Dan called from Portland Oregon yesterday. Boy, what a snow storm they are having. Anyway, Dan said an old familiar phrase I used to say in cold weather. “I am frozen to the gilliards.” Well, it is below zero here today in Iowa and I am again frozen to the gilliards. I just have Olivia, 5 years old, so we are going to the store in a little while. I have to shovel out the driveway first. As the old hippies used to say, “Fun City!”

Jill said she always wanted to be a hippie in Alaska when her husband was in the service but she couldn’t drink all that tea. Those old hippie ways were good at times. The Jesus movement came in then and sort of blended with the hippies. We had a ball in our long skirts and bandannas. And this style is really back in NYC. So ladies of the hippie movement, go ahead and wear your long skirts and dangly ear rings. It’s OK — you are in!

Well, I am gonna make chili today before I leave or at least get it started. It’s a good day to make soup and maybe cornbread to keep the kitchen warm. I love to cook in the crock pot but I need something in the oven to warm up the kitchen. To make my chili, I just brown the hamburger or you could use deer meat. Anyway, after the meat browns I put in a half pkg of taco seasoning mix. My family likes it like this. I put in onions and green pepper and then the chili beans and tomatoes and water. I put in the plain kidney beans, too. It would be good with a can of black beans. I also like to put corn in it sometimes or macaroni. I make it different each time.

Wouldn’t it be fun to have recipes on a radio show and other household hints along with all of my radical messages on “Down with Feminism.” Well, it’s all in the Lord’s hands. I am waiting on Him. But I know something is in the air. An excitement, I guess. Satan has come in like a flood but the Lord will raise up a standard against him. He built me a testimony before when he tried to take my marriage. And now he tries to take my daughter.But I know God is able to do exceeding and abundantly more then I can think or ask. Satan can’t put anything on us that God don’t have authority over. When the Lord healed Jim, I shouted it to 90 countries through Above Rubies magazine. And now I hope that this thing with Mary will produce a radio show.

Love,
Connie