I sat down to eat
Breakfast on this cold morning
Amazing outside!
The grasses sparkled
Like diamonds placed there by God –
My jeweled morning gift!
I want to share it
With you and my neighbors, too
(The ones who are gone)
What’s your November 1st look like?
Yesterday it was cold, but no frost.
Today it sparkles!
What a gift!!
BURIED CROPS
Near Wolford, North Dakota: “The impact has been great. Wheat, corn, and soybeans are still out in the field. The wheat and soybeans are buried in some places. We haven’t been able to chop our corn because of the wet fall, therefore making it impossible to bring cattle home before the storm. They need to go in the field that the corn is in. We have been forced to feed cows out in the pasture the last two days which is going to deplete an already short hay supply. We lost all our oats hay due to the constant rain and the snow we had last week. The picture above is covered soybeans.
Our farmers and ranchers need our love and support. The impact of the storm across western and central North Dakota is dire. Farmers and ranchers across the area were especially impacted.
What do you think we can do to help our farmers and ranchers?
One FaceBook reader who saw these pictures wrote a comment that reflects what most of us are feeling:
Holly Anderson “This is so sad. It affects so many of these hard working people’s livelihood. It also will potentially affect the costs for consumers as well. The moisture is needed but never is wanted in this quantity and this early. I am so sad for all of these farm families.”
Loving each other
Means farmers and ranchers, too.
What form will love take?
Share your ideas on this subject
regarding the “Devastating Snow.”
Do you have ideas about how to help?
We have a saying here in Montana:
“If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes!”
So don’t waste your time complaining about the weather, just brush the snow off the chairs…
… brush off the barbecue, and just maybe…
… before the gorgeous sunset ends,
you can sit down to a cozy meal inside.
No need to complain. It is what it is…
May be back to 70 degrees tomorrow.
Only God knows…
See ya tomorrow! (Keep smiling!)
Snow draped the fir trees
Like garland decorations
Today’s snowflakes cling
Home again tonight
It was a lovely weekend
Here are the highlights
Company for dinner in our home –
Saturday night fun:
Good food, great conversation,
and after dinner sing-along.
Choir before teaching church school
Then Worship service followed by
A delicious fellowship hour
Elaine baked a pineapple upsidedown cake.
Yum!!
These gourds decorated the tables.
They reminded me of beauty in distortion
Never be afraid to be different
The Bozeman Symphony this afternoon
was incredible!
We thoroughly enjoyed the music
and the gift of a very talented conductor
and creative, dedicated musicians.
After the Symphony we tried a new restaurant:
Nordic Brewery in Bozeman, MT.
We highly recommend it.
Try to get Avery as your waitress.
She was efficient and adorable –
And the beer samples and food were delicious.
I chose the skirt steak and Bob had a hamburger
My skirt steak was tasty and done to perfection
Do you think I liked it??
I hope you enjoyed a lovely weekend, too
with great friends, good food,
and beautiful music.
God is good – all the time.
Every day is Christmas
when you enjoy
the gifts
God gives you.
See ya tomorrow
(I don’t know why the audio didn’t work. Got any clues for me about how to link to mp3 music?)
What’s that on the ground?
Whiteness covers the trees and grass
Do you think those plants
Buried under cold, cold, snow
Will somehow survive?
See ya after church and
our trip to Bozeman
for the Symphony concert.
Pray for our safe travel, will you?
It’s not a Happy April Fool’s Day!
No joke … the joke’s on me!
Look carefully and you will see the water stain
on the bottom of the drapes
and the water mark on the carpet.
Look and see the snow drift outside the door.
There is no drain out there,
so where does the water go when it melts?
You guessed it!
We have lived in this Madison Valley, Montana home for 13 years – and this has never happened before! The owners before us lived here for 5 years and they said it never happened to them, either. This has been quite a winter! You’ve heard me complaining, haven’t you? More snow than a friend who’s been here since 1972 has ever seen!!
What does this have to do with a blog whose sub-title is “Love One Another?”
I’ll tell you… it has everything to do with people like Joe Smithson!
This delightful man is a God-send!
He came and helped me determine the extent of the damage.
He helped me understand ALL the furniture
in that downstairs bedroom has to come out
so he can come back with his rug cleaning equipment
and suck the water out and dry the carpet
and try to dry the walls where it has seeped up!
So, with my dear hubby off skiing today,
I found two other saints who came to help
move the bed, the dresser, the nightstands,
the desk, the chairs, the whole “kittenkaboodle”
out of there and into the game room
and other downstairs bedroom.
What a job!
It’s a California King – with two top mattresses, two box springs,
a lower frame, and a headboard! Heavy stuff!
No way I coulda done it alone.
And the triple dresser is solid wood – a heavy sucker!
God bless those two friends who came to do the moving!
And before those could be moved, another friend came
and helped me move all the “stuff”
that was on top of all that furniture.
You know, nothing is “clear” like this
under ordinary circumstances, right?
Then, to avoid the continued drain
of the melting snow into the bedroom,
another saint of a friend came
with his shovel first –
and then his snowplow.
The snowplow did
what would have taken all day with a shovel…
and did it so much more thoroughly.
Ah, the blog subject
is “Love One Another”– right?
There is no greater love than to
lay down your life,
pick up your shovel,
load up your snowplow,
and come to help a friend in need.
That is a friend, indeed!!
God bless you, Steve!!
Imagine how surprised Bob
is going to be
when he gets home
from a day at Big Sky
enjoying the slopes –
a last day (or so)
with spring skiing –
and sees how much more
is cleaned up
than the beach towel
he set out there
this morning
could have done
to fix the problem!!
Go back up to that first picture. If you look carefully, you will see the green and white polka-dot towel on the other side of the glass door. (Like putting a finger in the dyke to stop it, right?) Kind of gives you a new definition of April Fool!
Ah, God love ’em… we gotta put our priorities in order, don’t we?
Who can pass up a day on the slopes?
Unless it’s a day on the river!
Spring IS coming, you know!!
(Not soon enough here)
How has your April Fool’s Day been?
Hugs to You !!
Inspire to Love
Let the SonShine!
You inspire me to respond
Learning to Live; Living to Learn; Learning to Love; Living in Love
Written
on September 18, 2019