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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
It has been another busy week. But there is always those small joys
1. Thanksgiving dinner with family. 🇨🇦
2. Last markets are done for the season
3 mail has started to flow again
4. Our weather is still really nice
5. I can still hang laundry outside

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii It's Friday!

1. My beets from my garden
2. Sold another small painting on the Wednesday market
3. Finished another bookmark for the November Flower birthday bookmark
4. Lovely autumn weather
5. My grandson is turning 4 October 5. I'm going to a birthday party on Sunday

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Lots of joys this week
1 Sold my painted rock and a small fall painting
2. Bought a photo of me and Oakley doing Rally Obedience from a photographer who took lovely photos
3. #LitsySnailMailClub pen pals letters came and made my week
4. Bought lovely flowers from the market
5. Found a new recipe, orange carrot apple zuchinni loaf

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Watched a great outdoor performance of King Lear 🎭
2. Saw a black bear from the deck of our airbnb house 🐻
3. Another theater night - Austen's Pride 🎶
4. Fun night with my new bookclub! We celebrated Sept birthdays and played bookish games 📚
5. Coming home in the evenings and hearing the crickets and toads and other sounds of nature 🍃

1. I stopped at the Biden Welcome Center in Delaware on my way to house sitting in NJ.
2. The bookstore visit was successful. I checked on my order and added another book.
3. Croque monsieur from a new food vendor at the farmers market.
4. I saw Snoop (now Allen) for a brief moment. We‘ll have two weeks to get acquainted.
5. The flowers I sent my friend for her birthday were still hanging in there several days later.
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I'm a day late but... #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. The book festival I attended last weekend was so much fun, but my favorite part was getting to meet Joanna Lowell. She signed my books & we chatted a bit about archaeology in her newest. She's so nice!
2. I ordered a past illumicrate box that was on sale & I love the special edition book I got obviously. But it also came with extra items & I got this adorable P&P book protector and I'm in love!!

1. Quite by accident I discovered that my little handheld fan has a light-up feature.
2. I went to a different exercise class this week and was still able to walk the next day.
3. One of the eateries outside Nationals Park has an upstairs dining area with a lovely terrace view.
4. I‘ve wanted a phone charger on my headboard for years and was finally able to make it happen.
5. Vet‘s office sent a card.
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Pic Collage was being goofy, so I reconfigured.
1. I found a box of “stuff” under the bed. Some went to the donation bag, but I held out this lantern shaped container for my niece.
2. The Nationals announced their 2026 schedule, and I have a road trip or two in mind.
3. My sister and I went up the road in the other direction and took in an Orioles game. The only picture I took was of my car in the lot so we could find it after the game! ⬇️

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii It's Friday! I start my holidays tomorrow.
1. Look at my pretty petunias that receeded themselves from last year
2. I won 2nd place with the Seeing Green Photo contest.
3. My African Violet is blooming again
4. Sold this small painting
5. Finally, the construction of a new road behind my house has stopped. It's peaceful behind my house.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii it's been a busy week.
1. My daughter Renee came to spend some time visiting
2. My Luffa plant is doing great in this heat. Baby luffa fruit is growing
3. My Gladiolus are blooming
4. Went and had supper with my other daughter in Ottawa
5. Started practicing Rally Obedience with Oakley for our September trial to get our excellent title.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Friday is here again
1-4 I had a very good market day on Wed. I sold my poppy heart painting, a smaller painting, glass vase, and cross stitch card, plus most of my baking.
5. I noticed Petunias growing, and I never planted them. They just reseed. I have parsley growing there. Lol

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1. Survived yesterday's high of 116ºF (47ºC). Only 7 more degrees to surpass the hottest day on record in Phoenix.
2. The saga of my tooth implant is hopefully over.
3. Survived another week of #CheetoSatan. #ranttime
4. Matt.
5. Kate and Pippa.

