How I Love A Rainy Day

Showers of Greetings Readers, it is a rainy day today, one that I could just lose myself in. I have always loved rainy days. Mind you, ones that are not full of lightening and thunder to hinder my walking in them, although I do enjoy the deep sound of thunder as well.

Today I lingered at the barn after milking. Miss Elsie did as well. I sat on some bales of hay pondering many thoughts I have in my heart of late. Miss Elsie stood in the breeze way of the barn looking out the back door thinking if she should venture out to the hay ring or not. After some moments she decided she would go out. I continued to sit there, eyes closed, listening to the fall of the rain and the creek water in more of a rush to go down its route than normal. With all the extra rain in the last week, the creek is making a more distinct sound of 'rushing' which I find very calming.

With the holidays here, our nurses are taking extra days off. I find I look forward to days as this, even though we do not celebrate this holiday as once we did, it gives us time to not have to be on our regular schedule. We can linger a bit through the day.

Today I made banana/cherry smoothies, I have some cottage cheese draining, and my ingredients out to make bread. There are dishes to be done, clothes to hang on the drying rack to dry and all the while enjoying the falling, in a pitter patter rhythm, of the rain. It is to rain all weekend, so I will be able to 'sit by the window when it is raining and read a book I'll never be tested on.'  ")  I also have a painting project in progress. Husband cut me 3 pieces of boards, I am painting barn quilt designs on them. Two will go to our barn, the other for a gift. The first one is gray background, barn red diamonds in each corner, The center is a square, 8"x8", cream in color of which I will paint some shamrocks. I do not have a digital camera anymore, but will be shopping for one after the holidays and I will get some pictures to share.

I hope the quotation I posted yesterday will be of encouragement to all that read it. Looking unto the Lord in all things, for it is in Him alone that we live and breathe.

In Joy

My Heart

Dear Readers, I was gifted this quotation by a sweet friend, it speaks deeply of my view of my life and how I live. It is beautiful. There is no title nor author.

"I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I'll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I've got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly with no place to rush off to. I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite."

In Joy

YouTube Update

Hello Dear Readers,  it has almost been a year since I shared my thoughts about youtube and youtubers and their channels. I have curtailed greatly my viewing of them, but just recently looked at some I use to view regularly, to see if anything had improved, but, all have grown more disgusting. Many now are doing live stream, of which is nothing but live blah blah blah, for an hour or more, my goodness who has the time! If you really are homesteading. New channels have joined on the band wagon of the old ones, which makes it more disgusting. I could not give a reliable estimate of the percentage of ones asking for donations, or who have gone to patreon or other means to get viewers to pay to watch their channel, but it is considerably high. Most all the people with channels are now making/selling various wares such as t-shirts, cups, mugs, give aways, anything that will give them a 'draw.'  Deep South Homestead is now selling 2, oh my, TWO different style t-shirts and all proceeds will go to their cabin they are building as Danny has always wanted one. Gee! This thread continues on with Guildbrook Farm, of which Jamie is using some of the funding from their subcribers to buy and get into archery, something she has always wanted to do, and now she can.  Gee!  It is very disturbing to me that people would actually want to fund some others lifestyle. Just for a t-shirt or what ever trinket they have to offer.?  Seriously? I only have named these two channels, but believe me there are so many more, too numerous to mention.  Viewers, get a life of your own, fund that. There are some, very few some, channels on you tube that are of encouragement on this homesteading movement, they have not fallen into the mold of these others, they do not put up a video every day,  every week, but only as what they may be doing will be of help. I think these ones have become disgusted as well at the change in you tube and the so called homesteading channels. Some say they homestead, but they are traveling all across the states doing what? and guess who is paying for them to gad about!  This is not homesteading.

I won't be reviewing you tube homestead channels again, enough is enough, and doubt anything will change for the good, it will only grow into more of the same as it is now. I do not miss it, nor need it. I still go through my back issues of magazines, gaining more each time for there is always something I missed before.

Again, I do encourage ones to 'fund' your own lifestyle, get some back issues of homesteading magazines, nothing wrong with reading and re-reading.

In Joy