Lessons learned everyday

I try to learn something new everyday! Sometimes it is a lesson. Sometimes it is something to make life easier or more productive. Sometimes it is just for me, or a thought or an idea either for me or someone else. Or how to do something new or a new recipe. But my thought is I hope I learn something new right up to and including the day I die. As my mom always said no one can take your education away from you!

Somedays you learn how to make life easier, my exciting lesson over the past couple of days was using Rain-X on my clean windows, the outside (yes my life is that dull that I get all giddy about cleaning windows...I love to do that so much-NOT!). They are, for now, crystal clear and they should now repel rain water and maybe stay cleaner, longer. We will see, but for right now they look really nice!!! I of course still have more windows to clean!

Some gadgets work, some do not. I recently bought garden gloves! I know, no big deal other than these are rubber coated PLUS four fingers on the right hand glove are like black claws! They would be great for halloween!! I do wonder why they don't make left handed claws for those people who are left handed! Yes that is discriminatory! But anyway, I bought these gloves and tried them out yesterday while working in the yard. They did pretty good. But I did switch to regular gloves in the afternoon and didn't miss the "claws"! In the right circumstances they did work pretty good! I still feel like I should chase small children scaring them with the right hand claws!! I wouldn't do that, but I'm just saying!!


Some random thoughts on a Monday....
Some people and their kindness never cease to amaze me! People who communicate or drop everything just to hang with you are priceless. Then there are those people who only do what they want and are only there when they want to be....like I said, everyday is a lesson. You learn who your friends are.

I love doing random acts of kindness....I took my sister a slice of rhubarb pie. It may not sound like a big deal but for her it was. It was something I've wanted to do for the past couple of years. You see my sister always asked for my mom to make her a homemade rhubarb pie for her birthday in April. My mom's pie was a custard-like, a two crust rhubarb pie and I will admit it was really, really good (especially after it had cooled just enough that it wasn't hot any more but was not cold from being in the fridge-there is a fine line here!). My sister was so please with that simple piece of pie! It brought her good memories of my mom and I think it made her both happy and sad. It's amazing how food can bring back memories.

And my final thought on this Monday....our spring has been wacky. It was warmer in February than it has been most of March and now April. (I keep telling Mother Nature to shape up but so far it has done no good). I use a weather app on my phone to daily check the weather. In fact it's the first thing I check on my phone before I get out of bed. (I think it's the farmer's daughter in me!). I plan what I wear accordingly. And last week my weather app (weather bug) was wrong not once BUT two times!!!! The two days I wore a dress I about froze and it was windy with a winter-like north wind. Not fun. So I'm taking the blame for the weather. We'll see today since the "bug" said it was supposed to be in the low 70's and at least the gale force winds are from the south, so I hope that means it warmer! If not, blame me!!

Have a good one and remember to learn at least one new thing today!!