MEMORIES, OLD AND NEW

IT SURE WAS A LOVELY WEEKEND.. HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT WEEKEND AS WELL.. ABIGAIL AND I PUT FLOWERS ON THE CEMETERIES ON SATURDAY .. MOM, DAD, NORMAN'S DAD, GRANDMA, GRANDMA AND GRANDDAD, AND MY SISTER WANDA.. THERE ARE SO MANY OTHERS I WISH I COULD AFFORD FLOWERS FOR.. BUT... WELL, THEY ARE HONESTLY IN MY HEART!.. NORMAN BUILT A PEN FOR THE TINY BANNIE CHICKENS (6 OF THEM) FOR THEIR PROTECTION FROM THE OTHERS, UNTIL THEY CATCH UP IN SIZE... THEN ALONG WITH REGULAR SATURDAY STUFF, LAUNDRY, HOUSE, AND SUCH.. ABIGAIL AND I WORKED MORE ON OUR BEADS.. SHE'S DOING REALLY GOOD MAKING NECKLACES AND BRACELETS.. (*.*)  

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Life is Like a Cup of Coffee

Spiritual Story by Unknown

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. 

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.                                               

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

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 NORMAN AND LEISA CAME UP TODAY AND JOINED ABIGAIL, NATHAN AND THE TWO OF US FOR LUNCH.. We had a beef roast, gravy, quartered buttered potatoes, cooked carrots, rolls and cooked apples. I think Nathan Lee was the only one that ate cooked apples. I think everyone else was a little to full to eat them.. but we did have a dish with toast for supper.. "pretty good"! We bought a bushel of apples at a yard sale.. we do every year.. might go back and get a few more.. THANKS YOU ALL FOR COMING UP TODAY! LOVE YA! ALSO, I TALKED TO MY SISTER ON THE PHONE.. LOVE YA GIRL!
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FOR ME, THIS WOULD BE AWESOME! "A COFFEE TREE!" AND ALL THE CUPS ARE STEAMING HOT, LOOKS LIKE! YUM.. HOPE IT'S DUNKIN DONUTS (brand) LOL... CHRIS AND LILY GAVE US A LITTLE BAG FULL.. DELICIOUS! LOVE IT! THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU!!! LOVE YOU ALL TOO (*>*) LOL .... HAVE YOU HEARD THE STORY ABOUT "THE WORRY TREE" (OUT IN THE FRONT YARD TO LEAVE YOUR WORRIES FROM THE DAY ON BEFORE YOU GO INSIDE THE HOUSE FOR THE EVENING) WELL THIS ONE WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.. ADD A COUPLE OF CHAIRS AND JUST GRAB A CUP OF HOT COFFEE AND LET YOUR TROUBLES DISSOLVE THEMSELVES AWAY! LOL... NOW DON'T THAT SOUND LIKE A PLAN? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME, FOR SURE!!!