Since I have tried for a month to get back in my former blog address and was unsuccessful I simple changed addresses. so let’s renew old acquaintances as we make new friends. Hopefully this will last for another 3 or more years
What’s been going on in my life and thoughts for the last month? Lots of things and thoughts. Mostly how to reopen my blog so I could write. 🙂
Like many of our Michigan friends we were surprised when winter arrived much earlier than it has in many years. But it did happen when I was a much younger person. It happened one beautiful Thanksgiving Day.
Well at least it started out to be a beautiful, sunny Thursday! It was long ago and I have forgotten what the temperature was on that morning. We had gathered at my folk’s farm. There would have been probably 7 ladies, 5 men, 2 boys and 2 girls. There, as usual, we had a great meal and lots of good visiting for the afternoon.
Imagine everyone’s surprise when late afternoon someone noticed that it had not only been snowing, but there were several inches of snow covering everything. Though we usually had supper before everyone left for home the adults decided to leave early. Especially since Uncle Charlie, Aunt Hazel and her mom lived in Detroit. Uncle Bud and Aunt Nellie would be taking her mom home a few miles away and the country roads weren’t plowed as soon as convenient many times.
Since no one had put on boots that morning and the snow was already above the ankles and still snowing it presented a problem. Dad had 2 pair of overshoes fortunately; he shared one pair with one of the other men and they went out and started the cars. Then they made seats out of their arms and carried the ladies, one by one out to their cars. No one got stuck on the way home, but I think we ended up being snowed in for a few days.
With the weather forecasts available now it might not have come as such a surprise and we could have been prepared.
But with the number of accidents, when the roads first get slippery, many drivers are just as unprepared today.
The Bible speaks of another time in the future that many are unprepared for. Music also portrays the thoughts and reactions to that future event. If you’re interested you can read about it several places in the Bible. One song phrases it “I wish we’d all been ready.” Another asks the question, “say will you be ready when Jesus comes?” Jesus said that no one will know the exact day or hour but gave us some signs to watch so that we could be prepared.
If you are interested in having more details about what I think and expect from this event you can comment here or message me on Facebook, As I learn more about how to do things here I plan to blog regularly a few days every week.
My preparations for the next few weeks will be varied and many. This week will be spent mostly in getting ready for a Christmas Bazaar and Expo. I will be displaying some of my craft items and 3 books I have written. The titles are: Dearest Claudia How I Love You. it is a true account of a young woman’s battle with cancer several years ago. Much of the research came from a running account that her husband kept for her. It starts out with this quote, “Dearest Claudia, how I love you. You will not remember much about this day so I thought I’d keep a record for you ……” The second title is my own account of the first of the many times I’ve had cancer and was not surprisingly, for those who know me “Why I Had Fun in Spite of Cancer” The third is a romantic mystery novel. Set in the 1970’s which is also when it was written, it is the story of a young couples expectations which are cruelly hampered by the young woman’s terrible fear of the color white. The mystery deepens because her lack of memory about what caused that fear.
My preparations for this sale of the crafts has been slowed because I’m looking for a particular pattern that is ‘somewhere in my house’. if you know me or as you learn to know me, you’ll find that is often the case when I’m looking for some particular thing. Do you have that problem?
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