This week has been busy in both happenings at this little place here, and in things that take me off the property (like three days that involved picking up assorted grandkids from school and/or babysitting in their home part of the day). By Wednesday evening, I was feeling kind of run over.
Almost two years ago I had started the habit of trying to list three 'happy' things that had happened before bedtime each day, and while I was trying really hard to come up with something good on Wednesday to list in my little journal, I reread what I'd written about the previous handful of days. That reminded me, tired and feeling overburdened as I was, that this busy-ness wasn't all bad and there had actually been many happy little things going on simultaneously.
So here's some of the happy things I experienced this week.
+Some of the maple trees are starting to turn colors.
The first red leaf!
+A big group gathering for soup and vacation planning. On Saturday afternoon all my kids, kids-in-law and grandkids came over. We had a potluck style soup supper--three soups, salad and bread plus cookies for dessert--and set a date for a (huge NINETEEN people!!) family vacation next summer. For a handful of years we've been kicking around the idea of trying to coordinate everyone's vacation days and go somewhere as a group, and DH decided now was the time to get serious and actually set things in motion. So we have a target date, a destination in mind, and now we can book lodging for everyone before all the 2 and 3-bedroom suites at our desired beachfront destination get taken. Plus everyone can go to their employers and put in for the same vacation days for next summer as well as begin budgeting so they have a vacation fund ready to go next July.
+Saturday morning, DD1, Faline, Buck and I had gone yard saling nearby, as there was a 'country block' yard sale organized where there were 9 stops on different roads ranging from 5-7 miles from this little place here. The only thing I bought, which I think was quite a great bargain, was a set of 4 wooden tray tables, with a carrier/storage rack for them, for only $5. Some of the tray tops have water rings, or other discoloration on them, but they are all sound and otherwise in great shape. This is something I'd been thinking about getting for a couple of years now, and when I saw this set for only five bucks, I quick grabbed it up! It came in extremely handy at our soup supper/vacation planning gathering later that day. We discovered that, as long as we weren't using huge plates, we could sit two people per tray table. The grandkids thought it was the coolest thing.
+The Yarn Thief, newly turned 11 years old, is still very spry and loves to climb and hunt. She still thinks horses are horribly scary creatures that might potentially eat cats, but she will, at least, sit on a fence post and hunt where she knows they are locked out of and can't possibly reach her. The fewer mice in the vicinity of the barn, the better!
+Free white peaches! Given to me by an internet friend that we figured out about 20 years ago doesn't live very far from me (maybe 20 miles). She also happens to be the LBM's farrier, and was out this week to trim her hooves. This friend has a peach tree that is overloaded this year. She had brought a couple of lunch bags of peaches with her and offered them to me. I'd never had a white peach before, but I love the 'regular' peaches, so I gladly accepted her generous offer. While not exactly the same flavor as yellow peaches (just like different types of apples have slightly different taste), they are delicious!
+The local library hosted a puzzle exchange this week. I took in three puzzles that I had done and was planning to donate to Goodwill, but this sounded like a better option. I came home with three new to me puzzles. I'm hoping this becomes a regular event, at least annually if not more often, as you can't beat a free puzzle and even though we're a tiny community we could keep swapping the same puzzles among us for years (assuming none lose their pieces) and still not do the same puzzle twice.
What little (or big) things brought a smile to your face this week?
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