10-31-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A double batch of cranberry gingerbread granola, ready to bag and sell
Tidying up the kitchen
Road Hog Willy’s brisket sandwich with baked beans and cheesy potatoes on the side
Endless projects and ideas
Giving away useful things that still have a lot of life left in them
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-30-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Mike, on his way here, in the air as we speak
A bit of mid afternoon leaf raking and garden mulching
More granola flavor ideas, like pumpkin spice and cranberry, gingerbread, salted caramel
A good window cleaning later today
Figuring out where to put a new coat rack/shelf unit in the living room
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✈️
10-29-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Watching the moon rise over the eastern field
New knee-strengthening exercises that feel really good
Restocking my pantry with those Trader Joe’s Pumpkin O’s
Carefully deboning a roasted chicken to use in more soup recipes
Vacuuming the ceiling In the living room
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-28-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Bugs Bunny cartoons
A training prep breakthrough for work
Practicing self-compassion
Mower time in the meadow before dinner
Settling the house down for the night
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-27-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
That feeling when I pull onto my long driveway at the end of an even longer commute, and exhale into home
Kneeling down to touch the grass
A crisp apple from the orchard up the road
Getting to hang my laundry outside for a few more weeks
A new almond and chocolate granola recipe
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍫
10-26-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Spending almost the entire day outside under the blue sky
Another burn pile taken care of
Driving by moonlight
Sourdough toast and a bowl of potato corn chowder
A calico kitten named Ember
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-25-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Next year’s garlic all tucked in for the winter, raised beds tidied up and mulched, making the garden look pretty
A set of mini journals in progress, made from the gorgeously artsy business cards of some talented professionals
A new soup recipe—smoky corn and potato chowder
The time I spent outside yesterday, raking leaves, pulling weeds, dreaming
Another long-time quilt project on its way to being finished
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌽
10-24-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Sushi with Jane and Louie
Steel cut oats with apples and almond butter
Being a grownup, a playful one
Garlic and chard-planting day
Keeping life simple and uncluttered
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🧄
10-23-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A pot of Italian bean and vegetable soup simmering on the stove
How much I’ve grown, with no signs of stopping
Fridays
Clearing out the big vintage upright freezer
Bumper on my lap, purring and needing comforting
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🥣
10-22-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Starting the day with a shooting star
Pumpkin and red lentil soup with ginger, turmeric, coriander, garlic, red onion, and coconut milk
Mower time after work, taking care of the walking paths back to the woods
Car napping
When the bus is on time
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💫
10-21-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A great conversation with Erica
Feeling lighthearted
Nick’s ideas
Not missing what I’ve let go of
Roasted pork and fries
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍟
10-20-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Good neighbors
Tyler’s reassuring offer of help with land projects
The promise of another sunny day = another section of the fields to mow after work
Wounds that are healing
Black bean and chicken nachos
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌮
10-19-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The 3.25 deck height setting on the mower, how it makes the lawn look like velvet
Waking up on a Monday and looking back over a weekend filled with finished projects
Picking out this year’s garlic to plant
A pocketful of ceramic hearts to give away at random
Warm socks
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🧦
10-18-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A clean coop with fresh bedding = happy chickens
Asking that red-tailed hawk to find someplace besides the chicken run to look for lunch
Getting out the next quilt project to finish
Making little journals from unique and colorful business cards
Seared sesame ginger ahi tuna salad rug a side of rice vinegar slaw
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍱
10-17-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Learning stillness and rest without being sick
Finishing a quilt project that’s been waiting patiently for over 15 years
A good weekend to defrost the freezer
Rooting plant cuttings
Exploring new levels of paper craft
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✂️
10-16-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Spending less at Costco than I expected
A lovely warm breeze from the south on the morning walk
Buffalo chicken dip from Trader Joe’s
Pumpkin smoothies
Autumn thunderstorms
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈⛈️
10-15-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An impromptu quiche with mushrooms, sausage, onion, and broccoli, topped off with sharp white cheddar
Choosing what kind of day I’m going to have
A fun Lego flower bouquet kit, in progress on the studio work table
The fun of cooking and baking with new recipes, learning new techniques
Getting to offer hospitality to others—my home, my heart, my support
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍳
10-14-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
All the stuff that seems little but, put together, is quite tremendous
Helping a stranger
Soup and white cheddar quesadillas for dinner
Making that batch of chocolate no-bake cookies last through the weekend
A walk-in closet I can actually walk into, after clearing out boxes of things I don’t wear anymore
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🧣👗👚
10-13-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A four-day work week that ends in another payday
Apple and smoked Gouda sausage with cabbage, onions, carrots, new potatoes, and garlic
Giving away soup
Porch time with my friend Marie
Sanitation workers
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🚛
10-12-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A truckload for the thrift store, boxes to recycle = less stuff, less clutter, a little more peace
Secondhand Old Navy clothes that fit great
The humbling feeling of being responsible for this land where I live
Making creatures from mismatched socks
A bowl full of polished stones
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌳