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18 "PICTURES" OF SOLAR BOX COOKING April 26, 2005 5:42 AM Open the eyes of your mind to "see" these pictures. Each takes far less than the proverbial 1000 words.

1. Seven different SBCs are lined up on the lawn of a social activist. The air wafts an enticing blend of peach blossoms, crushed grass and lasagna. After the program, 50 to 80 people feast on the solar cooked food...and consider it an outstanding fund-raiser.
2. A farmer fills an SBC full of jars of water, one jar with a pasteurization temperature indicator. The farmer then takes a couple of cooled jars of yesterday’s pasteurization run to drink in the field. On return after sundown, the temperature indicator shows today’s water is safe so it is stored. If anything had interrupted the pasteurization process, the indicator would have alerted the farmer and that run would have been processed again the next sunny day. Meanwhile, safe water is ready to drink from the supply of stored jars.
3. In Zimbabwe, the product is ginger cookies.
4. In Sedona, U.S.A, it was a small organic, solar bakery for cookies and miniature bread loaves.
5. A family of 8 leaves their Sunday roast beef dinner in their SBC and returns from church to eat immediately. If their regular wooden SBC becomes full, the remainder goes into a small cardboard SBC which "seems to cook just as well." On recreational outings, the portable one cooks food and holds it hot, ready whenever someone comes in hungry.
6. In the dawn in Scottsdale, U.S.A., a woman carries pots of frozen pork chops covered with barbecue sauce and baking potatoes out to her SBC before she leaves for the University. When she returns in the evening, after a brief rest she quickly whips up a salad, loads perfectly cooked food from the SBC to the table, and serves the four adult males in her family. Thanks to the SBC she can pursue graduate education to prepare for the changes in her life when the teenagers leave home.
7. A retired woman anticipates savory meals as she sets up her tiny, gourmet solar recipes for the day. Measuring 3 tablespoons of brown rice and some dried mushrooms with herbs into one darkened half- pint jar, and a quarter cup of lentils with seasonings from her bulk storage into another little jar, she happily plans she can eat solar food, each varied dish especially flavored just as she likes it, for the rest of her life ... all cooked free in the sunlight.
8. An energetic homemaker clears breakfast and moves to set out a rice and cheese casserole for lunch and a bean pot for supper before going out to the garden. A pot of water also in the SBC will be ready for her hot drink and to steam fresh greens when she comes in to serve lunch. While the greens are steaming, she will mix corn bread that will cook in the afternoon and be great with the beans for supper.
9. A marginally employed carpenter makes a wooden SBC which he arranges to leave in the yard of a family where the wage-earner is temporarily disabled and unemployed. The destitute family will prepare food from his bags of bulk rice and bulk beans and watch over the SBC in exchange for a solar-cooked dinner. At the end of an exhausting day, he will have an economical, delicious meal with friends.
10. A college student arriving home with unexpected company whips a frozen dinner for each of them out of the refrigerator, removes the insulating foil and puts them in her SBC covering them with a second dark cookie tray. After they have finished studying, two hours later they chow down.
11. Fourth grade students casually roll out their SBC and focus it as their teacher unlocks the small private schoolroom. Each puts a lunch into the solar oven to heat. As usual, at noon they gather under the big tree to feast and to trade nibbles.
12. A shop crew steps out back to get their solar burritos for lunch. Someone has put in nachos half- an-hour ago which are ready for dipping in salsa.
13. Attracted by the smell on her way to the door of the Energy Assistance Office, a woman carrying a small child twists her head to see a bubbling pot of stew and a cake baking....in a box?
14. A man lies quietly on the beach next to his SBC, resting while his fish bakes.
15. At the Retreat Center, scheduled groups approach the SBC every half an hour for a brief introduction to solar cooking and a hot mushy, chocolate schmore.
16. Haunted by always burning her beans, a woman finds peace of mind in her SBC knowing that her solar bean pot is not scorching, the pot will not have black in the bottom and her husband will declare today’s beans delicious.
17. Carefully balancing her tray loaded with pots of raw chicken, rice and carrots, a little girl approaches the SBC she built for science class. Tucking the pots inside her solar oven and focussing the reflector, she dwells on the satisfaction of making real food for supper. Her mother smiles out the window confident the food will be ready on time even if the child forgets to do anything else with it.
18. A small, gray-haired woman strolls beneath the large trees in her yard to where her SBC is cooking on a wheelbarrow. She rolls it to the afternoon patch of sun, removes her "microwave" meal for lunch and leaves her three-grain casserole cooking for friends who are coming later in the day.

As the saying goes, "Keep coming back".... Please.

Funny. We know that THEY KNOW. But I am still reluctant to sign out from one ID, and sign in directly here without going thru another site.

(font color=pink) Sometimes using a pink page background while using pink-colored text makes this almost encrypted cause only someone that is going bother to look at the source code is going to be able to read what we are writing here. (yeah this is jill and jane, and Brandi and Darlyn, and the guys) We all get to come out to play sometimes. Are we more than a clothing fetish? YES. While this body we-all-possess enjoys the feel of silk and lace (could this be a result of being the first boy born after two sisters, or possibly my dear sister using me for her dress-up doll?), especially when we find a source of silk either in a dumpster or encounter someone like Mary (what was her last name??) who was willing to share her wardrobe so Will could hide it under his outer garments but still feel the silks sliding against our skin. This is of course best in winter (which is rapidly approaching at last -- four years later and we are still here and writing about an approaching Winter) cause the outer clothes hide whats going on inside and if caught I can tell folks that nylons actually make a better form of longjohns. Of course we have no standout boobs so playing with the bras is really a waste of time but we do it anywhays sometimes. Is it a fetish (is the word transvestite?) or do I wanna be a girl all the time? We just dont know. I dont care about the color of curtains or what to put in the bathwater or shopping for doolies or any of that sort of stuff that deals with emotional caring, which is perhaps an environmental upbringing thing. I do like visiting "women only" websites, like travelmate to see, and learn,what is being missed by the other half. Look. We just like to wear the silky kind of clothes from time to time. Its almost like a rash. Find a pair of panties in a box and I have to secret them away to try on and maybe wear for a few days. There have been times and places where We will devote all our free time to finding special clothing then just get tired of wearing it and then we wont even if I find some. It makes my mind hurt when I do these things. I dont want to but its an addiction. Kind of like smoking - sometimes I will smoke just because cigarettes are available then I will get tired and not smoke anymore for a while). Perhaps I would do good as a shakespearian actor since I could assume roles and dress as I wish and actually be applauded for my choices. Might even relieve some of the self-guilt- tripping that sometimes occupies the mind. Oh yeah, the cast came off my leg yesterday so now I get to learn how to walk again (and of course I can now wear longjohns (and nylons if or when opportunity presents).See the way the mind works? Oh well .... I was over looking at books on physical thereapy and I see alot about womens health issues that are interesting to a point but reinforce that I really dont want to be one all the time if we could. store this away for now be1moregirl2travel4ever2getLAIDiamthe1gallop2thestarswebethe1now. When we read books like "Brain Sex" it tells me that I dont have the hormonal makeup of, nor doo i want the emotional intimacy part of being a girl. Here we go rambling again. Could my running away from emotional confrontation have anything to do with this. Usually before I run, I just turn off any emotion I was experiencing. I will run before I can let anybody hurt me. Being a girl requires emotion - no thanks.

Welcome Lady Rangers. Lady Rangers - dont you hate it when THEY separate the boys and the girls and such? Why can it not just be Rangers and let those who choose to distinguish do so individually instead of making all of us adhere to THEM. The lack of hits shows that nobody is going to look here (not even THEM) so we can do some of my writing and store it here until I can purhaps write a book that will allow all my/our many sides to be exposed. Oct222005 is a saturday in springfield missouri at the Library Station computer bank. WE have an hour to get a few more words out of my head and onto cyber- paper. I have stuffed so many things into the virtual backsack that it is difficult to carry around. Sometimes we must purge, but writing it here is better bacause we can come back to read it or copy and post it elsewhere. Or I can store it until i am ready to deal with everyone that is controlling my mind and get them to finally leave me in peace. Or maybe sometime we will let one of those 'doctors'read this to see what is really going on inside so they can maybe help us to stop thinking the way we sometimes think. - We might as well keep this website active by writing our version of the blogging page that will set up at rogue2. I do like viewing some of the links like IVillage that we get through the email. we learn a lot that women would not be willing to share with a man and some of it is things we should know about makeup and such if we are ever going to become the real controllers since the guys have fucked up our lifes so bad so far. Will cant even get a job. When the leg is better we are going to have to find some real money so we can do some of the dreamed-of things without having to be subject to any governmental controls. Maybe I should study the drama and acting bit while looking for another me. Nobody would question us if we could become an independently wealthy older woman. Of course, just finding an old woman who would support a live-in sex toy is another solution. Identity crisis = identity creation. Remember that we had planned to learn from Mary and fade away into the desert as her longlost sister Jill until we just couldnt get along anymore. So we created Jack to take us across the country to search for our real purpose and our real self/selves(or did we just let you loose so you didnt have to hide in the background anymore - but of course it was you who got hit by the car and now we have to let Will back out for a while since he is the only one with ID papers right now, but maybe we can get papers for of us as well and Will will have to go back inside and share cause it isnt fair to us that he gets to be out so much more than us). Dont really know how much of this we could tell to any doctor cause they might just lock us up someplace where we couldnt go outside and walk on the beach or under the trees or in the mountains as we need to do. But like I said it might be good for me if I can just get some of this out of my head at least for a while. 24oct. I have linked this page from $geocities, in the listed email addresses, to continue the vicious cycle / circle of life that it has become. The link is in the email box but it is not really noticable so THEY wont find it for a while. And we have another ripple in our circle-of-life at ? and so wont come here, at least from there, for a while so we can write in both places.

I have burned up more brain cells than most people ever use. WE really need to talk about all the programs we have been in. What we learned and most obviously did NOT learn or didnt tell cause either they didnt ask the right questions or I was scared that they would get upset cause I didnt tell them about many of my isssues before we got started. Kind of like when we recently talked to the Psychs here in springfield - didnt tell them the real stuff that is going on inside and didnt even think about telling such until we had already left.

I have to wander if other people have problems remembering faces the way I do. I can remember lots of events, though dates are a reall toughy at times, but i can't remember a face as soon as i have left an area. Any that do stick for a bit seem to just fade away. Is that why people like to take pictures? So they can remember faces. We will have to ask someone if this is the case. gotta save to my disk cause my next hour is running out. will be back whemn we can. 103105-922am (was a dark and stormy night ... )

We will hide this page away and not let others read it cause we KNOW that they would disapprove of us. Our lack of esteem doesnt allow that to happen offten. Much better to run away than be disapproved of. But maybe, just maybe, writing some of this down will clear my mind so that I can do something worthwhile and stabilizing in my life cause i am so tired of running away but dont know what else to do. I have a few new clues, and have decided to stay around awhile.I was just thinking this morning that I have probably read over 50 books since I have been in Springfield. That is probably 10000 pages and like a million words. No wonder my mind gets clogged up at times when I keep putting so much into it. Guess this writing thing might be good. Especially if i could decide which things I no longer need to remember after I have written them down instead of my mind deciding what I wont remember and not clueing me in on it. Welcome to a new year.