I'll think of something

How time slips by! Tomorrow is May Day. When the kids were little they would make May baskets and go to the woods and pick wild flowers and then take them to some older neighbors. Maybe I should whip up some May baskets tonight and send John to the woods in the morning.

Last night Tanner called me at 11 for a ride home. His truck had a major breakdown where the front end just fell when he was turning around in a yard.

I'm so thankful he wasn't speeding down the highway when it happened! He and his buddy are going to fix it--he's getting a lot of good mechanic experience. Tanner has always been good at fixing engines and things that go.

I'm reading an excellent book--"Change Your Heart Change Your Life" by Gary Smalley. It's about the powerful beliefs that aren't truth that are already stored in our hearts. They control us in so many ways and actually drain love from our hearts. The way to change those wrong beliefs is to instill new and right ones.

I'm only 1/4 of the way through but I'm excited! Changing my attitudes and the way I think has been a theme this last year in my walk with God.

Last week when I took John's mom to visit her Dr., I took a picture of a piece of an old quilt that's hanging on the wall that has always fascinated me. There are lots of framed old quilts decorating the walls at Franciscan Skemp.

More tomorrow...

Spring in the Valley

Yesterday afternoon John, I, and 2 dogs went to the valley. Spring flowers are blooming and water was running. Since the flooding last year, our valley looks quite different. Hillsides slid down and new creek beds were formed. It would have been interesting to have watched it happen from above--such force! It was nice sitting by a creek and listening to the water running over the rocks--I love that sound!

Gafton kept laying in the water which was freezing. I found a rock shaped like a pumpkin--complete with the curved lines.

AND this morning we woke up to find everything covered with a thick layer of snow. Now this must be the last of winter.

Hankies

I crafted 7 of these today using some of my hankies.
I started collecting old hankies a few years back and
now have a picnic basket full. I've made some hanky quilts and I just like to take them out and admire
them. Last summer I washed them all and ironed them--very pleasurable!
I think I'll gift people with these--perhaps a florist tube with some pretty little flowers, jewelry, candy, or a note telling someone I Know Something Good About You.

Ugly but Good

Yesterday at 1:30 I put 3 loaves of bread into the warm oven to rise. I'm 56.
At 10 I walked by the stove and thot to my old self, "It smells like bread rising."
OH NO!!! They were HUGE and all glued together so I separated them and
used a toothpick to let some air out. Tastes great! I emptied the freezer in the
basement yesterday cuz I never look in there and it's a waste of electricity. I
found many jars of strawberry jam that tastes good on the funny bread. And
I found a turkey!

More

This morning we went to Winona and found a few garage sales.
It was Not a nice day for it--cold and very windy.

I found these pretty metal juice glasses.
I remember using glasses like these (only bigger) in Taiwan. I can just taste the red
Kool Aide. 10 glasses for 25 cents!!
I also got a metal turkey baster, a Tarzan movie, and a new set of herbal heat packs-
an eye pack, head pack, back pack with velcro straps, and a neck and shoulder pack.
All for $2.75
John took me out for Chinese and my fortune said, "A gathering of friends brings
you lots of luck this evening." I wonder if they're gathering without us--no one's
here.

Saturday Treasures

John got a new(?) tractor today. He bought it
last fall and drove it home today. It's a Massey
Harris 44 and he says it was born the same year
as me so this new tractor is only 56 years old!
What a Deal!! He's a happy farm boy!

I Know Something

Yesterday a little girl at the school read a poem and today when I was
feeling grumbly about someone, I remembered the poem and found it
online.
I Know Something Good About You

Wouldn't this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say:
I know something good about you,
And then treat us just that way!

Wouldn't it be fine and dandy,
If each hand clasp warm and true,
Carried with it this assurance
I know something good about you!

Wouldn't things be more pleasant
If the good that's in us all,
Were the only thing about us,
That folks bothered to recall!

Wouldn't life be lots more happy
If we'd praise the good we see!
For there's such a lot of goodness
In the worst of you and me.

Wouldn't it be nice to practice
This fine way of thinking too;
You know something good about me,
I know something good about you.

So I made a list of the "goods" I know about that person and hung it up in that person's room.
It made me realize the good far outweighs any bad that might irritate me.
And wouldn't I like it if others looked for the good in me rather than the bad?