little things
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Little Things #3
This was the view out my kitchen window the other evening. Isn’t it gorgeous? It is hard to let life get you down when you have that in front of you. The photo is angled so you can’t see the house right behind mine. We will pretend it is all just open fields behind me. We went apple picking today. My daughter was thrilled. She is still young enough that she is easy to please. My son came along and pretended he didn’t belong with us but I think he kind of liked it. With a teenager that is all I ask for. I remember going places with my parents…
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Little Things #2
Sometimes it really does not take much to brighten my day. Here are a few things that have made me happy lately. We went to the bookstore. I do enjoy a good wander through a bookstore and thankfully the rest of my family does as well. I only bought two things. The first was this book. Has anyone read it? It sounds like just the type of thing I like. I am fascinated by social history. I love reading about how people lived and what their everyday lives were like. At first, I was afraid it was just a fluff book capitalizing on the Downton Abbey craze but it doesn’t…
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Little things
I have butterfly bushes right outside my kitchen windows. There were butterflies swarming all around the bushes yesterday afternoon. I am not sure what kind these are but they sure are beautiful. Butterflies are surprising hard to photograph. They kept fluttering away as soon as I got close. This sunflower showed up in my gardens even though I didn’t plant any sunflowers. However, my daughter likes to feed the birds and has a feeder right nearby. The birds must have planted it for us! It is such a nice surprise and it just makes me happy to look at it. We were walking out the door to go swimming at…
