1. God

2. Drying clothes in the sun

3. Cleaning up the garden

4. Going over to Catherine and Richard’s and seeing Alice again

5. Gentle sleep

6. Bouquets

7. Call from Hannah.  She will sing with a professional chorus this fall.  Proud of her.

8. Brilliant colors

9. Company

10. Speaking the truth

Finally being able to log in after a looooong time…

For my sons and daughters

For my grandkids

For my husband

For the inspiration from the other lists when I couldn’t post

For my little Cookie (shi-poo), my little baby

For the way she celebrates when I get home

For this beautiful life

For God’s grace

1. This week, the Goodyear blimp went over our house so close you could see the flag flying underneath (hubby said 100′!). Carol says seeing the Blimp is good luck.
2. Tonight, a hot-air balloon went past our house so close we could see the passengers in the basket! It was a huge wall of color in the sky…unfortunately looked like they were trying hard to not be so low
3. Went to thr Randolph Fair today, and the Montana girl in me loved seeing the 4-H animals
4. Found out our front-door neighbor homeschools!  As will we.
5. Reading so many excellent books right now, but Ben Hewitt’s Saved is my favorite
6. Sleeping babies when they happen to sleep at the same time (YAY)
7. Sore feet from walking. I LOVE walking
8. Thinking the best
9. Fans
10. This

• Summer rain
• Cool temps…furnace on, a/c off :)
• Hot soup, hot chocolate, hot tea
• Bicycles…
• …children’s with training wheels…teens and their “wheelies”… and 86 yr. old Harry with his Schwinn
• GPa’s eye infection clearing up…more eye drops…
• …we should buy stock in eye drop companies  LOL
• A package with great visual aids for cooking/baking :)
• Cathy’s reference, which I love:  “Thought is the master key.  It can keep you a prisoner of your past, or it can set you free.”  -Syd Banks

1. God

2. Muffin, in her spry advanced age, likes to play with a cat toy

3. Hearing from Hannah, in her element, surrounded by friends (she did not have to start a new life in Scranton)

4. Still point

5. Rainbow ribbons

6. Wind moving the unplugged fan

7. The light at different times

8. Cutting flowers and watching them grow again

9. The air punctuated by bells

10. More instructions

1. God

2. Opening the heart

3. picking up David at the airport and thinking this is no longer a little boy but an emerging young man

4. That a friend picked up Hannah in Scranton, Pa., so she won’t have to start a new life there though I supposed she could have worked for Dunder Mifflin

5. Whatever I thought was wrong

6. Getting another perspective

7. Going about my day with a generally good will

8. The theme

1. Phone call with a creative, incredible soul who’s re-inventing herself as her cells have always longed to do
2. Friend who lent a hand this eve & brought out a dresser
3. Walk to the water and its beauty- I wanted a boat to row out in
4. package in the mail
5. Prayers
6. Changing myself one cringe-worthy moment at a time
7. Intense inner work
8. for the sake of my babies
9. Deep breaths
10. This

1. God

2. Reminders and again

(in case I didn’t get it the first time or the other)

3. Lightening sky, like Jean’s description of it :)

4. Phone message from Helen

5. Coffee with Steve and his calm perspective

6. The village green

7. The lady at Hot Dog Annie’s with the apron that read “O Happy Day”

8. Hannah with her multicolored hat signed by all her campers

9. An affectionate cat

• Watching the awesome sunrise…first the slight orange peeking over the eastern mountains and then the bright light as it appears over the mountains
• Seeing more vehicles from states we rarely see: New Hampshire! wow! …  PA …  Kansas  …  New York  …  Arkansas
• Observing a third convertible this summer…a cutzie bright yellow Mustang…fun!
• GSon and family vacationing at Cannon Beach, OR…nice!
• Barbara’s friend from Dudley, England, who visits each year
• Paper dolls
• Osprey nest on a cell tower…they arrive in April to raise new chicks and return south for the winter :)
• Son and dil loving their airplane…flying to a small town early in a.m. for breakfast…fun!
• Daughter taking road trip to northwestern MT…another fun!
• “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”  -P. Diller

1. Watching the owl hunt in the back at dusk (he looks smaller, maybe he’s a baby hunting where his parents did?)
2. Realizing a mistake early
3. Staying with frustration/discomfort
4. A text at the perfect time
5. Fireflies
6. Patience (oh please fill up my well and expand my stores)
7. Love
8. Moments of joy
9. Growth
10. This