Author: Garnetjewel
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Writing Prompt:
Describe your ideal week? Honestly, I have given up on my ideal this or that. Sometimes reality ends up better than my ideal idea that I can envision. Time and time again God surprises me with better twists than I can ever think of for myself. Last week was one of those. The temperature was…
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How do you relax? My answer from the last time I answered this hasn’t wavered. Music is my go to way to relax my mood does guide the type of music I listen to though. Like when I was cutting the corn on Thursday I was listening to Christian music one of my favorites is…
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The Last 24 Hours…
Last night after we rested from processing and getting the corn to the point of freezing we were then readying ourselves for this morning. Mom had an early appointment to further her journey with her dentures. It has been an uneasy experience for a long while and this was another big step. Still I needed…
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Writing Prompt:
What is the one word that you use regularly that you would give up? This is a hard one to answer. I say gosh and goodness, but I don’t know that I would want to give them up. If there was a word or what sounds more like a grunt at times it would be…
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Are you holding a grudge? About? Interesting question! Answering such a question would be like airing dirty laundry would it not? It would amount to talking adult issues in front of your kids and not expecting them to take a side. Which is why adults need to keep their issues between themselves instead of putting…
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Processing… Sweet Corn
Honestly, I’m not certain when I was old enough to notice my family and our sweet corn freezing process. Only that we have done it all the years we have been farmers. Technically Dad became a farmer when I was 5, but Papaw Freddy was always a farmer at heart. So it would seem forever.…
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Hoosiers… and their Sweet Corn
Our neighbors dropped us off some sweet corn this afternoon. Talk about a surprise and trying to find out how we can work it up really fast. Mom was the one who answered the door to him and like the green beans from last year he gave us quite a load of work. Work, we…
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Writing Prompt:
Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home. Cincinnati. It was one week with my cousin Lilly, I was so nervous about the drive, but excited to get some girl time with one of the cousins I had equated to be a sister of mine. Thankfully the week before it happened it…
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Leisure Reading with Lincoln and Douglass
My ideas for articles today have had to be reset. What started as a day at home ended up being an afternoon at Terre Haute. My brain isn’t really working this evening, but earlier I got to spend some time actually reading. Reading for leisure, has not been much of a priority lately. So it…
Jewells of Thought 