Hello again,
Today I am thankful for wildflowers. I am talking about the kind that are not super invasive and are really pretty. Some wildflowers are really actually weeds but I am thankful for the kind that aren't. Being out in the country, sometimes we discover wildflowers and we move them if we need to so we can keep them alive instead of hoeing through them. I love going to the mountains because of all the gorgous wildflowers growing up there where they are not disturbed and able to grow freely. It is so beautiful. There is something about them that makes them so pretty. Anyways that is why I love wildflowers and I am thankful for them. I hope you all have a great weekend. :)
Friday, June 17, 2011
Apology for my absense
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I have not posted for almost a week and I apologize. My family and I went through a very difficult time which was incredibly hard for me to handle and process and I hope you understand that I could not bring myself to post on here during that time. It has nothing to do with the kittens dying that I posted about in my second last post, which was difficult but nothing compared to the weekend's events. I am trying to be as open as I feel comfortable to be and this is all I can share on the subject currently. I found it next to impossible to see much good in anything during the past week. I personally wonder if anyone really noticed that I haven't posted on here because (according to the stats on my blog) not many people read this. I want to say thank you to the people who have stuck with me and read some or all the posts I have written. Thank you. I am not sure if I should play catch up and post 7 blessings or just pick up where I left off. I suppose with this blog I am making my own rules as I go and when I started I didn't anticipate taking a week off like this so maybe I should just decide what I want to do. life sometimes throws curveballs that we don't see coming so we have to adjust things as we go. So I think I will just pick up where I left off and today is day 236 instead of last Sunday. I am only human and some days it seems impossible to find anything good to be thankful for. I am sure that good will come from this experience but I have yet to figure out what that is. Until then, I would like to apologize for my absense, thank you for continuing to read my blog and hopefully understanding my reasons for not posting this week.
I have not posted for almost a week and I apologize. My family and I went through a very difficult time which was incredibly hard for me to handle and process and I hope you understand that I could not bring myself to post on here during that time. It has nothing to do with the kittens dying that I posted about in my second last post, which was difficult but nothing compared to the weekend's events. I am trying to be as open as I feel comfortable to be and this is all I can share on the subject currently. I found it next to impossible to see much good in anything during the past week. I personally wonder if anyone really noticed that I haven't posted on here because (according to the stats on my blog) not many people read this. I want to say thank you to the people who have stuck with me and read some or all the posts I have written. Thank you. I am not sure if I should play catch up and post 7 blessings or just pick up where I left off. I suppose with this blog I am making my own rules as I go and when I started I didn't anticipate taking a week off like this so maybe I should just decide what I want to do. life sometimes throws curveballs that we don't see coming so we have to adjust things as we go. So I think I will just pick up where I left off and today is day 236 instead of last Sunday. I am only human and some days it seems impossible to find anything good to be thankful for. I am sure that good will come from this experience but I have yet to figure out what that is. Until then, I would like to apologize for my absense, thank you for continuing to read my blog and hopefully understanding my reasons for not posting this week.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Day 235: our fruit trees
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Today I am thankful for our fruit trees. We have cherry, honeyberry/haskap, blueberry, saskatoon and apple trees. Then we also have a current bush and strawberry plants. We love fruit. lol I am thankful for them because fruit fresh right off the tree/bush is so much better than what you can buy in the store. It is also cheaper to grow your own than to buy it in the store. There is the initial investment into each tree but they more than pay for themselves in a few years. The only drawback to having our own fruit trees is that sometimes bad weather destroys the fruit. Our honeyberry trees are finally getting to a size where we have a ton of fruit on each bush and we are getting good at getting to the fruit before the birds too! lol The birds are thankful for our fruit trees too. lol We have a new crop of Honeyberry trees that are starting to produce fruit as well so it should be less of a problem if the birds munch on a few. :) I love fresh fruit. You can't get fruit any fresher than if you grow it yourself. So this is why I am thankful for fresh fruit.
