Today, I am thankful for...#4

Vickie, kwan meant that her father was working in a diner and her mother ordered the sandwich. when he went out to meet the person ordering peanut butter and fried egg, voila!

i am glad you do not have to be hospitalized. that is no fun for any reason

LOL Dad wanted to know who in world would order something so awful so many times.

Don't know if I'm Annie Oakley but I do pretty well with my Henry rifle. ^_^ Been practicing with our handguns for home defense. We don't live in the greatest of areas. Ours is a pocket of civility but are surrounded by the not-so-nice element.

Today, I'm thankful for sun before the wind and rain. We need to batten down.

Have a great day, all!

lovely vignette, kwan.

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today, i am thankful i live away from any rivers. since i have a near phobic fear of bridges over water, especially water i can't see through, this part of texas is perfect for me. [wry smile]

i am thankful for the game of baseball.

i am thankful the experimental chili cheese mac made for my sister's and my lunch tomorrow turned out well. she has no time to make her own, and, as my shipping supervisor, i need her to be particularly efficient on mondays. soooooo... LOL

Today I am thankful that I decided to finally read this thread after not doing so for about a month or so. I am so thankful for each of you who shared everything that you did. I giggled several times because I totally understand how even the very small things are reason for joy such as bologna sandwiches, bananas and strawberries, etc.

Each and every one of you are good examples of having positive attitudes despite the many negatives that we each encounter daily along our walks here on planet earth. It took me many, many years to finally realize that our attitudes play such an important role in how we spend our days. So many of us have reasons for depression and sorrow, but each of us also have the power and the good sense to keep a joyful heart.

I learned that two opposites cannot survive in one's mind or heart. We have to choose which will be Lord today.....we can choose to moan and groan and have a good old pity party, but when we are like that there are not too many others who want to join us in it. We also have the choice to wake up each morning and set our minds and hearts about being thankful. The negatives cannot survive when the thankfulness is there.

I know depression intimately and have just come through a few month long one. I was so angry over not being able to shake it or throw it off. It had to run its course and thankfully it did run its course and for a month or so I have been able to be of the attitude I am most comfortable with......a grateful heart. I lived so many years not knowing that it was my attitude that would determine the quality of my days.

I should add here that I am ever so thankful for antidepressants that work. Until the first morning of my life that I didn't wake up and the very first thought to enter my mind was of doom and gloom, I didn't know that I was suffering with clinical depression for basically my whole life. Some twenty years later now, I have known mainly periods of non-depression and it is much preferable to living in depression.

I will close this lengthy message now by thanking each of you for your willingness to share your joys with one another. This is a great wake me up thread. Love each of you folks.

Ruby

hugs to you ruby. :-))

Thank you doctor Ruby. You are a great Psychologist, as I have seen on the C&CF threads. DH has been in and out of clinical depressions during the last 6 years (and probably in some form, most of his life). Before he me he was diagnosed as manic-depressive, believe that is bi-polar now.

When he is feeling fine for awhile, after meds, he stops using them as he is 'OK', he says. He is not OK and it causes much strife in our little family.

I am thankful for antidepressants too.

I am thankful my little DG family is here to lift my spirits when they need a lift.

I am thankful for a week of moderate temperature predictions and possible some 'out of season' rain. Need to fertilize the veggies, fruit and palm trees before that rain!

I am thankful that my container veggie plants seem to be taking off. SIDEBAR: I was thnking "oh, great, my first pepper and it is rotting on the vine while it grows". Well, DUH, I read the label and it is a Purple Beauty. Not rot, just purple.. lol.

Today, I am thankful there are places nearby with Wi-fi connections. People in the outlying areas around here still don’t have internet.
Most of all, I am thankful Papa Jim had to learn the Heimlich maneuver while he was in the AF. Mama Kay was eating an ice pop when a piece broke off and lodged in her throat. I didn’t know what to do. I’m learning the different resuscitation techniques myself now. You never know. ~Nadine~

Ruby, I am glad we can offer comfort, and just a little humor. :-)

quilty, a purple pepper is on my list for a container garden next year. Going to try my hand at tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, and cucumbers, too. Maybe even a container of potatoes!

Amen to that, Nadine.

I was FORCED to go by the cold cut case at Kroger this evening. I mean, it was made a RULE. So, of course, I had NO real choice in what was for dinner, now did I? LOL
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Today, I am deeply thankful and grateful for the continued cool weather. MS and heat are matter and anti-matter combatants and, like most of us here with MS, I am caught in the line of fire during Texas Summers. Fingers crossed I gave this Spring's plantings a good enough start to survive while I'm bunkered in come July and August. Since much of what I put in last Fall didn't make it, I used it as an excuse to play more and may have gone juuussssst a bit overboard. :-)

I am thankful our friends at Amargia suffered no greater harm in those terrible storms than service delays, and am looking forward to their getting back online.

