This is not a garden blog, but you might see an article concerning gardening. It is a blog about me and the cultivation of my life. This is a place where I air my opinions and ideas. There will be stories about what is happening or has happened. I like to write poems, some will be good and some will be bad. I am never bored, I hope you won't find what I write about boring. Thank you for sharing time with me.

Sunday, December 26, 2021

CHRISTMAS GIFT GIVING 2021

I  have seen many responses of what people received for Christmas.  Steve and I usually buy something for the kitchen.  This year we didn’t.  In fact, we didn’t get anything for us for the holiday season.  Why? There was no reason.  With writing out medical checks and roofing checks and new guttering checks.  It seemed we had already given enough. 

 

This morning I couldn’t sleep and got up at 3 AM to process the 10 lbs. of Chicken I had cooked the night before (it had cooled to the point it could be handled).   We cook for our barn cats.  Yes, they get regular cat food, but we top dress it on the cold mornings to give them a special treat for catching all those mice who come into the barn.  They are also good in the summer to keep the snakes out of the barn.

 

I am getting off the subject though.  The topic I was going to write about was gift giving.  Not just for Christmas but for any time.

 

This week I had picked up a freebie from the marketplace on Facebook.  A lady had bought some freezer bags for her vacuum sealer. They ended up not what she wanted.  She put them up for free.  They were exactly what I needed, but alas another person got there first.  NOT!  They never picked up.  She wrote me and said they are on the porch.  This is Friday the day before Christmas.   It was great I was going to be the recipient.  I didn’t know anything thing about the lady, but I had Steve take a copy of one of my children’s books too her as a Thank you.  I figured if she didn’t need it, she would have a friend with a little one.

 

She wrote me the nicest thank you note on messenger.  She had 3 little grands under 3.  She said the 3-year-old will love it.  I thought, gee it was so simple, she sounded like it meant so much to her.

 

Back to the chicken.  While I am processing the chicken, I am using a Colander.  It is plastic, and it collapses (folds up).  I received it for a Christmas Gift from my SIL.  You’ll say, “Strange gift for Christmas”  I’ll answer, “Every time I use it I think of her”.  In fact when I see it not taking up space in the cabinet, I think of her.  A very meaningful and helpful gift.  It is not something I would have bought myself, because I have other colanders.  I love it.

 

Another gift I received for my birthday was from my son.  It was a box of 30 Elmer’s kids glue sticks.   I squealed when I saw it.  He had heard me cursing because I was always out of glue sticks when I needed them.  Every time I open the box to retrieve one, I smile and think of him.

 

My daughter, years ago bought me a gift, which keeps on giving, for Chanukah.  She went to Williams Sonoma.  Admittedly she could have bought me knock-offs and I would have been just as thrilled.  She purchased  several sizes in each color; orange, yellow, green.  They were silicon spatulas (they year they first came out). I am using them still.  I use them to bake every gift which goes out the door.  They are used to cook her dad’s favorite chocolate ice box pie.  I don’t know what I would do in the kitchen without them.  Every time I use them, I think of her.  I would have never bought them myself.

 

A gift doesn’t have to be extravagant; it literally is the thought that counts.  Thinking of the person when you are picking a gift and choosing something especially for them, is what is important. 


Chronicling our adventures with a dumped Pit Bull Pup 
who has become a hidden treasure.

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A blog mostly about quilting,
cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
 Tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
 Check out "A MYSTERY IN THE MAKING"
A mystery quilt designed with the novice in mind. 

blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry,
blogs about Seed sprouting, insects, and garden pictures

an intro to baking for kids.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

JOURNEYS

 Yesterday I learned I lost a friend. I thought about the people who have passed through my life.  Some have literally sailed through.  Others have taken siestas and came in and out through the years.  There are the friendships which defy being placed anywhere, you wonder why them.  

It made me think, what kind of friend am I?  Whose life have I drifted in and out?  Where did I camp out?  Who am I?

 

The journeys, we travel, each unknown,

Every turn, down a path unknown,

Should we walk, do we run,

Will this be disaster, will it be fu

 

We stop, wonder where it will lead,

Will we gain knowledge or greed?

Blessings or hardships, what’s in store,

Will we be ready for them and more?

 

Are we prepared for the surprises ahead?

Have we been lax and headed to bed,

Did we take a moment this day?

Did we take time to say?

 

Was it important, what was said?

Was each moment the last we had,

The journey with the twists and turns,

Did we take time to learn all we could learn?


Other blog sites by me:

Chronicling our adventures with a dumped Pit Bull Pup 
who has become a hidden treasure.

A blog mostly about quilting,
cooking, poetry, prose and a little gardening,
 Tutorial on how to make 5 panel Boxer Shorts.
 Check out "A MYSTERY IN THE MAKING"
A mystery quilt designed with the novice in mind. 

blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry,
blogs about Seed sprouting, insects, and garden pictures

an intro to baking for kids.