It’s been a while since I put together a Thankful Thursday post but I have a bit of time this morning before work.
Hoping to get back into the routine of these. It does seem to help to pause and be thankful for the big and little things that occur along the way. I picked up the camera for a few quick snaps for this post. So first, I’m thankful that I took the time to pick up the camera. I really need to get back into the habit of it.
Thankful for the yard and the gardens.
See those petunias in the picture above. They were going to throw that big beautiful pot of petunias away at Home Depot a few weeks back! Not sure how it all worked out (they couldn’t give them to me) but somehow I bought a big (probably $40) pot of petunias for $10. For the record, they didn’t look like that when I bought them. They were an over-watered, in desperate need of cutting back and deadheading, dying mess. The pot will be handy next year as well (petunias are annuals in these parts).
The winding down of the vegetable garden.
Despite the ongoing drought, we had a good for us garden year. I’ll still try to maintain the fall garden idea but admit I’m tired. That said, rubs hands together, I do have plans for my vegetable garden next year. BIG plans.
Good Friends 
I’m very thankful for my friends and opportunities to get together with them. A night out, a dinner out, dinner out and a small firepit with my husband and our mutual friends (s’mores!), and tomorrow a long overdue coffee date with a friend I’ve not seen in some time.
Faith and Hope
If you’ve read any Happy Homemaker Monday posts, you know this school year has again been a tough one with J. It started great and then, just plummeted. I’ve had to give up the idea of what this Senior year would be, clearly nothing like the one G had.
Yet, I continue to have faith and hope that we’re going to make it to the end and he’s going to graduate, go on and this is just going to be a little blip in the big picture. 
For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)
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I’m also thankful for distractions like good, suspense novels, comedy and dramas on tv, coffee and chai tea, a certain little gray cat, and being able to sleep with the windows open. What things are you thankful for this week?