Tough Times a’comin
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 09-08-2011
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My garden area in my backyard is about 10 x 10 feet. Some okra, bell peppers, tomatoes, and a couple of potato plants this year. I think I might increase the size of the garden as that may be what feeds us before long. The front garden space is about 3 ft wide x 20 ft long and we do squash, okra, bell peppers and tomatoes there. My backyard is about 2/3 grass and 1/3 rocks. I could use a lot of the rock space as garden and almost feed us, if we can get the water….I think we all need to be thinking about hard times as our government does not seem to be too sound at the present. The other governments of the world are also having their problems…England of all places…What’s up with that? Greece, Italy, France and Spain having problems. China is the only one with money and borrowing may really get expensive…Starvation in the African nations…Weather problems, droughts in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas and New Mexico and other states, rising prices of all commodities, job availabilities, losing homes and numerous other domestic problems. Corn production going into making ethanol and not food stuff…….One has to wonder where or if it will ever end. Sweetie often says, “This too shall pass”, but I ‘m not to sure this time…. For those of you who have a job, hold on tightly. For those of you who have land, consider what you’ll do with it during tough time…For those of you who have neither I would try very hard to find both….Hold on to your silver and gold…..Paper money may not be worth very much….Man, what a gloom and doom posting, but I am going to leave it up at least for tonight. I may delete it tomorrow…I’ll see how I’m feeling then or if the world looks any brighter….Maybe it will…8/10/11, it don’t….
Perhaps America needs some tough times. We have gotten soft. I just hope that the coming “tough” times are just sufficient to teach us a lesson, and are not so tough as to defeat us. Earthly life is not supposd to be “heavenly”; neither was it ever intended to be a planet “flowing with milk and honey”. The ancient Hebrew found out that Palestine wasn’t quite what they expected. It was a land “flowing with milk and honey”, but it reguired much work, and then more work, and then much diligence in order to keep it. America is the same way. It may not continue to be what the newer and sorriest generation has come to expect, but it is still a “land flowing with milk and honey”. It just requires much work, and more work, and more dedication to make it so, as the “greatest generation” as well as earlier ones knew as they succeeded in winning a new land from a savage people and built it into a great land with honey and milk coming from every tree and with a chicken in every pot. It can happen again. The younger, sorriest generation will just have to become willing to work, to be less selfish, and to have hope in their own ability and in the future that their work can bring for themselves. There is not a country anywhere in the history of the world that did not experience hard times. America will not be the first one. All work is not necessarily sitting at a desk in temperature controlled room in front of a PC and chasing a mouse around a six inch by six inch pad. Sometimes manual labor is necessary and good. for one thing, it keeps us honest, and it keeps us having faith and hoping for a better day. After all, faith is the substance of that we hope for.
The harvest is ready but the workers are few, huh?
The workers are few, but the few will survive and reap the benefits.
Your place is valueble for me. Thanks!…