Month: November 2020 (Page 1 of 2)

Happy 1st Sunday of Advent!  Prepare ye the Way of the Lord!

People, look east. The time is near
Of the crowning of the year.
Make your house fair as you are able,
Trim the hearth and set the table.
People, look east and sing today:
Love, the Guest is on the way.

A cold but very still and beautiful evening.

I think she ate at least 1/2 a cup of soup.😋

Thank goodness for older brothers!  I think I tend toward being an idealist. I like to think things should be done in the correct order in the proper way.   This older brother of mine knows when to put humor into my life to make me more balanced.

Flag Goes By

By:  Henry Holcomb Bennett

Hats off!

Along the street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,

A flash of color beneath the sky:

Hats off!

The flag is passing by!

 

Blue and crimson and white it shines,

Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines.

Hats off!

The colors before us fly;

But more than the flag is passing by.

 

Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great,

Fought to make and to save the State:

Weary marches and sinking ships;

Cheers of victory on dying lips;

 

Days of plenty and years of peace;

March of a strong land’s swift increase;

Equal justice, right and law,

Stately honor and reverend awe;

 

Sign of a nation, great and strong

To ward her people from foreign wrong:

Pride and glory and honor,—all

Live in the colors to stand or fall.

 

Hats off!

Along the street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums;

And loyal hearts are beating high:

Hats off!

The flag is passing by!

Andrew is smoking his bacon!

Now I have no reason to be late 😊

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” – James A. Garfield

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” – Plato

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein

“Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.” – Dodinsky

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” – Douglas Macarthur 

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.” – Walt Disney

“Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Satchel Paige

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.– E.E. Cummings

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Daniel Francois Esprit Auberge

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw 

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” – May Lamberton Becker

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” – Satchel Paige

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Audrey Hepburn

 “The trick to aging gracefully is to enjoy it.” – Unknown 

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” – Samuel Ullman

 

Today we weaned steers with the help of Don, Tracy, Glenn, Chelsea, and Andy.  It was a blessed and safe weaning.