A Bit of Rain and some thoughts

A few sprinkles are falling this morning, and from the radar pictures, it looks like the rain might stick around for a few hours. I couldn't be happier. We need the rain for the garden. It's all tilled and ready for fall planting next month. The grayness of the morning has however made me feel lazy and thinking about spending the morning with my head buried in the pages of a good book, a cup of Old King Cole tea by my side.

Miss Mei-Ling will be coming for a visit this afternoon while mommy and daddy go to the Doctor. Melanie is seeing a high risk pregnancy specialist, same one she saw periodically when she was carrying Mei-Ling. We are hoping they do an ultrasound so we know for certain if its a boy or a girl. Melanie is still experiencing very bad low blood sugars but is sick less often now.

My dad was fitted for his mask for the radiation therapy. 7 weeks of treatment, both chemo and radiation. My heart aches thinking about him having to go through all that. He is a fighter though and will do what he has to and somehow make the best of it, that is who he is.

We have made the decision to sell our goats. As much as I love them, I also love being able to be free from milking every 12 hours. Emery and I want to spend some time going places and not being tied down to chores. We have done that for decades and our time of having milking animals seems to have come to a close. Running through my mind is the phrase about its not the things we have done that we regret, but we regret the things we did not do. I think we don't want to have those kinds of regrets later in life.
I am not so filled with that inner fear of a world going awry and me having to be self sufficient so we can survive no matter what happens. Life is short, and one needs to be mindful that there are different stages to life. This is a different stage of life for us. We will always be into a simple lifestyle, that's part of the core of who we are but as I have said many many times, simple living is so much more about how our minds work, whats important to us and our motivation for doing whatever it is we do.

To be honest I am having great fun discovering new interests and spending a little bit of time on the things I never had time for when the children were all still in the nest. And we are done with the farm chores as a teaching tool for our children, that stage is over with and we are so happy we chose to live the way we did and teach the children the things we did.

No regrets is the way I want to feel at the very end of my life, so I am embracing the moment and living spherically and in many directions so that I don't miss one good thing !

Table set for the evenings meal. Might not have time to do it later when the wee one is here, since I just don't want to miss one moment of her sweetness with being busy in the kitchen.

Pollo alla Cacciatora with Polenta is on the menu for tonight