I Like Thursday #3

Welcome to a new month and I like Thursdays which is hosted by LeeAnna of Not Afraid of Color.

1.  I like the month of November.  A few years ago I tried to think of something that I was thankful for every day of the month.  I like this practice and will attempt to do it again this year.  So here are my thoughts for the 1st two days of the month of November

  a.  I am thankful for every morning I wake up--too many people don't get to see the light of another day.  Thinks about it how would you act if you knew that today was your last day on Earth?  Today is a gift.  Tomorrow is not promised.

b.  I am thankful for the fact my feet hit the floor every morning, whether I want to get out of bed or not.

2.  I like my roses that I have planted.  I planted twins a couple of years ago.  I call them my vanity rose.  The name is the Colette Rose, they are hard to come by and I had to back order them and wait for 2 growing seasons before they arrived.  They are climbers, and Jeff created trellises for me from old gates he found in the garbage pit at work.

3.  I like that obviously Lucy is not an old dog, and an old cat can learn new tricks.  When Lucy first moved in she didn't want to have anything to do with anyone.  She would sit with the great aunt Jannie, but no one else, and do not touch Lucy.  Lucy has lived in this house for 13 months now.  I think she has adjusted well.

Lucy crawled up to sit by Finn on her own.

4.  I like that if I am busy I have someone willing to babysit Bobbin so she is not on her own.  Bobbin will go next door to my daughter's home and play with her dog Harley.

Harley comes over for play dates with Bobbin, and they are besties.  The big and little of it.

5.  Squirrels-- I love squirrels, watching them makes me smile.  We used to live in a neighborhood with many huge trees.  There were some big squirrels, even a couple that would go up to some of the neighbors and take food from their hands.  My present squirrel is not that friendly.  But I thought it was so funny that it was just laying on this stump near the road, watching the traffic go by.

6.  I like my "sticks with leaves".  When I first moved in with Jeff it was late fall.  The next spring there were so many wonderful discoveries in the yard.  One discovery were 2 very big boxwood shrubs.  I thought it would be nice to have a hedge between the house and the road.  So I transplanted the two huge boxwoods and ordered 10 more from Ebay.  What came were essentially "sticks with leaves", at least that is what Jeff called them.   I received 10 plants which were barely 8 inches tall, some were forked, with a few leaves for $15.  Five years later and my sticks with leaves look like this now.

They are about 2 feet tall, nice and round, they need shaping but it is too late in the year.  Hey basically this year was a bust for gardening.  You can see one of the big boxwoods down by the hydrant.  The other one which you can barely see has not fared as well.  A couple of years ago some neighbors thought that it was ok to go snowmobiling up and down the road, and through my yard, running over and breaking one of my large boxwood shrubs.  I won't have that problem anymore in the future.  My property is now marked with no trespassing signs.

7.  I like my can do attitude.  I have this plant hook that Jeff's mom wanted to get rid of, so of course Jeff brought it home to me.  It laid on the berm for a year, I couldn't figure out why.  Well I grabbed it and noticed that it had a part helps stabilize it, and it had been crushed.  I got out my handy dandy hammer, and crow bar and went to work.

I fixed it, and got it into the ground.  Next will be to put my bird feeder up for the winter.

8.  I like gray, gloomy days because it gives me a good excuse to stay inside and sew.  Yes I got some sewing done, no I am not sharing.  I got to hold something back for another post sooner than later.  :D

I challenge you to think of something you are thankful for every day this month.