“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
~ L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Happy October!
Tag: fall
Scenes from the Buckwheat Festival
Sunday Muse
“Angels are visible to those who accept the light
and break the pact made with darkness.”
“The Valkyries” ~ Paul Coehlo
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
Friday’s Fences
Liam, Strider and Jack are enjoying the cool fall weather.
joining Life According to Jan and Jer for Friday’s Fences
The Buckwheat Festival
It’s Buckwheat Time! Our County Fair ‘unofficially’ begins today, and for all the youngsters who have worked so hard with their livestock and their exhibits, it can’t come fast enough. The banners are up. The buckwheat batter is being prepared. The rides are being assembled. The barns will fill up tonight, and Lena’s market lambs are ready to go. Please, wish her luck!
Mark the Calendar
Well, Saturday is definitely a date to mark on the calendar. When we went to bring the lambs in to the barn for FAMACHA scoring, there were the big boys, Poseidon and Aragorn in the wrong paddock. Fingers crossed that there was not too much of a party going on. Bad boys.
Happy Autumnal Equinox!
Wishing you a beautiful first day of autumn! Hope you enjoy this lovely video by Bruce Dale about our little corner of the world.
Solstice to Solstice :: Light
Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy.
Bring My people home.
How?
By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love.
Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing.
Avoid the mundane.
Do not accept the unacceptable.
Teach all who seek to learn of Me.
Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.
Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me.
Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing.
Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God.
Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift!
Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift—yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you…I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS.
~ from Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 2 by Neale Donald Walsch
joining urban.prairie.forest for week thirteen of the thirteen weeks of autumn, the solstice to solstice project
Checking In
The boys are checking in and are happy to report that the first breeding cycle ends today. All the ewes are marked, and the wax marking crayons get changed to a new color today. The hope is that everyone is caught the first go round, and no one gets marked a second time. If everything goes smoothly, we’ll be able to get all the ewes moved to the barn pasture for the winter, hopefully before any more big snowstorms move through our area.