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Read this post on Cancer, Nursing and my thoughts on Savannah.

I re-read that post just now. I realize now, that I am starting with Emergency Nursing…and I started this nursing journey wanting to fight cancer with children. I still want to help. It is still a possibility. I am right now, not. I am excited to be an emergency nurse. I will probably touch pediatric oncology again in the future. For now, I am an emergency nurse. Now, Savannah…please don’t be sad about this. I also know this is the least of your worries. However, I know that your story inspired my interest into the field. I am just taking a few extra steps. I still love you and your family.

I have trouble with mens scrubs. I just don’t think there’s a big selection. Here’s the best selection by far, but I would like prints too. Here’s a peek at AllHeart.com

Last night I made a pork pie. It was so good, that I had to write the recipe.

Pork Pie Oui Chef I

1 lb ground pork
1 package of ground turkey (97%, I think it’s 1.3 lbs)
3/4 lbs groundd beef
1 medium onion, chopped
minced garlic
peeled, boiled, mashed potatoes (about 10 small white), without anything in them
2 pie shells with tops
1 egg-white

Spices to flavor:
spike
salt & pepper
ground sage
ground cloves

On medium heat, brown meats together, adding onions, garlic, spices half way through. Mix with the mashed potatoes without draining the fat from the browned meat. Put into pie shells. Top with top pie dough and seal edges, then spread egg-white on top with brush. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until top is golden. Use foil around edges to avoid burning.

This is what my new house looks like. Tall (probably 3 stories and an attic), large, with a tower on at least one corner of the house. It has a basement and garage (or probably a barn, or both), storage shed, greenhouse, workshop (wood, maintenance). The garden is spacious. There’s a room for food storage (emergency preparedness and produce from our garden - prudent living in other words) that includes a very large freezer. If the centralized heat has anything to do with noise, the equipment is in a room by itself. The laundry room is clean, neat with shelves, drawers, clothes racks, iron board, deep sink, TV and radio loud enough to play over the washer and dryer. There’s a table to fold clothes. The washer and dryer are both large and modern. Maybe the room is big enough to have the sewing equipment and craft storage handy. If not, another room for that would suffice.
Let’s diverge a bit. The house is green. That means a few things. It could have a geothermal heating and cooling system, with wind power, solar power and a generator backup. Also things like a solar light are installed (where the light in a room is channeled into that room through a chamber from the outside. There are 2 septic systems. Maybe the gray water is emptied into a storage tank outside for watering the gardens and grounds or cleaning the cars. The rain gutters channel water to the tank, too. Outside, there are various conveniences. A kitchen on a covered patio, complete with stove, fridge, grill, sink and counters is right next to a major entrance to the house. There’s a wrap-around deck. Ping-pong table, basketball hoop, large fields, wooded forests, streams and ponds are not foreign or quaint…they’re standard equipment. The grounds are kept by a john-deere tractor with mower deck, snow blower and front-end bucket. There’s a plow on-hand.
Back in the house, we’ll find that all the rooms are wired for computer networking. The servers are in the basement, the house is local to broadband internet. There’s a central location for printing in the library - a room with bookshelves on all walls, plenty of windows (a nice bench in front of one of them). There’s a desk and a computer or two, two tables and plenty of chairs for our family and a few guests. The room is intended to be a quiet study area. There’s an all-purpose room which is mainly for education with all the homeschool materials to boot. Next, we have a formal parlor, a family room with an awesome video / music system, a dining room and a pantry area between the kitchen and dining room. The pantry has a dish washer in addition to the one in the kitchen, and then it has a small sink. It also has tall, glass cupboards, a counter and drawers. The kitchen has a large fridge, a computer, a gas stove with build in grill and griddle. The microwave and additional oven are built in the wall. The vent actually vents outside. There’s an island in the kitchen, with benches and a sink. There are actually 2 sinks in the kitchen. There are plenty of drawers, cupboards and hanging space. There’s also another dining room table. There will be more counter space than any of us know what to do with. This is the central control area, with access to heating controls for the whole house, a bathroom, etc. There are seven or eight bedrooms and at least a full bathroom on each floor with a linen closet, large showers/baths. There will be a staircase which leads up to a beautiful-view window. Lets not forget a playroom for the kids, a mud room and plenty of closets, cupboards, shelves and a secret passageway or two. The property is appropriate to house or camp guests anywhere (especially next to the stream). It’s so neat to dream a little. But seriously, if I had an inheritance, this is the house I would start to spend the money. Maybe if I think I like I already have this, it will come true.