Today, I am thankful for...#4

Hm-m-m, purple paint pens. I think I will volunteer to go to the craft store next time we need a paint pen. :-) If labeling lots of plants were not so boring, I might stop trying to convince myself I didn't need to because I would remember and I wouldn't have so many mystery plants on the nursery tables.
Today, I am thankful I can take a day off just because I feel blah. ~Nadine~

Yea, Carrie!!
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Today, I am thankful for...

White cotton t-shirts

Rubber bands

Cut-glass doorknobs

I WILL be thankful if someone tells me what a paint pen is and where to get one.

Paint pens are just what they sound like and can be purchased at any craft or art supply store. I think I may have even seen them at Walmart. You can use them on wood, metal, cloth, etc... Lots of fun!

Today, I am thankful we have clear skies and that we got a new mat for the slider entrance.

woodspirit, sample links. they come in all kinds of different formulations and colors and such, and are really useful if doing a lot of crafty and/or outdoor stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/SAKURA-PURPLE-PERMAPAQUE-METALLIC-MARKER/dp/B0027A7EXM
http://www.markingpendepot.com/BulkPricedPaintMarker.aspx?gclid=CM6J6-TlnqgCFYPD7QodJRjcHQhttp://www.aceartsupplies.com/Permapaque_Dual_Opaque_Paint_Markers__Open_Stock__Metallic_Purple-p-1219284.html?source=googlebase

Today I am thankful for learning what a paint pen is too. Thanks ladies.

Ruby

Oh yeah, thankful that it is Friday too.

Today I am thankful that the storms last night weakened enroute, so the hail was only dime-size by the time it got to my house.

I am thankful the car fits under the carport without too much shuffling of the miscellaneous junk underneath it (potting table, stools, trash can, etc.)

I am thankful for easygoing employees who don't mind getting dog food for me while they are out getting supplies for the office. :-)

I'm so thankful it's still pleasant to be outside working in my yard, weeding, watering, moving, playing...

I am thankful that we finally got good rain overnight. Now I can begin to plant seeds, at least, because we are close to our last frost date.

Ditto to all of the above. Hope every one is enjoying their Saturday.

Ruby

kwan, forgot to say that is a lovely photo.

cajun, meeeee, too! wasn't ready for the early heat, so i'm happy it cooled back closer to normal.

woodspirit, we are in drought again, so i understand about the rain. :-)

ruby, hi!
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today i am thankful for...

thermal label printers and thermal paper labels.

chocolate and toffee-coated ice cream on a stick

Miss Barbara Stanwyck

I'm thankful for Dunkin Donuts coffee - it got me through a long painful road trip with family! Too bad it's mostly in New England...

Thanks, Debra. I love the little guys.

Today, I am thankful for mini tape measures that fit in your pocket.

I am thankful the storms skipped over our mountain but still left us some rain.
Am praying hard it skips over you guys in ALA and Miss and NC
I am thankful that I'm much better too. DD came and stayed with me yesterday and overnight.
Temps got down in the high 30,s last night but no damage done. Tomorrow hope to get back out to dig in dirt.
Vickie

Today, I am thankful for a nice young man at our Barnes N Noble who helps me choose sci-fi/horror books to read. He and I appear to have the same taste.

today, i am thankful that the unbelievably huge wildfires to the west of Dallas/Ft Worth have not yet combined and have not yet overrun the two small towns evacuated earlier today. one firefighter was killed, but he is the only fatality to date. praying that doesn't change...and that we get rain or let up on the winds or both.

thankful for the cool morning and not too hot afternoon

thankful to have found the deli meat in the freezer today so my sister and i will have lunch tomorrow--that i don't need to cook. :-D

today, i am thankful...

to have discovered there is a white Gomphrena

to have made it through the entire work day

to have thought to borrow a roll of toilet paper from the office so i didn't have to go to the store on the way home

Today, I will just say I am thankful.

Today I am thankful for flowers,open windows,and Chicken TV dinners and councelors.

today i'm thankful for my friends and my husband. i wasn't as nice a person as i should be this past weekend, and have been understood and embraced.

i'm thankful for my husband, our great land, and the temperate weather we've had.

i'm thankful for my JOB!!! esp. in this economy.

thankful for my health, my ability to walk, and although painful, thankful i can still get down on my knees in my garden to plant, weed, mulch, and pray over my garden.

Today, I am thankful that...

It rained at my house this afternoon and no hail again...whew...

The new lily bulbs are coming up. Gonna be purty...

