God Bless You! I just love your reply about the bread. :-)
I love being able to share this bounty with others. My kids are grown now and both live hours away so I love sharing with my retired friends. I know they worked hard when they worked and now they are *so* appreciative of little blessings. It’s awsome just to see some smiles light up when I bring in homemade bread or home canned goods. One lady gave me her small pressure canner yesterday as she said she will never be able to use it again and wanted someone to have it who *would* use it. I love it. It’ll only do 3 pints at a time but sometimes that’s just right!
I have to tell you that the man in my life is from Maine. He moved to Texas 18 years ago and found me here. LOL He talks quite a bit about his grandparents farming up there. We have a good time comparing notes some days. He also laughs at me and my love of compost.
It was up past 70 degrees here today but we had an ice day last week. Was cool to look out that morning and see that ice was everywhere EXCEPT on my compost piles. I don’t have a thermometer for them but that pretty much let me know that they are doing the job. HA! At least they are warm enough not to let the ice settle. :-)
Hope to see you again here. :-)
Many, many (30=40?) years ago, while driving to work, I listened to a commentator,(conservative, libertarian?) sound off about government in our lives..He went on and on about people helping people and acting responsibly in our lives, maintaining that if we all took care of our own to the best of our ability, we wouldn’t need so much government intervention in our lives. That program made so much sense to me that I eventually gave up my Democrat affiliation and turned conservative.
Many years later, when my mother required 24 hour care, my two sisters and I provided that care with my retired sister caring for her days and my other sister and I doing night duty.
My husband always was more giving of his time than I. For several years, he carried water all summer for an elderly neighbor when his well went dry. He had an elderly widow neighbor that he mowed her large lawn all summer and plowed her driveway and shovelled her walks in the winter. As he was in the heating business, he was always fixing leaks and thawing frozen pipes.
Now, all this is coming back to reward us. If a neighbor sees us lugging, stacking wood, in no time, there are several helping hands arriving. Likewise, we have a neighbor showing up every Saturday morning to do any *heavy* work we have.
What a joy for me and my 80 year old cancer survivor hubby! What a wonderful world this would be if everybody lived by these precepts.