fall is in the air

• the start of fall and a saturday at the farmers' market with a crispness in the air.
• seeing chandler and elizabeth and having crepes together
• the ease and effortlessness of asking for donations for the church auction and receiving what i've asked for
• plans tonight for the poetry jam at the moja arts festival
• a quick champagne toast to being the evening here at my house for maggie's 21st birthday! maggie's mom, karen is one of my mentors and heroes and maggie is an amazing woman. she also keeps my avon habit up.
• words, written and spoken
• a clean house - maidpure rocked it out and i am enjoying living in my home again
• the new room being a haven and the space it's created in the rest of the house
• michelle in all her michelle-ness
• big d and shelbs arriving safely home yesterday after 8000 miles around the country
• a big fall packed full of travel, friends and family
• orlando in a couple of weeks for craig's triathalon - team thompson!
• dad and chris visiting in november
• david being able to enjoy this fall day in the woods
• new focus on being grateful and not stressed!
• mr charlie, my next door neighbor laughing at abbie barking at him in HIS yard through the fence and saying, 'that's some dog' - she is - she's my 10.5lb guard dog who will bark behind her back running away from an aggressor.
• miss peabody and sandy minding their manners as my backyard neighbors are having their annual jewish fall festival in their backyard with lots of people.
• you, my little fall crisp, you.

open-ness

• the new room! which has created so much open-ness in the house and ultimately in our lives. david took the sliding glass doors off today and wow! my house is huge and open and we're getting through the clutter.
• finding maidpure.com to come clean next week (which gives me little time to declutter) using only organic cleaners and i am so freakin' excited. this will leave us open to actually invite people over!
• plans for the church spaghetti supper/auction starting to come together and our first meeting tomorrow night.
• a good long chat with mike, our minister today and laughing at him out loud until i snorted. he's simply not a sane man.
• lunch with greg turpin. my sweet dear friend who i let time put between us. until today! good plans with him. getting caught up on his life. potential plans for the 4 of us to do dinner here.
• memories of him in a much simpler and more naive time in my life. his support through the years and the ability to talk with someone who 'gets' me.
• another trip to lowes with david tonight!!!!!! :) can this company get any more of my hard earned money?!?!?! probably on saturday!
• a lovely dinner with good conversation and laughter - david loves to make fun of me and tonight it was fun. the moon must be aligned correctly with my axis!
• craig's grandmother, gigi, who was the spunkiest little lady i've probably ever met. i'm so grateful that he was able to have her this long and that she didn't suffer in the end.
• michelle's fierce protection of craig
• safe travels yesterday for my work trip.
• a big october full of hilton head, orlando, dinner parties and fun.
• collards, lettuce and purple cabbage planted in the garden by my sexy farmer husband.
• tgif! friday and all that brings! it's actually massage friday tomorrow at work.
• david just said, 'people are going to think i don't have a job.' he does and he works a lot. he just goes balls to the wall on his home projects.
• tivo and general hospital.
• miss peabody, abbie and sandy.
• you, my little collard green, you!

a gentle nudge

michelle emailed me that it was time to glog. i've been putting it off until i have some 'time.'
but isn't that when the gratefulness fairies really start working? - when you don't have the time or worse - don't feel all that grateful. . . so here goes. . ..

• the finished room!! the most amazing fireplace i've ever seen and my husband created it. it looks like we're sitting at the grove park inn on our honeymoon in front of their huge fireplaces - to scale mind you. our whole room could fit inside their fireplace.
• the teamwork that we used and continue to create in our marriage and in our projects.
• respectful disagreement. there will be no deer heads in this room.
• or ducks
• or the bobcat attacking the bird
• movement of the furniture throughout the rest of the house with ease. i'm sore today but it's a good sore!
• big d and shelbs on their month long 'across the country adventure' with our friends bruce and peggy.
• a lovely weekend away over labor day to harmon lodge and hendersonville. a short trip but one to see the nature center none-the-less.
• tons of upward mobility at work and all that will come together in the next few weeks.
• tailgating at the citadel game on saturday with uncle john, aunt tina and their crew.
• ricky archambault's attitude about cancer and cancer treatment.
• the week of carson's birthday, the anniversary of grandma's death and both of their funerals being over.
• the weather changing oh so slightly - less humidity.
• sun on my feet from saturday.
• general hospital and tivo for hooking that up for me!
• victor working to get the food for the spaghetti supper / auction donated for me this year.
• in advance - businesses being generous in their auction donations!
• an evening alone while david is in the woods.
• good news from michelle
• the orlando trip in advance for the 489 flute fun we will have!
• dad and chris' vacation being fun and relaxing for them.
• finding vance's myspace page as a link from michelle bryant's. crazy kids - i don't really understand the whole phenomenon but it was fun none-the-less to see his good lookin' mug.
• plans for kevin and cynthia.
• a good salad for dinner.
• david's cheeze-it encrusted crab cakes on saturday night - holy crap they were good! maybe even better as leftovers sunday morning with cheese grits.
• the sweet lady at moe's who makes the best tea in town and takes pride in cleaning the salsa bar and the tables and is always so freaking pleasant. may i be more like her.
• you, my little kick in the pants, you!