Hi 👋 We're Val & Holland Redmill … living our Life Story as silver-haired Road Gypsies in our 5th wheel RV Home~41 months married & 65,000 miles traveled across America; covered in grace every Day & trying mightily not to lose our sanctification during the bad & ugly times. I post everywhere - about everything: and if what I post can help someone else, I'm glad for the experience. But from sunrise to sunset, we live our Life for US. Trusting Elohim every step of the way.
My husband loves his bacon - he can eat it morning, noon & night 😉
So, for Supper tonight, I made him a man-size BLT: a little different than what he's used to 😘
I precook my bacon, keeping some in the 'fridge for snacking - and freezing the rest in 2-piece portions, wrapped in wax paper & stored in a freezer Ziploc in the freezer for morning quick bites.
Last night when I cooked the bacon, I kept out enough for today's sandwiched in the 'fridge, last night; and it did just fine reheated for tonight's Supper fare 😊
A man-sized sandwich for my bear of a man ;- )
This sandwich is a meal by itself; but I did add some Bread & Butter pickles alongside.
#Note:Read the recipe all the way through before beginning the making of sandwiches.
2) Blend together the mayo, mustard, and 1 tsp. of the Paprika:
3) In a large skillet, sauté the onions over med-low heat until tender; sprinkle with the pepper & remaining paprika - gently stir to blend thoroughly.
Reduce heat to low:
White Onion, sliced; Black Pepper & Paprika.
4) Add bacon - cover skillet with lid, and continue cooking until bacon is heated all the way through:
Simmer onion & bacon over low heat until bacon is heated through.
5) As the bacon warms & onions deliciously soften; lay the bread slices out on the counter, spreading with the mayo-mustard blend … or either mayo or mustard (whatever you and your spouse prefer: I like the mix, Holland likes just mustard).
When the bacon is completely heated through, begin building the sandwich, as listed below the picture featured here(if you are building a triple decker sandwich for your husband, spread both sides of the center bread slice, and begin the bacon-onion layer as with the previous slice of bread) - spread last slice of bread and place it atop the bacon-onion mix:
While Holland was out-of-house this morning - running down an oil filter for our 4x in Long Beach, I pulled up a Messianic Music Album to fill the atmosphere with Shabbat blessing ☝️💗😇👌 …
Joshua Aaron - 'You Are Holy' - FULL Album:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TcU4Y_AAU)
Then, I got busy making my favorite Apple Crisp Recipe. The first time I made this Apple Crisp was in April 2019 - 4 months into widowhood; so, Holland is the only husband who will enjoy it, with me 👩❤️💋👨 😘
I try to keep things in this marriage separate from my previous marriage: I want my New Life 💞 to experience new things - and we are doing that traveling America 😊
Betsy & Independence - learning all over again how to cook with an RV Propane operated oven; Ocean Park-WA
I have lived for a while in an RV with my 1st Husband when he was moving from job site to job site as a shovel operator for a logging company - but, it's been a while since then and I am having to learn how to use a propane stove again 🤔: using it is a cinch… it's the *cooking time that gets tricky.
I have a lot of 4Patriots food packets, so for this recipe I used one of the oatmeal packets … and added a little more sugar & cinnamon, because I don't know how [sweet] the oatmeal really is: I can't stand oatmeal and there is quite a bit. Little by little it will disappear in dessert recipes 😉
YUMMY!
*NOTE:Gas ovens take longer than electric ranges - keep checking about every 15 minutes past the 40 minutes cooking time stated below for an electric range oven. I like my apples cooked "apple pie soft", so my cooking time may not be the same as yours.
VAL'S 4-Patriots OATMEAL APPLE CRISP ~Serves 6
1 c. 4Patriots Granny's Sweet Oatmeal w-Brown Sugar dry mix * 1/8 c. Granulated Sugar * 1/8 c. firmly packed Brown Sugar * 1 tsp. grnd. Cinnamon * ½ c. Margarine * 4 extra-large Red Apples, peeled, cored, and sliced * ¼ c. Tangerine Juice * 1 TBSP. Fireball Whiskey * ½ tsp. Vanilla Extract * ¼ c. chopped Pecans * Vanilla Ice Cream or Whipped Cream, optional* 1 med. Mixing Bowl * 1 lrg. Mixing Bowl * Lrg. Oblong Glass Baking Dish * Butter-flavor Cooking Spray
I used these big, solid-fleshed Apples, harvested in WA State + 2 Tangerines.
4Patriot's Oatmeal Mix = 1 cup
I use margarine because my body is lactose intolerant; margarine tastes just fine, but it can be a little soft & sticky, in the blending of ingredients.
