Gratitude Journal

I’m doing a free 21 day meditation with Oprah and Deepak Chopra. I’m hoping it will help me get work mojo back, by teaching me how to focus my mind.

Sometimes I put it off for too long!

He’s a big white husky-type dog, and he was sitting between me and Trav on the couch. I laid on him for a while, and my shirt came away all covered in hair! He was so comfy and soft.

It’s something I’ve wanted to do for quite some time. While Trav was at his “newbie” pollworker training (!!), I poked around in the antique and gift shops, and had a beer at our favorite restaurant there – Kafe Kokopelli. I also went over to the Mexican store and was so excited to see it is a tortilleria. Alas, they are not much better than what we get at the grocery store. They also had chicharrones in HUGE sheets, which was neat.

I also got a chance to play a little more with our new camera. Here’s Walter!

I’m thinking about doing a 30 day “edge only” shopping at the store, which would include produce, meat, eggs, and dairy. We have stuff in our cupboards I would like to use up, so this challenge will help me get creative on using the dry goods. Or, we’ll eat more fresh stuff. Either way, we win!

The power company is doing maintenance so branches don’t take out the wires. They cut down a pretty big tree from our back yard and chipped almost all that good wood!!

The big piece fit perfectly into the wheelbarrow, tipped it in, tipped it out.

She gave me an extra special box yesterday, it’s a really neat one! The cigar that came in it cost $19.

Bleys and Carmen are here, to get some wedding stuff done.

I know of a guy on Freecycle that will pick up electronics for recycling. We got rid of quite a stack! I’m amazed at how much stuff we accumulated over the years. Plus I finally said goodbye to my old Tandy 1000.

We went to our friend’s house for a party, and I swam and played Marco Polo and stuff with all of the young ‘uns. 🙂

We went with our friends Scott and Rachel on the Chassahowitzka River.

We visited Seven Sisters Spring and “The Crack.” Trav and I went through the longer cave for the first time today… it was fun!

To the right, you can kind of see the entrance to the bigger cave. It’s about a ten foot swim to the other side.

I feel bad when we have to remove stuff from the yard, even though it’s so we can have nice things. I take some solace that our changes will make different opportunities for wildlife in our yard. Maybe a bunny or a snake will come live in the brush pile!

Thanks, Dad! You and Michael are my best and most faithful readers.

We saw otters and lots of birds… anhinga, cormorant, swallow-tailed kite, ibis, heron, limpkin, and some I’ve never seen before.  The river is spectacular and I can’t wait to go back.

They cut down some trees out front today, as part of power line maintenance, and it inspired us to do a little trimming of our own.