GET A HEAD START ON THANKSGIVING

 On October 11, we will be celebrating Thanksgiving in Canada and on November 25 in the United States. A lot of people like University students, workers and family members will travel long distances to be with their families to celebrate Thanksgiving without really thinking about the significance of what it means to be thankful.
We want a break and Thanksgiving is a HOLIDAY...

Thanksgiving is to give thanks to God our Creator for the fall harvest, for each other and for all that God has given us and continues to give us, for loving and caring. The trouble with us I think, is that we take so much for granted that we fail miserably to be truly grateful for what we have and for each other.  We think that our brothers and sisters are only from our immediate families. The miseries we don't see with our own eyes does not always concern us. We are never satisfied and always want more, better, newer, bigger and faster.

This year I want to get a head start on thinking what I'm grateful for, prior to Thanksgiving and so I want to share these photos someone sent me this summer to help us along. I hope that it will help us to put our priorities straight in being grateful.  After all A GRATEFUL HEART IS A HAPPY HEART...

                                      Are you worried where your next meal is coming from?

                Will you and your best friend or your love ones be out nowhere alone on Thanksgiving?

          Do you hop in the car to get from this place to that place and complain how slow the traffic is?

                                   Are you carrying a heavy load to earn a living?

Are you complaining about the inconvenience of detours or the condition of the roads? Would you carry your child on such a road and let his or her grandmother follow behind?

Could this be you, your mother or your grandmother? How about this load, to cook your daily meals if you can find food to cook?

 We don't need to have only one day to give thanks. Giving thanks to God our Creator should be every day, even several times a day, especially at meal time, when we go to bed, when we wake up, when we shower etc... I hope that I don't sound like a preacher but sometimes I get fired up when I put things in perspective and when I see how ungrateful we have become.  JB

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES RUG UPDATE

I can't believe that it's already the weekend  and that Mr October is here in all his splendor and blowing the colorful leaves around. Where does the time goes?  I seem to be on a fast treadmill and there is no getting off until the snowflakes comes.

Last evening my husband treated me to a nice Chinese buffet at The Hilltop, our local pub and we each had a large beer. The place was jam packed as it always is on a Friday night. They usually have a Happy Hour between 5 and 6 pm and you can buy a pitcher of beer cheaper during that hour but the Happy Hour was over when we got there. Luckily I had blog earlier than usual for no reason at all.

Today the hoof trimmer came back to finish trimming hooves and I watched for a short time as he did his job with great efficiently. He backed up his truck and trailer in the back shelter and set up his contraption ( I don't know what he calls it and I was not about to ask him).  The area was scraped clean and my husband spread some fine saw dust on the ground in case some feet bled a bit if they have some wounds or abscess or something.  Very quickly he opened the back gate of his contraption and arranged the large leather supporting straps with chains and the first cow walked in, he closes the back gate and pressed a button and the cow is hoist off her feet and the side where she leans against becomes a flat bed and she is turned on her side and he takes his electric rotating rasp tool that looks like a rotary grinder and in a couple of minutes he's done shaving a layer off the hooves. He take another tool to clip a little more.  Depending on the condition of their hooves or if they have an injury or other foot problems, he wraps the feet. He trimmed 67 cows and off that number he wrapped 15.  This is done twice a year and our cows have a very good record of healthy feet. Very important when ones weigh 1200 pounds and over.

I managed of putting a little time cleaning the shed this afternoon but had visitors and then had to get back to work at the farm. This job is taking me a little longer than I thought it would but most of my son's stuff that he had in storage is at his house.  There are still some stuff that I can't lift by myself and will need to get some help with it.

I did some more laundry and even though the sun was shining and there was a nice breeze, I didn't had enough time to hang my cloths outside.  I also managed to hook about 20 minutes after supper. And since I had a request to show my progress, here it is.

I need to fix the left skate. So far I haven't needed to dye any wool for this project but my white and blue dyed wool is in limited supply.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading my blog.  JB