The weather this summer has been a bit taxing. The high temperature and humidity requires us to be extra cautious with ensuring ample shade and water for all animals while ensuring we also have the same for us while completing chores throughout the day. We start early (5:30am) and take an extended lunch break to get away from the heat and then go back at it later in the afternoon until dinner time.

When you take a step back and analyze your life, possessions, family, well-being, there really is so much to be grateful for. Everyone has struggles and goes through ups and downs but overall we are very blessed. Brian and I have really tried to take a step back and focus on a more positive mindset which trickles down to our children and those in our community. Living each day counting it as a blessing and being grateful for the little things vs. picking apart everything that has gone wrong truly does make a difference in your life.

“The vast population of this earth, and indeed nations themselves, may readily be divided into three groups. There are the few who make things happen, the many more who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every human being is born into this third and largest group; it is for himself, his environment and his education to determine whether he shall rise to the second group or even to the first.” - Nicholas Murray Butler, 1931