For the month of November, we (L.D.S. Relief Society Visiting Teachers) are directed to choose a talk from the October General Conference session to give as a visiting teaching message. My thoughts were directed towards the month of November and Thanksgiving. Thinking along those lines, I enjoyed the talk given by President Henry B. Eyring, titled….”Gratitude on the Sabbath Day”. In this talk, he stated that the Lord instructed the Saints, in 1831 that their prayers and thanks should be directed heavenward. They, and we, were told by the Lord how to worship and give thanks on the Sabbath.
So with the message presented by President Eyring, my thoughts again were turned to Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks. It was then that I remembered coming across a quote by President Monson, given in October of 2010, titled…”The Divine Gift of Gratitude. In his talk, President Monson made the statement about Sincerely Giving Thanks. With that, and seeing a few ideas on the internet, I made my version of his quote into a handout.
Thank goodness I got all the back yard leaves raked on Thursday because it rained most of the day yesterday.
I had a lot of leaves in the driveway too, but I wasn’t quite sure what to do with them. When I tried to rake them up, I was getting a lot of small pebbles in with the leaves.
I decided to just rake them up anyways, using a lighter touch on the rake so I didn’t get too many pebbles.
And the rewards of my efforts……..12 piles of leaves. The reason I say rewards is because all those piles of gold get tilled into our garden plot, making that area ready for next year. The picture only shows 11, but there is actually a hidden pile of leaves off to the far left-hand side of the screen.
What took me close to two hours to rake into piles, my husband came home from work and cleared it all up in little over 30 minutes. Yes, living on a farm has its rewards……scoop up the leaves then back out of the driveway and haul them to the garden plot.
I’m hoping to get another good day so I can get the front yard raked and the lawn mowed one last time before winter sets in.
The leaves on the front yard come from two trees (one tree is directly behind the other tree so you can’t see it in the picture) and with the two of them….YES.…lots of leaves. A ground piled thick with leaves.
And by the looks of it, there are still a few more leaves left on those branches….ha! Looks like we will be having one happy garden plot this coming spring.
Oh, and I almost forgot. We also have a smaller tree in the other corner of the front yard. But hey………it’s nothing compared to the other rakings.
The funny thing was……….the next day after getting out of bed, it took me half the morning to figure out why my shoulders were sore. Getting old-er…..yup, definitely getting old-er.
Today, a friend and I went to visit another friend in the Arco hospital. We decided to leave a bit early and try out a new café. It is called “CornerStone Cafe”. It replaced the Mi Nest Cafe that was there last summer. Their official opening date was October 17th, 2016.
The inside is basically the same as it was before with the exception of new decorations. They added a touch of their own, making it more of a western style.
Neither my friend or I wanted a big meal so we asked if we could order from the kids menu. They were very accommodating and allowed us to do that. My friend got the Grilled Cheese on Texas Toast with a mini salad and I got the Grilled Chicken with a mini salad. It didn’t dawn on me until I was almost through with my salad, but I ended up putting the rest of my grilled chicken, which was super moist, in what was left of my salad. Totally Yum! To top off the salad, one of their dressing choices was a garlic aioli (I love garlic) dressing that was excellent.
Will I eat there again? Absolutely!
Here is the menu we chose from:
If you don’t want to choose from the above menu, they also have a “Build Your Burger”. This is not like a regular menu but it is in the form of a note pad. They just rip you off a page, you fill it out and give it to the waitress. I am a hamburger kind of lady so I will need to go back and try out their hamburgers, too.
