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| Wild Himalayan Blackberry blossoms reflecting their different stages |
After a few years of participating in the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop hosted by Kristi of Thankful Me, I have come to appreciate the various stages of understanding, experience and talent of those who take time to consider the things for which they are thankful. Be sure to take a minute to see what others are saying this week. Just click on images at the bottom of the page.
1. Being able to discover the source of a leak when it was still daylight and sending an email to the necessary company so they could come the next day and take care of the matter
2. Rocket has playmates although the twin fawns born this week are not nearly has fast as he is!
3. Sweet and sour red cabbage and pickled beets were two dishes I prepared using some of the veggies that were in the produce box I bought this week. I think I'd only eaten sweet and sour red cabbage once at a favorite German restaurant years ago. After making it I found out that it tastes just as good cold as it does hot. When I was growing up pickled beets were a favorite. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned that the cans of pickled beets one buys in the stores are sweetened. I prefer the unsweetened ones which are made by cooking the whole beets in boiling water for about 30 minutes, slipping off the skins under cold water, slicing the beets into a bowl and soaking them with equal parts vinegar and cold water for a couple of hours.
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| Sweet and sour red cabbage |
4. Being able to make a little progress in tackling the weeds in the shrub bed has been a visually rewarding task this week. There is still much more to do, but I have been playing it smart by putting time constraints on my body and sticking to it.
5. We still have a couple of lizards (that we have seen) even though one young one was killed by a trap we had put out with the intention of narrowing the ground squirrel population. I suspect the lizard below eats mostly ants, flies, and spiders.
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| Fence lizard |
6. A YouTube video showing how to divide my leggy kalanchoe houseplants was helpful. I was impressed that no water is required initially to get them to take root.
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| Divisions of my kalanchoe plants |
7. Discovering that pollen pine cones are little and they are purple! How these pine trees grew so large and I only noticed the large seed cones and never noticed these tiny purple cones, I will never know.
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| Little purple Ponderosa pine pollen cones |
8. I recently got a short free Audible book that isn’t my usual genre, but the title was intriguing. Click the link Nut Jobs Cracking the Case With Marc Fennell to see a very short YouTube video of an interview with Marc Fennell giving you just an hint of what this is about. So interesting.
9. Faith and prayers and the comfort afforded by them
10. Vic and our family
9. Faith and prayers and the comfort afforded by them
10. Vic and our family
The fawns are so cute!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are pacing yourself on the outdoor chores. Little by little works. :-)
We just love watching Rocket run! The twin fawns can sometimes be playful, but not like Rocket!
DeletePurple pine cones! Oh how cool!!!
ReplyDeleteI know! At first I thought the tree was sick, but after doing searching online, I discovered that wasn't the case.
DeleteWhats not to like about 21st C technology? I'm referring, of course, to your video. The fun of living close enough to nature to catch a glimpse of a moment in the day of wildlife...lol
ReplyDeleteLike the idea of (pre)-establishing the duration for certain physical work. Takes the 'oh, but if I just get that last...' (where, of course, lurks the fatigue accidents)
Have a good week.
Oh, I am the world's worst when it comes to "but if I just get that last," but I have learned the hard way when I need to stop, NOW.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed the video!