Today I am thankful for our fruit trees. We have cherry, honeyberry/haskap, blueberry, saskatoon and apple trees. Then we also have a current bush and strawberry plants. We love fruit. lol I am thankful for them because fruit fresh right off the tree/bush is so much better than what you can buy in the store. It is also cheaper to grow your own than to buy it in the store. There is the initial investment into each tree but they more than pay for themselves in a few years. The only drawback to having our own fruit trees is that sometimes bad weather destroys the fruit. Our honeyberry trees are finally getting to a size where we have a ton of fruit on each bush and we are getting good at getting to the fruit before the birds too! lol The birds are thankful for our fruit trees too. lol We have a new crop of Honeyberry trees that are starting to produce fruit as well so it should be less of a problem if the birds munch on a few. :) I love fresh fruit. You can't get fruit any fresher than if you grow it yourself. So this is why I am thankful for fresh fruit.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Day 234: to have loved and lost...
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Today I am thankful to have loved and lost than not loved at all... at least in terms of animals. Today we had to bring the kittens to the vet because they were sick. It turned out they had distemper and they needed to be euthenized. While it is very painful for me right now, I know that I am thankful to have known and loved the kittens during their very short stay here with us even though it means pain from losing them. During their time with us, they made me smile and when they purred while I held them, it was so sweet. I wish they had not been sick and they had been healthy and would have lived very long lives but that wasn't to be. I am litterally in tears right now because I miss them but I have good memories to hold on to from the moments that they were not so sick and they tried to snuggle in my hands. The black kitten really liked to slip it's head under my mom's sleeve and then it was happy and comfy. It was so adorable. The calico kitten liked to climb up to my shoulder and snuggle next to my neck and purr away. The two orange kittens were often laying together and it was so cute. The grey kitten was smart when we put a dish with food and water and he was lapping it up while the others walked through it. They were adorable when they all curled up together in a heap. These are good memories that make me smile and I will hold on to them forever.
I want to take a moment to ask that people keep their pets shots up to date to help keep distemper and other viruses and diseases from spreading and avoid losing animals like I had to go through. These kittens may have come from a stray cat but stray cats can spread it easily to our pets even if we don't let them outside-accidents happen. Also please remember to spay and neuter so that there are fewer unwanted animals who end up becoming strays. It isn't fair to them to have no one to love them or want them and then suffer because they catch disease. I just wanted to stress these things because they are very important. Thanks for bearing with me as I mention these things.
Today I am thankful to have loved and lost than not loved at all... at least in terms of animals. Today we had to bring the kittens to the vet because they were sick. It turned out they had distemper and they needed to be euthenized. While it is very painful for me right now, I know that I am thankful to have known and loved the kittens during their very short stay here with us even though it means pain from losing them. During their time with us, they made me smile and when they purred while I held them, it was so sweet. I wish they had not been sick and they had been healthy and would have lived very long lives but that wasn't to be. I am litterally in tears right now because I miss them but I have good memories to hold on to from the moments that they were not so sick and they tried to snuggle in my hands. The black kitten really liked to slip it's head under my mom's sleeve and then it was happy and comfy. It was so adorable. The calico kitten liked to climb up to my shoulder and snuggle next to my neck and purr away. The two orange kittens were often laying together and it was so cute. The grey kitten was smart when we put a dish with food and water and he was lapping it up while the others walked through it. They were adorable when they all curled up together in a heap. These are good memories that make me smile and I will hold on to them forever.
