Today, I am thankful for...#6

Just thankful your okay, Debra...and the dogs...and the daylilies. lol.
Thankful cancer therapy is getting better. They can target cancer cells with much more precision than they could a decade ago. k*

Today I am thankful for all the wild muscadines that I collected, They made the most wonderfull tasting jelly for my family. And I will be thankful when I get through picking okra tomorrow to put up for this winter stews with a summer flair:0) I am also thankful for my three year old daughter's "I love my mom" song :0)

look at those eyes. :-)

One of my favorite pics she is thankful for bell peppers especially this blushing beauty pepper plant we grew this year

I'm thankful to have much less pain than usual. Thankful for a very hot bath, courtesy of the sun and my outdoor tub.

Thankful to be back at work brownbagging the second bedroom. Thankful Tony found the last tub of wallpaper paste so I can continue the work.

Thankful to have picked three papayas and used one to make the best smoothie ever.

My cup runneth over.

katie

Be sure to record the "I love Mommy" song. You'll need it in a few years.

definitely the daylilies, too, kay! :-D

thank you buffy. she is beautiful. :-)

yea, katie!

What a cutie-pie!!! Gorgeous eyes!

Today, I am thankful for food to-go.

Today, I am thankful that in the middle of heat and drought, I still have food and water and shelter.

I am thankful for pre-shredded cheese and sliced, pickled jalapeno pepper.

I am thankful for lazy weekend afternoons

Lovely child! The youngest of my GC's will be starting school this fall. Man, I suddenly feel old! LOL.
Muscadine season is just around the corner for us. Looking forward to a grape hull pie. I'm experimenting with some muscadine hybrids, but the ones that grow in the woods still make the best pie.
My thankfulness echoes Debra's. Thankful for lazy summer afternoons. All DW and I did today was to walk the property and appreciate what we found. (Jim)
(Photo: A funny combination that caught my eye. Tomatoes with oranges in the background).

Today we were thankful for rain, and the winds that finished the job too high for me to reach(removing some damaged limbs)...We were thankful for the corn and okra we had grown and really enjoyed tonight at dinner, the last of the fresh from the gardn okra as it was composted this week :0) Again thankful for more space to plant something new :0)

is that kay's dragon thingie in the right background?

Flying Dragon? LOL Looks like one to me.

Today, I am thankful for Costco, magnets and bungies.

DD from Texas, Nita and i went to Fort Smith yesterday. Am so very thankful we got along and injoyed ourselves. They were having yard sales all along HWY 64 and we stopped at a couple. I found 2 angels. Nita injoyed the stop at Post Family Winery.
Von and Jerry had dinner waiting when we got back. Bar-b-que,baked potato and corn.
Sally, Scoot is doing fine. He's totally out of it right now beside my chair, as are all the other kids.He and the cats have called a truce and mainly ignore eachother now.
I love this cool weather.
Debra, Am so sorry about the break in. You are right, there is bound to be more crime of all sorts wth the economy getting tight.People are afraid of big Dillen, little knowing it's Cricket and the cats that are dangerous.
Buff there is nothing better than veggies and fruit you've grown your self. Tho i found a couple great tasting cantalope yesterday.
Nita needs cataract surgery badly. I found a place in Florida that does the surgery for free for low income people. Will look into that for her.

"They" are saying crime is up drastically in our area because of the economy, too. We're thinking of getting out of Dodge. This is a crime-prone area as it is. We haven't seen anything in our neighborhood. Yet.

Today, I'm thankful we live in a 'pocket of civility.'

Today I am thankful to have found work despite the economic situation even if simple data entry is the meat and potatoes of the job. There is the occasional creative task to keep it interesting.
The wild blackberries and muscadines are my two favorite fruit. I bet muscadines do make great jelly with their more intense flavor. I'll have to try that this year.
That's spooky, Debra. You sleeping okay?
How many horses do you have, Quilty? I've never ridden. They scare me a little up close and personal. They're just so BIG, but they are such expressive animals they are a blast to draw.
Right, Kwan,, that's the 'Flying Dragon' Japanese Hardy Orange. The 'Owari' mandarine had to be moved and doesn't have fruit this year. Wicked looking shrub/small tree, but we always have tons of request for seeds in Dec. It grows true from seed and makes an inpenetrable fence livestock can't get through. I guess planting it is cheaper than putting up a barbed wire fence if your not in a hurry and N. Florida rivals Texas when it comes to raising beef cows. ~Nadine~

Nadine, yes, I am. This neighborhood is generally quiet and quite safe. Believe the four breakins I know of over the last six years were all by the young man next door. All during the day, all very specific in activity, and no extraneous damage or smashed up stuff just for smashing's sake. :-)
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Today, I am thankful for a generous supply of EON plant markers. Need them with all the daylily therapy been indulging in. :-)

I am thankful for cold Fresca.

