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MKL is amazed that I know the names of so many plants. Fair enough, since I’m impressed that he knows the names and functions of every BMW part, no matter how tiny or insignificant-looking.
Daily gratitudes:
- MKL
- The Jackalope Lady
- The gentleman with the cowboy hat and gold lame fanny pack
- How pretty I felt last night
- Nick, my GPS navigator
Not all who wander are lost applies particularly to me.

Daily gratitudes:
- MKL
- Adventure Days
- Setting up house
- Rain
- Planting





Today’s gratitudes:
- Goats
- Grazing alpacas
- MKL
- Tulips blooming today









Today’s gratitudes:
- That K does not have COVID-19
- Sleep
- Lemon ginger tea
- A repaired stair







Today’s gratitudes:
- That MKL came up for the day
- Only nine more days until I actually live with my husband
- That the Fire Department is trying to contain the fire four miles northwest of here (which is really stressing me out)
- A successful experimental smoothie
I’m really not traveling the county roads in numerical order – though that might be fun.








Today’s gratitudes:
- Dirt roads
- An annual State parks pass
- Meadowlarks
- Getting gas for under $4.00/gallon
Via a rather circuitous route that included Hwy 69, Hwy 96, and Hwy 165.











Today’s gratitudes:
- Trying to figure out the cat
- The first tree in bloom
- That K is back safely from her trip








Today’s gratitudes:
- Clouds
- Getting everything done
- A moment of silence for the first anniversary of the King Soopers shooting
- Daffodils pushing up through the cold earth






Today’s gratitudes:
- Waking up with my husband
- Seeing the first Robin
- New friends
- Catnaps
Today lives in shades of black and white. The ink lines of the pine bark. Downy feather pillows of snow piling up around the Retreat, trapping and coddling me at the same time. Pine needles ever present, their green gone to charcoal without the sun. And the sky varying shades of sea foam in a wishful mind.
Here is today:

And here is yesterday:




So today, I put shoes on in the house (gasp), an indication that chores will be done and meals cooked for the week, and banana bread baked as gifts for my two neighbors. The Wailin’ Jennys are my soundtrack for the day, melodic, beautiful, slightly spiritual, slightly melancholy, often surprising. Kind of like me.
Have a warm day, wherever your heart is.