Comparisons.

 Comparisons.

 

We were told as children not to compare ourselves with others except to be thankful for being so blessed. This morning at the Feed and Garden Store, a sign made me realize how blessed the old woman is. Free Range eggs are $5 a dozen at their store. SO glad to be able to give these eggs away to friends, family, and neighbors. Also, am very thankful to be able to load that bag of wheat into the little trolley thing to haul out to the coops. It is SO much easier to load and unload. Don’t know why using it had not occurred much sooner.

 

Bought six whole chickens this morning at United near home. Today three of them will be put in the oven to roast so that the meat can be removed and put into bags to be used later. It is easy to freeze it in bags and thaw it quickly. The lady who helped load my groceries said that they used a pressure cooker to cook some turkeys that way. My pressure cooker went south some years back, but not sure a whole chicken would have fit in it anyway. It is later now and only TWO chickens would fit in the roaster, so that is what will be ready here in another hour or so.

 

Walked the east side lot and found the other antler piece. Sylvia is mighty happy to have it back, but you can almost bet she was the one who took it out there. Oh well.

 

Tomorrow Patty’s dogs will go to Colonial Vets to see about nail trims and whatever else she thinks they need to see them about. Roxie is still waking Patty up every hour or so for some reason. Let us hope the vets can figure it out.

 

Sterling said that his water is working now, but the city had to come replace the meter thing because it froze and blew the bottom out. At least he has water and pressure now. My washing machine is still waiting on the lines to thaw. Maybe by next week everything will be thawed out. Here’s hoping.

 

Looked at the news this morning and shook my head. Maybe the hostages might get some supplies or maybe not. Anyway, some supplies were taken into Gaza that were supposed to be of some help. Think if the old woman were in that place, just about anywhere in the world would be a better place to be rather than in line with bombs, missiles, rifle fire, knives in the hands of hateful men, and any other type of violence. If South Africa had a place for me, would go there! Move over, lizards! Actually, Big Bend would hold an entire city worth of folks if they just had water and food. Well, and sticks to roust out the rattlesnakes and hila monsters. And scorpions. And other sneaky, bitey critters. Nevermind. Maybe those folks would prefer the kind of meanness that they find in their part of the world.

 

For today, peace of mind is something to be desired by those of us who have our children on our minds or other stressors that we feel we have to handle ourselves. Too bad that we are not very good at letting God handle our problems. We always feel we need to help Him along somehow. As Lance tells me, we always have these “woulda, shoulda, couldas” in our minds. God doesn’t need our help. He just needs for us to ask Him.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.