Sunday’s a good day to remember what we’ve been grateful for over the past week, don’t you think? I’m joining Taryn over at Wooly Moss Roots in her Gratitude Sunday tradition, and here’s my list:
– Sticking my head out the window just in time to see a big shooting star fly across the night sky.
– Not having to get up and go to work on a weekday!!!!
– Baking cookies in my solar oven. I love how I can now have baked cookies in the summertime without heating up the house with our regular oven!
– Loads of fresh oregano on my Greek salad. How could I go back to dried now that I’ve used fresh!?
– Getting a lot of backed-up garden work done this week/weekend. Feeling like I’ve got a much better handle on the garden.
– Deciding to bow out of a weekend trip to a family reunion that I didn’t really want to go to, and knew I wasn’t up for anyway. Listening to my body; respecting its limits right now and not ignoring them.
– House sitting for my parents (they were at the reunion) this weekend and being able to do more garden work, hang out with my cat, and quietly relax outside in the oasis-like backyard.
– Playing lots of piano at mom & dad’s house, with no one listening to hear my mistakes! It’s my grandma’s baby grand piano…so special…shipped out to Colorado for me when I was a year old by my granddad. I think he even helped pay for piano lessons, too. I hated those dang lessons, but am so thankful I was forced into them, because I love being able to play the piano — I’m so thankful for that! It’s a real stress release, and very centering and satisfying. It just felt so good to play this weekend… especially good… and I could have just kept going and going.
– Getting some new clothes at the thrift store. Clothes shopping is not a favorite activity, but I need some new items, and the thrift store is always my first (and usually only!) stop. And I love how I can go about my shopping and not get asked ten times, “Are you finding everything OK miss?”
Got a laugh out of this sign at the thrift store!
– Being outdoors on a cool, fresh morning.
– So much beautiful garden lettuce that we’re eating salad after salad, straight from the garden and into our stomachs. I don’t know what I get more of — nutrition, or JOY!
– Adding heaps of fresh herbs to my salads — parsley, oregano, dill, and cilantro. Herbs are so potent and healing and full of vitamins and minerals and I feel so good putting them straight from the plant into my body. They are medicine!
– Drinking steaming tea, outside, in the cool air, at twilight.
– Inhaling the sweet, blossom-filled June air as I ride my bike through it.
– Getting stuck at the neighborhood garden center during a thunderstorm!
Rode home from the garden center with a couple nice big heirloom tomato plants.
– Feet up & a big glass of fresh mint iced tea after wearing myself out in the garden.
– Watching my cat sleeping soundly this morning after a rough night chasing moths.
– Coming home to my Hubby after the weekend away house sitting. It was SO, so good to see him!!! It’s so nice just laughing and being together. I’m the luckiest girl ever…
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What about you? What are you grateful for this week? Leave a comment!
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Amazing… cookies in your solar oven! Your list is lovely. Peace and joy to you this week!
Hi Donna Rae!
I know, cookies baked by the sun! Could anything be more fun than putting cookie dough out in your backyard and coming back to the smell of delicious cookies?!
Peace and joy to you too this week!
Love love love this!!
By the way, here is a link to a solar cooking challenge I thought you might like.
http://nourishedandnurtured.blogspot.com/2011/06/solar-cooking-challenge.html