There are workmen on scaffolding next door, fitting replacement windows. They’ve been at it all week. One morning, I asked to borrow their van so I could go to the shops — it was blocking my driveway. They’ve parked elsewhere since. I am thankful.
1. Thankful for workmen who appreciate passive-aggressive humour, and decide it’s unwise to park their vans across my driveway.
2. Thankful for anthropomorphic humour — like this pigeon lifting a wing to wash its armpits during a torrential rainstorm.
3. Always thankful for Six Sentence Stories and the joy of brainstorming a mindmap Liturgy that I write to create the Six.
Next week, Brigid slips an Inserted Note into her diary pages. What will she reveal!
4. I used to bake a loaf of bread once a week, but stopped after a bakery opened in the village; their loaves are as good as mine, and now bread is on the table in 10-minutes rather than 24-hours (proofing/rising time). However, I decided to bake a sourdough loaf the other day. Glad I did. Thankful my starter was still alive.
5. Thankful for the ability to mentally disconnect. I have lots of ways to do that, but today … folding stuff. It’s a Virgo thing, I’m told. It’s calming. Restorative. It invokes attitude: I-don’t-give-a-damn about Excel spreadsheets.
6. Thankful that the rain held-off long enough for the clothes to dry on the clothesline. Also thankful that the wind knocked all the wrinkles out of the shirts.
7. Weather of all sorts, but particularly when clouds rise and grow, and then turn thunderous. Bought Friday’s fish today — sat with a cup of coffee looking eastward across the sea, and listening to the waves.
Thankful for a moment alone with my thoughts.
8. Very thankful that I have a lovely wooded area with a creek just a few steps away from home. I’ve changed my walking route to one that has a mobile network coverage. My favourite forest is a ‘dead zone’ with no coverage at all.
9. Thankful that the old fashioned* climbing rose at the front of the house is doing so well. Out of the direct south wind and late afternoon sun, it seems very happy and healthy in this spot.
*An old-fashioned rose (officially called a Heritage Rose) is strictly defined as any rose variety that existed before 1867.
10. Thankful that the week ended well today by seeing a graceful cormorant on the beach.
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