Perfect Day

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I found myself thankful for a great day last weekend. 

 It was nothing fancy or impressive,

 just simple and sweet.

The day started with the Master Gardener Fall Plant Sale at the Ruston Farmers Market. 

This is the sale where the gardeners bring plants from their personal gardens to share with the public - divided day lilies, rooted Peggy Martin roses, wood fern, crinums, garlic, and on and on. Prices ranged from $.50 - $5.00 which is just phenomenal!!

  After setting up, it was fun to stand around with friends and talk about the plants we had brought; discussing the right amount of sun for the plant and its best fertilizer. 

 It was also fun to visit with our customers and answer questions about their prospective purchases and we had lots of young customers this year. I love to see young people interested in gardening. 

  

Then it was off to the Boy Scouts' Scouting For Food project.

 As you know, this is an annual food drive conducted by the Boy Scouts each November.  The empty bags are put on front porches on the first Saturday of November and the filled bags are collected on the following Saturday.  The food is donated to local food banks/pantries which in Ruston is Christian Community Action (CCA). Parents and scouts brought the bags they collected to Emmanuel Baptist Church where it was weighed and categorized. (The national goal was one million pounds of food!)

Then the food was packed for transfer to CCA. 

It was wonderful to see the storeroom at CCA fill up with a huge variety of food items. 

Local groups participating in events they love and believe in, 

and that benefit others -

 can't help but be thankful for days like that!!

Love ya'll. 

Shelli

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. 

~Robert Caspar Lintner

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher