A Few More Good Things

Welcome to my version of a Few More Good Things! I've been looking for good things this week, and even the act of looking for them has improved my outlook. With further ado, here they are:

• We actually got above freezing for a few hours the week, and this happened on two different days. I'm still dressing in turtlenecks, woolly knit items, and fingerless gloves, but the slightly warmer temperatures were nice while they lasted.

• I visited Ryan earlier in the week and he made me lunch. My grandmother always said that food tastes better if someone prepares it for you, and I find that to be true. He made me supper on a bread slice (a combination of venison, bacon, and cheese on top of split halves of French bread and baked for a few minutes) and it was delicious.  

 

• I haven't rewatched Schitt's Creek, but I probably will sometime in the future. This list of gleeful words from Moira Rose made my day and hopefully some of them will make you smile also. I'm hoping I can use balatron in my conversation this weekend, and I'm pretty sure I know who I'll be speaking about. 

Please add anything good that you've noticed this week. I hope you have a wonderful weekend with plenty of good things! 

A Few More Good Things

I never post in the afternoon, but I've felt lifted up by Kym's Happy Hour, Vicki's Good Things, and Sarah's Good News so I needed to share a few more good things. I think this should/will be a regular Friday thing. Be sure and check out their blogs if you haven't already. 

Just in case you didn't read my frozen finch story over at Kyms, I'll repeat myself here. I got to see a frozen finch come back to life. Sunday as the storm was winding down I saw a finch lying down in my window feeder. Its feet were curled up and it was covered in sleet and freezing rain. I felt sad that this poor bird had died, but Monday morning when I came downstairs, I saw the finch sitting on the edge of the feeder and warming up in the sun. I was thrilled and put off getting my tea so I didn’t disturb it, but I just sat at the kitchen table, watching and hoping it would get warm enough. After about half an hour it did, ate a few seeds and flew into the closest oak to sit in the sun some more. It felt like a miracle! 

It's not a great photo, but I took this on Monday morning as she was reviving herself. You can still see some of the sleet/freezing rain on her wing feathers, but she did eventually manage to fly away. It was a wonderful way to start my day (and probably hers, too).

This one is going to sound a bit weird, but alpha-galactosidase is also a good thing. Before the storm, I made big pots of bean soup and chili. Even though we didn't lose power, John and I enjoyed eating the, but by Day 3, both of us were in gastric distress. I ventured out and got some Beano. The active ingredient is alpha-galactosidase which prevents gas and bloating caused by complex carbohydrates by breaking them down in your stomach. It works wonderfully and we're finishing up the last of the chili tonight. 

I took some venison stew over to my neighbors the other day and we sat and had a cup of tea. I asked what kind of tea it was and my neighbor said it was some kind of ginger-turmeric tea that she had gotten but she didn't really like it much. I said I loved it and she gave me the rest of the box. That certainly sounded like a fair trade to me. I think the tea is great!  

 

Feel free to add any good things you can think of in the comments and join me in the future for a few more good things. This doesn't mean that things are all okay in Minneapolis or many other places in the US but we all need a few good things now and then.