All are welcome to share. #herecomesthesun #happysummersolsticeday 💛☀️💛

1. I ordered this phone case from Amazon because I got a new phone this week.
2. I reapplied for the St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers program.
3. I watched this webinar about trees hosted by my library. I enjoyed it.
4. I ordered this devotional from Amazon.
5. I ordered this shirt from Amazon because I need to wear it for a family photo next weekend. It has lace on the sleeves. It‘s really cute.

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1. Sunrise
2. Seeing Mt. Vesuvius every day is surreal
3-5. This kitten ❤️🐱❤️

My joys for this week #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii My week was good until yesterday when my sister received news that her son, whom she hadn't seen in 7 years, was found dead from a drug overdose. He was homeless and an addict for many years.
So my joys this week are. 1. Spent the last weekend with these two. OAKLEY AND EMBER
2. Finished a scroll stitch greeting card.
3. Finished my #SpringCardSwapncards
4. Still receiving #ValentineCardSwap👇

Thanks for the tag @Sleepswithbooks !
1️⃣ My little nugget learning to roar from the best 😆😸
2️⃣ Sirius helping me study for the medical language exam
3️⃣ My ex college roommate visited us today 💕
4️⃣ Grateful for my Kindle which makes reading with one hand so much easier
5️⃣ Cold but very sunny weather all week ☀️
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💛 My littlest sis turned 37 this week.
💛Sent War Paws more stamp donations from my generous penpals.
💛Breadsticks 🤤
💛Snuck in some reading at work.
💛 Didn‘t punch anyone this week (yay for coping skills!! Go me!!)

Tag: @starlight97 @Cupcake12 @MemoirsForMe
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#5JoysFriday Thank you for the tag and doing this list reminder weekly @DebinHawaii

1. Kevin, he missed me
2. Drinks and pizza with @JenReadsAlot - great chat where we again did not take a selfie 🤣
3. Nickolas Butler event
4. When Onyx Storm was on the lucky day shelf at the library! But I already had it held
5. Family, the good, the bad, the ugly. All of it this week has brought glimmers of joy.
Tagging @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @AmyG

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1. The views
2. Safe flights all around. Lots of family traveling.
3. Simple entertainment - bingo, cards, puzzles and laying around in the sun 🏝️
4. My mother-in-law‘s cooking and hosting
5. Lots of walks, rest and reading - rested to face the rest of winter in WI 🥶
@DebinHawaii Thank you!! Tagging @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @Kshakal

It's Friday! #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Went ice fishing on Sunday. (Didn't catch a thing) But enjoyed being outdoors
2. Did some paintings this week. Even the frame I painted for the Heart one
3. Beautiful sunrise yesterday
4. Still receiving letters from November and Christmas cards #LitsyLove
5. Started the #ValentineCardSwap cards

Shhhhh…. It‘s still Friday somewhere 🤭

💛 Always, His Grace.
💛 A negative biopsy
💛 Blankets
💛 Litsy Love caught up
💛 Mini Cucumbers

Thank you for the tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii, it's Friday already?

1. My Christmas cactus are still blooming
2. I painted some watercolor paintings this week
3. Some #LitsyLove letters from November are coming. Christmas cards, too!
4. Winter is here and cold, but the ice is getting thick enough for ice fishing 🎣
5. I'm starting a new diet, and I'm optimistic

I'm a day behind, but here are my #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Cody Fry Christmas show with the Charlotte Symphony 🎻
2. Hanging with my niece while we listened to her mom sing in her choir's Christmas concert 🎶
3. Playing outside with Sally 🐕
4. Lewis hanging Christmas lights on the house 🎄
5. Jolene's first Christmas pageant. She was an angel 😇

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii it's been a long week with our Canada Post on strike with no #LitsyLove letters received / sent.
1. My heirloom Christmas cactus is in full bloom.
2. My little Christmas cactus is even blooming, and I just planted these
3. I painted a new painting
4. Just found out the government decided to take Gst tax off some products for 2 months 🙃
5. Im getting better at the game of flour shuffleboard.I scored some points yesterday

My belated #5JoysFriday ! 😃 @DebinHawaii @dabbe