A Magical Blast From The Past

I wanted to share this with you all.
Well this farm house I live in is just down the road from my other half's parents house and they have a Centennial Farm. His grandparents homesteaded the farm they live on. This house used to belong to my other half's late Uncle (Fred). As a child I would drive by this farm with my folks and think "I would love to live there" since it was so pretty and his Uncle kept it Tip Top all the time. Beautiful lawn and Barn and so on. I did not know my other half then either.
Here is the good part, the part about attracting things from the Universe. In my adult life I started dating my other half (we went to highschool together but never dated until after I was married and divorced). His folks had purchased this farm from his Uncle so that it would expand their farm. Thus my other half got the house and after 10 years of dateing I moved in and sold my place.This old house has a bomb shelter in the basement that was used to store things and can goods. The reason I mention that is because we just have never bothered to completely clean some areas of the house out. I guess we are saving it I really dont know why we have not done these things but anyway, today I am going through a drawer in the kitchen that contains some of his late Aunts (Olive) cookbooks and recipes, her candy thermometer and so on. I keep tea in that drawer, but I have never in 10 years looked through the stuff in the drawer. I clean the drawer and put it all back. Today I decided that I might look through the stuff just for fun. I found all kinds of cool stuff, Hershey's cocoa cook book 1936, Watkins handbook, 7 UP cookbook, A cook book that the Detroit Free Press put out from 1925. There is Knox gelatin cook book too. Along with a huge variety of other cool old cook books. Anyway I found an envelope that was mailed to his late Aunt (Olive). It says "Good Cole Slaw" on the outside above the mailing address. I open it and read the hand written recipe. At the bottom of the paper it has a little note. The note says " I think you will like this recipe it is good and I usually make 2-3 batches, of course I like to treat the neighbors too. This is the kind May Kimball (a local woman I am familiar with) use in her restaurant". Then its signed Clara. I thought" I wonder who Clara was"? I turned the envelope around and read the return address. It was my Great Grandmother Clara . She had mailed the recipe to my other half's Aunt Olive Skinner on October 5, 1968.I had a sudden rush of tears. I really have no answer for the tears other than I felt for some reason my Great Grandmother wanted me to find that recipe. I think everything happens for a reason I feel that there is something more to this than just coleslaw. I think it is some sort of reminder some life lesson or illistration, but I really dont know yet, What do you all think

Goals and Attracting Things From the Universe

Recently I have been reading a book that explains some things I had been wondering about.
We have this saying at our house,"be careful what you say because you can speak things into reality". Well you can. There are many things in the bible that point me to that thought like;
"ask and you shall receive." no where does it say what to ask or what you will/wont receive when you ask. That means there are no limitations. That means that what ever I ask for I will get good or bad. Dwelling on what you don't want will draw into your life the very thing you don't want. So dont dwell on the crap like " Oh I am always broke" you will be, you have to say " I always have enough money".
Sooo, since I am mostly a positive person and I seldom think about what I dont want this answered some questions. A bonus is that I can counter act the negative thoughts when I have one by being thankful for what I do have. That makes sence to me. You dont have to always worry that you had a negative thought because if your thoughts are mostly happy thoughts it outweighs the bad ones. Whew! I am glad my mom used to say if you cant say anything nice dont say it at all, or I cant never did anything, or be careful what you wish for, or be careful what you say cause once it is out there, there is no taking it back, or last but not least you can have anything you want in life and you can be anything you want to be. Thus bringing me to this post I am going to put it out to the Universe. I will sell two kitchens a week at work and I will be flattening my tummy. Lets see what happens. Anybody out there want to join in and compare notes leave your comments.

September

September brings such mixed emotions when you live in Northern Michigan. Its a wonderful time of year that usually boasts 70 degrees during the day and cool nights. It makes a person feel like nesting but offers the beautiful fall and wonderful riding time. Less bugs to pester me and the horse, plenty of warmth but perfect for jeans and a helmet. Horses are somewhat fresh but usually pretty well behaved by this time of year. September brings thoughts of bonfires and fall harvest, and hay rides. Cuddling up with your sweetie and lighting a fire. But..... its the "but "that will get you........

Soon it will be time to get out the heated buckets, and heated trough, cover all my flowers for their long winter nap, drag out the boots and bib overalls and the darn gloves. Soon I will have to put away the Kayak too. Its like saying good bye to a good friend. Then there will be the rainy season with its slippery muddy pasture and keeping an eye out for thrushy hooves.

Since I am somewhat of a fair weather friend to winter riding. I would like May and September weather to be year around. That would be perfect for me. Actually this summer has been a lot like May spring weather. Cool and even a bit rainy at times. Oh I wouldn't mind some snow for Christmas and New Years but other than that I can do without the extra clothes the short daylight hours and the worry about sub zero nights. I down hill ski but my love for that does not parallel my love for the grass and leaves and the spring and fall weather riding. Its more like something to keep my mind occupied so I don't think about warmer weather.

We Michiganders seem to be fickle. We like the Spring Summer and Fall for all its worth but Winter only gets half our heart. We like it when it firsts snows and pretty much enjoy it right into the end of January, but come the middle of February we are starting to get Cabin Fever. We start thinking about planting gardens summer riding and maybe getting away someplace warm for a couple of weeks. We need to alleviate the pain of the dark dreary days and bone chilling cold that often comes the end of February and March so we make plans to run away.

Oh, dont let me mislead you. Mother Nature will give us a break occasionally, she will offer up a day or two of sunshine and warm temps. Just enough to tease us into thinking spring is just around the corner. But she can be ruthless she will come back with a vengeance bringing full plate of sinister laughs and another 8" of blowing snow. Ughhh!!!

But then one day the trumpets sound and I wake up to realize the sun is shining and the temps are warm and I know Spring has finally arrived. My dear old friend is back. Hurray! Hurray! Before long the days are longer and the evenings are warmer, I hear the birds singing and see the Robins arrive home. Old Man winter is suddenly just a past memory, almost so much so that its hard to even imagine Winter had ever been here. How short our human memory.

We Michiganders, are like those pearl divers that jump in the water full knowing that the long deep dive will deplete their energy, they will have to hold their breath as the descend deeper and deeper but they live for the exhilaration and joy when they arrive back on the surface with that Pearl larger than any other they have ever found.

For me Spring Summer and Fall is my Pearl. Winter is the dive, the price I pay to live in Gods Country.