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25 days cautiously avoiding gluten and I walked today!
Oh what a feeling! I went quite slow, but I didn’t have to phone for a ride home. My foot pain was bearable. Not sure what to expect when I take the pressure off of it?
Celebrating the moment, as I miss walking very, very much.
A special treat for today,
When I walked into Walmart, I was determined to pick-up my file folders and nothing else.
As we were rushing to the stationary isle, the beautiful, colorful magazine display on the end of the craft isle caught my eye.
I paused, it spoke, I reached out for it’s beauty. Even the texture of the cover was rich to my finger tips.
The pages filled with quotes, writing prompts, and pictures I could almost smell.
I am addicted to beautiful journals, fancy paper, and colourful pens.
I love the way a good prompt can send my minds-eye racing down forest paths, or lounging in a fragrant garden sipping tea from china cups, my eyes shaded by my large floppy hat.
Today I was determined to stick to my target, but I am thankful I detoured into indulgence, and paused for a tantalizing break.
It is joy to sit in the moment, savoring the flavour of my coffee, flipping pages, daydreaming, mind wondering, jotting colourful notes on the pages.
What have you indulged in today?
An evening walk, quiet, beautiful
I haven’t been able to really enjoy walking in a long time but tonight I was almost completely pain free. I gladly volunteered to walk to our mill to unplug a tool, truly enjoying the evening air.
What a wonderful blessing to be able to walk!
I paused to enjoy my garden again and discovered new treasures developing on the plants.
Getting ready for rest
A brief garden tour
Beautiful friends
My young daughter got to see her best friends today. The first time in probably almost a year.
It was amazing to see how ‘pure love’ of childhood friendship can withstand absents and pick up again without missing a beat.
We should take a lesson from our children, and find those friends that have no expectations, just joy at spending time together ❤
5 foot tall party
My son’s young friend finally reached 5 ft tall, so his mom came up with an idea to through him a party.
She invited 4 more kids, my husband and I. We tossed th canoes on, packed up a lunch and headed into Algonquin park.
What an awesome day we had.
These kids sure have imagination when they get unplugged.
Myself, any reason to get into the “wild” is a good one.
Wonder what the next “party” reason will be?
Beanginning of the harvest!
First pick of beans.
Shared some, ate some, pickled some.
The harvest begins!
Random acts!
I don’t know who to thank, so I have decided to share the good story instead.
Tim, Fred and I were out looking at mill equipment today, dropping some stuff off, and picking up bird feeders.
It came around supper time and we stopped at a pub we knew had excellent quantities of food to fill up Tim.
We were happy to find the food was as good as we remembered.
The atmosphere was jovial, and we bantered back in forth with a table of people near by.
Tim continued to enjoy chatting it up with the smokers out taking their puffs, while I finished my coffee and waited for the bill.
The waitress came up, I reached for my wallet and she told me that they have a customer that randomly picks up other people’s bills. She said they had bought our entire meal. She said, ” the customer likes to remind people that there are still good people in the world. “
I was shocked! This was no coffee and donut, this was probably about an eighty dollar meal!
We asked her to thank them profusely, and tipped her well for her service.
I do not know why they chose us, but wow, thank you!
Today I was touched by kindness. I try to be a kindness warrior, not necessarily with money all the time. And I often miss the mark.
This act of kindness hit the target directly in my heart and left a mark!
Thank you kindness warriors wherever you may be!
Beautiful Remade 