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New year resolutions

 

Treasures In The Garden

Here we are in the brand new year of 2017. 

Most of us will be thinking of New Year resolutions. Then, by the end of January we will have broken them and tried again a couple more times. It's so frustrating because our good intentions have gotten lost in the craziness of just living our normal day.

So I thought that maybe as we are experiencing our normal day we could count the physical luxuries we take for granted, that other people would love to experience, but do not have these luxuries on hand.

Think about how many small luxuries we may have experienced today....... Count them up!

Did you wake this morning in a comfortable bed?

Did you have clean water to drink?

Was there hot water to shower in?

Did your bus or train run on time?

Did your car start? Did it run well?

                                       Did you eat a nourishing, healthy lunch?

Was there a  hot drink to have when you arrived home?

 Was there someone or a pet to welcome you home?

These are all things we so often take for granted.

Take a moment to appreciate each one of these things to the fullest.

Think about how fortunate we are in so many different ways. Let these little luxuries create a sense of  richness and well-being in your life.

And feel glad and grateful and fantastic.

Take notice and have gratitude for the smallest pleasures to make a huge contribution to our everyday happiness.

So many people don't have these fortunate that most of us view as mundane things that are part of daily living. 

And we can have this wonderful happiness everyday.

My word for today is "APPRECIATE!"

I choose to live everyday with my heart filled with joy.

My word for today is "APPRECIATE!"

I choose to live everyday with my heart filled with joy.

Ambivalent Abundance

Peaceful pondering

Some Super Salvaging and Other Stuff

Today I watched a show on telly called "The American Pickers" I loved all the old things the picker was offered. I was particularly intrigued with history of the objects, their age, and the monetary value they have on today's market.

I also enjoy watching"The Antique Road Show" in the UK.I find the places they hold the shows as intriguing as some of the objects being valued. English history is so fascinating.

Here in Oz I keenly frequent op shops, garage sales and recycling dumps to find useful and fascinating things to decorate my garden,or to use as plant holders, though there isn't the history to the stuff I buy here as there is in the USA and the UK.

 Today we went op shopping at a Salvos shop. We found a couple of interesting things for planters. But the best part of our excursion was the interchange of conversation with the shop volunteers. They were such a jolly lot, laughing and joking and making us feel really welcome. No wonder they do such a roaring trade with such friendliness and such cheap prices and good quality items.

Our next port of call was to a plant nursery. Part of the nursery was a coffee shop where we supped on carrot cake and coffee. The coffee shop was called "Double Portion". The part that made it twice as nice to be there,apart from the welcome and the garden atmosphere, was that the whole complex was serviced by the Baptist Church. We also met the Salvo Pastor and his wife who are setting up an op shop in the same complex.The management has incorporated a community garden as part of the facility, and is looking at opening an after school service for children of working parents, and a youth centre  where young people can come to take part in activities on the weekend- a truly community project. Hope it is very successful.

What a truly rewarding and entertaining morning.

 We still have the afternoon to fill in yet.

 I'm wondering what that is going to bring forth.

 Hope that will be as exciting as this morning and I find some more stuff for my garden..... still have to get it back home on the train though.