{"id":12078,"date":"2013-01-18T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2013-01-18T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T02:16:21","slug":"my-happy-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/01\/my-happy-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My happy list"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Walking in the woods with Bear (my dog).
\n2. A morning snuggle with Bob (my cat).
\n3. Coffee in a dark kitchen (house or motorhome) with just a few undercounter lights glowing.
\n4. Sitting on the front porch or my chair in the sideyard with a cuppa and Bear and Bob near.
\n5. Sitting in front of the woodstove with a small fire going
\n6. Most of the time \u2013 my work!…from my home office :)
\n7. Puttering in the kitchen making anything!
\n8. Watching the snow fall.
\n9. Snowshoeing in the woods with my dog (is this a repeat of #1?)
\n10. Anything… anything quiet, at my home, with Bob and Bear<\/p>\n

A blog I sometimes read…a few or several weeks ago…talked about the author’s “happy list” and her desire to do 1 or 2 of the things on her list daily.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.<\/p>\n

I whipped off my list.<\/p>\n

AND…I realized that I do most of them every single day!<\/p>\n

Caveat(s). I am single to her married with children. I am 57 to her thirty-something. Still. I am so very grateful that I made the choices I made.<\/p>\n

I am a happy person, fortunate through opportunity and choice to be living exactly where I choose and doing things I love 95+% of the time.<\/p>\n

It is Friday evening.<\/p>\n

I worked until 2:00 today.<\/p>\n

Then, Bear and I jumped in the Jeep and headed to town to do some supply gathering.<\/p>\n

We stopped on the way at the wild fowl regeneration\/public hunting conumdrum (EVERY time I look at the signs, I just wonder??? It is the U.S. Department of the Interior…wild fowl regeneration and public hunting ???) Anyway, it is a beautiful spot and I am guessing that wild fowl hunting is NOT in season as I haven’t seen trucks and bird dogs there for several weeks. <\/p>\n

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Bear and I walked toward the lake, through a grove of century old Ponderosa Pines…hoar frost from the freezing fog making everything a work of art.<\/p>\n

Addendum to the happy list: walking with Bear on a path to a lake in freezing fog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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