Thankful Thursday
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 2:40PM 
Today is everything a fall day should be—crisp in the morning and sunny and warm in the afternoon. The leaves have turned, mostly, and it’s all glorious. This is the shortest season for us, so we don’t get too many perfect fall days. That means that when we have one or more of them (we’re on our third in a row now), we need to take time then and there to thank God for providing it for us. So here it is: I’m thankful for this rare jewel of a day.
I’m thankful because the sunny weather makes life without a clothes dryer easier to take. (The new one arrives on Saturday…or so they say.)
I’m thankful because the good weather has given me time to finish up some of the outdoor painting jobs I didn’t manage to fit in during the busy summer.
I’m thankful for the potatoes and carrots and cabbage from the garden.
I’m thankful for the cheap but tasty apples I used to make the jars of applesauce boiling in the boiling water bath as I write. (It has four more minutes on the timer, I’m told.)
There’s something about fall that makes me notice God’s every day provisions for his creatures. It’s a good season for thanksgiving.
On Thursdays throughout this year, I plan to post a few thoughts of thanksgiving along with Kim at the Upward Call and others. Why don’t you participate by posting your thanksgiving each week, too? It’ll be an encouragement to you and to others, I promise.
Reader Comments (6)
Homemade applesauce is hard to beat. Do you ever make apple butter? That was always one of my favorites when my mom did canning.
I've made apple butter. I was thinking about it today and thinking that once I get a couple of batches of sauce done, I may do apple butter.
I thought about you the other day when I had to go t the laundromat. Our basement had a sewer flood and the appliances were unconnected while they cleaned up. I would have rather had the clothesline. The dryer was 25 cents for 5 minutes.
I'm going to can applesauce this year, but I will have to wait a couple of weeks until they've harvested the Macs; I like them best for applesauce. I've seen the local orchards doing their picking, but I haven't seen any in the stores, yet.
Oh, homemade applesauce is the best! I always have a "breakfast for supper" night when I make it and just top homemade waffles with the fresh, hot applesauce. Perfect!
I will have to wait a couple of weeks until they've harvested the Macs
I will probably make some with Macs, too. But the price on these windfall galas was too good to pass up. I've never made sauce with galas before, but it's good. No sugar required.
When all is said and done, What else can I say but God sure is good to us!
Keep UP the good words and work Rebecca.
God Bless