Thinking about Nikki Smith's boys and betting that they will have their boots on the boot dryer--glove dryer that they received as a happy surprise. Nikki said winter time was a constant succession of wet somethings around their house. Currently the boys are feeding for a friend out toward Holliday who had some kind of injury. So glad those boys are good about helping folks. But they have also been cutting wood out of another friend's pasture--a two for one deal. Clearing the pasture and cutting firewood! Hope they do well with their firewood sales.
Have had a heater on here in the living room today. The one in the kitchen knocks the chill off, but it doesn't make it shirt sleeve warm for sure. --Just glanced outside and saw some sunshine!! It's Texas! What else can we expect?
The hens have been happily occupied inside the long greenhouse side of the coop. They are nobody's fools! It is warmer and drier inside the coop with just as much light on the lake end of the coop. Also, they have plenty of feed to keep them happy. Have to take one more bucket of water out there either tonight or in the morning. Happy hens do tend to lay eggs, and they have today. Good little feathered tyrannosaurus clux.
Thinking about dinosaurs: Hanan wrote a book in kindergarten called "Nobody's Pets" about dinosaurs. Only Hanan would have thought of something like that. His viewpoint was always a little different than anyone we knew. Some might think "clever" while others might think "warped," but it was always different and usually amusing. At least to me it was amusing.
Cindy Jones was talking about all the ways her grandsons could manage to work for other people without having to do one of those "mask required" jobs dealing with the public. Honestly, most jobs that pay a wage are going to be with the public, but working for one's self can mean that the "wages" work out just about however a person wants them to go. Some folks barter work against what they want or need. My dad used to say that he would not turn on his welding machine for less than five bucks! And he didn't do "free" work. He said that if folks find out you did something "free" for one other person, then everyone expected you to work for free. So whatever a person does, it has value and should not be considered another person's due. Dad used to make little men sitting on a washer type commode--sometimes with a book and sometimes as a "thinker." He could--and did--sell those things at a flea market. Ideas are worth something, too. Anyway, these young kids can do a lot with their lives before they ever decide on what they want to do to make a living.
Cindy showed me a flannel shirt she had made. She buys the buttons after she makes the shirt, so it did not yet have buttons on it, but the flannel was beautiful. She said it takes about three yards--at about $12 a yard. That is expensive material. It made me wonder how much it cost her to make the serape pull over that she made for me! Must have been a bundle!! And it is so pretty--reversible blue plaid and plain blue with a hood. She is such a talented lady. She makes shirts as Christmas gifts for her family. Sounds so much like the things that Sharon Dickerson does for her family. These two women are so much alike. Some of us are just blessed to have these kinds of "sisters."
Have another mystery going in a series of five books about the same characters and their family. This is the one with the two brothers who are private investigators--one a priest and one a good ol' boy who used to be a detective for the NYPD. Anyway, they are good books with not too much scary stuff and lots of humor. It is neat to get to read that kind of books in a series. Also saw today that someone posted a book review of two books by Gene Stratton-Porter. Had to post my two cents worth. Did a paper on this author back in graduate school because she had such a big influence on women in her day with her stories and her naturalism. She also developed a chemistry for her photos so that they were clear and sharp. The process was bought from her with the understanding that she could continue to use it and that her publishers would use it when she published a book showing moths or butterflies. It just amazes me how much influence she had back in her day. She was pretty disgusted with the Japanese (war back then) by the time she moved to California, but she continued to write about natural things in the desert and in nature--The Beekeeper, for instance. Oh well. We women can appreciate the fact that she also insisted that women needed better kitchens for producing the products from their own homes--meals being only part of a woman's products.
Just went out to shut up the hens. DANG! It is cold out there! And dearly beloved, ya don't want to be out in that "breeze" more than a few minutes! Oh well. Winter will be over in a few months. sigh
May God bless us and this nation. Rest well and be encouraged to know that another day is coming. You are loved.
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