One Day at a Time

Well it is a warm and humid morning here in our little valley. There is a very little breeze blowing and it is very still and quiet. The neighbor’s cows are grazing peacefully in their pasture. The cats have had their breakfast and are now taking a cat nap before it gets too hot. The hummingbirds are at their feeders, but there is not as many hummingbirds now as there were a week ago, Bobby is still keeping their feeders full for them.

Here we are in August and kids are going back to school and summer vacations are over and I am seeing fall decorations in some stores. Where has this summer gone? It sure has been an unusual one, I know summers are always hot and humid and sometimes dry, but this summer just seemed to be different, maybe it is just because I am getting older, do y’all think that may be what it is?

I have canned a few things this year but not as much as I normally do. Recently I canned a few jars of vegetable soup, during the winter when it is a cold and snowy day we like a big pot of homemade soup, it sure is good to have a pot of homemade soup sitting on the old wood heating stove while it is sleeting and snowing outside.

It will be fall before we know it. I did not get as much done this summer as I wanted to, but we did get some things finished and we still have a little time left to do things before the weather starts to turn bad. You know I used to make a list of what I wanted to get done during the spring and summer and most of the time we got it done, now it seems to take a little longer to get things done but in the end we usually get it all done.

Bob has got the breakfast dishes done and the kitchen is clean, now he has brought his coffee out here to enjoy a few minutes on the front porch, the cats have gotten up and they are needing his attention, he may have them a little spoiled.

The other day we were out getting our errands done early and as we passed by the school there was a police car near the school, they are keeping an eye on the schools and the kids. I am so thankful to see them keeping us all safe, but I was also thinking how sad things have become that some kids are not safe to go to school. Back when my kids were in school all I had to worry about was them falling and getting hurt on the playground. Now as I see my great grandkids going to school there sure is a lot more to worry about than a skinned knee on the playground. I am praying harder and wondering what is going wrong with this world?

We stopped to get gas and it has gone up again, for a little while it had went down five or ten cents a gallon and now it has went back up at least twenty cents, we could not afford to fill up so we just got as much as we had to have, I heard that in July the strategic petroleum reserves were down almost 475 million barrels from last year which is over 1/4 of the reserve. We then went on to the grocery store and everything that I needed to get had gone up except for two items.

I am not going to worry about tomorrow and I am going to take one day at a time because God still has it all under control and He is the light at the end of the tunnel.

God bless.