M@D is OpEn! Sept 5, 2026 Newsletter
Market at Dothan is open to accept orders. Orders close Tuesday at 5pm
MISC MARKET NOTES
No Chomping at the Bits
The few retail stores I've been in lately have all but smacked me in the face with FALL. Pumpkins, plaids, more pumpkins, fall flavors, fall themes . . . Then I walk outside and get smacked all over with “I'm going to kill you yet” HEAT. Am I the only one that has experienced this dichotomy?
If that's not bad enough some places are already putting out Christmas decorations.
A wise woman once told me “I ONLY HAVE TODAY.” We can't deny that planning for tomorrow is also wise, but we weren't there yet. All we have is right now, this moment in time where we are giving our attention to something.
I freely admit that I don't care one bit for heat or humidity and having been restricted the last few weeks, I've made more effort to appreciate small and beautiful blessings and use the down time wisely while seeing the world through different (not perfect) eyes. One doctor tells me I should be ok in a month, the other tells me it might be Christmas before my vision is settled. There's no chomping at the bits - it is what it is and nothing I do will make it happen faster.
Just like putting out pumpkin décor won't make our first crisp morning arrive any sooner.
One of my favorite Bible verses is Psalms 90:12, So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. It's a small prayer that recognizes life’s brevity and asks for a big thing, help to live wisely and purposefully. I think that's what my friend was talking about when she said “I only have today”.
So today, I choose not to pull out the fall decorations, or fret about what we're doing for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Today's blessings are finishing a Bible chapter, sending a puppy home to Kansas, treating myself to hemp granola with blackberries, waiting on word my GREAT GREAT nephew (am I really that old?) has been born, seeing well enough to do this newsletter, and hopefully mowing the yard after a while. It's a good day. Why would I want to rush it?
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This & That
HORTONS FARM Our chickens have started laying again and we're getting 1+ dozen eggs daily now. Maybe it's because they have been adopted by a CAT.
I kid you not. A few weeks ago a sweet kitty with gray stripes hopped out from behind the nesting boxes to eat kitchen scraps with the chickens. This went on several days so I got some kitty food for the days there were no table scraps. Kitty responded by bringing the chickens a present, the type kitties bring for their humans, only this present was fresh and about 12 inches from nose to tail. I kid you not.
The chickens weren't interested so it was properly disposed of, but it did confirm to me that they're all one big happy family now. Another benefit besides rodent control is that we've not had snakes since the cat came. Could that be the reason there are more eggs?? Only the cat knows and if it does, it doesn't care.
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Warm Months Schedule 2026
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