they exchanged the glory of God to worship idols of men and animals despite the witness of the created order, and they exchanged the natural function of heterosexual relationships for homosexual ones despite the obvious witness of the created order.
Specifically, Paul argues in vv.26-27 the following:
- Because of the idolatrous culture, God gave the people over to "degrading passions."
- These "passions" inflicted women who exchanged the natural sexual intercourse with men for "that which is contrary to nature"
- In the same way, the men forsook the natural sexual intercourse women provided for sexual intercourse with men, leading the reader to understand that in the previous verse Paul was saying that women did the same with other women.
These acts were "contrary to nature," which cannot be taken as "contrary to their nature" (meaning contrary to their nature as heterosexuals, but not contrary if they were by nature homosexual) for at least eight reasons:
- We have no evidence that homosexuality is an inborn trait and thus would be natural to men or women.
- We do have evidence that homosexual behavior often comes about because of certain cultural experiences.
- To insert such a reading would betray the obvious argument that Paul is building from the created order.
- The phrase "contrary to nature" was found in Greek and Jewish literature which Paul would have read and which had a very obvious and consistent rendering as shown above.
- Paul's use of such a phrase would have been familiar to his audience, who would have seen the same argument used in Plato, Ovid, and Lucian. It had a defined meaning and his audience would have known that.
- Such a reading would lead to more confusion of his audience since the default position of the early Christians, the Rabbis, and even Hellenistic Jews was that homosexuality of any stripe was a sin.
- The verse gives no indication that homosexual behavior of any kind is allowed or acceptable, though Paul would have been familiar with ideas like "male homosexuality, lesbianism, the claims of some to be born as a willing mate of a man, the concept of mutuality, permanency, gay pride, pederasty, 'homophobia,' motive, desire, passion, etc" (White, The Same-Sex Controversy) and had he [or the Holy Spirit who inspired the text] so desired, he would have certainly been more clear,
- The universal witness of the Early Church, including the Greek and Latin Apologists, the Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Church Fathers, and all of Christianity up until the sexual revolution when idolatry once again gloriously reared its ugly head in Western Civilization, suggests that this reading is not in line with Paul's intentions or those of the Holy Spirit who inspired the text.
So, in conclusion to this rather lengthy post, let me say that it seems unlikely that Paul meant to do anything other than indict the practice of homosexuality as sinful behavior to be rejected by Christians. There is no evidence that can be presented that overrides the testimony of 2000 years of Church History to this passage of Scripture. The burden of proof lies in the hands of those who desire to revise the historical view of the Church and the natural reading of the text. Today, as in the days of Paul, Christians everywhere should reject homosexuality as a legitimate expression of the Christian faith and teach that such a practice is against the natural function and design of human beings, which God our Great Creator gave to us. God's design from the beginning was for marriage to exist between a man and a woman, producing children and exhibiting the glory of God by being an example of Christ and His Bride, the Church of Jesus Christ. Let me close by offering Paul's words in Romans 11:33-36:
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?" "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
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These cannellini bean veggie meatballs are a fun way to get some more veggies into your family. Serve them with some pesto and a salad, the classic way with spaghetti and sauce, or any other way you like!
This month's Recipe Redux theme was to spring clean our kitchens by using at least 3 ingredients that we already had on hand to create our recipes. It was a chance to search the back of our cupboards and refrigerators for ingredients long forgotten or perhaps stocked in surplus.
Well, in my pantry I have a lot of beans. Dried beans (both bought at the grocery store and through my farm share) plus canned beans of all sorts. Now, it isn't that I don't eat beans, but aside from a few go-to recipes such as my veggie chili, bulgur and bean salad, and homemade hummus, I admit to not using them as often I should.
Fortunately, I'm currently (as of last week!) on a serious bean kick, adding them to everything from salads, to tacos, to these veggie meatballs! I think part of the reason I haven't cooked bean dishes more often is because my kids don't like them. But obviously, I know this is the opposite of what you are supposed to do! How are they ever going to learn to like them if they don't have a chance to see them and taste them in different ways?
Another pantry ingredient that needed some love was sundried tomatoes–I somehow had 2 unopened jars. I love them but my husband is not a fan so I rarely use them. And in my refrigerator, I had a big bunch of parsley (I always have parsley) and extra carrots because I recently got some through my farm share. I actually think I had all the ingredients on hand for this recipe!
Cannellini Bean Veggie Meatballs
I had been wanting to make veggie meatballs for a while. I finally tried a few weeks ago and it was a major flop. I added a zucchini and they were too watery. Then I added more oats and they were too oaty.