I am thankful for Daylilies.

Kwan, thank you for sharing the small snapshot of your garden. I'm sure the whole thing is a wonder to behold. Your stories are cute ;-)

Ruby, like you I read these stories and share the sentiment in a lot of them.

I was once told by a therapist that I had every reason to be depressed--wow. reallY? lol But I have to say, I'm not sure if it's this thread or gardening /sharing in general, but I haven't needed my antidepressants for months now. I haven't felt the least bit down in weeks and months, so for THAT I'm extremely thankful!

Today I am thankful for good sleep. While I haven't had that in many days, I know it's just around the bend for me (lol), so I'm thankful in advance! I apologized yesterday to my husband for being so grumpy "in my old age" and he pointed out (like such the sweet husband that he is) that for someone who is in pain as much as I am (heel spurs which are exacerbated by gardening), and for someone who struggles so much with sleep disorders as I do, it would make anyone grumpy. So he's saying so kindly that I have every reason ;-) Bless him. Thankful yet again for a darling husband.

Thankful for the sweet little surprise rain lily in my garden yesterday, not at all where I recall planting it (in fact couldn't find it where I thought it was). I suspect strongly that a squirrel dug it up, and then buried it to enjoy later. Thankfully, not before I could see it bloom. Apparently me & the squirrel share the same memory loss LOL

Thankful for another day of beautiful weather in South Texas. Can't believe it's mid-May and we're still not experiencing insane heat. Thankful my friends near Baton Rouge are ok. Have others I still need to check on.


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I don't know what happened to my post from yesterday.

Hugs and joy to you, Ruby. They say it takes a village to raise a child but it also takes that same village to make itself grow. Without each other, we are nothing. I am grateful each and every day for my friendships that have been found here.

Here is a bit more of the yard from last year on this same date. Several more things have gone in since. The two small trees in the lawn on the far side have come out. One was killed by insects, the other was just badly placed. Another bed has been added.

And thank you, Cajun!

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Boy, my yard would NEVER be in good enough shape to post a pic like that.

Thankful DH has to go on a business trip to Disneyworld and can't bear to go without me, so he's bringing me!

Yea!!

kwan, i want to walk barefoot and roll around in that grass. Oh, my...

i know, right Debra?!! me tooooo!

Cajun, yeah, good luck finding any grass like that around OUR neighborhoods. LOL
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Today, I am thankful for:

Egg salad

Trivets

Smoke detectors, laser angioplasty, lightweight firefighter breathing apparatus, cordless power tools, MS cooling suits, scratch-resistant lenses, flat panel televisions...God bless the men and women--past, present, and future--of the United States Space Program.

Everyone one is welcome to come walk and roll all they like! LOL

I went out today and took a cell pic from the other side but it didn't look very good. I will take a better one tomorrow.

Today, I am thankful that I DON'T have to have another eye surgery or a new prescription for glasses.

Kwan, I am thankful you don't have to have eye surgery too. Your yard is scrumptious. I do not have grass period.I do have the most beautiful poison ivy vines which i have started iradicating. Did you paint your rocks white or are they natural?
My lawn chairs are just like yours except they have a grey and white flower print.
I am thankful for my black cat Miss Kitty. She disapeared today and i called and called and she did not come. I came inside and boo hooed. She came dragging in at 10:30PM. I grabbed her up and hugged and hugged her.(she hates to be hugged)LOL

Awwwww...Miss Kitty shouldn't do that to you! No, the rocks are grey and kind of washed out in the pic.

Today, I am thankful for hot coffee, wireless home weather stations, that DH took the truck today and not his sports car(it's raining), band-aids and black garden soil delivered in a huge bag.

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I am very thankful today to have the internet back. I'm also grateful that the man who worked on our DSL caught some excess charges that have been being tacked on for the last few months and we will be getting a refund. Be careful giving out your home phone number or cell # on line, Everyone. There are some unscrupulous companies that will charge your phone company or cell provider for services that you never requested.
Great to catch up with y'all. (Jim)

yea, jim!

'cept, nadine has to give up her job at wendy's now...

Today, I am thankful for helpful service company employees--both cable AND big phone and ON THE SAME DAY! (can you bee-LEEVE it? LOL)

I am thankful that there are spending areas I can cut back with only moderate pangs (and only pangy because I am spoiled).

I am thankful my canine kids are mostly healthy, even if creaking and aging along with me. :-)

Time for new thread. Getting a bit cumbersome for dial-up. :-)

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1182737/