Yesterday I was outside hanging up laundry and feeding the ever-demanding maw of the woodstove when a friend called. When I got in to hear the message she said she was bringing over food.
Food...wonderful homemade meat loaf, sour dough bread, potatoes, corn and cuppycakes with the best frosting I ever tasted. She also brought the boss a Sudoku book, which he amazed me by finding totally engrossing when he came in from overdoing it and half killing himself with work he shouldn't even attempt. What a friend! She is busy with her own farm and her own farm guys and calvings and all the headaches that accompany being a farm wife. She already works too hard. Yet she took time to make us the best meal we have had in ages. We couldn't wait to finish up milking last night so we could come in to dinner. It was worth the wait.
Thanks!!! That is all I can say. It was a tremendous kindness that we won't forget any time soon.
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Nothing like good friends...and good food. :)
That is so great. Our pioneer ancestors would do that for neighbors. You are so fortunate to live in that environment today.
My wife and her coworkers just did something similar for a fellow employee who had some surgery.
Good stuff.
I have to say (and no bias, of course...) country people are wonderful. I miss the family friends I have back home...no matter how hard they work or how tough times may be, they still find time to make the ones they care about feel special.
Stacy, that is for sure...we are really grateful
Jan, it is a great part of the rural mindset
FC, it is good...nothing like community, something that seems rare today
CC, It must be a tremendous adjustment for you and yours living so far from home...
God bless good neighbors.
Mrs. M, Amen!!
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