1) Preheat oven to 325-degrees.
2) Mix tangerine juice, whiskey, and vanilla extract in a small bowl: blend. Set aside for now.
3) Combine oatmeal, sugars, and ground cinnamon in a medium bowl. Cut in margarine.
Thoroughly blend oatmeal mixture & margarine.
4) Place prepared apple slices in another large bowl and pour blended juice mixture over apple mixture; sprinkle with half the oatmeal mixture.
Peel, core, and slice apples …
I used Fireball instead of Rum; the cinnamon flavor will taste good ;-)
Mix half the oatmeal mixture with the flavored apple slices.
5) Butter the oblong cooking dish; transfer apple blend to prepared baking pan.
Place apple mixture into a buttered (I used buttered cooking spray) oblong baking dish.
6) Sprinkle the remaining oatmeal mixture over apple blend, and sprinkle the chopped pecans over entire top of apples and oatmeal mixture.
Top with remaining oatmeal-butter mixture.
Sprinkle with crushed pecans, & bake - it will fill the air with deliciousness baking aroma.
7) Bake until juices bubble and topping is dry – about 40 minutes. Serve crisp warm with ice cream if desired.
Any couple with a healthy marriage that has lasted 20, 30, even 50 years didn’t just stumble into happiness by chance. It wasn’t luck. It wasn’t fairy dust.
And it sure wasn’t easy. That kind of longevity doesn’t come without a fight....a beautiful, exhausting, intentional fight. The kind where both people decide, day after day, that the relationship is worth the effort. That love is worth protecting. That the bond they share is worth more than pride, ego, or temporary emotions.
Behind every couple still holding hands after decades together are stories of sacrifice. Of choosing each other even on the days when it would’ve been easier to walk away. Of forgiveness....real forgiveness, not the kind you speak but don’t live out.
They rebuilt trust after it was broken. They kept dating each other long after the wedding rings were exchanged.
They made time for deep conversations when it would’ve been simpler to go to bed angry. They learned how to apologize without justifying.
How to listen without interrupting. How to communicate without attacking. How to hold space for each other without letting the world tear them apart.
Marriage, real marriage, is hard. It requires blood, sweat, and tears.
There will be seasons that test you. Days when love feels like a choice more than a feeling. Times when one of you will carry more than your share while the other learns how to grow. And yes, there will be moments when pride begs you to shut down....but you’ll choose to open up instead.
Because a good marriage doesn’t magically happen. It’s built....through storms, through silence, through uncomfortable growth. It's nurtured through emotional labor, through showing up when you're tired, and loving even when you're hurting.
And those couples who still look at each other with love in their eyes after all those years? They’re not lucky. They’re intentional. They put in the work...365 days a year.
So no, you don’t get a fairytale without the fight. You don’t get forever without sacrifice. You don’t get peace without choosing it daily. But when two people commit to doing the work...together...what they create is far more beautiful than any fantasy.
They build something real. Something that lasts. Something worth every tear, every argument, every hard conversation… and every single moment of love that follows.
I do like President Trump - I always have since his first interview decades ago: his words were the same then, as they are now; he has not deviated at all - except to exit the democrat party before it was infiltrated and overrun by soulless and zombie-minded lunatics.
BUT
All this fawning makes me nervous; and I literally sat straight up in my seat when the Saudi King called him "The President Of The World".
President Trump is the Man of The Hour 😎 - but, he is NOT Almighty God, and all the fawning and praising … on top of the Office of Faith in the White House, run by an adulterous/blasphemous apostate who bows to islam; smacks too much of the heralding in 😳 of the Anti-Christ 😟.
I am NOT saying that Trump is the Anti-Christ, what I am saying is what is happening looks very much the setting of the stage FOR the Anti-Christ to play his hand at some point.
I'm NOT HAPPY when I see 🧐 or hear 👂 things like this 😡
June 26th: Today was Grocery Shopping Day - we chose Warrenton-OR over Longview-WA; it shaves an hour driving time off the necessity.
Warrenton-OR from Ocean Park-WA; 46 min (32.0 mi) via Sandridge Rd and US-101 S
Trying a 'softer bangs' approach for my 'growing-out hair' phase … this process will take time. My hair grows at a snail's pace.
Heavy ocean mist lay over every area of the Long Beach Peninsula-WA, as we left for Oregon.
