Happy Thursday

 Here are some happy things from today:

• Last week the heat, and probably the shift back to working nights, did me in.  I went home early on Thursday and slept.  This week I worked all my regular hours and stayed a little later too.  My normal work week is three days and thirty hours.  The next two weeks I will have five work days with fifty hours.  That I am getting back into the swing of things is good.
• After getting Gideon from his last day at school, I went home and went to sleep.  It was my intention to get up and make dinner for the family.  My alarm didn't wake me.  I must say that this was a weird case where not enough communication worked in my favor.   I was hoping to make something for dinner, but no one expected it.  Dinner was made while I slept.  I happened to wake up in time to eat and see the family for a few minutes before they went off to sleep.
• Before turning in for the night myself, I stood watching the fireflies dance in the trees and sky.  I made an attempt at catching a firefly flash with my camera phone, but that was not to be.  So the picture I have to share probably contains at least one firefly that is not lit up.  😊

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Currently listening to: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.

Thank you for being here and being part of my daily happy things. Stay safe!

Some Flowers

 July 2nd 2025

Here are a few happy things from today:

• Towards the end of my work shift they moved me to Hazardous Materials.  It took a while for me to get the computer up and working because it has been so long since I've logged in at work.  Once I got going it all came back.  There has been a shortage of people trained to work there while I was away   I'll be working there tomorrow too.  
• Yesterday I mentioned that we have a lot of daylilies, so I took a picture of the largest area populated by daylilies.  I can't get really close to these because they are bordered by staghorn sumac, grapes, and other plants. 

• Other flowering plants I saw when I took that picture are common yarrow, and black-eyed Susan.

A breeze moved a blade of grass or other plant into the camera shot.  I kind of like how it looks.

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Currently listening to: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.

Thank you for being here and being part of my daily happy things. Stay safe!

Rings

Happy first day of July.  Here are some happy things from my day:

• The heat is really bothering me at work.  I'm extremely thankful that I was not the only one to complain and adjustments were made.  It was still hot, but much closer to tolerable.  Yay!
• When I got home, I was exhausted.  After I ate, I'm sure I drifted off to sleep for a few minutes.  The alarm was set for me to get Gideon, so out again I went.  Gideon is really looking forward to summer break.  There is still a summer assignment he has to do, but that won't involve getting up early for school.
• After bringing him home, I decided I wanted to be a little productive before getting some real sleep.  I put up a new shower curtain that is a whole inch longer than the last one. I'm hoping the curtain will stay in the shower easier so less water ends up on the floor.  When I ordered the shower curtain I thought it came with the rings to hang it from the rod.  Since some of the ones I was using were broken, these were important.   Fortunately, I haven't dropped off any donations recently and I had some.  They were my mom's, still in the package from Zayre Dept Store.  That company went out of business in 1990.  So my brand new shower curtain rings are more than 35 years old. 🤣

Not pretty, but they work!

• The unidentified plant from a few days ago that -K suggested are bee balm are looking more like bee balm to me too.  I'll be pulling some of the other plants growing near them soon.  I want the bee balm more than day lilies.   I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say we probably have well over 100 day lilies on the property.

Bee Balm!

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Currently listening to: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.

Thank you for being here and being part of my daily happy things. Stay safe!