The shelves are going empty

[Justin Adams]

1 minute ago, Neighbor said:

 I know that is a joke BUT:

Oh don't do that! They are all owned by two separate corporations  their stock has been manipulated so serverly over the last few decades stay away, or you will find yourself sheared. It is a now fifty year story of the change in the funeral business. I was in the very embryonic heart of it's beginning and have  business associates that have been sheared. I avoided that happening to me.

Maybe get some D-I-Y urn kits and sell them on Ebay then...

[Debp]

2 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Yes but; you can go from market to market. With a ration book app. that ability would be severely limited if not eliminated.   

What about people with no cell phone on which to have the app?   Like me.

[Neighbor]

Just now, Justin Adams said:

Maybe get some D-I-Y urn kits and sell them on Ebay then...

Hey no horning in on my business.  Funeral homes of today actually sell  glass paper weights  table lamps etc. with mom's cremated remains right in the blown glass, not inside a container but as part of the blown glass itself. Makes for some fine looking salt shakers too, I guess. And that way the fighting heirs can each have a piece of mom on their own  home tables.  Seems funeral business has gotten as freaky as the civilization it serves.

[Neighbor]

24 minutes ago, Debp said:

Buy stock in paper products, and grocery stores, too.

People here are buying three to five times as much groceries as usual.

Maybe but most people are not buying stocks in anything, they don't have $400 free cash to their name.

As we chat and come up with a little grim humor may we each remember to pray for one another too. Plus figure how best to a  a light to the world in order to bring glory to our God through Jesus. May the Holy Spirit lead each of us.

 I have decided I  can get along without running to the store for now. If worse comes to worse eventually I can fast and pray. Might be I should start the fast now after using up fresh foods on hand.

And there is always  edible pine tree inner bark. Look up it's nutritional value. Also look up which pines are edible!!! And don't kill the tree!

[Justin Adams]

11 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Hey no horning in on my business.  Funeral homes of today actually sell  glass paper weights  table lamps etc. with mom's cremated remains right in the blown glass, not inside a container but as part of the blown glass itself. Makes for some fine looking salt shakers too, I guess. And that way the fighting heirs can each have a piece of mom on their own  home tables.  Seems funeral business has gotten as freaky as the civilization it serves.

OH YEAH... well my aunt kept her beloved's remains in an old pot on the top shelf of the cupboard. Maybe you heard the story of some weird scones that a friend came by to bake on her birthday. Guess where she got the flour??

Edited March 16, 2020 by Justin Adams

[Justin Adams]

2 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

As we chat and come up with a little grim humor may we each remember to pray for one another too. Plus figure how best to a  a light to the world in order to bring glory to our God through Jesus. May the Holy Spirit lead each of us.

Maybe our levity in the face of death will strike a cord. Maybe it will show we do not care because we are a part of 'the first resurrection'. I am getting past my sell-by date anyway, and if I can poke the evil ones in the eye, then I will. They are all fated to 'die like men' (Psalm 82) yet we will live forever!!!!!

[Neighbor]

6 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

OH YEAH... well my aunt kept her beloved's remains in an old pot on the top shelf of the cupboard. Maybe you heard the story of some weird scones that a friend came by to bake on her birthday. Guess where she got the flour??

 

When I die instructions are to take my mate of my lifetime and me out on one last kayak ride at a location we used to love to kayak. Set us on the seats of our tandem  kayak, kind of like the stories of the eskimos. 

Back to food supply situation reports.

[Neighbor]

21 minutes ago, Debp said:

 Like me

Free cell phones!

[Neighbor]

9 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

Guess where she got the flour??

Well just consider it a calcium supplement. Enriched so to speak.

[Neighbor]

7 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

Maybe our levity in the face of death will strike a cord.

Yes. I have had a lifetime of doing just that. My first real job and career was  the funeral industry. I started at age 17.