Thursday April 15,2021

Good morning everyone, today is already Thursday April 15, 2021, the weather again is threatening clouds and rrain. I don’t know we will just have to wait mother Nature has been promising that all week.

Yesterday’s got a new book and it talks about food and the expectations we put on ourselves to make it correct but that is not always necessary, you can do it any way you please , to your individual taste, that’s the most important thing if it pleases you and your palate. I agree with this in food. However I was brought up I think with different expectations as most of you were. Even when I started to write these posts and blog I had an expectation that was to be able to talk to people that I so desperately needed. I opened my life and shared it with everyone something I would never have been expected to do but why? Because we were taught keep your mouth shut no one wants to hear your business it’s yours . But I don’t see it that way I see it as a connection to people, to go on a journey of relatable experiences that we have all shared, our own memories and traditions can somehow bring to joy to our lives. Sometimes Facebook and the like get a bad rap but to me a basically newcomer to the internet it is a marvel, almost like a wonder of the world, you get to share with thousands of people you know and don’t know ( being careful of course) all across the globe.

Now I have always had very high expectations whether they were put on me or I was given them as a child. And sometimes I have these same expectations of other people, I expect people to act a certain way, not my way but the decent way . The way people should treat each other with respect and kindness, the way they act in public, their demeanor, the way they dress (clean and neat not special just presentable). These are basic rules I set for myself and I expect them from others. Now believe me I have been with my wife for 50 years and she has always taken the opportunity to show me my faults, without her maybe I would be an out of control rebel force. But she grounds me and tells me maybe you expect to much not everyone believes the way you do. When I think about she might have a point.

Growing up I just was expected to do certain things, maybe you call them choirs, on Saturday before I went out to play I had things I must do, things today are almost unheard of I would have to wash all the woodwork in the house, today when I say that everyone looks at me like I’m nuts. So I just do it myself.

I don’t think expectations are a bad thing I look at them as a way rto strive for something. I believe they are part of life and we should set them high maybe we would act better toward each other.
Have a great day, if it rains plan something good or cook something good inside. Til Tomorrow!