Pivotal weather; yesterday, it was over eighty, and today, the high is fifty-five. When we have days like yesterday, I think it might well be the last warm day of the season. It was beautiful. The weather was perfect, the color of the landscape magnificent. We had company, and spent time on the deck and then the screen porch. We had a feast of jambalaya; Jamie's creation. We had a great time. Great relationships. Soul enriching.
Speaking of Jamie; she is doing well. She wears a cervical collar most of the day and undergoes traction. Prognosis is excellent, although it is a long time healing and she needs to be careful. I don't know, if she will be able to help with, digging the potatoes. I usually dig and she puts them in the tub or basket. I am not good at getting down on my hands and knees anymore. I have no sense, of being eighty years old, when I am sitting here at the computer; but I am sure aware of it, when I ask my body to do something it doesn't want to do.
All the signs, that pre-winter conditions, will soon, be roaring in, are here. I, even think, I saw some Slate Colored Juncos Saturday. They were flocking with a another variety of migrating birds. I am not positive, but they had the two white tail feathers.
There is much I would like to do before Winter; sawing up a big branch that fell down from our Weeping Willow, removing the grass that has grown up in our brick walkway, and digging potatoes and other garden chores. I, also, need to get a lamb ewe, out of the pasture, with the young rams before she gets to be breeding age. I don't want any of the ewes to breed before November. They have a five month gestation period, April is soon enough for them to lamb in this climate. We have had several goats and sheep give birth in January, February and March. If the Moms are attentive, and the lambs get licked off, and milk in their stomachs, right away, it works out. The tragedy, of a pair of frozen lambs, is not something I want to experience.
We have had an inundation of ladybugs. They haven't been, too bad, these last few years. They are back big time. Every time I take a sip of coffee, I have to make sure there isn't one sitting on the lip of the cup. It is not a, lip to lip, connection I want to make. Jamie just said she got one in her mouth, while taking a swig of coffee and now can't get the taste of lady bug out of her mouth.
Life keeps coming to us, a moment at a time. We never know what a new day will bring. I know, if I look for the best and am thankful for the rest, I will find a way to experience equanimity, if not, happiness. I know that happiness is the greatest gift I can give the world. I know, in my little world, everybody is better off, when I am happy. In the larger world our minds are linked; the happier One is, the better All are.
So on this glorious Monday, on this most excellent planet Earth, look in the moment for what makes you smile. Shine your light, brightly on the World.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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