Good Shabbos!

Hey Farm Shmarmers, guess what?  It's Shabbos time!  I've got oatmeal cookies smelling up the house like Betty Crocker!  Challahs are cooling on the table.  Lasagnas with melty cheese are just waiting for us to devour them!  And I've been inspired by a facebook post to make some mint carrot salad.  Mmmm.  I'm headed over to the pond to pick some now.  (Or after I post this!)

Well, that's about all the news I have for you today.  Except that I discovered that while listening to Many Chao radio on Pandora, all the commercials are in spanish.  And since I don't speak a lick of spanish, I didn't find them half as annoying!  It seems like, as soon as I leave the farm, put the radio on in the car and drive through a more populated neighborhood, all I feel is that there are a million products I don't have that apparently I need.  I don't think about them here.  But all those commercials, billboards, advertisements everywhere, and I start wondering if I need to lease a new car, get a haircut or go on vacation to Florida.  I think George Carlin had it right:

Not rocket science, but common sense is refreshing when you come across it.  Something that doesn't happen often living in a house with three kids under 8.

When you eat you Shabbos meals, take a moment to think about all the people you are connected to when you eat food.  The seed harvesters, the truckers that deliver the seeds, the farmers who plant the seeds, the workers who pick the plants, the truckers that deliver those, the supermarkets who stock the food, and the cashiers who sell it you.  And if it's processed, well, add in a bunch more steps.  We are all a part of the farming food world in some way or another.  And that makes us all connected.

I hope you all have a peaceful and healthy and restful  Shabbos!

Our little one sure knows how to get into the Shabbos spirit!