It Just Doesn't Get Any Better Than This....

You ever have one of those days? Just a wonderful, perfect day. Doesn't matter what junk is going on in your life, community, or the world on those kind of days. Worrys just seem to fall away. Inside you feel a true sense of peace. And connected to God. Outside the afternoon sun has warmed your skin. The breeze brushed your face. Then the coolness of evening settling in. Today was one of those days for me. Just now was the topper to it all...walking out on the deck into the darkness, looking up and seeing a clear sky full of stars. While gazing and giving thanks, in the distance frogs are singing their evening chants. And just when you think it couldn't get any better, the coyotes in a far pasture begin to cackle and howl. The air smells like spring. You're tired, but in the good This-Was-A-Great-Day sort of way. I love country life. And I love these days! :) May we all have lives filled with many of them, and learn to be thankful for the ones that aren't so perfect.

On to the rest of it...we started some seeds! Tomatoes and peppers, and a few broccoli for experimental purposes. So far we have learned that you don't start broccoli with tomatoes and peppers! They are fast to start. So I will be moving them out of the flat. We also finished the compost set-up and moved the compost I started last fall. I made 4 loaves of bread. I looked up 5 new recipes. We trimmed bushes. We got the supplies to finish the green house. We cleaned flower beds. We had dinner outside on the deck! We are counting down the days until the ducklings arrive. I have been knitting and loving it. Ok, you have to promise not to laugh at my knitted dishcloths when I post the pictures! Or the "greenhouse" either. Or the compost system, the one that when my 11 year old son refers to it he says, smartalecy, "your compost bin" and literally does the quotation thing with his fingers as he says it!

I am going to make time to sit down and blog about all of these things. Which reminds me...I need to remember to take pictures of stuff too!

How was your Monday? :) Wishing you a wonderful week!