I want to take a moment to ask that people keep their pets shots up to date to help keep distemper and other viruses and diseases from spreading and avoid losing animals like I had to go through. These kittens may have come from a stray cat but stray cats can spread it easily to our pets even if we don't let them outside-accidents happen. Also please remember to spay and neuter so that there are fewer unwanted animals who end up becoming strays. It isn't fair to them to have no one to love them or want them and then suffer because they catch disease. I just wanted to stress these things because they are very important. Thanks for bearing with me as I mention these things.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Day 233: microwaves
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Today I am thankful for microwaves. They are so amazing really and I can't imagine life without them. I know they haven't been around terribly long in terms of decades but I have had access to them all my life. I still can't imagine life without them. We use our microwave so often for so many things. Right now I am thinking about it so much because I am having to warm up kitten formula to feed the kittens and it is so nice and handy to pop in the microwave instead of having to heat it on the stove or something. Microwaves are also great for heating leftovers, cooking food and reheating tea that people accidentally forget about. :)
Today I am thankful for microwaves. They are so amazing really and I can't imagine life without them. I know they haven't been around terribly long in terms of decades but I have had access to them all my life. I still can't imagine life without them. We use our microwave so often for so many things. Right now I am thinking about it so much because I am having to warm up kitten formula to feed the kittens and it is so nice and handy to pop in the microwave instead of having to heat it on the stove or something. Microwaves are also great for heating leftovers, cooking food and reheating tea that people accidentally forget about. :)
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Day 232: Crows
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This is definitely something that seems unlikely to be thankful for but I am thankful for crows! I noticed that crows eat the dew worms!!!! Dew worms are such a problem in our lawn and seeing the crows eat the dew worms make me sooooo thankful for them!!! I almost wanted to hug the crow! I have seen them scratching at ant hills too and eat the ants. They sound awful at times but if they are going to be around either way and they will eat the dew worms-I am totally thankful for them! They are apparently very smart birds too. It can be amusing to watch them together sometimes and I wonder what they are saying to each other. lol I am changing my opinion of crows as I learn more about them. I wish they sounded more pleasant and would not scare other birds away but they are who they are right? I think they are here to stay and we still have other birds here as well so it isn't so bad. So today I am thankful for crows. :)
This is definitely something that seems unlikely to be thankful for but I am thankful for crows! I noticed that crows eat the dew worms!!!! Dew worms are such a problem in our lawn and seeing the crows eat the dew worms make me sooooo thankful for them!!! I almost wanted to hug the crow! I have seen them scratching at ant hills too and eat the ants. They sound awful at times but if they are going to be around either way and they will eat the dew worms-I am totally thankful for them! They are apparently very smart birds too. It can be amusing to watch them together sometimes and I wonder what they are saying to each other. lol I am changing my opinion of crows as I learn more about them. I wish they sounded more pleasant and would not scare other birds away but they are who they are right? I think they are here to stay and we still have other birds here as well so it isn't so bad. So today I am thankful for crows. :)
Day 231: We found the kittens!!!
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I did not post yesterday because we sort of had our hands full and I was exhausted. Let me explain why. A pregnant feral cat showed up awhile back and we could never get close enough to even get a close look at her. All we knew was the she had a huge belly and then we noticed she had her kittens at some point because recently she was much thinner. On the weekend we found her dead and it was so sad because we knew she had kittens hidden somewhere. They always hide their kittens so well so we knew the likelyhood of finding them. Yet we hoped to find them somehow. Last night we found them!!! We found all 5 alive!!! We are so happy we found them and they are alive. I am so thankful we found them alive. I am thankful we found them at all. It seems the odds were against them but they survived long enough for us to find them. I am so thankful for that. :) I hope they all survive. But I am thankful for finding the kittens and that they are alive.
I did not post yesterday because we sort of had our hands full and I was exhausted. Let me explain why. A pregnant feral cat showed up awhile back and we could never get close enough to even get a close look at her. All we knew was the she had a huge belly and then we noticed she had her kittens at some point because recently she was much thinner. On the weekend we found her dead and it was so sad because we knew she had kittens hidden somewhere. They always hide their kittens so well so we knew the likelyhood of finding them. Yet we hoped to find them somehow. Last night we found them!!! We found all 5 alive!!! We are so happy we found them and they are alive. I am so thankful we found them alive. I am thankful we found them at all. It seems the odds were against them but they survived long enough for us to find them. I am so thankful for that. :) I hope they all survive. But I am thankful for finding the kittens and that they are alive.
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