I think we have a buyer for our place, and they want all of it...cash sale!

marilyn, congrats. It doesn't get much better than that.

Me -- I am grateful I did all my running around yesterday and don't have to go out in this snowy mess.

Such good news Marilyn! That really brought a smile to my face!

I'm grateful for the opportunities and work DH and I have right now. We feel truly blessed!

Fantastic news Marilyn. Do you have another place lined up?

As for being grateful, I'm grateful for another day on this side of the dirt!

Longchase, yes and no. There is one place in particular that I like, but until I know something 100% definitely, can't do anything. There are a couple of others that could be backups.

The house is really a lot bigger than we need, but there is a barn with 7 stalls, 29 acres, divided into 5 pastures with run in sheds (3 sided shelters) in each one, and 2 ponds. It is hard to find enough room for the horses, that has a decent house. I don't want a McMansion, and most horse properties have fancy houses and are several more hundred thousands than we can afford. This house that I am talking about has 5 bedrooms but a couple are very small.

Marilyn.....nice! I wish you a speedy sale!

I'm grateful for ALL the great deals I've found to put in this house. Today we hung some of the Levolor real wood blinds I purchased for $10 ea....dang that's cheap! I purchased this large Bombay botanical for $6 the other day!

I'm grateful the stye that appeared on my eye yesterday morning only lasted 24 hours, and that I can go back to wearing my contact lenses and makeup tomorrow. It could have been so much worse and lasted many more days. Also took a walk in chilly but sunny weather today with a dear friend.

I took Thursday and Friday off to get a lot of yardwork done. I am grateful that I had the time available. Also, Saturday night when I was filthy and exhausted I sat out back near the end of the day. I saw a butterfly, two adult hummingbirds, a ladybug, an obviously lactating squirrel, then two baby hummingbirds! Oh, and the yard smelled like lilac. :)

Fantastic news, Marilyn!

I'm grateful that we had two days of gorgeous weather to work outside and get some of the storm damage cleaned up. The rain returns tomorrow and will stay all week, but I'm grateful for that too. It ends the terrible drought we've experienced the last few years, means our reservoirs are full for summer water storage and that I don't have to do any storm cleanup for a few days!

Every a.m. when I lift the bedroom shade, I'm thankful that the days are still growing longer and it's a little brighter every morning.

NYT has a daily puzzle called "spelling bee" where you have to try to make as many words as you can out of the 7 letters they give you and all must contain a specific letter. I've become quite addicted. Not only is there something fun about the puzzle, but as you find more words, your score goes up and they rate you from solid to nice to great to amazing to genius. There's something to be grateful for in being called one of those things in the morning...without even having to get dressed!

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I'm so excited! The tree guy is coming to look at them this week *and to hopefully prune them deeply soon thereafter. They're really lovely maples, but so old and gangly. They need help. He said they were in pretty good shape a couple of years ago, so I assume they'll still be healthy enough, but only need trimming. Yay! Healthy established trees!!! (we're tree crazy here in Nashville)

Nice, rob...be sure to have them cabled if they're split at all. We've had ours done in the back to help preserve it.

Like Annie I noticed again this morning how light it is in the morning and I'm thankful that we don't need head lamps for our early morning trail runs anymore.

I'm thankful that the good weather is still with us but also glad that we're finally getting some rain this weekend as some small brush fires have already started and that's just too early for fire season. We've had a really dry February and March and March also set some high temperatures. It's pretty dry out there.

I'm grateful for my husband's sense of humour even though times can be difficult and I find it hard to find things to laugh about.

I'm grateful that I did my taxes this morning and it went well. When I woke up I decided I'd better get them done. I looked for last year's, found it and when I looked at the date, it was this exact date last year that I did last year's!!! I took that as a sign and got 'er done! I took some money out of my 401K last year and taxes were withheld, but I am getting them all refunded back to me!! So grateful!

Returning to this thread to express gratitude for my children who are doing well. I still worry about them immensely, but they're finding their way and figuring out life. After years of walking out the door hearing me yell from the kitchen, "Be careful! Make good choices!" they are indeed being careful and making good choices.

We drove 600 miles last week to look at a couple of places for sale....a lot of the miles for going out of the way. Glad we did tho because we can cross those 2 off the list. The one that I thought I'd like, was a big no! The pics of it on line must have been made 20 years ago. The "7 stall horse barn" was almost rusted down and had big spaces in the roof where metal panels were gone. The other place was so far off the beaten path via a very thinly graveled road, past multiple abandoned, trashed out house trailers, that it was a no! also.

When I wake up in the morning, I'm grateful that I'm still alive and well.

I'm grateful I'm going hiking with my cousins today...and the weather is perfect for it...sunny and in the 60s. Yay! One is in a cancer battle and am not sure how much longer we will be able to do this, so I cherish every moment even more.

I'm grateful that I finished painting the bathroom today and that hubby installed the new bathroom light fixture. Now, I just need to find a medicine cabinet or a separate mirror and storage cabinet that I like and it will be done.

Marilyn, it's too bad that neither of the places are what you are looking for, but as you say, you can now cross them off the list and continue the search. When something like that happens, I always figure it wasn't meant to be and that the perfect place/thing for me is still out there; I just haven't found it yet.