We listened to Blackfoot all the way from Chinook-WA, to Warrenton-OR: and I said to Holland, "there was a time in the 1970's that all I listened to was Native Bands - Blackfoot, XIT, Redbone, Buffy Saint Marie … who I just found out is not Native at all, but Italian - so I culled her last year sometime when that bit if news hit the airwaves. Do you know who XIT and Redbone are?"Since he is half-Native himself(I'm at least 1/4 Blackfoot), I thought he might know; but he didn't. He only knows Blackfoot - and didn't know until today that they were Native, until I spilled the beans. I don't know a whole lot about a lot of stuff … but I do know the background info of bands I like 😉
Redbone is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbone_(band)
Blackfoot is an American Southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed in 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot_(band)
XIT (Crossing of Indian Tribes) is a Native American rock band that released two albums in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIT_(band)
Minutes from crossing the Astoria-Megler Bridge; Chinook-WA - playing in the background is Blackfoot's, 'Highway Song':
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9sPqs8H2I)
Incoming tide under the Astoria-Megler Bridge; Ships are turning to point towards the ocean …
The tail-end of the Bridge curves around to Astoria Port-OR
The Astor Column in Astoria-OR~Holland had never seen the Astor Column - so we visited it together, June 5, 2023
The Astoria Column-OR:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria_Column)
The New Youngs Bay Bridge, linking Astoria-OR to Warrenton-OR
New Youngs Bay Bridge-OR: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Youngs_Bay_Bridge#:~:text=The%20New%20Youngs%20Bay%20Bridge,and%20was%20dismantled%20in%201986.)
We thinking this building going up will be a Hotel to house Cruise Ship travelers; ships too tall to safely clear the Astoria-Megler Bridge's high point.
Mural on Soon Yi Sushi Restaurant; Astoria-OR
Soon Yi Sushi Restaurant, #100 Columbia Ave, Astoria, OR
Don't know … but it is part of the Maritime Marine Museum Complex; Astoria-OR
Holland worked a construction job on this building~OR State University; Astoria-OR
He also did construction work on this building~Astoria Aquatic Center; Astoria-OR
Crossing over Young's Bay-OR to Warrenton-OR; pretty misty.
Holland has been hearing through various sources 💻 that there may be a government blackout-restart sometime soon, so he wanted to make sure we had food, water, fuel, and medical stuff. Groceries grabbed and tucked into 2 carts, we trolled the isles in the Pharmacy Dept., and Holland asked, "Do we have any Mercurochrome?" I burst out laughing because I was surprised he even knew what that stuff was; then I said, "I haven't seen that stuff on the market in decades - but I'll see if they have anything similar."And they did 😉
1950-60's 'Mercurochrome' Fix (L) & Today's version of 'Mercurochrome' (R).
I haven't heard anything about a government snafu coming from any of the sites 💻 I frequent … but, if there is, we are properly stocked and ready: we paid a King's Ransom 😳 for "the necessities" today 🙏 🤞
Leaving Warrenton, heading towards Home, I caught sight of 1 lone White Pelican in Young's Bay.
The ocean mist never did abate. The Day was wet from start to finish: it has been a real bummer weather-wise for 10 months straight 😟 (AZ-CA-OR & WA); upheavals world-wide 🌎 are adding to the whacky weather 😒
Misty view of the Astoria-Megler Bridge seen from Young's Bay-OR
White Pelican seen in Young's Bay-OR
Traffic Humor while waiting at the overhead traffic light; Astoria-OR
WA State coastline shrouded in the mist; crossing the Astoria-Megler Bridge from Astoria-OR to Chinook-WA
When we got back home, & everything was unloaded & stashed all over Independence … we both kicked back and relaxed.
And I was happy to see a recipe that my mother used to make 😁 … and I lost with all the box shifting 😔 from Storage to Storage; at the start of our Road Gypsy adventure:
Found a recipe online of the frosting my mother used to make ;- )
So, I tucked that recipe away for future reference - found a music playlist I liked; and picked up my WIP. Holland asked me how long before it would be finished … and I said, hopefully by the end of the month; but more likely somewhere around the first week of July.
Scrolling music playlists while I inch my way towards completion of this WIP …
This political era is a sad Day for America, and Americans.
islam is spreading it's cancerous death 🔥 across the globe 🌎, and thanks to the clintons, obamas, bushes, bidens, and vineyard religion … it is taking a firm rooting here, in America, foisted upon American's during the obama coups:
… and the obama Jew hate/Christian hate agenda gallops forward, as very foolish and demonically motivated lost souls are so filled with hatred towards Elohim, Yeshua - and a man in the White House that they loathe for no other reason than they are fueled by lucifer; that they blind themselves to the wickedness of islam and the evil intent islam generates 😟😡😢
The rise of islam 👹💩 in America - and the subjugation of American's, especially American Jews is the the obama 😈 wet dream 😵💫 getting the demonrats off 👺💩
This is a very sad Day for America.
