The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 31st- A few of my favorite things...
~The joy of finding new ways to balance magnets
~Making sand castles with moon sand
~Making a salad for dinner tonight with my girlies

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 30th- A few of my favorite things...
~Ponies neatly placed in their stall for the night
~Finding a three-year-old's treasure collection
~Remembering Thea showing great grandma her feather find

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 28th- A few of my favorite things...
~My butterfly whisperer catching 2 butterflies on one stick
~Getting close to the animals at the NYS Fair and the rescue work by Sunshine Horses
~The simple joy of eating hot roasted corn-on-the-cob

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 28th- A few of my favorite things...
~Finding a beetle with "bee" colored stripes
~Watching a brown damselfly come in for a landing
~Seeing two kinds of bees hard at work on the goldenrod

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of my Favorite Things

Aug 27th- A few of my favorite things...
~Felicity asking me to take time to lay down on the grass and look at the sky with her
~Listening to her tell me what she see in each passing shape
~Savoring the moment, knowing it, too, will pass like the clouds above

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 26th- A few of my favorite things...

~Sisters playing bingo with Turtlebunny
~A strikingly magenta anemone 
~Finding a bee who likes to disco while he works wink emoticon

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 25th- A few of my favorite things...
~The stippled surface left by mason marks 160 years ago
~Limestone blocks that look like they were placed by a Tetris champion
~Avoiding a hornets nest cleverly hiding in the rock wall

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 24th- A few of my favorite things...
~Gwyn's excitement over going out with Moriah around town today...and getting choose a book to buy
~Sculpture garden around my couch
~Making pickled beets to enjoy this winter

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 22nd- A few of my favorite things...
~Growing a variety of tomatoes
~Eating one straight from the vine still warm from the sunshine and...
~Still having plenty for tonight's salad

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 22nd- A few of my favorite things...
~Wearing sandals on a summer's day
~Seeing which color each chooses
~Spending time with my youngest girlies painting their toes pretty

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 20th- A few of my favorite things...
~A little girl, who at 3, wants carrot cake for her birthday
~A cake so good that even Turtlebunny could not resist the cake
~Celebrating 3 years with this smile-gifting, joyful little girl

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 19th- A few of my favorite things...
~Learning about the world before us through archaeological digs---Love Time Team!
~Hooking my littlest ones on learning about history (this one was about a roman villa and bathhouse)
~Finding a strange satisfaction when the girlies are outraged that an earlier archaeologist removed critical pieces because he thought they were pretty "That was stupid! He should have left it there so everyone could see it in its place on the floor"

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 18th- A few of my favorite things...
~Eyes that spy the remains of a crayfish along a trail
~Learning more about them by studying their remains
~Shaniah coloring of them in their habitat

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 17th- A few of my favorite things...
~Tiny red spider mites scurrying along
~A harvestmen spider (daddy longlegs) waiting patiently for his next meal (they are omnivores)
~A grasshopper clinging to the hairy stem of a sunflower

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 16th- A few of my favorite things...
~Riding down the Erie Canal Trail with the girlies, stopping for a picnic dinner
~Red, White, and Blue...Railroad style
~The interesting pattern our bikes' shadows leave on the road while waiting to see a train

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 15th- A few of my favorite things...
~Raindrops bejeweling a leaf
~Rain washing almost ripe apples
~The vibrant blue of Asiatic Dayflower

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 14th- A few of my favorite things...
~Joe Pye weed keeping the bees and butterflies happy
~Little eyes that caught a leopard frog hopping out of our path
~Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in high summer...the closest thing to a prairie as far as the eye can see on Central New York

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 13th- A few of my favorite things...
~The excitement of being old enough to get the mail
~The excitement of finding a real letter with your name on it
~Shaniah opening said letter to find a cleverly folded origami note from a friend...thank you Minji!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 12th- A few of my favorite things...
~Watching a very determined artist...
~Find just the right color smile emoticon
~A tea party for lunch for no particular reason