Friday's Fave Five #496

Welcome again to Fridays Fave Five.  In this regular weekly exercise we are trying to develop the habit of intentionally looking for blessings in our past week and developing grateful attitudes.  We try to do it on the good weeks, the bad weeks, the exciting weeks and the plain old everyday type of week that on the surface doesn't seem to hold anything special.  Please join us.  If you are new just click on the link in the sidebar and read the guidelines and then jump right in.

In no particular order here are mine:

~beautiful red suns~ we have been having a whole lot of smoke blowing over from our neighboring province of British Columbia where there are close to 600 active forest fires burning.  Our days can change within the hour from blue skies to hazy to thick smoke taking our air quality from a really good 2 or 3 to a high risk 8, 9 or 10.  Hate the smoke but if I have to look for a good thing within it there are some absolutely beautiful red suns that show up.  This was a gorgeous one and I had to chase down the road a good mile and some to get a clear shot of it and I only had my cell phone so it doesn't really do it justice but you get the idea.

~corn and a pot~ my next two are related so they are listed together.  It is officially into Taber corn season here.  There is no corn like Taber corn.  So delicious.  Farmers sell them throughout the city in small stands and everyone here looks forward to those hot days of August when you can buy them from fresh daily harvested fields.  So far we've had Peaches and Cream corn that was amazing and now they are into Vision which is a real sweat corn too.  Yum.  I can't get enough.

Which brings me to the part two of this.  My new pot I snagged on clearance at Marshalls.  I've wanted to get a stock pot for such a long time but have never bit the bullet on them because I didn't know where I would keep such a tall pot.  One day a couple months ago I was wandering around in Marshalls and lo and behold here was this Italian pot that was huge but not tall.  So I grabbed it thinking I could always return it if I found it wasn't what I wanted.  But boy, did I score with this thing.  I can easily fit about 10 -12 ears of corn into this thing.  The day I took this picture I only had six in there with the water only filled to half full.  And it will be perfect too to make those wonderful soups and stocks that I like to do and never find my current biggest pot not big enough.  

~King Tut Grass~ I have been trying for years to find something that would grow tall enough in this planter and be big enough to look balanced against the bow window.   This year I saw this plant at a local green house store and nabbed it.  So glad I did.  It's exactly what I was looking for.  Next year I'll be sure to buy another as they are not hardy enough to survive our winter, but it's so worth it to buy it again.  I'll fill it in with some nice bright draping kind of flowers or plant to hang down at the base.

~pinterest loving parents~ love when parents send cute snacks like this to dayhome for a treat or for their kid's birthdays.  How cute is this?  It's a pudding cup with graham crumbs for "sand", a piece of fruit rollup for a "towel", a graham teddy sitting in a gummy "floaty tube" under a party drink "umbrella".  Who thinks of these things?

Well these were 5 blessings from my week.  Nothing huge or spectacular but blessings nonetheless.  What were you favorites from the week?