Today, I am thankful for...#10

We came from here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1225605/

Sometimes, all it takes to help smooth a rough day is to remember what we have for which to be grateful. Big or small, thoughtful or funny, there is always something--even during those times when we have to dig really deep to find it. Sharing our thanks also cheers others to look for theirs. :-)

I'm grateful for the new thread. Thank you Debra

tam

Today, I'm thankful for early birthday presents. DH got me a Nook, cover and wall adaptor. Thankful for the long, dark days of reading ahead of me. The pink cover reads, "Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale. Hans Christian Andersen"

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Happy Feliz Birthday Cumpleaños ! :-)

Nadine has a wonderful post at the end of #9. Maybe we can talk her into posting again at the top of this thread. Part of my family is Navajo and, like in many native cultures, military service is venerated.

Thankful for being able to stay close to home this week.
For having more than enough food
For having warm shelter

For having enough toothpaste to get through until Tuesday. :-)-

Thankful to have things to cook and cook with also the ability to cook.
Been busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. Have my group dinner tomorrow. Fixed dressing and fudge brownes for that one and made enough dressing for our home dinner.
Grandson came down and wanted to and did put up the Christmas tree.(A bit early LOL) Took a picture and put it on facebook.
Happy Birthday Quan. Are'nt septic tanks wonderful Digger.Yes, Am thankful for mine. Am thankful for rain and thankful for electic lights. I would hate to cook by oil or candle light.
Vickie

Debra, isn't this thread having its birthday too? Wasn't it started around Thanksgiving last year?
I'll post Nadine's pic again. Considering everyone and everything at these celebrations is a blur of motion, that my camera is getting rather outdated and the lighting was more for atmosphere. , , I think she did good.
Happy Birthday, Kwanjin! Good b'day present. Enjoy! (Jim)

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Jim, you are right, the first thread was started on November 24 last year. Wow. A whole year. I am so pleased and happy!
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Today, I am thankful for

dried beef
dried dates
dried socks (its raining this evening)
dried towels (carried in fresh from the garage on a cold afternoon)

Today, I am thankful for:

Ripe tomatoes

Amtrak. I never got tired of "riding the rails" several times from Denver to South Bend, IN and back; and then from Denver to Orlando as a child. From Dallas to Chicago and back twice as an adult. Always took a couple of days back on land before I could walk without rocking. LOL

Website email contact forms for physicians. So much more handy to leave non-urgent messages or ask routine questions without wading through multi-layer phone systems. :p

Thankful today for pull-behind lawn sweepers. Don't believe I could keep up with the leaves using a rake.
Also, thoughtful friends who give fruit baskets, instead of fattening stuff , when they know you are trying to lose weight. (Jim)

Thanks for the happy bday wishes. I love my gift.

Today, I'm thankful for DH's co-worker and his wife that made tamales and brought them to work. They made a scrumptious dinner.

Also, for the little orange Pot Marigolds blooming away al lalone out front. This, after 3 snowfalls and many mornings of frost.

What day is your birthday, Kwan?

Today I am thankful to have this Forum to be able to turn to, at any time, to have my spirits raised!

I am thankful for visiting step daughter and her 2 young boys for 2 days prior to Thanksgiving.

I saw this article today from a daily e-newletter I get and it reinforces the importance of being grateful.

http://www.debtproofliving.com/DPLResources/EverydayCheapskate/VisitorEverydayCheapskate/tabid/275/smid/663/ArticleID/534037/reftab/38/t/Default.aspx

The New York Times just ran an article about the value to ourselves in gratitude.

Today I am grateful for my home and for friends who live close (and for friends who don't live close). I am grateful to have the family I do. They are all unique individuals with different strengths and skills. I look forward to spending time with each parent in the next few days. And I am grateful for a job that takes me to CA a few times a year so I can visit my sister.

Tam

Today, I am most grateful for the life and works of Anne McCaffrey.

Successful kitchen collaborations! We've hit upon a cranberry sauce everyone likes. (Jim)

I just love the Pern series! I recently read a few of the books Anne wrote with her son. So I'm also grateful for Anne McCaffrey.

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!
Tam

I'm an Anne McCaffrey fan, as well. I love the Dragonriders series but have not liked the ones her son has written as well as the ones she wrote herself. I am thankful for the many, many hours spent on Pern.

And, also, for pumpkin bread.

Debra, Nov. 29th.



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I am thankful for doctors who listen and speak kindly to their less-than-perfect patients. The orthopedic doctor whom I saw about my possible knee surgery told me the best non-surgical thing I could do would be to lose some weight. I have since lost twenty pounds. I wrote to him the other day to thank him for the way in which he told me: completely non-judgmental, just telling me how it is. He called me back yesterday and just left a message he was calling.

Surgeons, and orthopedic surgeons in particular, are not known as being the most compassionate people and here I seem to have found a second one. The first one I gave a coffee cup that said "Ask me about my Lobotomy" when he was about to do my third hand surgery. His assistants gasped; he just shook his head and said, "She understands me."

Today I am tankful for just about everything. I do wish my dogs would return the knee brace that hid because I am not cooking them a turkey for Thanksgiving but my knee isn't bad so I'll keep on with the cleaning/organizing and hope I find where they hid it.

Grateful for all of my friends here. Super grateful, as always, for Tony who keeps working while I am finally having a good sleep. For which I am also grateful.

Gratitude is free. I think of it as a muscle that needs to be exercised. Resentment comes back to bite you in the butt.

hugs, katie

"Gratitude is free. I think of it as a muscle that needs to be exercised. Resentment comes back to bite you in the butt."
Ain't that the truth, Katie!! :-)

Today I am thankful for many things, but mostly for contributing to a good day for my sister and her granddaughter. Jessica, the 15 year old I-wanna-be-a-chef "cooked" Honey Baked Ham (boneless), sliced canned potatoes in cream sauce, sauteed mushrooms, package salad, crescent rolls, pickled beets, jellied cranberry sauce, cherry pie, and pound cake with crushed pineapple and sugar free Cool Whip. She was very proud of herself and we were proud of her. I taught her how to make a roux and cook the mushrooms, so she really did do some cooking. It was the first full meal of this kind she had ever put together and I think she did a darned good job of it. :-D

Good for her.

Both my hands are kind of messed up. The left hand is carmped up. I cut between the middle fingerd of the right hand trying to wash a jar - didn't notice the top was chipped. Ripped a big chunk of skin/flesh out. Neighbor Dana was still home. all dressed up to go out to dinner. She confirmed that I didn't need to go to the clinic and bandaged it for me. I went to bed soon after (shock, I think) and slept about twelve hours. Still some painful and no gardening or other "dirty" work for awhile. Dana told me stories of treating many, many similar cuts while working in an ER.

I'm very thankful to kown it will most likely heal with no further problem. And I don't think it will ever happen again. What they call one trial learning.

We also had lots of rain last night. Like Camelot, it only rains after sundown (at least last night) and it came down slowly enough to sink in. I was very thankful for a solid roof and for the work I've done so my kitchen wouldn't (and didn't) flood.

hugs, katie

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.I did. I am thankful for family planned cooking for The Meal.Thankful for all the food we have.Thankful for all the people who shared their Thanksgiving time and energy feeding those not so lucky.
Vickie

I am thankful our little Thanksgiving Dinner for just 4 turned out. We have traditionally been non-traditional for Thanksgiving and when folks ask what our 'plans' are the week before, I also shoot back we seem to wait till about noon on THE DAY before deciding what to do. Or, more likely where to go. No extended family here. As a single gal I used to travel to places like Taipei and the Bahamas during this week as most people were with family. I was at the grocery store about 1PM yesterday picking up dinner supplies. We are not big fans of turkey, so seldom cook that. We had prime rib, fresh asparagus (both on a fantastic sale), oven stuffing, butternut squash sections and Hawaiian rolls. Coconut cream pie for DH and Turtle cream pie . DD had been to a friend's Thanksgiving dinner earlier in the day and they sent home pumpkin and apple pie. Since I am the cook and do not like mashed potatoes in the least, there were none!

After last breakfast with DSS and the active grands, they left for dinner and visits with her mom and that side's family before the four of them go on their first cruise!

quilty, that sounds wonderful. non-traditional works just great for me, especially if it is prime rib and asparagus!!! :-)

Me too. Pending another good sale, will do the same for Christmas. Fresh asperagus is one of my faves and it was the slender stalks for .99 #!! Bought three bunches and may make that my lunches and dinners as I am the only one who likes it that much. DH is fine with small veggies servings and DD prefers broccoli and spinach (not a bad thing).

Today ˆ am thankful for gorgeous weather. forecast is for 64 today, but the sunny areas are warmer than that already and then mid to high 70's through Wed. Maybe the green tomatoes will ripen? Tomatillos are ready to pick.

