We’ve been enjoying beautiful days. need rain but the blue skies are gorgeous. So nice that someone had fun with the unraked leaves and that you got to witness it. They’ll be there to rake another day.

I can relate to the fatigue factor! I worked outside yesterday too, and felt completely exhausted after just a couple hours. Really feeling my age, I guess.

So nice that what you thought was failure brought joy to children 🙂

I'm grateful that my roof got repaired last week after being damaged by TS Hilary. The repairs are all complete in the dining room/art studio, and all we have left to do is finish touching up the travertine floor and start moving furniture back in. Final inspection will be on Monday, at which time I will pay the repair company. We got a check from the insurance company a couple of weeks ago to cover it, minus our $1,000 deductible.

We're going to move the elliptical machine into that room and get it out of the living room, since Kevin has agreed to sell his huge drafting table. That room is now a very different color, and we will have to see how the paintings look in it. I've ordered new LED light bulbs for the six recessed fixtures with 4000K, and that will also look different.

I'm grateful also that we went to the block party that our street has every year. I saw down at a table that had some other people and made friends with a new couple who down the street from us, just a few houses over and across the street. They just moved here a couple of months ago and seem interested in getting to know people in the neighborhood. I invited them to come over this week and pick apples, which they agreed to do.

@Lars, I’m so happy that your repairs are almost complete. I’m sure it seems like it has been forever, but from the outside, it seems relatively quick. I can’t wait to see the room with the new paint and lighting.

i'm grateful i finally found a very nice preowned minivan after searching for over a year. brought it home friday and have been driving it all weekend. going back to the dealership today to seal the deal.

dog tested, dog approved. 😆

A neighbor died. I offered to plant 100 white Snowdon asiatic lilies as a memorial garden which will serve to honor this woman....and future losses in our community. We can put a staked plaque in the garden to honor passed souls. The lilies arrived Friday, my DH's day off...so I had his help planting them....took 45 minutes with the two of us. Then the next day the temperature dropped, and it snowed. It's currently 10F...NOT gardening weather. I'm grateful for the timing of the arrival of the bulbs.

That's my gratitude for today nicole, perfect weather timing. My community had two trunk or treats (one from 2-4 and one in the later hours) on the 28th. Two yesterday, different parts of the village, and tomorrow night is actual trick or treating. Today is the only day it's rained. Perfect timing ;)

Autumn leaves always make me happy. I thank the trees. My vegetable garden needs no added fertilization as long as I add leaves every year. I've raked five afternoons. The oak tree out front looks like it doesn't have to shed many more days. The leaves are smaller this year; I don't know why. I did notice that even in the early summer. No acorns this year either.