aha!

Thanks to Suzanne for reminding me about this experience:

I was at Wal-Mart waiting for the photo studio girl to come back from lunch so I could pick up my pics of Lucy. When I first arrived, she was gone (no posted time to return), so I wandered through the store, talked on my phone, and dawdled, a lot. I checked out and remembered I'd forgotten the second of two reasons I had gone there in the first place - Salad...so...found it, buy it, back to the photo studio.

Still "Out to lunch" - hm...I was annoyed, to say the least.

Anyway, while I was texting a friend, an older man stopped and said to me, "cheer up, today's your lucky day." He then handed me a $5 bill and continued on his way. I was speechless (I know, I know). All I could stammer was, "Thank you."

What I realized was, that man went out of his way to make a complete stranger have a better day. My day really was better - I was still bugged about the lunch thing, but I was in a better mood the rest of the day and I have a great incentive to pass my $5 on to someone else. It was an amazing moment of self-realization - my moods DO affect others.

time...

Wow - it's October already...where did September go?! Well, we've been somewhat busy:

Bottled at least 50 quarts of peaches, about 50 pints of applesauce or pie filling, 150 quarts of grape juice, 4 pints peach pie filling, and as soon as I get my apples sliced, I'll dry them for snacks. Phew! Honestly I have enjoyed becoming more domestic...there's great satisfaction in turning a simple food into so many items for future consumption!

We enjoyed family time and General Conference (Anna - still need that author's name) over the weekend. Headed to St. George for a cousin's wedding this weekend - yea warm weather!

It's been a great few weeks!