Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Mid Holiday Blah's!

It is gray and cloudy here with just enough mist in the air I cannot do Laundry. The poultry is napping all over the place with heads tucked under wings, feathers fluffed up, looking kind of frumpy. I am holding down the fort as Ralph had to go and deal with some family issues that were not expected and are going to be difficult.
Christmas is over and the New Year is near. It is an odd time of year, full of hope and plans yet we know as every year before it, this new year of 2016 will have high points and low points.
The people around here involved in small business are worried about 2016, a local Amish custom Butcher is closing their doors in February, another casualty of over regulation and the USDA wanting control of everything. There is a  lot of belt tightening and hard budgeting going on. People are not as optimistic a they used to be and the daily news from around the world and out of New York and Washington DC is full of lies, hate and misdirection.
Yes the color of the sky is affecting my mood and its like even the flock of wacky poultry is worried. Lets hide our heads under a wing and it will all go away.

I swept out the store room downstairs and felt an odd mix of reassurance and fear...it is well stocked but will it do? The wood pile is a good size. This home is easy to warm and in a quiet corner of the world but will it be enough?
We have so much to do and a new gardening season lurks just ahead, soil to be amended, sod broken, varieties decided on. That growing cycle of the world around us gives us hope, if you have seeds you have things to look forward to. Like tiny pellets of hope!

May you reach goals you set for yourself, make honest realistic plans, try new things, look at how you do things differently and think of how the pioneers built their homes and prepared for the times to come.

Happy New Year seems almost trite when you thing of all that can happen in a year. How about have a BOLD and Determined New Year!

God Bless and Stay safe.




13 comments:

  1. Happy New Year to you two, too!

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  2. Fiona, it's blah here too in Ohio! Chin up, hoping all comes out well!

    http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/3b/e7/1d/3be71dc5a0266c6f30d43139784f9ee9.jpg


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    1. We are 40 miles from Glasgow, I hope you are enjoying some of the land search blog posts...it was an adventure and if you need help looking down here we would enjoy helping.

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    2. That didn't come out right, it was suppose to be a chicken crowing Happy New Years!

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    3. Hubby and I are learning a lot from your post, things that we hadn't thought of! You would be a distant neighbor to us....LOL! Will do on the shout out to you....thank you so much! :)

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  3. oh dear, I think you miss Ralph
    hang in there...what you have is all you need
    A blessed and happy new year...but you are right about Washington...we are losing our country as we know it with all its liberties
    lets pray real hard about it

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    1. I am so glad you stopped by! We do need to pray for this country! God bless you and all who are dear to you.

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  4. A thoughtful post, Fiona. It's harder to keep your spirits up when you are surrounded by so much strife and grey skies. But, as you said, there are things to look forward to - if there wasn't winter, spring wouldn't be a sweet. All the deceit and hatred in the world just makes the kindnesses you find even brighter and more dear. Sending love and best wishes for a wonderful new year to you and Ralph.

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    1. I think this community of like minded Bloggers gives me hope that the "seeds" of self reliance and personal responsibility are still out there! Happy New Year!

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  5. hi. mother always did the laundry anyway. had to. not many clothes we had. [i'm yoda.]
    hung them outside but brought them into line hung in kitchen asthe space was cleared. she often ironed dry daddy's work clothes in winter and humid weather.
    if you are any where near the mighty ohio river you know humidity.
    at 'rural revolution' you can see the indoor clothes line mr. lewis made. patrice hangs them to dry upstairs.
    you could have one in your laundry building?

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    1. Clotheslines in the utility building we have. Hanging room clothes to dry have we not....it's still storage....Yoda your contagious are!

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    2. Clotheslines in the utility building we have. Hanging room clothes to dry have we not....it's still storage....Yoda your contagious are!

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