Blessings are found in the strangest of ways!

Last Wednesday I worked all day mowing/mulching Mother's and our lawn, blowing leaves off our driveways, patios and porches, and cleaning the leaves out of the gutters on both sides of our street. Everything look so nice, yet I knew in less than 24 hours new leaves would "design" a new picture for me that would eventually require the same day of work again. I planned to enjoy the yards for the next 24 hours! Olin took me out for a surprise date and nice supper at Smokehouse that evening. On the way home, he happened to mention that several loads of wood would be being delivered in the morning" IN OUR FRONT YARD"! All I could think about was "not even 24 hours of "beautiful" yard.

 

Sure enough around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, the first of three loads were delivered! I was busy in the kitchen starting to can pumpkin. We love to use the Buckskin pumpkins from The Red Barn Farm in Weston, Missouri.  Kathryn had been out to the farm with a friend and had purchased a HUGE Buckskin pumpkin and Olin had brought 3 really nice ones in from his garden. It was time for me to get to work! As I cut into and divided the huge one, I felt like I had just entered into a "pumpkin NICU"!!! There were seeds that had little green plants almost out of the seed coat with little roots and root hairs attaching to the meat of the pumpkin. Not just a few, but lots of them! Kathleen and I had such a fun time getting pics of this pumpkin and the plant nursery inside. Somewhere between finding the "pumpkin NICU" and the thuds of the wood being unloaded in our very clean front yard, the name of my blog was birthed! There are blessing everyday around us if we only just look. Sometimes the blessings may come in the form of a "mess"; but, they are no less a blessing!! Wood delivered to our front door is SO much easier and safer for us to work with.   I doubt I will be thinking of the freshly mulched lawn in January when the snow is deep and the wind chill is unthinkable!  We will just be blessed to have lots of firewood to put in the fireplace and keep the family toasty warm. "Now your know the rest of the story" behind Seeing A Day Full of Blessings (Or At Least A Blessed Mess).