So after some more research and trial and error, I arrived at this recipe. I used this handy Food and Wine article and these recipes as a guide: Italian Bean Balls and Spaghetti Squash Noodles (Oh She Glows), Spaghetti Squash and Chickpea Meatballs (Nutrition Stripped), and Veggie Meatballs (from the Weelicious cookbook).
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I first served these veggie meatballs with classic spaghetti and marinara sauce for dinner. My 10-year old gobbled them down happily. My less adventurous 8-year old wasn't ready to try them, but maybe next time…or the time after that…he will be ready to taste them. I have definitely noticed a growth in his willingness to try new foods since I cut the nagging and even the "you have to try it" rule and instead just focused on making mealtimes joyful.
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These meatballs also make for a great lunch. I enjoyed leftover veggie meatballs as part of my lunch today with cooked sorghum, greens, cherry tomatoes, and homemade parsley pesto. Yum!
So give these meatballs a go and let me know what you think. As for me, I'm off to try and start making use of all those dried beans I still have on hand!
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup shallot, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ¾ cup gluten-free oats
- 1 cup shredded carrot
- ¼ cup fresh basil, chopped
- ¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped
- ¾ cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 2 tablespoons chopped sundried tomatoes (or roasted red peppers or tomato paste)
- 1 teaspoon Italian herbs (or oregano + thyme)
- 1 (15-ounce) can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- Pinch of freshly ground pepper, or to taste
- 1 egg, whisked
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with a nonstick mat or parchment paper.
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add shallot and saute for 3-4 minutes, add the garlic and saute for another 3-4 minutes, until fragrant but not browned. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In a food processor, add oats and pulse until a coarse flour is formed. Then add the carrot, basil, parsley, walnuts, sundried tomatoes, herbs, and shallot and garlic mixture. Pulse until well combined and then pour into a large mixing bowl.
- Add the rinsed and drained beans to the food processor and process until it starts to form a paste. Use a spatula to scoop mixture into mixing bowl with the rest of the ingredients. Stir to combine and season with salt and pepper to taste. After taste testing, mix in the whisked egg.
- Using wet hands, form mixture into 24-28 little balls. Place onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes, flip, and bake another 10-12 minutes, or until golden.
- Serve immediately or transfer to a wire rack and let cool. Store in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or freeze.


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Have you seen the recent "news" articles about outdoor and feral cats being responsible for the decline in the numbers of birds and small mammals in the US? Hello-oh? Here's an excellent rebuttal from the president of Alley Cat Allies:
Alley Cat Allies Advocates To End 'Junk' Science Studies About Cats
By Becky Robinson
Newspaper articles and television programs labeling cats as mass killers and the reason for bird species declines have been all over the news, from The New York Times to The Washington Post, most recently reporting on research published in the online journal Nature Communications. Without questioning the integrity of this latest report, these and dozens of other news outlets have helped manufacture a fake debate that outdoor cats are the number one killer of birds and mammals in this country.
Of course, habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change are far and away the greatest threats to birds and wildlife. And bogus reports like this recent one funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and sensationalized by the media, sidestep serious debate on the real threats to birds and wildlife and end up scapegoating cats.
This current "study" is not new. It is a literature review that looks at a variety of published papers and then speculates a conclusion that suits the researchers' anti-feral (or outdoor) cat and anti-Trap-Neuter-Return agenda. In the past, Alley Cat Allies has picked apart some of the flawed studies included in the review, and we will continue to do so on this research piece.
Because the basic premise of this research is that no cats should be outdoors, a very real outcome to all of this could be more cats taken to animal shelters, where 7 out of 10 are killed.
In fact, "catch and kill" has been an ineffective standard operating procedure for animal control in the U.S. for more than a century. Yet attempts to permanently clear an area of cats have proven futile because of a natural and scientifically documented phenomenon known as the vacuum effect. Simply removing the cats will open up a vacuum in the habitat that attracts other cats.
Tens of millions of cats have been rounded up and killed in shelters, at staggering taxpayer expense, but with no reductive effect on outdoor cat populations. Where is the media in reporting on these deaths?
When outrageous extrapolations based on small study samples use the word "billions" to describe bird and small mammal deaths by cats, it makes people sit up and take notice. And pitting species against species sells papers. But we don't need small local studies to point to the millions of animals' lives lost in shelters each year — we already know that, nationally, more than 70 percent of all cats who enter shelters are killed there.
