TIME

It snowed about an inch this Morning and it is supposed to start up again early this afternoon. We need to take our usual Monday trip to town and the Amish a little earlier so we can do it between snowstorms. I don't think we will get a great deal of snow but we may have to get our driveway plowed.

Time flies for me. Weeks go by like days did a few years ago. I am always surprised when another Sunday rolls around because it seems like only a day went by. Yet................. this Winter. How come that is not going fast? How can weeks fly by but Winter last forever? Ah......... the illusion of time. I remember Summers when I was a child that lasted forever. Since I have been an adult I try to remember to live every Summer day. What a waste to be bored on a Summer day.

I know time is flying and it soon will be spring again. My chickens know it. They laid three eggs yesterday. In a couple of weeks it will be seven or eight a day. In a month they could be laying up to a dozen a day. I have up to 25 hens. I don't know the exact number. I have an old hen rest home. Some are beyond egg laying age and others lay every other or every third day. It is okay with us. They lay more eggs than we can use for about nine months out of the year. They served us, we will serve them in their old age. Chickens are old at five or six but we have had hens that lived to be ten. When we were living off the land those chickens made wonderful chicken and dumplings, but now that we live in the lap of luxury, It doesn't occur to me.

I can't live for tomorrow though, I want to be here now, this moment. I can love the snow. It is beautiful. All aspects of life are beautiful.

We have an extra errand to run this Morning. Our coffee maker went on the fritz. It acted like it was sluggish so we ran some vinegar through it. I went to check it and there was nothing in it. All the vinegar went into the kitchen rug. I don't see how that is happening or how it is leaking. I am going to run some water through it and watch to see, just out of curiosity. We need to look for a new coffee maker.

It is snowing again. We better get on our way. I love adventures but I don't want to drive in a snowstorm. I don't have anything very profound to say anyway, except to live in the moment, love every moment and if you can't love it, forgive it [the moment, yourself or both].

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg