Gratitude Day 5

What sound are you grateful for today?

 

Right now I am listening to clothes tumble in my dryer. It is the 3rd load today. 

I am switching my cold weather clothes for warm weather clothes and they 

all need freshened after months folded up in deep drawers and totes. I am grateful to have a washer and dryer.  My Mother-in-law always hung her clothes out - year round. My FIL thought it was wasteful to spend money to dry clothes.

I tried hanging clothes out when we first moved here 20+ years ago, but we didn't have a proper clothes line so I strung one between the TV antenna tower and a tree. A tree. Birds flew in and out of that tree all day. After too many times having to rewash the clothes because of the birds I stopped hanging doing it. And, I only had time to do laundry that way on the weekends when I 

was home all day. By the time I got home for work I just didn't have time. 

It was not always convenient to spend my weekend doing laundry

I am grateful for the dryer so I can do laundry any time of the day or night.

When it was decided the house my MIL grew up in should be sold it became my husbands responsibility to clean it out. All of that stuff came to our house, to one of the tool sheds. It has taken up needed space in there for 3 years. Incidentally this is stuff that had been at the house we lived in before we moved back here. No one wanted it then. No one wants it now. Husband has decided enough time has passed and he is going to start getting rid of it. I have been seeing some interesting garden art ideas on Pinterest so I have started going through it to see if I can if there might be anything useful. 

I found this cute little salt & pepper set. 

Then I found the creamer.

 

 

Aren't they cute?! 

My husband remembers them being in the china 

cabinet that belonged to his grandmother.

 

After a little investigating on-line I find that I need 

to on the look-out for the matching sugar bowl.

I collect salt & pepper sets (thanks to my brother) so I will keep those.

My son's girlfriend loves, LOVES cows so I will probably give her the 

creamer. Even if I don't find the sugar bowl it is cute and could be used 

for something else - a tiny plant, holder of toothbrushes, makeup brushes, Q-tips. I'm sure she will think of something. Or, maybe she will decide she doesn't have room for it in their tiny apartment. Then I will keep it :)

 

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Gratitudes Days 3 and 4

Day 3- What color are you grateful for?

I love all colors. As a quilter I use all colors although I gravitate to bright colors. My favorite color is green. I like all shades of green.

I am sure I like green the best because it is a signal to me that winter is finally over. Everything is turning green - the grass is growing, the trees are budding, new plant starts are poking up out of the ground. A sign that the long, cold winter is over. 

I have been asking "Would You Rather" questions of my kindergarten students. One question was "Would rather not see color, or not hear?" No question at all for me, I would rather not hear than not see color.

Day 4 - What food are you most grateful for?

I am not a picky eater. I like most foods so this is a hard one.

But, this time of year when things are turning green and growing I love seeing this...

https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-plant-and-grow-asparagus-1402814

It grows wild in the ditches around here. My husband refused to eat it but he picks it for me. We transplanted some last year and it is growing!

 

One of my co-workers surprised me with some origami pieces her 12 year old son made. I think these are awesome!

 

Dragon

Rhino

 Swan

 Butterfly

 Another co-worker made this bird from a candy wrapper!

 

I have placed them all on my laptop at school. 

They make me smile every time I see them.

 

 

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Day Two of Gratitudes

Day Two is what technology are you most grateful for?

One definition I found:

Technology is the way we apply scientific knowledge for practical purposes. It includes machines (like computers) but also techniques and processes (like the way we produce computer chips). ... In fact, a hammer and the wheel are two examples of early human technology.

So it seems that there are a lot of choices to be grateful for. 

It is hard to choose which one I am most grateful for.

I love my car. It has OnStar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar    OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors that provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security, emergency services, hands-free calling, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems throughout the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, Europe, Brazil, and Argentina. 

I like my cell phone, and although it is not the latest, greatest smart phone it allows me to easily stay in touch with family and friends. I call and text only right now. Data is available but I choose to not pay the extra cost for that. I am considering upgrading though. It is the cost that is holding me back.

I like the iPads available to my students. They can have fun and learn. 

I don't make use of them every day but they are a nice change once in a while.  

I like that I can control the air temperature in my home easily with the programmable thermostat.

I love my sewing machines that allow so many different stitch choices and embroidery designs. 

TV, radio, computer, tablet - so many choices.

These are just a few of the things I can think of right now. I know my life is touched 

by so much more technology. I could do without all of them except my car, I think.

I finished the media cart cover. Here is the cart modeling the new outfit.

Media Cart Back

Media Cart Front

The cord for the CD player is making the flap pouf out. I redid the flap placement so 

the left side overlaps the right and it lays much better. Didn't get a picture, though.

 

The hole on top for the cords. I didn't quiet get it lined up but it works.

Why I don't wash windows...

This is not my husband, but it could be. It is the field right next to ours. It is across the road from our house. With every round this farmer makes the wind blows all that dust at my house.

The first year we moved here my Mother-in-law insisted that we wash the windows of my house. She even told me that my husband and Father-in-law were going to help. I found that odd since they were in the middle of harvest and I knew they were busy. And, not having grown up in a farming family I didn't realize that washing windows during harvest time was not a good idea. 

Anyway, the next morning she said she didn't think the guys were going to show up and we should go ahead and get started. My son was just turning two, we were still in the process of moving and my parents were visiting for the weekend. My mom kept an eye on my son while MIL and I got busy. We got all the wooden storm windows off and washed. We leaned them against the trees in the yard and ran out of time to put them back up. During that night and the next day we had a lot of wind and the farmers were harvesting. You can imagine the dust that ended up on those freshly washed windows! Everyone left and I had to rewash those windows and put them back up by myself. 

I don't do windows anymore. 

OK, once in a while I will wash one if it gets really bad, 

but I always think of that day whenever I wash windows.