Catch and kill has been practiced for over a century. The evidence is in: it just doesn't work. From animal protection experts to individual caregivers, from mayors of small towns to city councils of large cities, people have had enough of this culture of killing — they've had enough of the wasted dollars and the wasted lives. They're turning to Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).
The best response to feral cats, who aren't socialized to people and can't be adopted, TNR is a program through which feral cats are humanely trapped, neutered at a veterinary clinic, and then returned to their outdoor homes to live out their lives. Because TNR is proven to stabilize and reduce cat populations over time, it is fast becoming the predominant approach to feral cat management in the United States.
More than 300 communities across the country have passed laws or enacted policies supporting the practice of TNR. This does not include the thousands of community groups and the hundreds of thousands of individual caregivers conducting TNR privately.
Major cities — including San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and dozens more — have embraced TNR. Enlightened animal control and public health officials have endorsed it, calling it common-sense and effective. TNR reduces calls into municipal agencies, keeps cats out of shelters, encourages spay/neuter practices, and saves tax dollars. Since Alley Cat Allies first helped bring TNR to the U.S. from the U.K. and Western Europe, where it is accepted and common practice, every mainstream animal protection organization in the U.S. has embraced TNR.
Unfortunately, TNR is often hindered by fundamental misunderstandings and inaccurate portrayals in the media. It is further complicated by the fringe conservationists who imply the easiest way to save birds is to round up and kill outdoor cats. (Or, they suggest unrealistic ideas such as "confining" the millions of outdoor cats.) Yet, while their "studies" are based largely on questionable extrapolations, not field work, their accusations have been widely reported as fact.
It's time for the funders of this latest study to disavow the research, stop funding junk science, and turn their attention to remediating the real threats to wildlife populations. Scapegoating cats may seem like the easy answer, but in reality, killing more cats will not save populations of birds or small mammals.
And it's time for the national media to start reporting on the thinly-veiled agenda of these researchers: their proposed "solution" really endorses the continued mass killing of cats. In a nation of professed animal lovers where cats are by far the top companion animal of choice, why attack TNR when it makes sense both practically and ethically?
Alley Cat Allies celebrates and protects cats, but we're also lovers of all animals. And we agree that wildlife protection needs serious consideration, but let's not think killing millions of cats is going to somehow abate the true threats to birds and wildlife.
A policy of more killing is never the right answer.
(Becky Robinson is president and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies, the only national nonprofit dedicated to the protection and humane treatment of cats. The organization is based in Bethesda, MD. For more info visit www.alleycat.org)
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There is absolutely no excuse at all for anyone of the human species to point the finger at any other species' overpopulation or environmental destruction. If you support indiscriminate killing of cats because of the environmental problems they cause, at least be consistent and end your own existence.
Oh? Didn't I post this information here already? Silly me, I could have sworn I already posted this. Sorry about that. This could have saved you from making your thoroughly asinine comment. My apologies.
While it is true that overpopulation of humans is the #1 problem that we and all other species face today (humans are a "weedy" species, but they ARE NOT an "invasive species", please educate your sorry selves); this still doesn't excuse all the responsible, wise, and intelligent people from stopping all the ecological disasters caused by those phenomenally stupid and criminally negligent people who should have never been born in the very first place. (edit: You know, people just like you.)
Cats are a man-made (through selective breeding) invasive species. And as such, cats being a product of man's intervention, are no less of a man-made environmental disaster than any oil-spill, radiation-fallout, chemical-spill, or other environmental disaster _caused_by_man_. Cats are _not_exempt_ from having to be removed from every natural environment, wherever and whenever they are found away from supervised confinement. Just as you would do all you can to remove Zebra Mussels from any waterway where they don't belong. Or Burmese Pythons and African Cichlids from every habitat where they exist in N. America today. Burmese Pythons and African Cichlids started out as pets too. Many of our destructive invasive species pests started out as PETS discarded by criminally-irresponsible humans. (Or from pets' habitats, e.g. Eurasian Watermilfoil that is annihilating native aquatic life in many regions of the USA came from people irresponsibly dumping their pet-fish aquarium water into lakes and streams.) And guess what happens to all those other non-native pets that became destructive invasive species? They are destroyed on-site by any means possible -- no questions asked -- none required.
