I am getting ready, as I do every Thursday, to deliver meals on wheels.  I am running late, as I am usually running on Thursdays!  What it is not doing, which it has been doing every Thursday for as long as I can remember, is raining!  So, I am extremely thankful for that.  It may rain later, but I won't get wet delivering my meals!

I decided to do a photo Thankful Thursday, just to give you guys some ideas for the contest .... come on now... we need entries and this is a shameless way to get them!  If I've piqued your interest... please click on Mike Saunder's post about the contest... time is running out to enter!

This is something I bought with money Max gave me for Mother's Day this year.  I love to buy flowers when my son gives me money, so I can always tell him and show him how I spent it!  It's a gift that keeps giving and I am thankful Max always listens to me when I tell him what I want.

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Obviously, this one doesn't really need an explanation.  This little fella is something to be thankful for every minute, and the vision of his little face is enough to warm the coldest heart!

My astilbe... glorious!  This is a short-lived perrenial, but when it blooms, it is a beauty.  I am thankful it blooms just before our annual vacation so that I get to see it and enjoy it before I go.

Ah yes... I know.  I already mentioned my little fella!  Some things just beg to be repeated and this is one.  If this isn't a vision of thanks, I don't know what is.  Look at that button nose!  Look at those warm brown eyes and that messy head!!  Who wouldn't love this dog? JJ is named after my husband Jack who did not want a dog.  He did not want a dog for 24 years, exactly 1/2 the time I've wanted a dog... 48 years and counting.  Well, it took me long enough and we argued about it often enough that I finally did it last year... one of the best arguments I've ever won.  To be a bit bitchy I named the little guy Jack Junior.  To be a little ornery, Jack tells everyone he's named after Jesse Jackson!!! 

Life is hard, life is hectic, life can be disappointing at times.  But there is always, always, always, something to be thankful for.  My sons, my mom, my entire network of family and friends, are healthy and it's summertime, and soon, I'll be on a beach reading a book, so I am thankful. 

Carpe Diem!!