I am thankful for binder clips. (cheap, easy to use, and good for closing potato chip bags)

I am thankful for the cool morning as I can now get out and prepare some things for Fall Planting.

Today, I'm thankful for internet radio, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, John Wayne.

I'm also thankful for neighbors.

Thankful for Dave's and all the folks I've 'met.'

Today I am thankful for caring friends and family. Waiting in surgical wait area which is huge but cozy with club chairs and fresh coffee! There was even soft live guitar playing. WiFi here means I can use my iTouch. OR is 4 floors up and the give us pagers to call us to the Concierge Desk for info. It is still stressful of course and a long wait. He has been in for 6.5 hous so far with maybe 2-3 more to go. DRS come down here when they aré finished to talk to family then we wait longer while they are in recovery. They think he will be in ICU till Wed AM. I did bring some overnight stuff and we spoke of my getting a
Hotel room. Maybe.

I am thankful DH became conversant again with his older 3 children this past week

Good friend called us each to pray with us. Lots of people want to know results and such so will do mostly group emails and texts. Not too many except older aunts don't do either. Thanks for being there for me, my DG friends!!

big hug, quilty.

today, i am thankful for sugar free oatmeal cookies (no raisins! don't like raisins LOL)

I am thankful for postage meters

I am thankful for Tyvek envelopes

Big hugs from here, too, Quilty!

Post to us here , friend , we all care .

Hugs from me.
Had B-B-Q tonight around a campfire. Twas good.

Who cooked ?

Today I am thinkful for making it through another summer, and the beginning of the school year tomorrow :0) As well as last week rainshowers in the evening that has produced a large crop of oncoming peppers.

Today, I am thankful for the power of belief.

I am thankful that the adjuster has been and gone.

I am thankful to have Comedy Central.

I am thankful for scuppernong grapes and Jackie Chan.
You're in our prayers, Quilty. (Jim)

I am thankfull for kleenex, spare change, and coupons...:0P

Oh, Jackie...forever in our hearts. LOL

Today, I am thankful for dedicated school bus drivers. Theirs is a challenging task at least on a par with teachers and principals.

I am thankful for reruns of NCIS.

I am thankful for braids.

I had really short legs when I was little. Getting up that first stip into the school bus was hard for me. I loved my first bus driver. He paid one of the bigger girls to help me into the bus every day. I never knew he paid her to do it until I was grown up and ran into her in the grocery store. :-)
Today I'm thankful for butterflyies. ~N~

I am thankful for the Science Channel and the Astronomy and Astro physics shows they had on today.I was in Heaven-literally.
My SIL and I cooked. It took 40 years but i did learn to cook. LOL

Can't wait to visit and taste something . Bet you're a good cook now . Do you enjoy it or , like me , it's a chore ?I do enjoy cooking desserts for special people .
I'm thankful for memories of the past , good or bad .They make us who we are .

Today I am thankful for all your hugs and remembrances!!! DH had his surgery Mon and was in there for 12 hours. Dr said first 4 hours were dealing with all his internal scaring from past abdominal surgeries. All went well and the removed bladder had clear margins - no more advanced cancer, so they were able to go ahead with plan A and build a new bladder from a section of intestine they took out. She fels his recuperation may take longer than first estimate, both in and out of hospital. Still in ICU. Tuesday he was fraught with hallucinations and by evening we had to hold his arms down to keep him from yanking his plethora of tubes out. They ended up using restraints. Good thing he did not have his phone or he would have called the police. Last night too. His 2 sons came in to stay with him during the day yesterday and that gave me a day of respite. I ended up sleeping off and on most of the day! Between tension and the 80 mile each way drive I was wiped out. Little calmer today but he is still seeing things. His heart rate is getting lower and oxygen rate higher, so he may be closer to going to a regular room. Thanks again guys for being here for me. You make me smile

quilty, that is great news. big hugs to you both!

i am thankful today for freely running water

for being able to find something good in this bad heat and drought---no mosquitoes!

for newspaper and aluminum foil

Thankful Quilty can see the light at the end of the tunnel and D H is doing well .Hope all is downhill for you both now . Thank you Lord .

Thankful here for Quilty,s DH doing better.I remember so well the prayers and tension when a loved one is having surgery.I've always heard the first 24 hours are the most dangerous.
Debra, Inquiring people and all that------Newspaper and aluminum foil????

kids NEED to know how to make sailor hats out of newspaper
and daylilies will exist just fine in a shipping box with wadded newspaper kept damp.
and four layers of newspaper laid out over the soil will control weeds.
and shredded newspaper is good for lining crates and bird cages
and newspaper makes fine paper mache

foil---well, that's for the hats. can't pick up the alien signals without the hats, doncha know... :-D

I notice there are all kinds of uses for newspaper. Not one mention of gathering NEWS from it. LOL

Today, I'm thankful for warehouse shopping, sprinklers, community gardens, arboretums, museums and valet parking.

Thankful my life is full enough that I still have projects to look forward to.
And people to meet