And very dangerous Days ahead 🙏, for Christian Americans.
Laura Ingraham - These Dems are so lost and so weak, Laura says: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-z7031jow)
After NYC primary upset, anti-Israel activist Mamdani vows not to ‘abandon my beliefs’
Beating Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary, ‘globalize the intifada’ advocate who’d arrest Netanyahu says he’ll work to ‘understand the perspectives’ of those he disagrees with
~By Luke Tress 25 June 2025, 8:28 pm
NEW YORK — New York State Assemblyman zohran mamdani, after winning a stunning upset in the city’s Democratic party mayoral primary on Tuesday night, vowed to adhere to his views on foreign affairs, while grappling with other perspectives.
mamdani is a longtime anti-Israel activist who alarmed many Jewish New Yorkers with his rhetoric and policy promises during the caustic campaign for the mayoral primary. His leading opponent, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, had leaned into the Jewish vote and his pro-Israel bona fides throughout the campaign. The winner of the Democratic party primary typically wins the general election for mayor.
“There are millions of New Yorkers who have strong feelings about what happens overseas. I am one of them, and I will not abandon my beliefs or my commitments grounded in a demand for equality,” mamdani said at a raucous victory party in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City after Cuomo conceded.
“You have my word to reach further to understand the perspectives of those with whom I disagree and to wrestle with those disagreements,” he said.
mamdani did not explicitly mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but has said that the plight of the Palestinians is central to his identity and the reason he got into politics. He is a longtime anti-Israel activist who set up his campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College in the 2010s and, as a state assemblyman, introduced a widely-criticized bill to strip the nonprofit status of organizations with any links to Israeli settlements and he has identified as an anti-Zionist. The day after the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, mamdani focused his criticism on Israel.
During the campaign, mamdani refused to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state; defended the phrase “globalize the intifada”; vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although he would have no legal authority to do so as mayor; and repeatedly accused Israel of genocide.
During his victory speech, he did not make any other allusions to the conflict or Jewish community, but vowed to act as mayor for all of the city’s residents.
“I will be the mayor for everyone, every New Yorker, whether you voted for me or for Governor Cuomo, or felt too disillusioned by a long-broken political system to vote at all,” he said. “I cannot promise that you will always agree with me, but I will never hide from you.”
mamdani won some Jewish support during the campaign. He won endorsements from the anti-Zionist jewish voice for peace activist group and the leftist jews for economic and racial justice (JFREJ) through that group’s electoral arm, the jewish vote.
sophie ellman-golan, a spokesperson for JFREJ, said mamdani’s pro-palestinian stance was one factor in his appeal and credited him with “opening up a new era in what is deemed acceptable within mainstream politics.”
ellman-golan credited mamdani’s focus on affordability for his broader appeal, though, including among Jewish supporters.
“There’s a fixation on, because we are Jews, we must be primarily focused on Israel,” ellman-golan told The Times of Israel on Wednesday. “This is not to say these issues don’t matter to Jews, of course they do, but we are also New Yorkers and we are dealing with the same material conditions that other New Yorkers are.”
Ahead of the vote, polls showed mamdani as the second or third-place candidate for Jewish New Yorkers. Cuomo was the favorite for Jewish New Yorkers, and New York City Comptroller brad lander, a jewish progressive, was ranked second or third.
lander, who identifies as a progressive Zionist, cross-endorsed mamdani in the race. The city’s ranked-choice voting system allows voters to select up to five candidates in order of preference. The cross-endorsement means each candidate asked their supporters to rank the other in second place, boosting both campaigns. lander won the third-most votes, according to the vote count, which tallied voters’ first-choice candidates.
mamdani has acknowledged the problem of antisemitism in New York City, where Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined, vowed to represent Jewish New Yorkers, and released his own plans for combating antisemitism and hate crimes.
The winner of the democratic party primary typically wins the general election in the mostly democratic city that is home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. The general election is scheduled for November. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, both centrist supporters of Israel, have registered to run in that race as independents.
If he wins the general election, mamdani, 33, will become the city’s first muslim mayor.
“We are not going to let anyone divide muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers,” lander said on Tuesday night.
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mamdani laments criticism following his ‘globalize the intifada’ comments
~Jerusalem Post/Diaspora/Antisemitism
ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
JUNE 19, 2025 04:00
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum appeared to condemn a statement made by NYC mayoral candidate zohran mamdani in which he defended the phrase “Globalize the intifada,” saying the word “intifada” had been used in translations by the museum.
mamdani, meanwhile, responded to the accusations of antisemitism he has received since the statement in a tearful address Wednesday, telling reporters, “It pains me to be called an antisemite.”
