Saturday, November 18, 2017

Some thoughts & Day 337 CJSM-book IV

Random-thoughts
 
Good is vacant effort
Better initiates entrepreneurship
Best satiates a sacred spirit-soul
 
Live! Love! Laugh! Focus contemplate
Vigilant be! Not one future is ever late!
 
Faith! Family! Freedom! Might just be all there really---Is!
In one eternal moment the only mercy blessing will be...His! 
 
 
 
 
 
Check out my 8-books:
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Christmas Treasures (Childrens' book)
Creed of the Mountain Man (historical fiction)
Horizon Dawn (case-study)
Christmas Always (poetry)
Syncopated Cadence (general poetry)
...And Justice for All (American sniper)
Station Master (Short stories)
Golden "50" Anniversary
 
 
 
Plus:
 
 
Day 337
 
 
Taking turns cranking to make homemade ice cream
 
 
The “simple” things make life---Fabulous! Often, those “easy-living” traits are Sweet!
I have always been exceedingly “Blessed”! Luck-of-the-draw! Winner of the Life-lottery!
I came from 2-exemplar families, both sides. Tremendous people! Good! Generous! Loving!
My great Grandparents’ back porch at the farm was a gathering place for the extended family; we spent a great deal of time there over the years. As a kid, I enjoyed listening to the adults discuss everything from politics to religion and talk about family members and the experiences of life they had witnessed; as a child with an interest in history, that was a great teaching-time.
Somehow, the family always managed to make the events of the day a great adventure.
Homemade ice cream might be an anomaly to the “hip” modern of today, that experience offered some valuable insight to character, generosity and “collective”-effort.
The collaborative-effort of each member of the gathered assemblage kept the crank-handle churning the cream mixture in the stainless steel canister centered in the wooden bucket filled with ice shard covered with rock salt which made it melt freezing the mixture in the maker. In about an hour and a half---Voila…frozen homemade ice cream. In season we added fresh peaches or strawberries to the cream concoction which added a special delight to the tasty treat.
That old crank got plenty hard to turn and towards the end of the freezing cycle, even the most-muscled man had difficulty making one, or, even, two revolutions before relenting.
Once spooned into glass bowls with a portion for each participant, one had to be very quick about eating the frozen delicacy as it tended to melt rather quickly. Mmm’ Mmm’ Good!
 
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “Frozen-delight!” Memories!
 
 
 


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