6-27-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A dear friend who teaches me perseverance, trust and keeping the outlook big
Cute little raccoons in the mulberry trees
Nature shows
A mid-morning walk downtown with coworkers, visiting the peanut shop and the farmers market
A chicken, mushroom and kale gratin, with sun dried tomatoes, onion and charred bell peppers
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-26-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Crumbled black bean burgers over mixed greens with fresh guacamole, sharp cheddar, salsa and Greek yogurt
Learning what we can handle and what needs our loving attention
How COTA doesn’t charge folks to ride in this extreme heat
Getting another day to do something meaningful
My brother’s enthusiasm for our home repair needs
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-25-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A slow cooling down that feels so good
Rescue kitties doing splendidly
A day for reading and thinking and reviewing
Plans for eating the potatoes we harvested over the weekend
Seeing the impact of a new approach to food
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-24-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An ever-so-slightly cooler morning, easier for taking care of the day’s first chores
Making a huge batch of Wolferman’s chicken salad
Two nights in a row with no Netflix or Amazon prime reruns, just us talking
Sturdy chickens who can manage themselves in this heat
Refilling food and water stations to keep our winged and four-legged relatives alive
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-23-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Sane voices in the midst of chaos
The joy of shredding old documents and composting them
How the kitties teach us to stretch and stay grounded
Eating frozen raspberries with chopsticks
Finally feeling the refreshing difference all of our downsizing efforts have made
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-22-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A cool night’s sleep, thanks to Rebecca and the window AC unit she helped us install last Friday
Time with Joe and Marie and Patrick and sesame chicken and fried rice
Gently crossing things off my vacation accomplishments list
How stunning the clouds are when it’s humid
Freshly mulched garden beds and an unplanned red onion harvest
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-21-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A surprisingly productive day after a morning of errands
Switching up my morning rhythm
Strawberry almond cake with Penzey’s Cake seasoning, vanilla ice cream in the side
Rebecca’s help putting in the window AC units
Spending the day working and playing alongside Patrick, then out to dinner with Joe and Marie
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-20-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How just when I’m sad about mulberry season coming to an end, the wild black raspberries start ripening
Trimmed fingernails and pushed-back cuticles
The therapeutic rhythm of weeding the garden beds by hand
Not being uncomfortable asking for help
A new little sock monkey to take with us on road trips
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-19-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
What’s still in place after last night’s storm—trees, plants on the porch, electricity
A new mulberry cake recipe that’s a keeper, and adaptable to other fruits
Mr and Mrs Hummingbird, skirmishing happily ‘round the feeder
Taking time to learn about the origins of words and phrases
Fresh fruit from a farmers market in Danville
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-18-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
That “waking up on the first day of vacation” feeling
Cutting back the weeds along the east side of the house before breakfast
Having ideas but no itinerary or agenda, just going where the music takes me and doing what the voices tell me
Lavender and lilies to plant
Two delicious-sounding recipes involving mulberries and lemons
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💙🧡
6-17-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting most of the acreage cut before the belts broke on the mower
How calming fireflies are when you wake up from a nightmare and need a little reassurance
Rocking out some really epic salads these past few days
Grilled garlic and Rosemary pork tenderloin with charred bell peppers and roasted green beans
Starting the next round of herbs indoors
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-16-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Walking through fields and forest teeming with life and promise
A good afternoon of gardening and harvesting more radishes
Onions we grew mixed in with our salad
A veggie sandwich piled up with cucumbers, radishes, sharp cheddar cheese, yellow bell peppers, mayo, shredded carrots and salt
Scrubbing out the bird baths and refilling them with fresh water
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-15-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A catbird fledgling hopping its way through the brambles while mama kept a watchful eye in the maple sapling nearby
How the sweetest mulberries are deeper into the woods
Making more progress on our downsizing project
Rescued kittens and their mamas, tucked in and comfortable at Andi and Greg’s
Pizza and hockey at the end of a full day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A simple plan for morning errands that includes a stop at the farmers market
Looking forward to a short work week
Frozen raspberries on my chocolate chia seed pudding
The sassy little wren who makes sure I’m feeding the chickens enough
A day that involves sewing, resting and delivering a family of rescued kittens and their moms to my niece
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-13-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An Oilers comeback and spectacular win to tie the Stanley Cup series
Crunchy carrots to eat on the way home from work
Laundry done—washed, dried, folded and put away, all before breakfast
Putting garlic scapes in just about everything this week
How cute raccoons can be when they’re eating
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-12-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Seeing the same bunny and the same bluebird I saw yesterday on my way to work
The way prayer can settle an anxious heart
A good conversation with a coworker I have a lot of respect for
Feeling capable and competent
Falling asleep wrapped in the aroma of sautéing onions, mushrooms, rotisserie chicken and garlic scapes
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-11-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Catching a glimpse of the strawberry moon as it was setting
Finally—spotting a cedar waxwing on the land—after 25 years of waiting
Picking mulberries at sunset
Looking forward to a great potato and onion harvest this season
When only waffles for dinner will do
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-10-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Voices of justice, loud and strong
Watching the orioles, towhees, cardinals, sparrows and house wrens feasting in the branches of the mulberry trees
Fresh mulberries in my salad
Setting a reasonable deadline for a work project
Dinner with the dream team
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-9-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Sunday brunch with my sweet family
Harvesting the garlic scapes and adding them to the pan roasted potatoes
Another peaceful morning walk
The comfort of Patrick nearby during troubled times
Planning the best way to rescue an injured maple sapling
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-8-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time on the porch with the rain and early morning musings
A young red tail hawk’s cry
Utter contentment
Rebecca’s and Patrick’s mad chainsaw skills = all the walking paths cleared in just five hours
Watching the kittens empty their toy bin in the living room
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