Vicki, who hosts
Coffee Klatch Friday on her blog
The Tapestry of Life, asked us last week if we could post 7 photos today, showing 7 things for which we are grateful. Of course I'm grateful for my husband, for his daughters, and for their children who let me be an extra grandmother to them, as well as for my own extended family, most of whom are in British Columbia, but the photos aren't of them. Maybe another time.
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| I am very grateful we have Lindy, who will cuddle up to my feet when I'm in my computer chair. |
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| I'm grateful for these shelves above my computer. On the top is an angel my best friend gave me, and to the right of it a photo of my late parents when they were 80. Below is their wedding picture, from 1946. The first of the two larger black & white photos is of me with my sister and brother the only year we were all teenagers: I was 19, he was 17 and she was 13. Then the two in sailor suits: my brothers: one was 20 and in the navy, and one 9 months and in diapers. I'm so grateful Mom had the youngest. |
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| I'm grateful to have one tidy, pretty corner in our cluttered house, featuring the antique flip-front desk my dad bought me when I was 14. The dealer said it was 85 years old then. It's much older now. |
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| I'm grateful to have photos like this of the ornamental crabapple tree in our front yard, especially today with the season's first snowfall outside and the thought of many more to come. |
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| I'm grateful for the juicer I bought at half price. Lindy and I are enjoying the juice. She loves the pulp that comes out the other side of the machine, so I give her some, and make soup with the rest of it. |
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| I'm grateful we (might) have found a solution to the problem of Lindy refusing to go into her dog house. Really. She's had it for two years, as long as we've had her, but she won't use it. So we went outside and made a fort/cave space using the dog house as one wall and the shed as another. We're hoping she will discover, all on her own, that it's a good place to go to get out of the weather when we're not home. |
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| Finally, I'm grateful to have these two fun photos of Mom and Dad when they still had enough vim and vigor to travel, camp, fish, and take photos for Dad's Living Rivers books. |
