Pumpkin patch.

Proverbs 31:14 KJ "She is like the merchant ships, she bringeth her  food from afar." 

Maybe not from so far away today,  but from a nearby vegetable stand at the edge of a farmer's garden.

The green pumpkin in the photo is a new variety. It's  green in color,  but  it's ripe.  (Exotic are  the spices for the pumpkin pie -ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.)

At  the community pumpkin patch. DM

 Little Girl With Stand-uppy Hair 

(On my other blog, Validations.blogspot.com)

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb"  A small rain.  

Weekly columns in small town newspapers- good news

In a care center where a family member resides,   library hour is held  and several weekly columns  are read out loud from the local  newspaper.   They are a great way for the old timers to connect- and for helpers and family to connect. 

Proverbs 15:30 "Light in a messenger's eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones...Bright eyes gladden the heart, good news puts fat on the bones."  


Barb, a longtime friend, recently sent clippings from her local newspaper  called,  From the Attic,  by Myra.
    
The author writes about the past - the things that the elderly remember and can relate to:  When the wash hung out on the line in winter and freeze dried.  When her grandfather's farm sold,  her parents house sold, and  their country church closed. (The church where she was married, confirmed and baptized.)  Myra  remembered playing in the hay mow,  wading in the river, playing in the ice house,  reading books  in her favorite cozy corner, and  the Christmas programs..."

In a second article she wrote about current events ,the contrasts, and making a connection:  "I'd never heard of FM radios, computers, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.  I listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny and the President's speeches on radio. 

The news paper articles give caregivers  opportunity  to relay, relate, connect and interact with their care receivers.    

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb".  Elderly play and care at hollyhockjunction

October on the Prairie

Genesis 8:22 "As long as the earth endures - seed time and harvest..."

 

Deuteronomy 32: 2 "small rain upon the tender herb."  Elderly play and care at hollyhockjunction

Autumn Butterflies

Not a Monarch- smaller.  
Not a white or yellow cabbage butterfly landing on the milkweed pods-  I think those are gone.
But Painted Ladies,  here on flowers in autumn. 

Psalms 24:1  The earth is the Lord's and the fullness of it, 

the world and they who dwell in it.  

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb".  
 Elderly play and care at:  hollyhockjunction

Ask an old timer-chickens were once a part of everyday life.

 Ask AN OLD TIMER if  CHICKENS WERE ONCE A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE.  

Neighborhood Patching Parties:
The ladies got together to do their mending, and to catch up with the news.  None had telephones.
Also, they held poultry parties to dress the chickens...Draw, scald, and pluck! A job they didn't mind having help with!  

 

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb".  
Elderly play and care at:  hollyhockjunction

Calico prints are back.

Deuteronomy 32:2  "small rain upon the tender herb." 
Elderly play and care at hollyhockjunction

Proverbs woman a queen: I try to relate.

Salt Box House embroidered.

QUEEN OF SODA CRACKERS and cheese...CRUMBS AND ALL. (Her little muncher is the sweetest.) 
  
  My daughter lives in a little red saltbox house big enough for a husband, a child, and a dog.  
  I heard her tell her daughter once,   "Missy,  I'm the queen around here."
 Her young daughter,  a girl with 
stand-uppy hair, raised her  eyebrows and said,  "And Mom,  you're doing a good job,too."

Proverbs 31: 28 "Her  children rise up and call her blessed...".



The Proverbs woman a queen: I try to relate.  Her husband is at the city's gates.  Her children are learning beside her.  She assigns her maids their tasks. (My maids are prayers.) 
She is a  daughter.  Are her parents elderly?  Her sisters in Christ, where are they? ("Her lamp goes not out..." And what do the neighbors think?  ("Let the fruit of her own hands praise her in the gates of the city.")  XYZinnia

Deuteronomy 32:2  "small rain upon the tender herb". 
Elderly free play and care at hollyhockjunction

Octoberfest

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