We are expected to get our first freeze toward the end of next week. Maybe I'll get enough motivation to plant some daylilies. But if I at least get the shelving unit washed off and brought inside so I can bring in the baby seedlings, I will call it a good weekend. :-)

Thankful today for the still warm weather. And abundance of left over food. LOL

Tonight I am thankful to be home. I love my family but its always more comfortable to be at my own home.

Tam

Tam, I think that is true for most of us. Love to visit but love to get home.
Quilty, Can I come have Christmas dinner with you. I'm alone in loving asparagus too.
Debra, You'll have so many daylillys,we'll start calling you the daylilly queen.I can see it now...The Daylilly That Ate Dallas.
I am thankful for Angels, Both the figurines and the real ones.

Dancing is a very good exercise. Dancing practise sounds like a way to start with it.

Grateful for time off, for a steady rain, and a reminder of the mental health benifits of being grateful.

Today I'm so happy to have enjoyed a beautiful day this late in Nov. Sunny and in the 60s.

Yep, Vickie. Going to have the most floriferous yard in the neighborhood come next Spring. The way some of them are increasing, they well MAY take over the town! Here is an angel for you. Made it for the cafepress store. Figure it can't hurt to invite as many as you can to take up residence with you. (hug)

Susan, dancing is surely great exercise. Now if I only weren't so lazy and trippy-over-my-own-feet...LOL
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Did not plant anything today (except part of a three year old oregano I accidentally pulled up while pulling some weeds). But did wash down the shelves to move inside tomorrow for the seedlings. Thankful for that.

A few days ago, dropped my six week old new cell phone connection-end down into a partial glass of soda--I mean, of all places, it went straight down into this narrow little glass on top of this great big desk! Guess Murphy was visiting. It won't charge now, so I have no telephone. Was the first customer when Metro opened this morning. Told the clerk I dropped it, but she was so weary from yesterday and all the nasty people who tried to scam her out of a freebie by claiming defects when it was their own doing, that she put it in under warranty repair rather than owner damage because I didn't lie about it. So the only cost will be to activate the unit. Comes in Wednesday. I can live without a phone until then. Honesty does pay. And I am very, very thankful to her for saving me money I need to allocate elsewhere. :-)

Repetition takes care of the trippies. And if the music isn't something you like and is fun then the feet don't get you moving.

Grateful for old friends, good music, great caller, and great hall at last night’s barn dance.

OOH, barn dance! How fun. :-)

Yes. It is. :-)

Looks like you have one near you. http://www.nttds.org/

Here is a list of folk dance events in the USA. There are also sites that list those for other countries. I attend other barn/contra dances or folk dances when traveling. As you can see lots of oppurtunites to dance. http://www.cdss.org/upcoming-events.html

Kay often refers to our Debra as “the daylily diva Debra” to distinguish her from another friend named Debra. lol.
Today I’m thankful there is no longer a turkey haunting our fridge and for Christmas decorating to stave off the after-holiday let-down. My favorite decoration is a crocheted (?) tree-topper angel I was given at a tree ornament exchange party years ago. (I can’t quite figure out how it was made.) When DW starts decorating the tree, it is like the last 50+ years of her life dissolve away. I’ve never thought of tangerine orange, black and brown as Christmas colors before I married, but I’ve since come to enjoy a tree covered in Tigger ornaments and teddy bears because it is so much fun to watch it being decorated. (Jim)

I've got a repeat today - I'm so grateful for another beautiful warm day! I got so much done outside that I actually feel ready for winter. Well... almost ready. lol

Tam

Jim, delighted with the name, thanks. :-)


Thankful for chocolate, cabbage, and coreopsis.

Thankful for playing soccer with Jessie (our dog), all the leaves that are mulching the bed, and the new blooms on the orange calendula in the garden.

I am thankful for the 38 angels I can see right now. and all the ones I can't see.
Also for the ceramac(SP) native Americans I see and various wild animals and birds. My computer room is a happy place.A book shelf half way around the room,books and magazines.shelves of candle holders,whatnots,beads,buttons,glass jewels,glue,glitter,lace, sewing notions,maps and a picture of the Black Jesus on the wall,A computer desk,a small table,Life is good.
I don't plan on going outside for awhile. It's cold out there. But I do have to go into town tomorrow.Oh Well!!!!!

Hot frou-frou coffee on a chilly morning.