Today, I am thankful for...#3

The bird is a Flicker. She had a mate doing a funky dance in front of her which I couldn't get. I had to get pics thtough the glass in the door.

Today, I am thankful for brothers who like movies as much as I do.

Jim, my sister has had one on the north side of her house for about five years. Blooms are not as prolific as if it got some sun, but they are still plentiful enough. Will take a photo for you.
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Today I am thankful that this forum is such fun!

I am thankful that the cold front is only really a 'cool' front. Going to be about 35 overnight, but back up to almost 70 tomorrow. Taking off tomorrow afternoon, need a garbage disposal changed out so I can use the kitchen sink. LOL

I am thankful for the reminder that, "Faith can move mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you pray."

I am thankful today for being able to play "hookey" from work on a perfect afternoon.

Thankful for the next door neighbor who can do plumbing. I now have a brand new garbage disposal and a usable kitchen sink. :-)

Thankful for having forgotten the overgrown pavers in the backyard...until today when the light bulb went off and some of them migrated to the FRONT yard. LOL

The last few days I am thankful for 'Flushables' and for an almost complet recovery from food poisoning over from Sat afternoon. No more unknown Mexican 'joints'.

I am thankful for the small family get together we had Sat. in San Diego for 2 of his aunts in their 90's. We made it a joint birthday with cake, flowers, balloons and candy. So what if, at their age, they have decided their birthdays are on different days than what we had always known. At their age they can have them whenever and as frequently as they like.

Today, I am thankful for loppers.

quilty, i am sorry you were ill. would rather have three days of flu than one night of food poisoning.

kwan, be lost without mine. actually have two pair. :-)
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Thankful for hitting the traffic light pattern just right so they were all green all the way to work. LOL

Today I am thankful that yesterday's paver moving didn't leave pulled muscles and old-feeling creakiness behind. Those things are HEAVY! :-D

Thankful both my college kid helpers will be available Sunday morning. The projects are piling up. {-:

Debra, I'd be lost w/o mine, too. I had to cut back 2 roses and if I hadn't had them, I would not have been able to do it. Now, I get to be thankful for shovels and wheelbarrows so I can relocate them. The roses, not the shovels.

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I have to always by thankful for wheelbarrows, A wonderful invention.
I'm extra thankful for my cats,Miss Kitty,Sweety,and Precious. There has been an enormous feral cat coming up and trying to fight my babies. We had all been outside and a few minutes after i came in, one of my cats came storming in crying. When i went outside my cats were on top of the house and this monster cat was running down the road, The feral cat is the father of two of my cats,Prissy and Sweety. I think Prissy is going to be as big as her father.
Also thankful for beautiful weather.

Today, I am thankful for rain instead of snow. And for the sun that looks like is peeking just now.

Today, I am thankful I don't have any children of my own, but I can borrow other people's children from time to time to remind me why I don't have any of my own. lol. OTHER peoples kids are fun and when I'm exhausted I can give them back to their parents.
I'm sure I said one CAPFULL of Mr. Bubble, not one CUPFUL!

ROTFLOL

It's all the same to a kid!!!

Nadine, AAAAA-MEN! LOL

Today, I am thankful for PBS (like Carrie)

For the faster speed of cable internet over dial-up.

For having been privileged to live during one of the most incredible 50 year periods in our history. My dad worked in aerospace until I was 11. I saw the test firing of a Titan IIIC engine at about 4:00am in the Denver foothills. We could see rockets going overhead standing outside the trailer living on the Space Coast in Florida (one with a satellite load blew up). The space program was HUGE deal. The whole school was trooped outside to watch the Apollo 8 launch. Now the miracle of a shuttle launch is a humdrum everyday kind of nonevent. And heaven forfend there should not be at least two BIG color televisions in every household. Black and white TV? What's that? We've got cell phones that fit on our ears, cable television services with hundreds of channels, portable/laptop computers that weigh less than five pounds, handheld printers, microwave ovens, the marvel of Velcro, routine organ transplants, iPods, MP3 players, DVDs and Blueray, Twilight Zone forensic tools, satellite radio, and on and on. I mean, how lucky could one person get to be around for all that? Once, when I was 22, for grins I went to see a psychic. She said I would live to be 97. If I stay lucid, what will I see in the next 50 years? Wowser...

Boy, I'm with you. I think we're the same age. We've seen all these come to be. Rotary dial phone? What's that? Reel-to-reel tape player? Film cameras, movies at the theater for one week, singing with your family around the piano...they don't know.

