This is what I need to keep reminding myself. \u00a0It is easy for me to become very stressed with the day to day things that seem to happen. \u00a0Like someone leaving the deck gate open and two big Bulldogs playing a game of tug of war with the rectangular table and chairs cover. \u00a0It took me a moment to find out what all the \u00a0beige strips were on the lawn. \u00a0I was not the happiest of campers when I did find out what it was. \u00a0I need to try and remember these are really very small things in the big picture. \u00a0It is harder when it is my porch spindles they are eating which now have to be hand milled out of\u00a0mahogany, but still in the same it is only a material object that can be albeit expensively, replaced. \u00a0It is not a matter of human life unless I let the stress win and I have a heart attack. \u00a0So I must keep repeating to myself that this is small, and will not matter 100 years from now. \u00a0I have to remember that the important things are what matters, family, health, shelter, faith, security and most of all love. \u00a0We are so very blessed to have those things so we are very lucky. \u00a0If you drive up and my porch is missing a spindle or two or three, or there are random strips of canvas in the yard, don’t be alarmed. \u00a0We will get it fixed and cleaned up but for now we are focusing on more important things, the real things, which really are not things at all!<\/p>\n