Stormy Monday

 

It is windy.

Stormy & sideways rain.

The chickens are tucked into their coops, dry and with food.

Most of the geese flew away leaving Lucy & her mate & 2 babies behind.

They are upstream.

I have been spending quiet time dusting and sorting through  areas of the house

much neglected from months of being outside.

As I walk around this house that I have been in for 5 years now

I am seeing things in ways one would after living in a home well loved.

I am finally feeling I may be at home.

This is one of my favorite places in the house.

No, I will not let him do any maintenance painting here.

It is where he has , for 5 years placed his hand to remove his shoes.

I love it.

It reminds me of the things that I missed about my old home.

I am also still rehabbing my knee.

My knee.

Yeah, I fell in early August yet it just never healed like it usually 

does. ( I have hurt both knees running so many times I can't count)

Over the weekend I got up quickly from the couch and felt an ugly

sickening pain. I thought that I had hurt it again but no!, my knee

had popped back into it's groove.

What a relief!

Today it is a bit swollen from that but I can finally bend

it near normally.

Time to rehab it properly and build muscle around it.

This is a very deep time period .

It seems that everything is intense with truth being thrown out there  and mixed with

so many lies and ignorant statements....

it is all mixed into a murky brew.

I am no longer trying to understand it on a daily basis.

Why? 

Well, I have my foundation on a solid faith.

Why not pass it over to Him when he as said to do so?

This has been my go to in times of trouble all through my life.

I am handing over people to a power greater than I.

This is a ship that I won at a church auction years ago.

It is the Nina.

I have had it in the library on the fireplace mantel for 5 years now.

I can honestly tell you that I have not spent one moment looking at it

except for putting odd items on it for my grandson.

( a fox, pumpkin, ghost & leggo guy)

Ever since I have started to give worries over I have noticed more and more 

of this house than I have since moving here.

My priorities are so very different now.

Our life is so wonderful.

Yet I rarely spent enough time just walking through it

than working about everything that I could not control.

The new, shiny thing dangled in front of me is no longer appetising.

I am looking for deeper relationships  & days with deeper meaning.

Being semi isolated was hard at first.

I have adapted to the meaningful moments, the quiet

and sometimes feeling isolated.

I am content in my home.

I hope that you all have the moments of calm that remind you of what

is most important in life.

It truly is simple.

Up next.... creating deeper relationships with old & new friends, my faith, my family,

my flocks- pups, and my marriage. 

Work is filling in for next year so that means I will be sewing the fairy gown of my 

dreams over the winter. It is still pretty windy out there but I am nestled

in my comfy home just a phone call away from my family with a meatloaf , roasted corn,

macaroni & cheese & apple crisp in the oven.

There is a heat pack on the knee.

( prayers are greatly appreciated)

I have never used the word content when describing myself.

I could use it now.

See you all tomorrow.

Stay warm & cozy...drink some tea and know that I am thinking 

of all of you as I enjoy mine.

xoxo

Raven