💛 corn harvest 🌽
💛 open windows 🪟 beautiful weather
💛 new canner 🍅 homemade tomato products
💛 wild sunflowers 🌻
💛 always pets 🐶 🐈
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💛 Homemade fish tacos
💛 Beautiful hammock weather
💛 A tired but content Luthien after spending most of the day exploring
💛 Tomatoes from friends to put up this weekend
💛 Gandalf & LaGata cozy on the couch with me while Luthien was outside
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A day late again, but better late than never.
💛 A night out at a winery with great friends that I don‘t see very often
💛 My pets, featuring Gandalf this week
💛 Book mail! 📚
💛 Bacon sandwiches with cucumber and tomato from my garden on homemade sourdough bread
💛 Completing the second week of school
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💛 Homemade sourdough tortillas
💛 After school walks with Luthien
💛 Completing the first week of school for this year and my first week teaching only math
💛 Having students that I haven‘t had in class for a couple years happy to be in my class again
💛 Friday night pizza
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A day late again is better than not considering joys, right?
💛 I visited a plant and book store owned by a former student. 🪴 📚
💛 @jewright and I went to a local bookstore for book browsing and their once a month iced latte flights.
💛 I spent a lot of time getting my classroom ready for a new school year.
💛 Luthien enjoyed hours of running in the corn field.
💛 I made a delicious salted caramel peach crisp.
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💛 Finally finishing a few long, slow reads so I can move onto some new reads I‘m more excited about
💛 All three pets back together again and chilling inside
💛 Starting a new round out our #CoverToCover postal book club
💛 Working in my classroom and getting things ready for a new school year
💛 A day at the state fair with friends and delicious ice cream
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💛 Movie night to see Deadpool & Wolverine with my nephew
💛 A couple more days working with my dad on the family farm before I get in back to school mode
💛 My pets contentedly traveling together
💛 Lots of cherry tomatoes from my garden
💛 A fun afternoon seeing friends and enjoying good food (pulled pork nachos in photo) at a local festival
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💛 My nephew and I were home for an evening by ourselves, so he made us supper!
💛 I enjoyed a peaceful morning in the hammock.
💛 It‘s been VBS week at church, and I enjoyed being the voice of the puppet and working with all the kids!
💛 I watched some of the participants in the MR340 race on their way down the Missouri River.
💛 My niece and I made two different kinds of brownies for a cousin‘s bridal shower tomorrow.
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💛 A storm blew down a large branch in my yard, but thankfully it caused minimal damage.
💛 My pets that I was happy to see again after a few days away.
💛 A visit with another friend from college while she was nearby for a conference.
💛 A lot of “steps” (actual and due to plenty of arm work) because, as Dad likes to remind me, farm work is good exercise.
💛 These fun and delicious Cookie Monster cookies that my niece made.
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It‘s been a great week full of many joys!
💛 A day at Worlds of Fun riding roller coasters with my niece
💛 Wonderful family who take care of my pets while I‘m away from home
💛 Time visiting friends from college who I haven‘t seen in a few years
💛 Delicious food on my travels
💛 Exploring beautiful places in Missouri
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