Next Week is a Big Deal

We're coming up on the most important week of the Sweet Adeline's year:  the annual International contest and convention.     Once each year, the top choruses and quartets from around the world gather together for education and for a week's worth of contests.  

Gratitude - Days 300-304 - Oct 27-31, 2014

Time is flying.  I've totally lost the rhythm of this Gratitude Project 2014, and find myself only popping in here once a week or less.   I'm not going to beat myself up over it, though, because 

Gratitude - Day 299 - Oct 26, 2014

Grateful today for warm, breezy weather allowing us to get out in the yard and do lots of fall clean-up.

Grateful for the pictures I see on Facebook of my daughter and her friends on their camping trip this weekend.   They're having a great time getting out and doing fun things on weekends while also doing great as college students.

Grateful for the flip-of-a-switch gas fireplace which gives us great ambiance and a little snugly heat in the early morning and late evening, letting us keep the furnaces off until real cold weather hits.

Grateful for the small things that are comforting on this weekend day... time spent with my husband, comfort food on the stove, good music on the speaker.

Happy times, friends.  I hope you're enjoying your weekend, too.

Gratitude - Day 298 - Oct 25, 2014

Now, how do I turn off all the political ads that we will see on TV and the internet until Nov 4?  ;-)

Gratitude - Day 297 - Oct 24, 2014

Well, I decided today was the day to try making a slipcover for my very favorite chair. 

Gratitude - Day 296 - Oct 23, 2014

Went for a walk around a local lake today, in the company of a friend.   The weather was perfect - a cool, crisp breeze with a bright warm sun that kept us both comfortable.   

Gratitude - Day 290-295 , Oct 17-22, 2041

Life is full.

Life is good.

Things are happening.

Passions intersect with opportunity, and Poof!  Time flies.

Ever grateful, friends, ever grateful.

Gratitude - Day 289 - Oct 16, 2014

Today would have been my Dad's 75th birthday.   

His passing last March was too quick, too early.  He was still young, at least at heart.   

I miss him every day, and yet I feel him with me now all the time.  I feel him when I do something that he used to do, some mannerism or turn of a phrase or something. I feel him when I see something that he would have enjoyed.  I feel him when I'm reliving memories of him.   

I'm very grateful for his presence in my life.  It's very comforting to feel that he's still with me, even though he's passed on.

Happy Birthday, Dad.  I love you.

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Gratitude - Day 288 - Oct 15, 2014

Grateful today for the community of friends that I'm developing here in Raleigh.   I am lucky enough to know a group of women who support each other through thick and thin.   One of our friends is going through a rough medical situation, and the way these women have flocked together to support her is truly amazing.   

Very thankful indeed.

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Gratitude - Day 287 - Oct 14, 2014

I woke up this morning to grey skies and heavy, sticky air.  The rain comes and goes, just enough to dampen the patio before it tapers off again.   There's a thick breeze, slow, damp, not quite cool.  It's going to be another humid, uncomfortable fall day here in Raleigh.

Gratitude - Day 286 - Oct 13, 2014

I'm so grateful today for my wonderful son, who came into our lives 23 years ago today.   He's grown into such a great person, and I'm so very proud of him!  I love him to the moon and back.   

Happy Birthday, Mike!

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Gratitude - Day 284-285 - Oct 11-12, 2014

On the road again...

Drove up to Virginia on Saturday morning to sing on a barbershop show on Saturday night.

Had a great rehearsal on Sunday morning, then drove back to Raleigh on Sunday night.

Whew!

Very grateful for reliable transportation, fun and friendly hobbyists, responsive and appreciative audiences, like-minded quartet mates, and an understanding husband. 

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Gratitude - Day 283 - Oct 10, 2014

It's been a quiet "stay around the house" kind of week here in the Harris Home, and for that I'm grateful.   

Poor, Neglected Fall Garden

My garden is looking very sad these days.  Too many trips away from home, too few rainy days, too little attention, and too many hot sunny days in late summer.  All of this adds up to some dried up and crunchy plants around the yard. 

  

Gratitude - Day 282 - Oct 9, 2014

If my mornings could talk, they would begin by saying, "Jenny... hey Jenny... hey sleepy head... it's time to wake up.  

Then they'd say, "What would you like to do this morning?   How about a cup of coffee while we decide?"    

Then they'd say, "Oh, wow, yes, this couch is so comfortable, this coffee so good, let's just sit here quietly for a while and look through all the blog posts that were published overnight."

Gratitude - Day 281 - Oct 8, 2014

Happiness is waking up in your snuggly bed after a good night's sleep.

Gratitude - Day 277-280 - Oct 4-7, 2014

Home again, home again, jiggitty-jig!

Neglected, dried-up annuals, spring wreath still on the door... but it's still Home, Sweet Home!

Gratitude - Day 264-276 - Sept 21 - Oct 3, 2014