Re: Three good things from your day
1. I got to leave work early, which meant I had 4 hours with my wife before she flew home (10 weeks until I get to go back too, but I'm trying to see the positives I today!)
2. Lunch at Panera Bread. Mmm!
3. Three Amazon returns parcelled up and ready to go (a GoPro which proved less waterproof than advertised, a battery for the same, and a Lamy nib which had had something very heavy placed on it at some point...)
Re: Three good things from your day
1. Finally found The Right Person to hire.
2. Found an EPIC online site for vintage & used furniture.
3. Husband is now an Official Non-Smoker for insurance purposes.
Re: Three good things from your day
1. Winter storm is here: freezing rain, sleet turning to snow, temps headed for single digits. Emergency stores are full. We are ready.
2. The hasp mechanism on my gig box has a Salticid nursery web in it. We will have a mob of spiderlings, come spring.
3. Changed the strings on my Goya guitar. It sounds good.
Re: Three good things from your day
1) Seeing God's hand through the entire process of my wife being offered a new job.
2) Standing next to her as person after person--for three hours--came to bid her farewell and tell her what a difference she had made to their life, faith, or practice over the past two decades.
3) Eating pizza with my teenage daughter while enjoying "Murder By Death" and "Lilies of the Field"
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1) Making breakfast for my wife and daughter
2) Spending most of the day on the couch with my wife, in our pajamas, cat-napping and binge-watching "Father Brown."
3) A book on beekeeping arrived today
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1. Swapped out the power supply in my backup computer. Iron George lives yet again !!!!
2. Took the Wrangler cross-country through the snow. It beats heck out of cross-country skiing.
3. Slumgullion and colcannon for dinner, last night.
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1) 11 yr old son won the school gold medal for his history project on the Titanic
2) Getting to watch my son watch ALL the Rocky movies in a row this week.
3)Baked two Exceptional Cakes for the town Senior Center this evening.
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1 - Finally finished cleaning and garden tidying or garden in our old house - now officially homeless until we can find somewhere at my next posting.
2 - Dinner tonight at the Oelmuehle at Landstuhl - my favourite restaurant at my current locale.
3 - Because we finished (1) a day earlier than expected, we get a lie in tomorrow before driving back to the UK on Sunday, and then on to the USA next week!
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1. Grades are in!
2. Most of my students did ok.
3. Gin and tonic.
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Three slices of chocolate cake...
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1. End of school for my daughter
2. Her birthday presents arrived before we leave...
3. Seeing Cirque did Soleil tonight
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1. First salad straight from the garden: lettuce, endive, onion, kale, garlic, spinach.
2. Three baby robins are ready to leave the nest on our side porch.
3. Surgeon says he removed all the cancer. None left anywhere. He says I'm cured. Now I can live to the age of 95 and be shot by a jealous husband. Yay!
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1. Actually getting used to 100+ degree weather (!)
2. Finally made the trek to see the specialist and the new meds seem to be helping. Relief.
3. Fresh black cherries just appeared in the produce section.
Re: Three good things from your day
1 it's overcast and cool ish today.
2 I scored a lovely looking tall-case clock on an auction website
3 I have made my way up to episode 100 of the pen addict podcast :)
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1. Finished freezing 44 pints of strawberry freezer jam -- a year's supply.
2. Blackberries are just beginning to ripen. Will freeze the crop to make winter cobbler.
3. Learned a new tune on the mandolin. Don't know the title; the Scots next door play it on their war pipes.
Re: Three good things from your day
1. Pointed dip pen nib sampler arrived. (oh, so that's what you mean by "full flex"?)
2. My weekend begins now, woohoo! \o/
3. My MB 221 school pen arrived an hour ago after a long trip from the land of the rising sun.
Re: Three good things from your day
1). Sea buckthorn ice cream.
2). Also enjoyed a Belgian bun.
3). Time to enjoy an alcoholic beverage.
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Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Marshmallow pop from Kilwin's.
Fudge from Kilwin's.
Ice cream from Kilwin's.
Heh.
Re: Three good things from your day
1. Waking up, and moving, seeing, hearing, etc. under my own power.
2. Manny the Jack Russell Terrier
3. Finding a used, mint condition Montblanc 146 with Rose gold OBB nib, on this board yesterday.
Re: Three good things from your day
1. Seventeen pounds of broccoli in the freezer. More growing.
2. Homemade blackberry pie with hot coffee.
3. Dew on the web of a golden argiope.