While speaking on “The Bulwark” Tuesday, mamdani defended the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which has been used by pro-palestinian protesters and seen by many as a call for violence against Jews, telling the hosts that the phrase was often misunderstood.
“I think what’s difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means struggle,” said mamdani, who has a long record of pro-palestinian activism. “And as a muslim man who grew up post-9/11, I’m all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning.”
In a post on X Wednesday, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum decried the comparison of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a major Jewish uprising against the Nazis in 1943, with the phrase, though it did not explicitly mention mamdani.
“Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’ is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors,” the post read. “Since 1987, Jews have been attacked and murdered under its banner. All leaders must condemn its use and the abuse of history.”
mamdani’s statements appeared to reference an Arabic translation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that was used on the museum’s website up until May 2024, according to archived web pages found on the WayBack Machine.
Until that time, the Arabic translation on the website’s page for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising translated “uprising” to “انتفاضة,” the Arabic word for intifada. It was then changed to “مقاومة,” or “muqawama,” the Arabic word for “resistance.”
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the translation change.
mamdani addressed the accusations of antisemitism that he has faced following his statements in an emotional press conference Wednesday morning in Harlem, where he was repeatedly asked to respond to the accusations by reporters.
“It pains me to be called an antisemite. It pains me to be painted as if I am somehow in opposition to the very Jewish New Yorkers that I know and love and that are such a key part of the city,” mamdani said.
mamdani then went on to tell reporters about threats to his life he has faced as the first muslim mayoral candidate, becoming visibly emotional and pausing his statements to compose himself before continuing.
“I get messages that say the only good muslim is a dead muslim. I get threats on my life,” said mamdani, who then paused to compose himself as his voice broke. “On the people that I love, and I try not to talk about it, because the function of racism, as Toni Morrison said, is distraction.”
“The thing that’s made me proudest in this campaign is that the strength of our movement is built on our ability to have built something across Jewish and muslim workers, across New Yorkers of all faiths and all backgrounds and all boroughs,” he said.
“And antisemitism is such a real issue in the city, and it has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates who do not seem to have any sincere interest in tackling it but rather in using it as a pretext to make political points.”
Calls for Mamdani to apologize
Some New York Jewish leaders have decried mamdani’s statements, calling on him to apologize for equating the word “intifada” with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The UJA-Federation of New York said in a post on Instagram that “any attempt to sanitize the phrase is outrageous.”
“Let’s be clear: ‘Globalize the intifada’ is not a call for justice. It is a call for antisemitic violence. Here in New York, it is linked to some of the most dangerous attacks and threats against Jewish students,” the post read.
“Any attempt to sanitize the phrase is outrageous and especially offensive to Holocaust survivors who understand better than most what happens when we ignore the weaponization of rhetoric to validate violence. All leaders, at a moment of deepening danger for the Jewish community, must condemn both this language and the abuse of history it represents,” the post continued.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, the senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue, also called on mamdani to apologize to New York City’s Jewish community for his defense of the phrase.
“zohran mamdani must immediately apologize to New York City’s Jewish community for his offensive claim, in which he equates ‘intifada’ with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” said Schneier in a statement.
“His language is a direct insult to survivors and the hundreds of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers who are the relatives of loved ones lost in the Shoah. His moral laryngitis in the face of Iranian attacks on Israeli civilians further exposes his indifference to Jewish suffering and disqualifies him from any leadership role in this city,” the statement continued.
In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday morning, Elisha Wiesel, the chairman of the Elie Wiesel Foundation and son of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, also decried mamdani’s defense of the phrase.
“American Jews are already in danger. We have a mayoral candidate on the ballot who refuses to condemn the phrase, you know, globalize the Intifada, which is code-switching for kill the Jews. So you have zohran mamdani running for office. The war is here. It’s not something fictional and far away,” said Wiesel.
Wiesel also called on New Yorkers to block mamdani from being elected in a post on X.
mamdani is currently polling second in an 11-way contest for the democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday. The frontrunner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also decried his comments, saying in a post on X Wednesday that mamdani’s statement is “not only wrong — it is dangerous.”
“At a time when we are seeing antisemitism on the rise and in fact witnessing once again violence against Jews resulting in their deaths in Washington DC or their burning in Denver – we know all too well that words matter. They fuel hate. They fuel murder,” the post read.
“As the US Holocaust Museum so aptly said, all leaders or those running for office must condemn the use of this battle cry. There are no two sides here,” the post continued. “There is nothing complicated about what this means. I call on all candidates running for mayor to join together to denounce mr. mamdani’s comments because hate has no place in New York.”
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