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This day. This dog. And the lemon farm thrives.

Looking over this past week, I’m embarrassed to admit what first pops to mind are the things that didn’t happen.

Mainly the lack of writing.

Poor, poor me.

My head screams what a silly ungrateful woman. So many great things happened.

Why does the lack of writing time hang as fog on my positive mojo?

I have quite the powerful inner Eeyore.

Pooh on that. Time to link up with the Ten Things of Thankful crew.

Ten Thankful Things for the week that was.

10.    This dog.

A selfie with a dog is a little more difficult than first imagined. Even the world’s best dog.

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9.  This day.

As you can tell from this photo, it is amazing out on the porch today.

 

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8. This time of year. When everything blooms.

Driving the children to school, walking the dog, any daily task is an opportunity to take in the beauty.

 

7. Birds still build nests.

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This one is in a smilax screen right over my left shoulder. A mockingbird’s work. Haven’t heard any babies yet but she darts in and out every so often.

And yes, that is a Christmas light. I wanted the new mama to have peaceful amibient lighting should she need to feed her babies after the sun goes down.

Or it was impossible to remove 12 strands I stuck in there last December without tearing out the entire hedge.

 

6.  I earned $16.00 yesterday with the ibotta app.

A huge payday for me. Equal to about three decades of ad revenue from my Blogher ads.

5.  Ibuprofen.

I took a 8 mile run yesterday in preparation for a half marathon next Saturday.

This coupled with a Power Yoga class on Friday and my glutes are screaming — as well as the part on the front of your body where your arms attach.

I didn’t even know that was a part. Both left and right of said nameless parts are very angry with me right now.

4.  Spell check.

Ibuprophen. (that’s how I first spelled number 5.) An emotional speller, I vagually picture a word and attempt a shot at it. Or I vaguely picture a word and attempt a shot it. With ibuprofen, even spell check couldn’t figure out my first attempt so I had to google it.

My poor spelling analytical ability probably costs me 200 hours of productive scrolling through Facebook or Twitter a year.

3.  My lemon tree survived the winter indoors. 

It looks pretty sad but I think she’ll make it. This time last year, I received a sprout with three leaves in a box via parcel post. 

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She thrived until I brought her inside last fall when the evening temps closed in on 50 degrees. Hopefully, she will be happy and perk up soon.

2.  Dog spit. 

A little earlier when I was inside, I heard the strangest noise coming from the bedroom. I saw our dog and a lot of chewed plastic.

I am in no way tempted to eat these peanut butter cups now.

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  1. Maybe I’ll have time to write on my WIP this afternoon?

A gal can dream can’t she?

What are you thankful for this week?

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