Tell Me Something Good!

OK, let’s talk delightful. De-lovely. Delicious!
Tell me five good things about today. If you’re game, go ahead and make it ten.
I’ve been kind of bummed—I checked with ChrisP about Garf, and they haven’t seen him in many days. I feel guilty, sad, worried, etc., etc. But I have to let it go. So I’m thinking about something else:  the good stuff. So here’s my list of 10:
1.  heat—it’s almost 7 p.m., and it’s still 96 degrees. I love this.
2.  sitting on the porch stitching
3.  sitting on the porch having a frappacciinnoo with The EGE—in fact, pretty much anything done sitting on the porch, even though it makes me feel guilty that Garf is no longer there. If he were, it would be soaked in cat spray. Guilt + pleasure, all tangled up.
4.  walking to the library/bank/post office under my parasol and figuring out, on my own, that para-sol means “for [the] sun” in Spanish
5.  getting a good draft of this week’s work done and ready to edit tomorrow
6.  cracking and shelling pecans for Candy, who’s looking very chubby. Fat? Or pregnant again? Yikes:  we need birth control for squirrels (don’t you dare make any anti-squirrel comments!)
7.  my new paper lanterns on the front porch—the lights are from a garage sale down the street (25 cents for the whole string) and the lanterns were on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $1 and under

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8.  everybody is happy, all sprawled out on the floor (inside cats) or the grass (backyard cats)
9. my stitching mojo has come back, with ideas for dozens of projects because:
10. I FINISHED A PIECE!  goodlordalmighty, this has been a long, long project. Remember back when I did the little video about making felt letters? That was the beginning of this piece. I finished it just now, just this evening, and now I’m going to go try to get some decent photographs. I’ll try to post those later, but:  man, it feels good to get it finished. I wish I’d kept track of how many miles of floss I used.
No, I don’t. I don’t want to know.