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  1. THANK you , Maria, for this wonderful post!

    I was taught the gift of gratitude some years ago, by being given a question set to ponder. It is, “What if you woke up tomorrow, with *only* the things you were grateful for today? What would your life look like then?” When we take the time to look, the blessings that surround us are enormous. Hot water on demand. Flush toilets and sewer systems. Advil (ibuprofen; in my house, we call it “Vitamin I” and I remember well when it was a brand-new, very welcome, prescription-only drug). Morning glories and prolific fruit trees (ours is a pear tree; when this development was put in, 60 years ago, all houses had one tree – scattered around the neighborhood are pears, peaches, and apples, even super-messy mulberries that make the birds happy). Be be living in this wonderful country, and this historic time.

    Your gift today – this reminder of gratitude, and the knowledge that others share it with me – has been happily and gratefully received. May it be that where we go one, we go all – together in gratitude.

  2. I’ve never been fond of gardening but now I find that trying to do any makes my skin itch. I can only assume it is due to my medication as my skin is so sensitive now. I now have a gardener who comes every two weeks to keep it under control.
    I’ve never heard of loquats! Are they similar to a plum? One of my neighbours had brambles which decided to invade my garden, they went wild but were very prickly and there weren’t enough blackberries to justify their presence so they had to go.
    I love how you were counting your blessings, starting with your escape from the flooding! So lucky!
    I am grateful for my lovely family. My daughter and her family in Australia with her two gorgeous boys aged 5 & 3. My son and his family living fairly close with his 2 year old twin boys. My Mum who is nearly 90 and my 2 brothers with their families all make me thankful as well as a few really close friends.
    Then I’m also grateful for the online friends I have made in the JAFF community who can share my love for all things Darcy and Elizabeth.

  3. A wonderful reminder to be grateful even in circumstances we don’t enjoy.

    I used to love gardening. When we lived in the city of San Diego, our garden surrounding our 90-year-old Craftsman bungalow (now 105 years old) was filled with old-fashioned flowers, including a bed devoted to heirloom roses, hollyhocks that were so tall that they curved under the house’s eaves despite the additional two feet of stone foundation on which the house rests, and a front bed filled to overflowing with gardenias and azaleas. The brick pathway up the front walk from the garden gate (a white picket fence surrounded the front garden) burgeoned with knee-high wildflowers: cosmos, bachelor buttons (also known as cornflowers–my favorite wildflower!), Queen Anne’s lace, black-eyed Susans, and so many others, all in the shade of a century-old carrotwood tree, complete with our kids’ tire swing. In the side yard, we had the hollyhocks and seven types of lavender, and nearest the kitchen was my herb garden containing “parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,” plus cilantro, oregano, basil, etc.

    But when we moved up to the mountains, we were confronted with a very different climate (despite relocating only 45 miles away), very expensive water from the town’s wells, and then I became too ill to garden. Even now, I can only garden for twenty minutes every other day unless I want to lie on the sofa for three days. I miss deadheading my flowers, babying my lavender, and rejoicing in pansies which can handle the cold of the winters here if not the heat of the summers.

    So despite all of your hard work, sweat, and aches, I envy you the health that allows you to take a little part in God’s Creation which is what gardening really is. 😉

    Warmly,
    Susanne 🙂

  4. Thank you for the delightful pictures that accompanied this post. Wow! One thing all gardens have in common… weeds. Yep, they grow in any climate and under all manner of conditions. Went to the funeral home the other day for my husband’s relation. We visited with the relatives, some we haven’t seen in over a year. People just don’t get together as they did back in the day. We were so grateful to just be together even under the circumstances. Blessings to you as you rest and relax knowing your garden is good as winter approaches.

    • It was interesting looking up our thorny vine and discovering that different varieties of it are used to make sarsaparilla and root beer. I didn’t know that until trying to find pictures of it.

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