Cats are even worse than an oil-spill of multi-continent-sized proportions. They not only kill off rare and endangered marine-mammals along all coastlines (just as all oil-spills do) from run-off from the land carrying cats' Toxoplasma gondii parasites, they also destroy the complete food-chain in every ecosystem where cats are found today. From smallest of prey that is gutted and skinned alive for cats' tortured play-toys (not even used for food, just for senseless play), up to the top predators that are starved to death from cats destroying their ONLY food sources. (Precisely what cats caused on my own land not long ago.) They don't destroy just birds. They destroy everything that moves -- directly or indirectly. They will even destroy valuable native vegetation by destroying those animals that are required pollinators for those plants or those that act as seed dispersers for those plants (as many smaller rodent and bird species do) or those that act as pest-control for those plants. Cats can and will wipe out whole ecosystems eventually -- animal and plant.
Cats need to be made to disappear from all non-native habitats -- PERMANENTLY. And the sooner the better. They are breeding out of control at an exponential rate. The reason for "the sooner the better" is that you can only hope you can halt the problem before it is beyond the reach of any method you eventually choose. Luckily, I caught the problem in time where I live (by humanely shooting and burying every last cat I spotted, collared or not, I have a box full of collars to prove it, totally LEGAL, believe it or not). It seems nobody else is faring as well -- their time is being wasted by cat-lickers trying to stop them from doing the right thing. Asking or listening to any deranged invasive species advocate for advice on how to clean up the ecological disaster that they created and perpetuate is about as useful as asking your local career thieves for advice and help to hide your valuables from their daily motives and activities. Ignore anything they might say and you too will solve the problem where you live.
It worked 100% where I live!
Just saw a TV program that said an owl kills 42 times as many birds as cat.
Most sensible cat fans no longer let their furry friends roam free because of the dangers of predators, wildly-driven ugly cars, and ugly-minded gun worshipers.
Because of the human-driven drought, we have had a spate of flea-ridden, pet-eating coyotes, cougars, and bobcats invading our neighborhoods in the past 6 months. My 2 cats have NEVER lived outside; they would starve to death if not eaten by the local wildlife....and this is a CITY!
I have no excuse for tuning into this at such a late date. However it's a moral imperative that I respond now that I have read enough to see the red mist. I have one warning for this supposed 'nature advocate', I have two lines you better never cross, my horizontal and my vertical...of my scope.
The other thing I just love about cats is how contrary to (uh...do I have to say it out loud?)...dogs, (there I said it) is their survival ability without humans. Dogs, (also genetically engineered) not so much.
Now...I will also go hug my two cats.
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The final preparations are falling into place. In less than two weeks we will be packing up and sending off our belongings. We are using UPack to ship what we didn't sell or donate. They are a nationwide company offering rental trailers or relo-cubes. We opted for the cubes and crossing our fingers we only need two. It's not the cheapest way to move but in the end it costs about the same as renting a truck and paying thousands in gas [rental trucks only get about 8 to 10MPG]. It also frees Mick and I up to enjoy the drive, taking in the beauty of our country and checking off a bucket list item.
Once we arrive in Idaho we will store our stuff temporarily until we figure out our long term housing [upack does door to door delivery, another bonus]. In the meantime we are renting an awesome barn house month to month. We cannot wait to settle in and have our own place and unpack our things. One of Mick's many lovable traits, he is a minimalist. He doesn't ever need anything [except food and gin – another reason to love him]; he is content with little. I have learned a lot from him re: minimalist living – I have a longer way to go but I look forward to enjoying the simpler things. I will probably take that all back the day I get to unpack my kitchen.
The cross-country drive is a whole other animal, literally. We will be traveling in style – GMC 3500, crew cab style – massive four door truck, quite different than my Prius. Mick may have to manage the gas pedal so I can see over the steering wheel. Our current route [weather permitting]: MD, VA, TN, KY, MO, KS, CO, WY, MT, & ID. I'm pretty pumped – I have not been to MO, KS, WY or MT and I can't wait to see the different landscapes.
Another important piece to this drive is Lil' Buddy and hotel stays. I found this helpful website – trips with pets – and they show you pet friendly lodging along the route. It seems that La Quinta Inns will be our best bet. Most, if not all, of their hotels are pet friendly up to 80 lbs and they have rather affordable rooms. Any suggestions re: places to stop along said route or tips for traveling with pets? Lil' Buddy is a pretty good traveler but 6 days in the truck is a lot on pup.
Future deets to organize – healthy, homemade road trip snacks/meals. Save some pennies and some calories/sugar/grease overload.


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Ru has been my best friend for many, many years so for me? It's a dream come true. Imagine doing what you love in life and being able to experience it all with someone you love? It's a gift.
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