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Babies. Furry and green. Ten Things of Thanks for the week that was.

Life.

New life. Old life. Resurrected life.

So much to be thankful for this last week of May 2015.

Ten Things of Thanks for the week that was.

10. My son and I came home after a week of vagabonding about Florida to find this baby.

Kittens.

Another photo cause really is a cat ever as cute again in her life than as a wee kitty?

Meet the newest Miles. Smoky. Or as I affectionately call her Smokestack.

Yes, Smokestack will make the weekly Thankful list again when — and if — she learns to find the litter box.

9. Fish liveth.

Today, I was cleaning Fish’s habitat. For to fish, man is like God. He controls the stinkiness level of their world.

After emptying Fish into a cup to let the temperature of his water adjust, I went about my merry business. Which was probably cleaning toilet bowls.

I came back to see this.

Which is bad for me if I left Fish in there.

Much worse for Fish, as he was lying at the bottom of the dry sink.

Most thankfully, Fish seems to have survived the sorted affair.

He looks dead, but don’t Betas always look that way?

8. Florida.

Thankfully, Florida was as I left it seven months ago.

7. My sister.

She is wonderful and lives in Sarasota. Which is good for me.

6. Water parks.

If you want to be a kid again head to a water park this summer.

I post this pic not only as a image to go with this Thankful but more so Greg can again wonder why I’ll post photos of me in a bathing suit on my blog but not let him post one of me on Facebook.

5. But back to home, reality and more babies.

Look what happened when I was away.

Tomatoes!

Rutgers tomatoes.

For the last few weeks, I’d been nursing along tomato seedlings for my fourth grader’s class. I had them sow seeds and then was to bring back their seedlings the last day of school.

Talk about pressure.

Those things about made me nuts. Trying to get every child a plant in their cup.

Last day of school by hook or crook, I took the baby Rutgers in and handed them out.

But my nest was bare. No more seedlings to fret over. So I started my own and Yay looks like they are growing.

4. A new gator.

Anyone that knows me well (or ever been in my house) knows I collect gators. This stems from love of my native state’s warm and cuddly reptile and the University of Florida mascot. I don’t collect orange blue rah-rah gators. I collect refined, erudite creatures.

Anyway. Over the years, I’ve gathered a lot so I don’t buy everything I see. But this guy is awesome.

I love him.

3. The Beatles.

My son went to Liverpool and all I got was a Beatles t-shirt. YAY.

2. My squash.

I was worried about my squash production this year. No more worries.