It’s Hard To Be Unhappy When
- July 21, 2010
- Category: Daily Diary
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I’m reading an interesting book, “The Survivor’s Club” by Ben Sherwood. It discusses how some people pull through adversity while others become defeated by the same events. I definitely consider myself a survivor, especially after the events of the last 7 years, and when I took the test they provided, “What Kind of Survivor Are You,” I wasn’t surprised to discover I’m “The Believer.” The Believer is one who puts their faith in God and who trusts deeply enough in that faith to believe He will carry you through any adversity. And according to the quiz, my top strength is Hope and the belief that no matter how bad life gets, everything will turn out for the best in the end. I guess they know me because that’s my motto. Ask Mountain Man.
But like everyone I have my wishes and here’s my three if a genie should appear:
I’d love for our property taxes to stop rising so we don’t have to worry about losing our farm, I’d love to have a blog as popular as Pioneer Woman’s blog and my top wish is for DIY Television to recruit Mountain Man for a show.
But how can I want for anything when these are my days:
Watching horses take a snooze in a shady stall during the summer heat:
Watching guineas fly to the nest boxes Mountain Man is building for our brood.
Seeing horses happy to graze in a cooling rain shower.
Watching Mountain Man build the chicken yard under an incomparable Vermont sky.
And heading off to clear pastures just because I love horses.
And yes, even anticipating when the world will be white again:
What makes you happy?
Just about everything makes me happy. I’m just a happy person. I can relate about the property taxes though. There is just too much taxing going on.
Have a terrific day.
Date: July 21, 2010
I’m pretty sure your wishes are about to come true. After all, being happy attracts more happiness and you all ready know how to be happy!
Date: July 21, 2010
I am so in tune with that. I too always hope for the best and even in the worst of times my thought is, it will all work out at the end.
Date: July 21, 2010
If I was your genie, I will delete all your taxes.
That would make me happy too.
Oh, and to look at your beautiful pictures.
Date: July 21, 2010
You had me till the last photo! NO SNOW!!
Date: July 21, 2010
You are in luck! Kathy at the Junk Drawer is granting wishes:
http://www.junkdrawerblog.com/2010/07/im-granting-wishes-today.html
Date: July 21, 2010
Since my heartattack two years ago I have learned that a life lived in joy is a treasure. I find happiness in just simply being and am so grateful for each day.
Date: July 21, 2010
Seeing your blog makes me happy: it has always been my dream to have a farm, and it is nice to see someone who is doing it (without being a millionaire to start is a definite bonus and makes me feel like I might be able to have a farm one day as well).
As for the TV show, do a few YouTube videos and post them there. Tell everyone about them, get as many views as you can, and then send the videos to the networks you’re interested in. Seriously, do it. And don’t take “no” for an answer. i sure as heck would watch to see how Mountain Man makes his fabulous creations (and to see more of your beautiful farm!!).
Best of luck!
Date: July 21, 2010
I love this post…all the photos are great. The one with the horses grazing in the rain…that’s still my favorite ;
..but they’re all my favorites..this is the favorite of the favorites 
I’ll pray that God makes this blog grow and expand like you’d like it. It’s such a nice place to sit and visit!!!!
A lot makes me happy…right at the very moment your blog makes me happy…having crafts to work on….a roof over my head…faithful friends like yourself and others that I’ve met in blogland
…and coffee…I love coffee 
I think your hubby would be fantastic for a DIY show. He knows how to build everything!!!
Lots of love and hugs from Oregon, Heather
Date: July 22, 2010
I grew up with a very loving, kind and caring mother. She had only one fault that begam a problem as I got older (I loved it when I was young) she tried to control whatever happened around those she loved. My teenage years were miserable….wanting her to take care of everything and at the sametime trying to find my own wings.
Of course time moved on for both she and I. I got married and Mom and Dad got jobs 4 hours away from us. Suddenly it was up to me to figure out how to make things work (I still never seem to get everything right, but oh. well.) And suddenly Momma only had her life to control (which was really good for her!)
Then they retired and moved only 1 hour away from us. No more long distance phone calls….YEAH!
