Happy New Year and a glad start to the year 2020. An old saying is that whatever you do today you’ll find yourself doing all year.
If you were born in January, your lovely birthstone is a garnet. Beautiful color! Your flower is a carnation which smells as sweet as anything I’ve ever smelled.
You share your birthday month with Joan of Arc, Elvis Presley, and JRR Tolkien, among others. It’s interesting to note what personality traits are common to those born in January.
Are you having black-eyed peas and cornbread for dinner today? I am! One reason Southerners celebrate with this dish is that they were one of the few foods General Sherman left behind when he decimated Southern food supplies.
My grandfather would not eat black-eyed peas. He said they had them so often when he was a boy, that he got heartily tired of them. He always planted them in his fields, but he would just plow them under to provide nourishment for the crops he’d plant.
However, I like black-eyed peas! I look forward to a visit by my family today and you can be sure my daughter-in-law will bring black-eyed peas and cornbread.
Things to delight the heart in January 1920
Sleeping on a featherbed, A tall woodpile, Rows of home-canned food shining like gems on the pantry shelf, A good barn for the cattle and horses, Enough hay to last the winter, Mittens with no holes in them, Enough books to warm the heart on cold, long, dark nights.
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