Good
times come infrequently, good times pass to fast. Always live for
today and any good time that it may hold...
It's best to plan for the future
but those who spend all their time only dwelling on the future miss
so much of what's around them.
I decided after the morning chores
that I would go for a walk yesterday morning.
While walking along the edge of
one field I found that hundreds of small crab apples had fallen. So I
stopped to pick a bunch up to give to the chickens as a treat. While
kneeling on the ground stuffing my jacket pockets full of them I
spied some turkeys coming out of the corn field.
They stopped and watched me as I
finished filling my pockets. When I was done I walked about thirty
feet away and behind a bush. I waited only about three minutes and
sure enough the turkeys went straight to the place I had been. Guess
after stuffing theirselves on corn they wanted crab apples for
desert. I watched a bit as they pecked at the crab apples then
continued on my walk.
When I made the turn at the end of
the field there were six deer staring at me. In very short order the
tails waved their white flag and they disappeared into the field of
corn. Wonder if I looked that hungry...
It's been very busy here lately
with fall coming on and a lot of work that needs done but sometimes
it does the heart good to take a little time off and just relax with
a walk.
Just this morning I saw a dew drop
hanging from a leaf on a tree. As the sun shined on it in the breeze
it twinkled with reds, blues, yellows and greens. I couldn't seem to
stop myself from sitting on the steps and enjoying the twinkling that
reminded me of a twinkle light on a Christmas tree. Not only was it
beautiful, but it was very relaxing and soothing to the soul.
Last Wednesday it rained off and
on all day. So I slipped out during a pause in the rain and hurriedly
picked all the red ripe tomatoes I could find. Brought them in,
washed them, chopped them in big chunks, ran them through the Victorio
strainer and cooked them into more tomato sauce.
While adding the basil and parsley
I got the idea I was hungry for steak pizzaiola. So after turning the
burner to a very slow simmer for the sauce, I put my huge pan on the
stove and charred the outsides of two really nice steaks. Grabbed a
jar of the sauce I'd made before and added that and the other things
I like and left that stew away for a few hours.
I decided later to cook some
spaghetti to put the pizzaiola sauce over and have that with the
wonderfully flavored steaks.
They were fork tender and tasted
like a bit of heaven!
I got lucky! The son apparently
was in a lazy mood when he got home and didn't bother looking in the
fridge. So I had the second steak and spaghetti the next day as well.
When he's in his lazy moods he's
to lazy to lift a lid and look at what might be inside a bowl. It
might be work... So he misses good things that might be hidden from
the eye and opts for the quick and easy instead.
Always in a hurry. Always the need
to scurry. Missing out on good things, all because of worry.
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