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Five Friday Happy Bringers 8/30/24

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. Daughter Amy and son-in-law Scott hamming it up by the river near their house.

2. HR suggesting we drive over to nearby Tybee Island for an evening walk on the beach.

And look! Another riveting film in my long-running canon of riveting films, this one starring the Atlantic Ocean, the Tybee Pier and HR. 

3. The ability to WALK. What a blessing! I encourage you, wherever you are and if possible, to stand up and walk around a bit. What a miracle!

4. Sunlight on grass.

Washington Square, a one-minute walk from our apartment 

5. My fellow.

May you have an Ocean of Weekend Fun ahead.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 8/23/24

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

  1. Robert and I had a lovely hour perusing a new exhibit, “A Measure of Time,” at our local Savannah Jepson Center for the Arts.

Gloriously colorful, geometric shapes everywhere!

HR trying (unsuccessfully) to blend in.

2. The ongoing belief that our bodies know how to be well and are always trying to move toward wellness.

3. Colorful carrots!

I made a delicious new dish, Maple Roasted Rainbow Carrots with Fennel Seeds, with some of them.

4. Our “Travel Buddies.” Have I told you about them? Three silly little stuffed animals HR and I have given each other over the years. But they travel with us EVERYWHERE we go.

I’ll do a blog post about some of their adventures soon.

5. Friday!

Joyful weekend ahead for you!

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Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 8/19/24 “BP!”

I’m MARVELING this morning. Let me explain.

So HR has NEVER had a WARM (important adjective) HOMEMADE (second important adjective) BANANA PUDDING!

I felt so sorry for Robert’s culinarily sad deprivation that I got straight to work.

Of course he had to put his two cents in, asking for (demanding) Chessmen Butter cookies in addition to classic vanilla wafers …

… which made me a little mad, but good husband that I am, I plowed ahead.

Before the oven …

(Thanks, I thought it was pretty too.)

And now for the meringue …

For some inexplicable reason, HR decided to video me spreading the meringue …

Wasn’t that riveting?

Now wait with me for 15 minutes till the peaks brown.

Ta Da!

MARVELous!

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 8/16/24

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. Flowers in our … bathroom.

What better place?

2. Swimming with my fellow.

(Okay, maybe HR and I are just standing lazily in a pool )

But look! Here I am doing a handstand … at %!^&*$ years of age …

3. Joyful birthday celebration with grandtwins Matthew and Madison.

And princess tenting with their little sister, Isabelle.

(It took me twenty minutes to get outta there.)

4. Making a Collard Casserole. (Yes, you heard that right.)

No collard leaf is an ugly colored leaf!

He’s just a little worn and brown at the edges. (Like me.)

YUM!

5. Grandson Daniel at his “Last First Day of School.” He’s a senior at Savannah Country Day.

They have this tradition with the seniors driving onto campus while parents, grandparents, siblings, strangers, etc. yell and act foolish, waving posters and big head pictures.

Here comes D …

And here is D’s adoring crew:

(Our pic made it onto the school’s website)

Daniel is in the white t-shirt, leaning toward his mom and girlfriend.

Huh? What do you mean you can’t see Robert and me?

We’re sorta under the poster that screams “Daniel” (which I made, Thank You.)

But wait, here we are in clearer view …

See us? To the left of the Daniel sign.

Wait again, this is supposed to be about Daniel.

Did I just hear someone ask to see my award-winning poster in a close-up? Okay, here you go …

From some of these photos, you may see that D is a local actor.

May you have an award-winning weekend ahead!