Friday's Fave Five #31

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Hi, welcome to Friday's Fave Five. If you're new here and would like to join in you can just click on the button in my sidebar for info. Then jump right in! I'm ready to jump right in this week. After a few hard weeks, it was really nice having quite a few things to narrow down to just five this week. But that's the great thing about looking back and finding the good things from my week. When it's been a harder week it focuses me on looking at the good things in my life and when it's been an easier week it just makes me even more grateful. So let's get started:

1. This picture in a Ruby Tuesday post by Jientje. What a great shot. It just got me thinking how if we're not paying attention so many great things pass us by and we don't even realize it. Way to go Jientje, noticing and capturing that great pic!

2. Knowing it's only one more day to picking up my girl for her visit home. The visits are too few and far between for this mom. I can hardly wait to have her home for 10 wonderful days. Subsequently it might be a bit quiet on the ol' blog next week.

3. Sunshine. Thursday morning brought warm, beautiful sunshine. Even after the flurries of Wednesday, there was the gorgeous blue sky and sunshine. Needless to say we spent a fair bit of the morning outside playing and soaking it up. Ahhh, nothing like kid's laughing and playing, a cup of coffee, a good book and sunshine!

4. Playing with different features on my camera. And taking pics of the flowers hubby got me last week. I found features I didn't even know were on my camera. And I think I got some nice shots with no playing around on any photo program. I wouldn't have a clue how to do that. LOL. I just now, after a year of owning this camera, figured out it had other features than shoot and click, for heaven's sake. A photo program would really tax my techy lacking brain. ;v)

Not pro by any means but a relaxing, fun half hour.

5. The purge. Getting a big chunk of the sort and purge finished. It's like a huge weight off my shoulders. I don't know, but come spring it's like all the "stuff" that's laying around in the house starts to weigh me down and I get to the point where I start going through the rooms like a mad woman getting things out. Things I'd been hanging onto all of a sudden lose their appeal and into the pile they go. Bye, bye to a huge bag of clothes, a bag of stuffed animals, a box of 3 coffee carafes and a dozen coffee cups, a huge box of assorted stuff and 2 stacking chairs.

Along with this pile of stuff that's going to the thrift store 2 huge bags of stuff went into the garbage. It's almost as good as losing weight. Almost. ;v)

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