The winds are supposed to drop and there is a possibility of rain to the west all this week. The fires are getting worse and the town of Palo Pinto was evacuated tonight. Terrible to think buildings like the county courthouse might be gone by tomorrow at this time...

I need to look up those fires. I know when we have the wildfires here, that is almost all that is on the news, but when it is in another state, not so much news. DH's distant cousin sent pictures near her hometown area, Alpine, TX and I looked it up on the map - it is a long distance from Palo Pinto. Are they using those huge planes for water drops and chemical drops?

Today I heard that 34 fire departments outside of Texas are assisting.
Here is an update I found on Fox News online:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/18/texas-wildfires-continue-widespread-destruction-evacuations/

They could really use our prayers....

Thinking of all those who need help.

Today, I am thankful that our internet service is back up and running. It's been out since yesterday morning.

Today, I am thankful:

That the fires seem to have missed Palo Pinto. It was cooler and less windy, which helped.

That most of the Roses given to me by the neighbors are doing well. Looks like just two are going to have to be pulled. But will be fun to find something else to put in those spots. :-)

That, yes, pouring the juice from a can of pickled beets into a drained can of non-pickled beets will pickle them, too! (at least, pickled enough for me if left in fridge overnight LOL)

Today I'm thankful that I am finding more and more people to trade plants with. I've worked in the same office almost 3-1/2 yrs. Within the past 30 days I've worked out trades with 3 of my co-workers. I got 2 huge aloe veras today!

Thankful one of my co-workers introduced me to her mom who LOVES gardening. We went last year to Hope Farms & plan to go again 4/30. Last night she & I traded a bunch of plants. We had done it last year, so this year she was able to give back to me some of my bulbine and black & blue salvia that I lost.

Thankful I have friends coming into town this weekend. We're not only going to visit one another gardens, and spend time together, but we're going to set up at the flea market and sell some of our old 'crap' we've been 'sitting on' for 5+ years (each!)

VERY much thankful for this thread and a group of people who remind me to be thankful for something every single day.

key it, kwan. :-)

cajun, that all sounds like so much FUN!

vickie, where you at?
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today i am thankful for scratch-made ranch dressing from the burger joint by the office.

for discount coupons from mail order garden catalogs

for having lost my debit card so i have to wait and think about it before USING those discount coupons. :-D

I am thankful today for snapdragons. They are cheerful. an interesting shape and stay in bloom much longer than I expected. ~Nadine~

Today, I am thankful for...

...carports

...antibiotics

...Santa Rosa Gardens

Oh no, Debra. Does that mean YOU need antibiotics? Get better!

Today I am thankful for DG friends giving me so much information on the Sustainable Forum.

Am so thankful storms are going around us but pray no one gets hurt.
I am thankful for a grey cat(sweety) that hopped in my lap and licked my nose while i was sitting in a chair outside.She kissed my nose for no reason at all and was gone.
I do my gardening sitting in a chair in front of my big flower pots.

Debra, I hope you aren't pushing yourself too hard in the garden. It is close to 90 in the afternoons now. Tell that rain to come this way, Vickie.
Today, I am thankful for chamomile. I haven't made any tea with it yet. It is so pretty in the garden I hesitate to take the flowers. :-) ~Nadine~

quilty, yes, I am taking them, but it's nothing horrible. :-)

vickie, sounds like a great way to me.

nadine, yeah, i am doing too much. been warmer than average, not too bad. got caught up in plant sales and have been receiving soooooo many neato nifty things. almost done (maybe LOL)
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I will gladly sent some rain to everyone and tell the storms to go jump in the Gulf. We are still so fortunate. The storms still jumping over us,of which i am very thankful.

Thankful for having found several years of test reports I need to copy for the new neurologist on Tuesday. Oh frabjous day!

Some members' threads are "clique-ish" and I am especially thankful that the people chiming in on this thread genuinely welcome anyone else chiming in, too. :-)

Thankful for baker's racks

Thankful for the bunny ears I wore this AM for 17 yo DD and 29 yo GS. Although it was a cross dressing bunny - bunny was wearing candy cane jammies, lol.

Thankful for our pastor's wonderful message on this Resurrection Day service. He warned us he was going to sing for the first time in 6 years, but he has such a wonderful, deep baritone singing voice, contrasting his speaking voice.

Today, I am thankful for this. When my mom passed away, a dear friend gave it to me and this weekend it bloomed.

Beautiful, kwanjin, what is it?

Bleeding heart, Dicentra.

Oh, yea. Didn't look close enough. Too much sun/heat here for those.