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1. Kitchen faucet replaced (!!)
2. My little coffee thermos keeps my coffee really hot for a very long time
3. I can redirect
4. Our annual box of donuts is in the freezer -- always look forward to the October/Halloween sprinkles and decorations, jogs a memory from my childhood

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1. Pumpkin bagels for a change
2. Sunny afternoon
3. Amelie
4. It's so nice when things are calm and normal

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1.  Heavy fog -- a moody morning
2.  Sourdough waffles -- my starter is more than 12 years old!
3.  I can choose to tune out news and current events
4.  Nostalgia 

5.  Courage tea

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1.  A fun visit with the little boys yesterday -- they were thrilled by 'millions of pumpkins'
2.  Burt's Bees Pumpkin Spice lip balm

3.  Slowly slowly getting the finishing touches on everything, making the best of the house

4.  Our ballots arrived, it's almost time for the election and the next phase

5.  Iced tea

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1.   Breakfast on the balcony at the Pacific Inn
2.   A perfectly delightful visit -- the little boys are getting to be such characters!  Talky and silly and affectionate :)
3.  Safe travel

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Sky Chair with Sue today!

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1.  Taffy apples
2.  Clear bright weather
3.  A heartwarming visit with family

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WARMING MY SOUL

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of applewood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and bluebirds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich~

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