Twenty Things I’m Grateful For

1. The feeling you get waking up early on a day you don’t need to
2. My Duluth Trading Co. kevlar/leather work gloves
3. Siblings who know how to cook–well!
4. The ability to serve and help others
5. Watching both kids happily playing together
6. Watching both kids happily helping with various farm jobs
7. Evening chats around the fire pit
8. Listening to birdsong while laying in a hammock
9. E-readers that can hold entire libraries in a small form factor
10. Cars that run with no issues
11. Taking my daughter to the hardware store; treating her to a soda
12. Satisfyingly organized stacks of firewood
13. Brother-in-law’s abiding curiosity in learning more about fishing
14. Neighbors who are willing to loan you their dump trailer
15. Dumps willing to take what comes out of the dump trailer
16. The feeling of cleanliness that comes from removing what went into the dump trailer
17. The sense of purpose that comes from loading the dump trailer
18. Ph.D. advisors reaching out to see how things are going
19. Repairing older devices that still function fine otherwise
20. Petting a groggy watchdog that has just woken up from a deep, deep afternoon slumber