Thoughts

This was a very familiar scene many years ago when we hung our laundry out to dry.    It was never a chore, but a chance to be out of doors and commiserate with the sunshine and breeze.     

This may be true but it is neater and no one I know likes to wear rumpled anything.

A pink lady slipper . . . Mother Nature has a palette all her own.

What a striking picture, noise from the ground and from the sky all in celebration of the Fourth of July.  Lynn sent this picture on from Pittsburgh, Pa.    Thanks Lynn, it is awesome.

I am very lucky in that my old friends children stay in touch with me.    I had an e mail from one lovely young lady yesterday remembering her mother on her birthday.   She has been gone some years but her memory lingers because of her wonderful sense of humor and her devotion to her children.    She was a neighbor and we ladies didn't work outside the home full time.   We managed to baby sit for extra money or take on a part time job to make a few extra dollars when times got really tough.    Most of the time we were home makers and we delighted in our roles as wives and mothers.     Yes, we washed on Mondays, ironed on Tuesdays, scrubbed on Wednesdays, shopped on Thursdays and got ready for rest and relaxation with our families on the weekends.    We managed to be friends with our neighbors and sharing time, even if only for a half hour, was enough to keep our sanity when life was not easy.     My friend clipped sayings out of magazines and newspapers and pasted them in a book.   It kept her moral up and when she shared her clippings it boosted morals to a new and delightful height.   When talking with her daughter yesterday, a dozen memories came to mind and I had to smile thinking of the afternoons we turned tears into laughter all because one wonderful lady had such a delightful sense of humor.    We lost her to cancer, but her spirit is always close by.     Our world has changed when it comes to neighbors as every one seems to have gone out into the working world.   Has it made life better?   I don't think so.    Oh, we needed some change,  don't doubt that for a minute, but taking 'mom' out of 'mother' was not the best of ideas.     A mother's job is one of the most important jobs in the entire world and when she has a mate who understands and appreciates her, the world is a much better place.    As Andy Rooney would say,' and that is my thought for today,'  I hope, if you have children, you enjoy them and take the time to teach them by your example.  Yesterday I had a neighbor stop in with her new granddaughter, six weeks old, a beauty, such a good baby as she slept through all the fussing we did over her.    The feelings never leave and holding a new born is truly a miracle of life.    Yes, if there is any chance of coming back I'd ask for my old job back again. . . wouldn't you?   Children . . . how they make the world go round.   Hugs to all.