My DB and I were talking about something like this the other day. He said, "You know you're getting old when you remember where stuff USED to be in your town/city. As in, I remember when that was a printing house and now they sell computers. All this area used to be farm land and now it's a series of mini-malls."

Today, I am thankful

That the Bradford Pears are blossoming. A sure sign Spring has come to town...here, anyway. :-)

That Almond Roca comes in a sugar-free version.

That I will have one more chance this Winter to snuggle under covers with the doggies on a chilly Sunday morning. Yes, contradictory, but what authority says I have to be consistent? LOL

Today I am thankful that I live in a predominantly Irish area so that Lent to me means IRISH SODA BREAD!!!!

Oh! I have one of those benchmark birthdays next month. The next increment of allowable senior pricing (first being AARP age @55, then 60 for Sizzler and movie discounts, then 62 for 'early' retirement plan choices, then 65 for Medicare and airline discounts, and on and on). Pretty funny.

Was talking to DD yesterday about when my folks gave me a used B&W TV at 18. Small, 2 tone aqua casing, kinda rounded. Used that TV from 1970 to 1984 when I bought my first color TV - a huge 19" model!!! She is 17 and already planning on when she will move out. I told her how I moved into my first unfurnished apartment with a water bed bladder, a rocking chair, my toy box and my 1950 sewing machine in cabinet. Oh, and my little TV. No fridge, no lamps, no dresser. Her eyes said it all.

Today I am thankful 17 y.o. DD stayed with me, with patience, during an ER visit for 7 hours when I thought I was having a stroke, but, fortunately, turned out to be an anxiety attack. When else can you say an anxiety attack is fortunate?

I am thankful for such luscious weather today, currently 76. Here, I think we can pretty much consider no more frosts. Pretty much....

First thing I bought with my very first employed paycheck was a 13 inch B&W. Thought my 16-year-old-self was IT! :-) Mine was beige, though, not a neato aqua.
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Today I am thankful to haveexercised sufficient restraint to come straight home from work. No stopping at garden center clearance racks!!!

I am thankful to have retained enough energy this afternoon to put some of the waiting plants in the ground. Close to freezing overnight and I might decide to stay under covers with remote in hand all day tomorrow.

I am thankful for hand-held shower heads. This aging, creaky self was very happy to have hot water therapy after digging and pulling for an hour.

Today, I am thankful for the United Stated Constitution and the 2nd Amendment, in particular.

kwan, i hope if you've had to exercise that right recently that you are okay.

debra

I did not but it's good to know I could.

Today, I am thankful for Hellebore blooms.

I can’t remember exactly when it happened now. But, back in the late 80’s or early 90’s, some government agency sent out a survey that military personnel were expected to fill out. One of the questions was “If the law changed and you were ordered to go door-to-door and take formerly licensed weapons away from the citizens, would you obey orders? My entire squadron (AF) refused even to fill out the survey. It was weird. There was just that one stupid question in among a lot of totally inane ones. We didn't know what the game was so my squadron decided we wouldn't play it. I gather whoever was behind the survey got the same responses from other branches of the military because, beyond the initial raised voices and arguments, the were no repercussions for turning in the survey blank and we never heard anything more about it. The military serves the constitution and the people. We have the right to refuse any order that is unconstitutional. Every brick in the foundation of our country is there for a reason. The military has the right to deny any Commander and Chief who starts trying to pull bricks out of the foundation.
Today, I am thankful my SIL was baptized and is making a real and visible effort to build a better life for himself and his children and for the members of his new church who are giving him the emotional and physical support to do what needs to be done. (Jim)

lovely photo :-)

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Today I am thankful for:

Getting three root-bound dwarf Yaupon Holly shrubs planted. Even at just $1.74 apiece (clearance rack, of course LOL), it would have been a terrible waste to let them choke to death.

Low sodium canned chicken broth.

Water. Lots of readily available water.

Jim, what you said is the absolute truth. I support our Constitution and our troops. They, in turn, support us. It's a give-and-take.

Today, I am thankful for the youtube video I got from my DB.

Today, I am thankful spring bulbs don't all bloom at once so the two little boys who visited didn't harvest EVERY flower in the garden to make bouquets for their Grandma. :-) And, that "Mimi" has finally recovered from being chased around the yard by the Kissy Monster and the Tickle Monster. Fearsome little beast that I had to face down a few times myself. lol.
Christmas wrapping paper with a hellebore pattern is my favorite wrapping paper, but I honestly don't remember ever seeing a hellebore bloom at Christmas time. They are still a gorgeous thing to see when it is still cold. ~Nadine~

Am thankful for the constitution and second amendment too.I don't have a gun have never shot anything but it is my right to choose to or not.(I'm the lil ole lady that'd take someone out with my purse)
Thankful for pizza and chocolate donuts and pretty yarn.

