AN ORDINARY DAY

Yesterday I attended a celebration for a relative who turned 100 years old and she's as bright as a button and can carry on a conversation and is interested in what's going on around her. She had her leg amputated two years ago but still can get around swiftly with her prosthesis using a walker. She looks like she's in her late seventies.  The community was all invited for this occasion and the hall was packed. I forgot my camera, again  and asked a friend to email me a few photos but I haven't received any yet. 

Yesterday also, I attended breakfast with friends but I only had a bite to eat with my coffee and attended a brunch  later on with my husband.  It seemed like the day was so short and it was already night. 

This evening I just got back from the funeral home and had to wait in line to get in to see the family  for about an hour and a half standing on ceramic tile floor. My legs and my back were aching from this long wait. Tomorrow we will attend the funeral and the tiny church will be packed to overflowing. It's my husband's second cousin.

This afternoon, I did some more cleaning in the shed and had to deal with a bag of lime that got wet from a leak in the roof. It was in a paper bag and was dries enough to spread on my lawn. Also some of my fertilizer got wet but because it was in a plastic bag, it was too wet to spread so I'll have to deal with that another time. The rest of the stuff, my husband has to decide what is good and what to throw away. So I have to play the waiting game before I can say that the shed is all tidied up.

I'm feeling a bit tired so maybe I better call it quit for today. JB

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