TToT – The Stuff of Distraction

August 22, 2015 Off By Lisa

Sometimes I get distracted.

Last weekend, I intended to post a second TToT because I had all the things to be thankful for. Then I forgot where I wrote them.

I found a draft in my drafts folder. It may or may not be the intended second TToT. Either way, I’m going to snag the couple of items here, add to it, and call it a day.

Thankful number one is a lovely photo of our CSA farm’s flower garden…how lovely is this place? Immediately behind the flower section are the vegetable sections. Part of our benefit there is we can pick our own from different sections each week. Can’t say any of us love the part where there are bugs around, but we do OK for a bunch of bug-o-phobes. And while I’d love to tell you we bring home bouquets of these gorgeous blooms each week, the truth is that we do not. Our allergies are just too bad and they make us miserable. So we enjoy them where they grow.

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Thankful number two? Awesome produce. These beauties (and so many more) come from our local CSA farm and other local farms through our supermarket. Just gorgeous.

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Good, wholesome, homemade food. I’ve done lots of great things with fresh produce lately – homemade tomato juice, summer squash and greens soup, some very good smoothies, fried green tomatoes, homemade coleslaw, baked eggplant chips, and more… The Vitamix gets a good workout for many of those, too. That little bugger continues to be well worth its price.

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We had a perfectly good dark and rainy day recently. Sleeping in a bit on said day was awesome. Sometimes you just gotta.

We took my Mom along on a trip to our favorite mountain spot. Gorgeous. Great bird sightings. Loved the new trails and other improvements. I’m sure I’ll be sharing more about that in the coming weeks as we spend more time there through the late summer and fall months.

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I wrote something besides a TToT post. I posted two book review this week – check them out by clicking on the images below. (I think it will work.) Both great reads. I’m so happy to  have “met” some very smart authors through blogging and the Facebook thing. I’m glad to have to the opportunity to read their words.

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Here’s a good one – Dyanne’s comments NOT going to the spam folder for the first time in like three years. Still needed approval, but it’s progress.

Monday morning finding that the new lower weight stuck (and has continued to stick) was a good thing. Clark has likened weight loss efforts to running down an escalator. I’m assuming he meant an up escalator. Excellent metaphor.

When I whined a bit to my Hub about the fact that I didn’t think I had done anything on Friday to make someone’s day better, he said the homemade coleslaw and homemade pickles I made for his favorite deli sandwiches counted.

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So I guess the thankful there is that I’m glad he can find the good about me so easily. There are days when I just really don’t see it all that well. And I think I’m safe to say his thankful is that I make him lots of good food.

Homemade pickles turned out really well. Delicious. Definitely worth waiting a month to taste them. These were perfect with the favorite deli sandwich dinner. Perfect.

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Hanging out at home with some of my favorite people enjoying a lazy Saturday and/or Sunday afternoon – and I think this happened two weeks in a row, actually. I do feel kind of bad that we were inside on an absolutely beautiful day today, but Kidzilla has a late summer cold and isn’t feeling up to much of anything. Books, TV, sick tea, and cozy blankets. And doting parents to provide these things and wait on her hand and foot. Those are her thankfuls right now.

Zilla and the Rottens had their yearly checkups all on the same day last week – WHAT was I thinking when I scheduled that? Everybody is well and healthy and for that we are very thankful. Zilla prefers not to have her face on the internet, but the Rottens are attention hogs, so they’ll fill in for her.

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The BoSR/SBoR allows me to toss whatever leftovers I found in drafts together with this week’s thankfuls and pretend it makes a whole lot of sense even if it doesn’t.

Therefore, I am finished.

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How about you? What are you thankful for? Are you easily distracted? What is it that distracts you most often? Do you feel guilty when you spend a Saturday doing a whole lot of nothing?

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