What brought you joy today?

Yesterday, what brought me joy was having my kids and their girlfriends over for a late lunch to celebrate our 30th anniversary (which is tomorrow). It also brought me joy to learn to play Catan with them.

Today, what brought me joy was walking my dogs with my youngest son this morning.

Joy today for me was dragging some stuff out to the road for disposal and getting the lawn mowed. I know not fun stuff but sure is a good feeling that I got it done. Right now, I'll take the things that make my self esteem better. And as added bonus, I have this coming week off from work, meaning odd chores and lots of rest. Best to all.

Today, tending to my vegetable garden.

Yesterday, hauling away the junk around my workbench so that it can become operational again, and baking fresh whole-wheat molasses bread.

Every day, breakfast on the porch surrounded by flowers, and most of all, my family and friends.

Today my joy came from watching out the window, 14 turkeys in my back yard. Been living here almost 20 years and is first time seeing them, plenty of others but not the turkeys. Appeared to be 3 moms and 11 young ones. they would walk around then plop down to relax. On and off I watched them for over 3 hours, it was a pretty joyful site to see them. Best to all.

Today I discovered that three of my tomato plants are already taller than I am (one is over 7 ft). That's not bad for Canada in mid-July. I've run out of stake to tie them to, though. 🙂

Wow! Nothing better than homegrown tomatoes! When I was a kid, my brother and I had a tomato fight in our backyard with old tomatoes and the next year we had about 100 tomato plants all over the yard. What a delightful unintended consequence! Haha I enjoyed lots of tomato sandwiches for years. Yum!

Wow. That must have been interesting. They were almost meant for your entertainment.

Yesterday we traveled to Stockholm Wisconsin for their annual Art Show on the banks of Lake Pepin (Mississippi River). Wonderful art, live music, and homemade pie. This year for the first time they had a traveling poet . She carried a basket of cards for you to pick from and each had a poem on it. Mine read, " People, Life is not over!" I,of course started to cry. I told here that I was healing from 2 cancers and cancer free 79 days! In spite of my tears it brought me great joy.

That's a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it with all of us.

Last night we had dinner with friends that we had not seen in over 2 months and then today we ran into some more friends that we had not seen in an even longer period of time at the local DQ! There is nothing that a little ice cream cannot fix !