Five Or More Good Things

[Bèsame*]

Let's start with a beautiful day with no alarm!

Sooo nice, I'm in shorts and flip flops.

Outside working on my paver project. It should be finished in a few hours.

Received text messages from boss butch.
Hmmmm, something in the works for tomorrow😉beach? And football?

Looking up fabric stores in Paris. I think I need to learn some french.

[Orema]

Five for Michigan

1. Continued free school breakfast and lunch for all Michigan public school children in 2024-2025.
2. Free Community College available to all Michigan High School Grads. Students with higher financial needs can get an additional $1,000.
3. Michigan packaging and labeling of cannabis. It is the best I've seen and should be a model for other states. I think it keeps prices low and industry growers, distributers and packagers honest. No system is fool proof, but this is a good one.
4. Attorney General of Michigan, Dana Nessel, the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to statewide office in The Mitten.
5. The remarkably resilient and good-natured people in Detroit.

[Bèsame*]

Right now..

Relaxing on my reclining lounge chair on my front patio.
Feeling the cool breeze as my pinwheel flowers spin.
Listening to the beautiful chimes, oh so calming.
Watching my American flag lightly wave. ( My Mom always wanted the flag to wave)
Watching football on my tablet on a tablet holder. Perfect portable TV screen, lol.

And nothing pending for the rest of the day.

[Gráinne]

1.a &b.: "Cruisin' by Smokey Robinson, and "I Wanna Get Next To You", Rose Royce, on my playlist. Mmmmm, yeah!

2. A new journal set-up that I decided to start tonight, not in January. That means journaling set to the aforementioned music. I'm much more likely to stick with it if I make it pleasant and meaningful.

3. Again with the music-Karen Carpenter's voice, silenced way too early.

4. Eating a reallly good piece of chocolate as if I was making love to it. I think a lot more of eating should be like that.

5. (Soon) A warm shower and to bed for a week of change.

[Stone-Butch]

Still feeling up spending time with my brother.

Sitting with my firestove going on a night like last night.

Chatting with my buddy in a far away city.

Having a nice steak dinner.

Having a warm apt. a good van and money to buy what I need.

Great friends like my neighbours.

[Kätzchen]

1) that commissioners from the board of National Baseball League never let Pete Rose (famous sports figure from the Cincinnati Reds) ever be installed in the Baseball Hall of Fame. I’m glad they took a stand and denounced Rose’s willfull lying and illegal betting activities. You can’t be a hall of famer setting examples of lying and betting and get social approval for your bad actor ways.

1a). I’m no fan of Shohei. I used to be, but not after his interpreter betting scandal. We learned from the Pete Rose episode years ago. Goodbye Shohei.

2). The geese returned to the nearby fields. I love to hear them chit chat with each other. ❤️

3). It’s only four months until spring time returns. Looking forward to March 1st and the return of baseball season again.

4). I stopped being a fan of fast food, a few years ago. Now that DJT got a Maga-T franchisee to let him stand in their store and reveal that franchisee’s political stance by ownership, McDonald’s will pretty much be on my shit-list permanently.

5). Kamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday on this past Sunday. Happy Birthday Kamala!

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Originally Posted by Gráinne

4. Eating a reallly good piece of chocolate as if I was making love to it. I think a lot more of eating should be like that.

Of all the places I have been, IMHO as a foodie, New Orleans is the city where most people embody this principle. I have always felt that their basic approach to food is that you should enjoy it; and if you're not enjoying it, why are you eating at all? I like the way you put it better.

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My 5 good things:

1. Ben and Jerry's ice cream is on sale this week, half price.

2. Still feeling the waves and sea air and the Jimmy Buffett groove a week plus after vacation.

3. An out-of-town friend is coming to visit tomorrow, and she's bring me a haul from the farmer's market.

4. This voting season is almost over and I haven't had a breakdown or seriously considered moving to Canada yet this time.

5. My house is cleaner than it has been in a long time, thanks to an inspired boy.

[Gráinne]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaMa'am

Of all the places I have been, IMHO as a foodie, New Orleans is the city where most people embody this principle. I have always felt that their basic approach to food is that you should enjoy it; and if you're not enjoying it, why are you eating at all? I like the way you put it better.

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I've only been to the Big Easy once, and that was for two days, but I had the exact same impression. Not just food-the whole place was one sensual experience after another. No accident that the wonderfully sexy jazz and blues started there.

My five things:

1. Speaking of said jazz, I've found several channels of soft, mellow, jazzy beats (there must be a word for this genre). Very MmmmMmmm!



2. I actually love the gift to myself of a cleaning day.

3. Tickets to the Van Gogh Experience-seems to be a huge immersive exhibit with his paintings set to music. A little costly, but my favorite artist and it sounded different! This will probably be on the list on Thursday.

4. I slept in and cuddled with Junie the cat

5. The wonderful chicken wings at my favorite Chinese restaurant. I'm going to find a recipe and see if I can do it myself (but there's nothing wrong with treating myself, either).

[Soft*Silver]

1: pumpkin carving w grand daughters!
2: homemade from scratch chocolate cake w chocolate icing
3: coffee in the pavilion in the mornings w the Moon doggie
4: a really nice leg shave and moisturizing after w oil
5: the soft snaps of a wood wick burning in a new candle