Thankful

I was just thinking today, when it's 9 degrees outside, just how grateful and thankful I am for the simple little things in life that some of us take for granted.  I, for one, have learned the hard way lately, never take anything for granted, ever.

First on my list is my health.  Despite all of my shortcomings, and there are many, I seem to be in pretty good health.  I do have alopecia, complete female baldness, but honestly, it's nothing compared to what it could be.  I am blessed by great strength and a good strong back.  Comes in very handy around the farm with all my chores.  I certainly do not have a man around to help me lift, dump, carry, pull, dig, and many other other things that need done around here, so guess what folks, just simple sweat equity will do.

Next of course is love.  Without love and support can we really function properly?  I remember when my mom was still around in our old Victorian home in Arlington, MA, that she even gave love to her gardenias and begonias, and african violets, and you name it.  She would spray them with a water spritzer bottle and talk to them every morning and really, I thought she was going off the deep end, but honestly wow, her flowers were the talk of the neighborhood and our relatives.  I am so grateful to have this incredible love and support in my life, thank you, BMSC.

Then we have electricity.  Without this wonderful little invention, my horses would have frozen water troughs right now, and that would be very, very bad.  I would not have the ability to communicate to all you wonderful people out there that have taken the time and effort to sit down and read this.  I certainly would not have a laptop.  Just saying, electricity, what a wonderful thing we have in this.

And of course, heat.  On a morning like today, I am so thankful for Arricks Propane.  They are very nice people and at a very reasonable cost.  Just as a side note, I will never use Blue Flame even if they were the only choice around town.  I would have to buy one of those great big furnace things that look like oversized dog houses and fill them daily with our naturally grown trees.  Really, there isn't anything nice I can say about them.

Clean water.  Yes that's another one of our resources that honestly people around here just don't think about how precious this is.  I would spend my Summers in Greece with my giagia and my family.  You want to talk about a culture shock for a very spoiled little daddy's girl, wow!  The water there does not run on a daily basis, we would get it every other day from a water pipe in our street.  We would grab all of our buckets, and pots, and fill our deposito, which was this great big galvanized square tank on our flat roofs, that would hold our water supply for the next couple of days.  We would also don our bathing suits and my brother and I would take showers in the street as the water was running.  So folks, water is a very precious commodity that we Americans need to protect and be thankful for.

God.  Without Him do we even exist?  Do my precious mules, and magestic horses, and weiner dogs, and blue heelers, and kitties, and anything else exist without Him?  I mean folks, nothing, would exist.  I was even a Science major and I learned all about the Big Bang Theory, Natural Selection, and all about Lucy, our so-called long lost neanderthal relative.  I don't buy into those theories any longer.  Too vast, too intelligent,  too many species and different genetic make-ups and too beautiful, to all be by accident and genetic mistakes.  I am very grateful that I know who my Creator and Savior is.  Do you?

Friends.  Where would we all be without our true, down deep friends.  I know I would be lost.  Thank you and I am so grateful to the Bells for all their love and support.  Also to my seester!!  Plus the handfuls of others out there, Jimmie, Terri, and more.  I love you all.

I have no idea where this came from other than my heart.  So I hope you all enjoyed it.  I did.