September 8, 2019 thought for the day: If your parents take care of you up to the time you cut your teeth, you take care of them when they lose theirs. Nigerian Proverb

It feels so good to sleep with our an alarm set. It feels so good to wake up naturally and see that the sun has made it’s way up. Since I have put the “light filtering” curtains up it seems to be staying darker long or more toward the truth, the season has changed to the point of the sun’s movement being more noticeable

Yesterday’s FMS photo challenge, “G” for gas. I really like the color, lines and shapes in this image. 

I was able to get some of my every day early morning virtual visits done before getting ready for church. We are back in the fall/winter/spring mode of singing with the choir so I had to be there a half hour earlier than the in the summer months. We have a “dress rehearsal” before church. The sermon was good, the attendance not so much. The monthly donut fellowship was well attended with everyone enjoying each others company.

I haven’t got to much on the agenda for today. I think I need to do a little watering for the annual plants, not so much on the house plants that are still waiting to come inside. They get watered as I bring them in. I also want to make a couple of dishes to freeze for the next couple of weeks or so.

I just checked for my greeting card stock. Apparently it is in storage and Martha Circle at church starts Tuesday. I am the head of the sunshine committee. We send out cards each meeting to our shut in members. I am going to have to go buy some cards or card stock Monday.

The word is attachment. We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living, William Hazlitt.. Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self, Dogen.  Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh, Alphonsus Liguori. One more,  When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me, Meister Eckhart. 

I enjoy these exhibitions that are held at the Ohio (Historical) Village. I went to one a while back with Rebecca, my daughter in law,  and Tami, my only daughter when life was a little less complicated. It meant so much to me to be with the two of them at this relaxing and interesting event. Rebecca found a book that she felt was perfect for Jessie in her, at the time, chosen profession. She was so excited about finding it and giving it to Jessie that I got more curious about Matt’s (my grandson) betrothed.  The article I found today is about one such event at the village. It was called Down-home dandy, Country Living Fair. The main features are tips on cooking, decorating, crafting and remodeling. There are vendors who are selling all kinds of creations and decor. One of the featured guests, from Oxford England,  is an author, decorator and inventor using chalk paint. She will do workshops and demonstrations along with her book signing. Another of the guests is Nancy Fuller, star of “Farmhouse Rules”. She speaks of how she believes family meals are important for socializing with each other in the family unit. There are other interesting vendors with exciting ideas and messages.

The FMS (fatmumslim.com.au) photo challenge for today is H, I used a common cupboard hinge. This was one of those days where my photography enthusiasm was lagging a little so I looked close to home and found very little that excited me.

I think it will be chili, that is one of the two meals I made to freeze, for dinner tonight. My recipe for chili is very simple. A pound of lean hamburger browned, add on can of Kroger crushed tomatoes, two cans of Swanson’s beef stock, Onions are one of the vegetable my family doesn’t all like so I shake one or two tips of Ms. Dash’s onion powder.  Other spices are Mrs. Dash Table Blend, Tomato Blend, and Garlic and Herb Blends, a dash of PÀPA imported Hungarian Paprika and a splash or fourth of a cup of Beringer’s White Zinfandel wine. Most times when I make a tomato based dish I add a dash of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda. I have a problem with an acid stomach, the baking soda takes a little of the acid out of the tomatoes. I don’t add kidney beans to the soup without a strainer that fits on top of the soup. I put a can of either Kroger Kidney Beans or a can of Joan Of Arc Kidney Beans (depending on my finances for that particular shopping session) in the strainer. The soup covers the beans and I can take it out before I serve the soup. I have one family member that doesn’t like beans. The strainer solves that problem.

Joy