One Day at a Time

Well it sure is a beautiful Fall morning here in our little valley. It is cool here on the front porch, I have got a warm blanket draped over me and I have got a cup of hot coffee. The sun is shining and the trees have some pretty Fall colors on them already. The cats have ate their breakfast and are now enjoying the warm sunshine on this cool Fall morning.

Before long it will be too cold to sit out here on the porch. In just under three short months it will be Wintertime, cold weather is on the way. We have been getting ready for the coming cold, we have some of our Winter’s firewood but we will definitely need some more. I am hearing that we are going to have a long and cold winter, last Winter was really cold and it hurt some of the trees and plants.

I think almost all the Summer gardens are now gone and most of the hay fields have been cut. Our son-in-law, Rick has already got his turnip greens planted and we are looking forward to having some of those fresh greens with a chunk of ham cooked in them and we also are looking forward to having some of those turnips along with some good brown cornbread. Rick and Pam, our daughter, brought us some more pears from their trees, I think that was the last picking of them, I made some pear preserves from them, Bob sure loves pear preserves on a good brown biscuit with butter for breakfast.

With the gardens coming to an end I think the canning season may also be over until next year. Our neighbor has started gleaning their garden and they brought us some bell peppers from their garden and I chopped them up and froze them, those peppers froze fresh out of the garden will be great in dressings this coming Thanksgiving, Thanks Christine.

We have heard the neighbor’s old John Deere tractor several times lately, the neighbor and the boys have been cutting hay and hauling those big round bales of hay and stacking them down by the creek, he is stockpiling it up to feed his cows during the Winter. We like to watch his cows grazing out in their pastures and it sure is nice and peaceful, we will probably start having some cold frost before long and the green grass in the pastures will start turning a little brown and then the cows will need their hay.

We were out running our regular errands and we saw a lot of corn fields that have turned brown, it is almost time for the farmers to start gathering corn and filling their barns, looking at the corn fields it looks like they are going to have a lot of corn to put up, a farmers work is never done.

Looks like gas prices are still going up, I guess we all knew they would. Have you noticed when you buy something in the store if the price of it has not gone up then the size of it has gotten smaller, it is like somewhere somebody said “We won’t raise the price of it but what we’ll do is make it smaller and nobody will notice”, I bet they got a raise in their salary, I think everybody now calls it Shrinkflation.

There is still a lot of talk about strikes at manufacturing plants and at lots of different places, I guess there will be a lot of people out of work for a while, I have talked to some people and they said they have been planning for this time to come for a couple of years now, so I guess a lot of people have been planning also, I think some people have been cutting back on their spending, but some people just continue on with their regular spending but that is okay because we all have been told for the last couple of year about how good the economy is, and we should always believe everything that we are told right?

Bob has got the kitchen clean and has come out here to the porch to enjoy his coffee and spoil the cats a little, oh yeah he swept the porch again, so he really does know how to use a broom, no excuses now.

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.