THURSDAY!!!

Good morning!!!! Hopefully everybody is doing well, in our area we still have snow to deal with, and cold.....but for those of us that are not to happy with this lets keep one thing in mind...SPRING IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER....YAHHHHHHHHH....It's difficult sometimes to see the glass half full....we tend to see the glass half empty....I know that from reading my blog I am the first that sometimes has a problem with that theory....I know that it's probably to late to make a NEW YEAR RESOLUTION....but what the heck I'm doing it anyway...

I will be the first one to admit that sometimes we forget to see all the beautiful gifts God sends us our way,some are small, some are big, but we get so caught up in life and we miss them....I have realized sometimes I forget to look at that silver lining ...but I know it's there....IT ALWAYS IS....

So my new belated New Year resolution is to be positive, and the other problem is when you are in that state of mind, you forget about yourself....life is difficult, but it's difficult for everybody!

I'm thinking about teaching classes at Morning Glory on landscape designs....especially with the economy the way it is, people are starting to go back to basics....doing more at home and a lot of our customers have been coming in about advice on landscape designs....That is really my first love....I always thought I would go in that field but you know how it goes!!! LIFE!!!!! I love doing landscape designs and it's very rewarding for the soul...for people that love the outdoor, and flowers&plants and playing with dirt like I do there is no other feeling....and my friends it's a great workout, and a great form of relaxation...... a great family activity...Well it's been really our customers that have come in for advise that have suggested about the classes....as a society I thing we have forgotten the basics, if we wanted to have nice yards we hired a landscaper, if we wanted beaches, we go on vacations, if we wanted a good special meal, we go to a nice restaurant....how many average people can really afford to keep doing this today? very few and God Bless those who can....but for the rest of the struggling average person LIFE CAN STILL BE GOOD...BACK TO BASICS...

The best place is to start at home...you want a nice yard but cant afford a landscaper, well there are many things you can do yourself, with the family....the problem is that we do always see that glass half empty....we are a society of negativeness....we like to keep up with our friends we are used of getting anything we wanted..and now we are saying what the heck are we going to do...chances are that our friends are having the same problems we are.....look at the economy, at the stock market, the people that had life figured out..... with their nest egg....some of them have nothing left.....but as a society WE CAN'T GIVE UP...THIS COUNTRY NEEDS POSITIVE THINKING.....THE PRESIDENT CANT DO IT ON HIS OWN....WE HAVE TO TAKE A PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH....AND WE NEED TO STOP BLAMING EVERYBODY ELSE FOR OUR PROBLEMS....

We are used of living a good life and we might have to stop and review what that good life is at this time....and find new way have to have a good life....ITS NOT ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.....because from experience money pays bills but it doesn't always give you true happiness......IT'S ABOUT ATTITUDE....IT'S ABOUT POSITIVE THINKING, AND BELIEVING THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE OK....and one more thing for those of you that are afraid to let your friends know, that maybe you can't go out every weekend , or join them on a nice vacation, IF THEY ARE TRUE FRIENDS THEY WILL STILL BE YOUR FRIEND, I ALWAYS SAY AND I LEARNED THIS THE HARD WAY BELIEVE ME...YOU CAN'T BE A FRIEND ONLY WHEN THINGS ARE GOOD, IT'S WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH THAT YOU FIND OUT WHO YOUR TRUE FRIENDS ARE....well thanks for listening...MEL

PS: please feel free to make comments below, i read all of them...and i would really appeciate your input.....thank you