Giving Thanks November 4

Today among other things, I'm thankful for the successful surgery of my sweet kitty, Alice.  She got spayed  Monday, and came home yesterday.  She's doing well.  It's a little thing, but I get attached to my critters and worry about them.  Alice has a place in the laundry room until she heals up, a litter box and a little comfy bed.  She's enjoying being away from Jasper, too. Thanks for humoring me...

Giving Thanks November 3

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Today, I have been so thankful to God for the rain.  We've had a long, hot, dry summer - going weeks and weeks with no rain. The last couple of days, we've had a slow, steady, soaking rain - the kind of rain that makes us feel cozy inside, that is quietly dripping off the roof, just a little pitter- patter.  The kind of rain that soaks into the ground slowly but leaves no major puddles. A perfect rain.  My yard has greened up again, my roses are sprouting buds again for another flush of color before freezing temps shut them down for the winter. The kind of rain that darkens the skies later in the morning and earlier in the evening and causes a foggy blanket to hug our landscape here in east Texas.  AND if you're lucky enough not to have to work, the kind of rain that puts you right to sleep...zzzzzzzzz.....

I've noticed through my gardening the last 3 years that the natural rain from the heavens does more for my veggies and flowers and yard than the purified chlorinated water that comes through the water hose. I'm so thankful on this day for this blessing of rain on the earth under my feet here on Sand Flat Farm.

2010 Giving Thanks! November 1 & 2

I decided to join up with Leah at South Breeze Farm this year to enter her month of November-long Giving Thanks Challenge.  I'm going to keep a list on  my sidebar and try to post something I'm thankful for MOST days, every day if I can.  I think this is a great opportunity not only for myself but for everyone who accepted the challenge as well as all the readers out there in bloglandia to look inward, outward, and upward and really search and find those things that we are truly thankful for.


If you know me, you already know that I'm most thankful for my Lord and His saving grace. AND my family, those are a given. I'm going to try to dig deeper and get down to the nitty-gritty - even if there's some particular aspect of God or family that I can be thankful for and share with you.

Since I'm just joining and it's November 2, I shall have two things to be thankful for today.  Yesterday, as I woke early to get ready for work, my husband and I walked outside to see what the weather was doing. It was still sorta darkish, but it was muggy and warm and the dark clouds kind of enveloped us.  Now here in Texas where we live, there are tons of trees. It's hard to get a good look at the sky sometimes depending upon where you are.  Well, at our farm, the hay pastures are wide open and we can stroll out to the middle of them and see 360 degrees of sky.  I absolutely LOVE looking at that sky. So, yesterday I was SO thankful for the ability to see a complete sky above my head. I can spin around in a circle and see nothing but sky! Whether it's cloudy and grey, starry at night, or filled with fluffy clouds & sunshine - I LOVE ME SOME SKY!!!

Today, since it's on my heart & pertinent to all of us, I'm thankful for our country and the right to vote. I'm thankful for our way of government that we can be a part of putting our leaders into office and we are free to vote for whoever we think would best fit the job. I've already voted absentee, but I know there are many, many people that are exercising that right today.

I hope you'll check out Leah's blog, South Breeze Farm, and see all the others who've signed up for this challenge.  I'll bet each and every one of you can find at least 30 things (or more) to be thankful for this November, the month of Giving Thanks! Hope you'll join in - or at least in your own hearts and minds, find things for which to be thankful in this season of the year!

YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!!!

Happy Halloween Weekend!

Halloween was so fun when our kids were little!  I miss those times when they would get all dressed up and we'd carry them all over our neighborhood trick or treating.  We had one of those great neighborhoods that was chock full of young families and wonderful friends - a place where families from all over our little town would bring THEIR kids to trick or treat!  It was like one big neighborhood party on Halloween! I miss that...  And this is not necessarily a Halloween post.  Just didn't know what to call this 'un! 

Alice has been up to her antics.  Last night she climbed up the giant sycamore tree. I heard her meowing up there and looked for her with a flashlight.  She was WAYYYYY up there at least 20-25 feet off the grown. She wasn't trying to get down, just enjoying the view I guess.  Maybe trying to get away from Jasper (or CB as we call him sometimes - Cry Baby). 

Anyway, there is a big hole in the middle of the truck that we've seen owls get in before.  Alice found the hole, and she was having a ball playing around in there.  I couldn't convince her it was time to come down so we left her up there.  She's good at climbing trees and backing down.  Hayley and I were outside at the fire pit enjoying the chilly autumn evening and the warm fire.

Isn't she cute???

"Alice, don't you wanna come down  now?"  "No way, Jose," she says. "Jasper is still out there on the loose!"

"Come on down, Alice,  we'll give you a treat???"

"Nope," she says.  "I'm going to stay up here and scare away all the goblins on Halloween night!"

"BOO!!!"