You know what i love?

you know what I love?
climate activists...

[Bowhunterwoody]

You know what I love.... Homemade New England clam chowder,(the only clam chowder), with self raked clams, potatoes and onions and even the parsley from the garden. Best you can get on a cold rainy snowy winter night.

[golfnrl]

@3Berries...that's the thing about doing good work. You have to stop and admire it while your doing it and especially after it gets done.

[golfnrl]

Walking my dog and enjoying a reefer along the way has become my way of disconnecting for a while...I love it.

[3Berries]

I was working on my pond bank yesterday. Had a big birch log I had to move, it was about 10 ft long and a foot in diameter. But I wanted it in the pond at the shore line. Also have a bunch of new willow trees planted that had to be avoided. After using some 2x4s as levers I got it to slide right down the bank missing all the trees and plopping perfectly along the shore line all with little actual effort. I had to sit down and admire my work with a few puffs.

[3Berries]

I have a house cat, a garage cat and a outside cat. The garage cat is a fixed feral female, house cat is fixed male 12 years old. When the stars align right they will follow me around the yard like my dog use to. The house and garage cat are buddies but the outside cat is a big feral male who thinks he owns the joint. Tends to break up the pack. Just got him to be tummy rub friendly after treating him for flea bites this year. He was a mess.

[90Gizmo]

I've tried to harness train my cats but they seem so sad squirming to get it off that I've stopped. Still, I love seeing them at the (full panel glass) front door waiting for me when I get home.

...add some plantation rhum and butter...

[Puglover1]

I love a day when one dang thing goes right, and nothing breaks.

[Going2fast]

you know what I love........taking a walk with the puppers on a brisk Sunday afternoon.

[3Berries]

And chocolate too!

[Bootsy]

Great way to start, or even continue a day!

[golfnrl]

I understand...I used to mow my own grass and rake my own leaves...until I came in off of a road trip to find my spouse had hired a yard guy. After I overcame the initial newness of paying someone else to do something I can do myself, it's worked out pretty well. I'll end up doing it myself again at some point, I'm sure. But, I'm at that time in life when every day can be a surprise healthwise, so I get it about the exercise and support.

[3Berries]

golfnrl
Ha well if it helps you understand, I use the rake to help support my wobbly butt. And I need to be doing something exercise wise. We had a huge yard in town when I grew up. Use to hate raking and mowing. Now I have an even bigger grounds to take care of. It has turned into my retirement job.

But I have learned to work with nature and the leaves and sticks. Seldom burn any of it, use the leaves for mulch and sticks piles for erosion control. Put up a leaf 'snow' fence to guide the leaves and pile them up in drifts in certain areas. Spent a lot of money on grass seed the last few years so got to give it the best chance.

[golfnrl]

@3Berries...I've been thinking about this ever since I first read it. My thoughts go to the beautiful day, maybe a reefer, 50 degrees, and sunny, sounding great and makes me smile. Then I think of the rake. And something happens with my mental picture of this perfect day that even the reefer doesn't help. I've got some rakes. A leaf rake, a handmade garden rake, and some collapsable PoS that I bought at a fair, you know, to get into all those tight spaces. But my hats off to you because try as I might I cannot get into the tranquil raking as you have so eloquently described. I think I will simply have to draw some satisfaction from the mental picture of you raking on that beautiful day...and that's OK. Thanks for the comment...and I mean that.