Cool but clear.\u00a0 That’s the forecast.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m hoping it’s correct because I’ve got stuff to do.<\/p>\n
Did some stuff yesterday.\u00a0 The heavy rain put a damper (ha!) on my day.\u00a0\u00a0 My wife found a local food distribution scheme she liked so all the flats of food are out of my foyer.\u00a0 I’ve still got bins of auction stuff there though.<\/p>\n
A gingerbread house was constructed on the kitchen table.\u00a0 Some cookies were decorated.\u00a0\u00a0 Kids played Skyrim and Portal2 all day and night.\u00a0 Somehow we ended up with a very late bedtime.<\/p>\n
The little one and I are halfway through the last Little House book, The First Four Years.\u00a0 It’s hard to think of little Laura as a mom, especially when she wants to sled down the hill outside the house…\u00a0 and it’s a bit daunting to read the books and see how much of their success was down to not having bad luck at a bad time.\u00a0\u00a0 Then when everything should come together, and they should ‘live happily ever after’, they don’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Real life, even through the filter of story, doesn’t always have the happy ending.\u00a0 What is consistent throughout the books is that Pa’s attitude and depth of knowledge, and willingness to ACT when needed, carries the family through travail after travail.\u00a0 The pioneers that lived and succeeded were TOUGH and yet FLEXIBLE.<\/p>\n
That seems to be something to keep in mind and nurture in general, and in the coming hard times specifically.\u00a0 Hard times are ALWAYS coming (shout out to the ‘nearer’ bois!)\u00a0 It is the nature of the world that the wheel turns.\u00a0 What seems more likely for the near and medium term, prosperity and good times, or hard times?\u00a0 Show your work…<\/p>\n
I’m gonna keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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Cool but clear.\u00a0 That’s the forecast.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m hoping it’s correct because I’ve got stuff to do.<\/p>\n
Did some stuff yesterday.\u00a0 The heavy rain put a damper (ha!) on my day.\u00a0\u00a0 My wife found a local food distribution scheme she liked so all the flats of food are out of my foyer.\u00a0 I’ve still got bins of auction stuff there though.<\/p>\n
A gingerbread house was constructed on the kitchen table.\u00a0 Some cookies were decorated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n