Today's Harvest

Today I went out to our little garden and picked green beans, a tiny summer squash and 3 tomatoes of the many, many that are slowly ripening.  A small harvest yes, but plenty for sweet hubby and my needs for the day.  We will have a wonderful dinner of shepherds pie using the green beans, meat from a beef harvested earlier this year, rice and cheese.  We will slice up the tomatoes and squash and have them as a side dish.

Rhode Island Red.

The eggs are from our small flock of 6 hens.  They took so long to mature from baby chicks that I despaired that they would even be hens instead of roosters, much less lay eggs.  But faithless me was pleasantly surprised that once they started laying, they REALLY started laying and find 5 to 7 eggs per day now. Most are double yolkers too!

Another miracle is one hen who we thought was lost just 2 days ago.  We have 2 each of the following kind of hens. 

Barred Rock

We don't know what kind she is?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, day before yesterday hubby saw a big hawk flying through our yard and I heard a loud squawking in the back yard.  When we went outside, there was a LOT of feathers all over the lawn and we were sure our Red was gone forever.  We herded the rest of the chickens into the run (no more free range for these little beauties dang it).

The next morning, lo and behold there was little Red, all mused up with feathers sticking out sideways desperately trying to get back in the run with her sisters.  So we let her in and she ran to the waterer and drank her fill and then went in to dutifully lay her egg for the day.  She looks much better today, less stressed and we have no idea where she hid out over night, but we are thankful for both our garden harvest and the protecting Heavenly Father lends us.

Football Season is Here!

So last night began the annual widowhood of this woman whose husband loves and worships FOOTBALL!

This means several things.  

1. The husband will only hear things related to football.

2. The husband will go around either ecstatic or in deep depression according to whether    his team won or lost.

3. There better be lots of chips, pops, nuts and more pop in the house.

4. He will look at me and if I am not in team colors, he will not see me.

5. I can go shopping all I want and will not be missed as long as #3 is covered.

6. I need to either love football also or have lots of movies, books or shopping trips planned.

My sweet hubby loves 

St Anthony Cougars

So he has games whenever the high schools play or the BYU Cougars play.  He can either go to the games or watch them on TV.  He also needs to watch the competition play to see how they will be in comparison to BYU.  AND, he has to check the stats on the internet and find out what everyone else is saying on the chat rooms. So football is a menu filling every day

I am sure there are more things on this list.  I've forgotten some things from last year....sort of like forgetting how childbirth feels after the child is 3 or 4 years old. But you get the idea.  Men are in a world of their own during the season and everything else is secondary to them.  

So, from August until after the Super Bowl, I can count on my sweet hubby to only be partially aware that I exist.......oh, but wait......Basketball season is in there, along with Soccer, Baseball, Rugby, Lacrosse, Bowling, Pool, etc, etc,etc,etc.......................

Don't Worry, Have Faith

This last week I learned that one of my son's and his family are going to move all the way across the United States of America within the next month.

He has a wonderful job opportunity there and it is an absolutely gorgeous state with forests, lakes, oceans, and fresh seafood right out the back door.  I am sure they and their boys will thrive and be very happy there.

At the same time.......they are moving CLEAR ACROSS AMERICA!!!

I am spoiled. 

 Almost all of my kids and grandkids have lived within 3 hours of us.  They could all drive here and spend the weekend easily.  I could travel in 1/2 a day to babysit for them if the parents wanted to have some private time together.

At the same time, none of us lived close enough to get in each others faces all the time. 

 A perfect plan.

When I first heard of the moving plan, I fretted and silently prayed that they would never do it.  But they are.

Then I decided I was being selfish and delusional.  After all, I had done the same thing to my parents and they had done the same thing to their parents. My mom and dad moved from Oklahoma to California when I was a baby and left their parents and only saw them twice more before my grandparents passed away.

Sweet hubby and I moved far enough away that I only visited once a year to see my own parents until they both passed.

So, I am going to trust in the plans that our son and family have made and trust that Heavenly Father will watch over them and guide them.

I'm also going to go buy a webcam so those 3 grandsons won't forget what I look like!!

Middle of the Week

Well, for some reason, or many reasons today was a really different day.  Lots of ups and downs emotionally and physically.

I decided that I was going to clean house, dust, mop, vacuum, normal housework.  I started with the "Cougar Room".  It's where the computer is and sweet hubbies BYU sports shrine. 
So I started with the dusting........there is a lot of stuff in that room!!

Moved right along to vacuuming, and then the bathroom.  
All in all....took a good hour and a half!!  For one room!
Then came the living room.  I decided to move the furniture around and clean and re-arrange the bookshelves.  Didn't like the furniture moved so moved it back.  Another hour shot.
Next to vacuum the rest of the house and the other bathroom and last but not least the kitchen. 
It is now 3 1/2 hours later and I am all hot and sweaty (oh my goodness, I forgot, women don't sweat, they glisten!) so I had to shower and redo my hair, etc, etc.
It's now past lunch time and hubby is hungry....he gets a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He has been out mowing the lawn...a big job at our house.
The pup we have been babysitting needs attention.  She misses her family and I don't play with her like her little boys do.
Any way, it's not late and I am worn-out

and I'm not lion!

Weddings

Well today one of my grandsons' was married,  no wait a minute.  He and his sweet bride were sealed together for all time and eternity in the Holy temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 
That means that their marriage doesn't end when "death do us part", but instead lasts for infinity.  All of their children will be "sealed" to them under this covenant also.
Of course all of us are Heavenly Father's children.  He and our Heavenly Mother gave us our spiritual premortal bodies before we came here to earth and if we live right we will return to Him when this earth life is over.  But if we are sealed together, well we will join our families when we return to heaven and we will all know each other and be together always.
As I sat there and listened to the officiator tell this sweet young couple about how to keep their love fresh and always think more of each other instead of themselves, I thought about my own marriage that so far has lasted 50 years and I realized that that is the only reason we have stuck it out this long.  He thinks and worries about me and I think about and worry about him.  I look at him and see the wonderful man he is and how much more wonderful Heavenly Father thinks he is and I have a little more patience and a little more tenderness in my heart for him.
Love is an ever changing, flowing, bumpy road and we just have to enjoy the ride.

Aren't they cute together!

Sunday Sunday

Didn't sleep well last night (a common happening with me) and really didn't want to get up at 7 a.m. to get ready for church, but I did.
Absolutely a terrific Relief Society lesson, wonderful Sunday School lesson that ended up with half or more of the class weeping.  And then a young returned Navy young man who is now leaving on a mission for The Church of Latter-Day-Saints of Jesus Christ gave a great talk in sacrament meeting.
So glad I made my lazy self get up and get going.
Now that dinner is over, I can be lazy again.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Well, I was kinda bored today and decided that I would start up this ol' blog of mine and write what is and isn't interesting about each day that I wake up and start living again.
Today I made 3 batches of cookies.... peanut butter, chocolate chip and white chocolate, crasins with  salty almond cookies.  The last were the best.
I had sweet hubby take a plate with some of each to a couple of neighbors...one who is a druggie alcoholic who needs his sweets and one elderly couple (look who's talkin!).  Then I spent the rest of my day reading and finishing one of my "mindless mysteries". 
I did send a text to my grandson for his birthday today, he's 24 yrs old now.  Wow that makes me feel old!
And I played with our son's dog Tag off and on.  We are babysitting her while they travel to Maine for a vacation.  I did not get invited 
Not to much of a day, but I lived through it and that's a good thing.