Hi, Vickie! Not long now. Its warming up and greening out and soon you will be free of wintercabinfeverhousearrest. :-) Keep crocheting, its good for keeping the fingers flexible.
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Today, I am thankful for:

8 1/2 x 14 paper

Chicago Dogs from Sonic or Weinerschnitzel, don't care which. And A & W Root Beer Stands - the old ones. My mama used to tell everyone that she craved hot dogs and root beer when pregnant with me, so I come by it naturally?? LOL

Carnations. Any Carnation. Remember dyeing them for Mother's Day or St. Patricks? We did it in school, seems like a hundred years ago. Stick the cut stems in water with food coloring and wait for the stem to absorb the dye up into the petals.

I remember doing that! LOL We did it with celery, too.

Today, I'm thankful Spring is close by.

Dyed them the color of our prom dresses for our dates to wear in their lapel.

The ones I am growing are short and bushy, in a pot. Afraid to put them in the ground for fear of the bunnies. Picture takken last November of them on taller table, closest to camera, behind petunias. All those pots are on porch now to protect them from horses that run free when we have rain. Rainy season about over - yea for that to clear porch.

Celery, really?!

Yes! LOL It needs to have fresh cut ends for it to work. A fun way to get kids to eat celery.

Today, I am thankful we had more snow because it's so pretty and also thankful it is melting quickly.

Here are the crocuses I promised earlier.

Wellllll I am ashamed to say after nearly 50 years of being a tea drinker, I am more and more thankful for coffee every day. The PCAs are fighting over who has to clean out the coffee maker. It's a french drip, so just dump the grounds, swish swish in the hot soapy and rinse.

those are beautiful! warm and soft-looking and my favorite shades of yellow. :-)

started drinking coffee at about 28. wish it tasted like it smells, but it ain't too bad anyway. LOL
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Today I am thankful for:

Wholly Guacamole

My changing perspective on the work of Pablo Picasso. Surprises the $%*& out of me because up until a few years ago, I thought it was horrrrrrrible. Now I at least appreciate most of it and actually downright LIKE some of it.

American medical care.

I'm probably the only person who ever got through 20+ years in the military without becomeing a coffee drinker. I just don't like the taste. DW is like an irritable zombie before she has her first morning cup so I usually make it for her. I don't mind because I do enjoy the aroma.
Today I am thankful to have a clean and orderly house. Everyone living here finally came to agreements about what should go where. (Jim)

Wow Jim, everyone agreeing on anything is sometimes difficult.

Today I am grateful that first cardiologist appt went well and that our new, this week, healthy eating is starting to show.

I'm going to attempt the celery trick using "Kool-Aid dye". It's a stormy day. I have to find ways to entertain myself inside. Mama Kay says that's fine, as long as I don't Kool-Aid dye my hair. One girl who lived here did that. She need not worry. There isn't any grape flavored. I would only be tempted to do that if I could go purple. :-)

Today, I am thankful we are tucked into the folds of the land in such a way that tornadoes rarely hit our property. ~N~

A two cup coffee lover here,but an occasional cup of hot tea perks me up also. Learned to like hot tea in Turkey.And of course being a southerner gotta have my iced tea in summer.
I'm very thankful for my coffee and tea. In fact I've heard there may be a shortage of coffee and the price could be more than we can afford. So to be on the safe side i bought 3 extra cans of coffee to store away. If i have to i can dig dandelion roots to dry and add to my coffee to make it last longer. There are all kinds of herbal teas i can make. Our pioneer forefathers made out just fine with what was available, with the help of the Native Americans. Think the europeans brought dandelions to the americas.

Yeah, thanks for that. ^_^

I had nothing until reading the above post. Today, and every day, I am thankful for our ancestors and their knowledge.

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Coffee is but just one of the grocery items that will become very dear, due to pricing, I have heard of $15 loaf of bread on the horizon.

Kool Aid as a hair dye, cool, that might be fun to try. Does it come out in the wash and how do you apply (besides without sugar, lol).

Today I am thankful for gorgeous weather. Cool nights, warm days and no AC or heat needed.

Vickie, I didn't know you had been to Turkey!

I am thankful to have traveled far and wide while I was young and able bodied.

Wet hair and sprinkle it on? Dissolve it in a little water and pour it over? Don't dribble down your face, or don't plan on going out for awhile. :-D
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Today, I am thankful for:

Flexible innkeepers

Backscratchers

Garlic Mayonnaise