But by this time we had both grown and were not just Mother and Daughter but friends. They both only live 9 years after retirement. Daddy went first and then in a few months Momma followed him. That year was very hard….first my best friend for life (we were born together — our parents were best friends—our grandmothers were best friends–died in November, then my most wonderful loveing grandmother died in March, followed by Daddy in September with Momma passing two days after her 70th birthday in August.
I was all alone! (Nothing like you went through, but for me it was hard)
I had to grow, that was all there was too it!
Anyway, after Daddy died and before Momma passed we were talking one day and she told me that she thought her life lesson was to let things just be. That there were many things she just couldn’t fix nor were there things she couldn’t keep from happening. They continued on and all she could was just let them. Then she realized that- that- was the lesson in life she needed to learn: “If you just let things alone they will work out for the best, always”!
It wasn’t long after that, maybe two weeks when she passed. My heart was broken, but oddly at peace.
So now, because I struggle to keep from crashing within myself I remember her words and find a peace for me. Things really do work out for the best, if you will just let them.
It may take awhile, but it always does.
Love you, Sara. You are one of the best things to happen for many of us in blog land.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Date: July 22, 2010
Very nice post,
What makes me happy?
1 Sitting in the woods on a beautiful autumn day deer hunting.
2 Seeing how happy my son Tyler is
3 Spending time with my family
Date: July 22, 2010
Beautiful post. I need to be reminded of this way too often. I stress myself out and why? He is taking care of it all in His time. Sometimes all you can really do is just wait and it will work out better than we ever could imagine.
Lovely pics…as always! Hope all your dreams come true!
Date: July 22, 2010
You make me happy. You always have, but when you write from your heart and it echoes mine I am even happier. I am sure if I took that test I would get the same results, and we have the same motto. Although I do think a genie granting you and I a few wishes wouldn’t hurt anything right?
And then there is the feeling I get when I manage to ride for even just a few minutes, the smile of a baby, the hug of a toddler and the love of a good man.
Date: July 22, 2010
I take delight in life from the smallest to the largest. I don’t think taxes should be allowed to force people from their homes either.
Date: July 22, 2010
The first 3 on your list definitely make me happy also.
And….
Smelling our freshly cut hay in the barn.
Making one last check around the yard, barns and chicken coop
before I settle in for the night.
Taking an hour of time for myself after everything is quiet at night.
Great post!
Date: July 22, 2010
I am happy when I can look at something I have sewn. I love your pictures. The chicks grow quickly don’t they?!
Date: July 23, 2010
The sun rising over the pines, the sun setting over the pond and everything in between; including reading your blog. : )
And Mountain Man definitely deserves his own DIY show.
Be well ~Andrea~
Date: July 23, 2010
I just did a post the other day on some of the things I’m thankful for – since, the loss of my job seventeen months ago, really made me very sad. One thing that did life my spirits was the publication of my poetry book and the lovely review another blogger, fullet, wrote on his blog, secret forest. My three sons also make me very happy as do my dear blogging friends.
Date: July 24, 2010
I like to help those around me with projects that could most likely not be done cheaply. As I grow older the body parts just don’t work the way they used to. My number one wish from the genie would be to stay strong and healthy so that I could continue to help others with their projects. Today will be cutting up a tree for a friend. This is a three foot across cottonwood tree that just sort of layed down during a season of rain and two foot high water up the trunk. I’m not a master of DIY like mountain man but I manage to get by with a little help from my friends.
Don’t get me started on taxes. This next year taxes on the house go up, taxes for the roads go up. taxes for eating at resturants go up, taxes for the schools go up, taxes for luxuries like TVs go up. Well, you get the picture. The old joke of the IRS sending a letter saying how much did you make, just send it in is sadly coming closer to be true. I don’t know how much more tax burden this country can take.
Date: July 24, 2010
What stunning shots! It would be difficult to be sad for too long in such a lovely place.
Date: July 25, 2010
Oh, and as an expat who lives in Sweden, which has the second highest taxes in the world (after Denmark), I can say that your taxes are nothing compared to ours!
Date: July 25, 2010
Knowing people like you!
Date: August 21, 2010