Questions At Night

Questions At Night ---Louis Untermeyer

 

Why
Is the sky?

 

What starts the thunder overhead?
Who makes the crashing noise?
Are the angels falling out of bed?
Are they breaking all their toys?

 

Why does the sun go down so soon?
Why do the night-clouds crawl
Hungrily up to the new-laid moon
And swallow it, shell and all?

 

If there's a Bear among the stars
As all the people say,
Won't he jump over those Pasture-bars
And drink up the Milky Way?

 

Does every star that happens to fall
Turn into a fire-fly?
Can't it ever get back to Heaven at all?
And why
Is the sky?

Happy Monday!

~Kim~

Thankful on Thursday

 

I woke up this morning to another perfect November day.  Haze and fog rising in the field across the street and the fog rising in the pasture. The moon was beginning to set in the layer of ground fog, so it was beautiful to wake up to, as it lit my room. I was as the song says counting my blessings one by one. Here is  a short list of blessing for this week.

• My husband who understands and listens and together we are a nice team.
• Our kids and the lovely people  they have married.  Each one if gifted in a unique way, who are so precious to us. 
• The lovely eight grand children that give us unspeakable joy. With more to come. :) 
• Trials that open our eyes to these gifts.
• Last year the hazy days hurt. I was spending more and more time with the blinds shut. This year, it seems like a miracle to be able to go places, to greet the day. To feel like this is the first November I have seen in years.
• A simple life.

I was reminded this week how much I have to be thankful for and how much the Lord had given into our lives and filled it to overflowing. I catch my breath and the kindness and sweetness of the gifts that God gave us starting at the beginning when we said, " I do."  Life can be hard, it can catch us off guard,  in an instant.
It is those times when I can hear Gods voice the clearest, and for that most of all I am the most thankful.

 

It is always nice to be Thankful on Thursday.

~Kim~

" Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you."
---Annie Dillard---

Today on Tuesday

After a rain, we get fog. It is what reminds me of  November. The moist, cool air. Watching the fog rise across the field as the sun comes up. These things about November that give me the feeling of security. I also can hook faster when it is colder. Having a rug on my lap keeps me warm.

Here are my latest projects.

I finished this rug, but I have to put it away as all I see is its flaws.

 

It was a different kind of rug for me. I really did get to work on letters which are always very challenging.

 

I started this yesterday, you can tell I like chickens and sunflowers the best. I can hook them faster than anything I do. This just makes me happy.

I hope to start this one some time today. I love this one so much.

 

It is just My Guinea. A very simple rug. I have course written on his face because I want to get all of those pretty colors right when you look at a guinea. 

My daughter Kessie drew out 11 patterns for me when she was here this summer. Now she is sending patterns to me over the internet. I do wish I could hook faster. She has so many cute ideas. 

I hope you have a lovely day. 

~ Kim~ 

 It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

---Adlai Stevenson---

Lovely November

 

We in my city and I imagine the state are so rain deprived that even the local news had video of the rain, and the wind and the lightning last night. It is wonderful to have clouds and the flowerbeds are full of rain water. I didn't realize how dry it was and how it hurt my lungs to breathe until this morning. I was walking around and it is so nice to be able to breath deep and it doesn't hurt.

 

Ron has this theory which I love. He says that in order for us to have cloud bursts we have to have thunder and lighting so that it punches holes in the clouds. That is what happened last night, because it really poured.

 I thought I would tell you a teeny bit of what I think is good news. Since we first built this house, we always knew that they would some day put the road through and that they would take the houses on the street and a good portion of our front yard. Since they put in the first part of the road, we have traffic parked in front of our house all day long. Waiting at the stop sign at the end of the street.

Last week, heavy equipment rolled in and I knew that the day had arrived and all of my fears were going to happen. Then they did a strange thing, they started digging out the median in the middle of the road. They dug down, brought in rock and asphalt and those huge roller things and began working on the road. They used the existing middle of the road and there is now a left hand turn lane in front of our house. No houses were torn down, no power poles had to be moved. Just this elegant solution. If there has been one thing I have prayed about more than just about anything for the last thirteen years, it has been this. When I couldn't fight anymore and I finally got to that place where I gave up, and told God, you know what is best and I will trust you for the outcome. You have no idea how many times mentally, I have packed and moved and have never really let myself settle in, always that feeling of doom.

 

 I know now I pierced myself with many a sorrow, living in the what if and what then places and I should have trusted more and worried less.  Traffic is rarely in front now. The road is quiet again. It really is so much nicer that it was. The lady at the post office looked at my address the other day, and remarked at how sorry she felt for me because how hard it must be now with the road opened. It really isn't so bad now, and it takes me less than five minutes to get to the other side of town. It is a really nice road.

 

So once again, I am astounded at what the Lord has done in my life. For how gracious He is, and how at the beginning of the week, as I stayed just sick to my stomach, how little did I know that today, this first day in November, I would start this month off by being again filled with Thankfulness.

I hope you have a lovely Saturday, it is clouding up to rain!!! What a perfect Saturday.

~Kim~

The Pace of a Hen...
"...that unfenced barnyard fowl that she did not appear to go anywhere; certainly she did not have the satisfaction of migrating twice each year, as do the song birds, and yet she brought forth creation of daily usefulness."
---Josephine Moffett Bention---
                 1961