Sugar Grove
By Paula Mitchell
The writer borrowed this wise advice from a farmer’s wife on Facebook. It bears reading.
“Wise Advice from a Farmer’s Wife”
Whenever you return a borrowed pie pan, make sure it’s got a warm pie in it.
Invite lots of folks to supper. You can always add more water to the soup.
There’s no such thing as woman’s work on a farm. There’s just work.
Make home a happy place for the children. Everybody returns to their happy place.
Always keep a small light on in the kitchen window at night.
If your man gets his truck stuck in the field, don’t go in after him. Throw him a rope and pull him out with the tractor.
Keep the kerosene lamp away from the milk cow’s leg.
It’s a whole lot easier to get breakfast from a chicken than a pig.
Always pat the chickens when you take their eggs.
It’s easy to clean an empty house, but hard to live in one.
All children spill milk. Learn to smile and wipe it up.
Homemade’s always better’n store bought.
A tongue’s like a knife. The sharper it is the deeper it cuts.
A good neighbor always knows when to visit and when to leave.
A city dog wants to run out the door, but a country dog stays on the porch ’cause he’s not fenced-in.
Always light birthday candles from the middle outward.
Nothin’ gets the frustrations out better’n splittn’ wood.
The longer the dress hem, the more trusting the husband.
Enjoy doing your children’s laundry. Some day they’ll be gone.
You’ll never catch a runnin’ chicken but if you throw seed around the back door, you’ll have a skillet full by supper.
Biscuits brown better with a little butter brushed on ’em.
Check your shoelaces before runnin’ to help somebody.
Visit old people who can’t get out. Some day you’ll be one.
The softer you talk, the closer folks’ll listen.
The colder the outhouse, the warmer the bed.
There is a lot of truth to this piece of advice!
Live a richer life by these little instructions:
- Help someone.
- Live life generously, and practice it all the time.
- Fly the flag.
- Create a bucket list.
- Enjoy nature to the fullest!
March has certainly been fickle, with promises for cooler temperatures for all to enjoy. Sunday was a typical March day…beautiful sunshine, the wind blowing, and nature painting a pretty picture with the blooming forsythia, fragrant hyacinths and daffodils waving their pretty bonnets. (The daffdawndilly is the first to bloom when the robin says it’s spring. You are the first love of my heart to make it leap and sing!) There are busloads of starlings, and robins working at finding the worm to satisfy their diet. March “came in like a lamb” and will surely “go out like a lion” — especially since Easter arrives at the end of the month, and that is usually the time for an “Easter storm.” Monday nights freezing temperatures probably got the fruit trees and all else. It is what it is!
This week’s quotes are as follows:
“There has never yet been an uninteresting life.” — Mark Twain
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” — Robert Brault
“It’s not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts.” — Adlai Stevenson
“Life has no limitations except the ones you make.” — Les Brown
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.” — Mark Twain
Sitting inside is the best place to hear the “Talk of the Grove.”
Nathan Puffenbarger, son of Becky and Wesley Puffenbarger, spent Saturday with his grandad, “Butch” (Eldon) Puffenbarger. They enjoyed 4-wheeler riding and checking the cows.
Phil Downs spent his Friday with his aunt, Wanda Pitsenbarger.
Saturday visitors of Evelyn Varner were Donnie and Judy Smith of Bridgewater, Virginia, Joyce and Richard Marshall of McGaheysville, Virginia, and Will Hoover and daughter, Taylor of Staunton, Virginia.
Clickety-clacks for the chin waggers are as follows:
- Neil Armstrong’s first footprint on the moon was 13×6 inches, when he took the historical walk.
- On the average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- Koala prints cannot be distinguished from human fingerprints.
- There are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant’s trunk.
- Spiral staircases in medieval castles run clockwise.
Concerns for this week are many. They are as follows: Bob Adamson, Rick Adkins, John Ashley, Roger and Joan Ashley, Mercedes Aumann, Lynn Beatty, “Bo” Boggs, Jane Conrad, Marie Cole, the Harold Cupp family, Christian Dasher, Isaac Eye, Linda Eye, Marie Eye, Mary Eye, Neal Eye, Carl Gant, Loralee Gordon, Lola Graham, Patsy Green, the Rosalee Grogg family, JC Hammer, Marlene Harman, Marvin Hartman, Steve and Armanda Heavner, Grace Hedrick, Edsel and Mary Ann Hogan, Virgil Homan, Jr., Adelbert Hoover, Keith Hoover, Myrtle Hoover, Debbie and Enos Horst, Lisa and Mike Jamison, Jessica Janney, Alice Johnson, Richard Judy, Marsha Keller, Kim Kline, Tracie Knight, Melissa Lambert, Robert Lambert, Ronnie Lambert, Rex Landis, Roger and Skip Mallow, Yvonne Marsh, Ed May, Gary McDonald, Neil McLaughlin, Rose Miller, Bruce Minor, Tom Mitchell, Barbara Moats, John Morford, Richard Morrison, Aaron Nelson, Ruth Nelson, Cheryl Paine, Wanda Pitsenbarger, Alda Propst, John O. Propst, Kathy Propst, Mike Propst, Sheldon Propst, Tom Rader, Brandon Reel, Charles Rexrode, Jason Rexrode, Jerold “Jerry” Rexrode, Pam Rexrode, Dennis Riggleman, Donna Ruddle, Annie Simmons, Kent Simmons, Phyllis Simmons, Erin Simmons, Eva Simmons, Kent Simmons, Robbie Sites, Mike Skiles, Donnie Smith, the Sarah Smith family, Stanna Smith, Steve Stump, Rosa Tichenor, Sandra Vandevander, Evelyn Varner, Raymond Varner, Amy Vaus, Judy Williams, Ann Wimer and Margaret Wimer.
