1. Our new salt and pepper grinders!

(It doesn’t take much to make me excitedly happy.)
2. Pretty in purple.


3. The belief that our United States of America is still a democracy, despite the extremists (even seeping into the Supreme Court), who want to declare it — and make it — not so.
4. HR’s (Husband Robert’s) creative culinary expertise. Here’s a recent breakfast bowl …


5. Robert, dogs and me.





May You Have a Happy First Weekend in May!