Quiet , Peaceful Sunday Morning

It is early yet, and everything is quiet. We have had the lightest sprinkles of snow, that just touches the tin roof gently and adds a whiteness to the tin. I hope that the temperature will be high enough today that by noon it is all gone again. We still have piles of snow, but with the melting it was looking quite dirty, this morning every thing is clean looking again.

I have been busy surfing the net and reading from different sites, and of course my e-mails. There is much gloom and doom about the economy everywhere. But this has been comming for a long time now? Where has everyone been??? I was thinking about my family durring the depression and although I wasn't born yet, the thing that came across to me was, to be as prepared as possible, to make the most out of what you had, and that it wasn't so bad, because everyone you knew was in the same boat.
My family talked about how they had potlucks and made thier own fun. Of course there was the use it up, make do, and do without, but they used a lot of creativity in what they did too. How can it be so bad when we already have so much more to work with than they did? We have so many types of entertainment at our fingertips. Time to sit back , put our thinking caps on, list our blessings, list the real needs, not just the wants. Then figure out what we will do and how to best do it.
As DH puts it. Have you got a roof over your head? food to eat, a table to put the food on and a chair to sit on, and a place to cook the food? A bed to sleep on, and clothes to wear? What more do you Need??
Yes we have all this and more!
The news is still gloom and doom for the future, but doesn't the news reflect the past? We are starting a New Year, and we need a new perspective. What can we do to change the here and now, and there by change our own future? Science tell us for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. How is this going to work in todays situation?
During the war years the catch phrase was, " The Victory Garden", And before that during the depression it was, "A Chicken in Every Pot". I wonder will the expression for our time period be from Oboma's speach in the United States be, "Yes, we can"?
What exciting times we live in. This next year should be very exciting, with lots going on. A year that we will talk about to future generations I'm sure, as part of "the good old days of the recession of 2009".