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“Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t, you’re right.”
-Henry Ford

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16 Days ’til Thanksgiving

And I’m getting really excited. Making lot’s of plans for the upcoming Holiday season and the kids birthday’s of course.  With some decorations, parties, tidying around the house and a new book club stating next week. I have also started dance class [hip-hop] lol I know. It’s just for exercise and to be out doing something for myself. You may have noticed the blog has been dragging lately, but I needed some down time. Too much work and too little me. Anyway, I can’t wait for the farmers to finish plowing the fields, their almost done. It makes the country scenery in front of my house so much more open and airy. Not closed off by a wall of corn. I can see for miles out my front window with the field gone.

I washed the front porch off today, got rid of all of the Halloween decorations [old spider webs] and dead rodents, gifts from my cats. Washed off all the raccoon foot prints and mulch they had tracked onto the porch. This should make it a little more welcoming for party goers. I did hang more Fall decorations out than I had originally decided, just because I wanted it to look a little cleaner for my guest this year. Now if I can get the wildlife to keep it that way, I’ll be happy.

I’m enjoying the crisp fall air, when it’s not scented with ode-a-cow. The leaves have almost all fallen off the trees, but my Willow leaves and my Bradford’s are still hanging in there. I love every minute here at the house. I treated myself to a day off – hahaha – work day here. Although I did take a brief nap just to rest for a few minutes before I finished up. There is always something to do around the house.

I’m trying to slow down and not get so stressed out about life. It’s hard when life comes at you with both barrels. Everyone knows our trailer as stolen this week and my husband wants to track the thief’s to the end of the earth and beat them down with a ball bat, or so he says every hour on the hour. He hates a thief. He wants to go back to the old days when they caught a thief they cut their arm off. I keep reminding him, it’s just a thing and things can be replaced. The little ditty he hits me with every time it’s my property that is lost or stolen. He’ll have to try to get along without it somehow.

I’ve made some BBQ ribs for dinner and I’m going to go and enjoy my evening relaxing in front of the fireplace. I truly hope you do the same and remember to thank a farmer for your dinner. He has put a lot of work into it. I for one am most appreciative.

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STOP AND WATCH A FARMER PLOWING A FIELD
To watch the corn grow or the blossoms set;
To draw hard breath over the ploughshare or spade;
To read, to think, to love, to pray
Are the things that make men happy. ~ JOHN RUSKIN

 

Rekindle old friendships.

Plan to call an old friend today and ask them to _____________ [yah, whatever you just thought of right there] and say, “How’s tomorrow looking for you?” and “Okay, I’ll see you then.” You know the Girl Scouts have a little song they sing and I’ve never forgotten it: Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold.

Go oft to the house of a friend, for weeds choke up the unused path. ~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

Today is the Present for you!

For your posterity you are their future ancestor. What story of you will you leave them?

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future. ~ Martha Stewart

 

When you arrive at your place of work in the morning,

let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier. ~ ROBERT ORBEN

 

It’s O.K.

to feel sorry for yourself; just don’t let it last for more than five minutes.

What the mind dwells on, expands. ~ NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

 

The Optimist Creed

Promise Yourself

Promise yourself to be so strong
that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends
feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best
and expect only the best.

To be enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to
greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger,
too strong for fear and too happy
to permit the presence of trouble.

~ Christian D Larson