Thankful

When I walked out into the living room this morning the view of the mountains across the valley took my breath away.  A small cloud, pinkish-blue-grey, moved fast, west to east, across the peak.  I can see how you could watch the mountains change all day long. 

I ate warm cornbread with butter and cherry jam for breakfast this morning. 

I got a cut on my foot, a little bit deeper and longer than I could ignore, and I had a doctor and a nurse clucking over me and ministering to me. 

The midday sun is spreading across the white carpet, and I'm wearing wooly purple socks, and my feet are warming, and outside there's an army of grey trees shivering and swaying in the breeze.  The drop down to the valley is steep and across the way the mountain is a hazy violet. 

On our run this morning we saw big mossy boulders, and a stream that split and pooled and dove down rocky narrows.  Up high here I got out of breath easily.  There was frost on the rhododendrons and an icy puddle or two, but as we ran I warmed up enough to take my thermal top off and run in just my tank top.  It felt brisk and terrific.   

I talked to my parents on the phone and heard all about Lila's morning -- an early walk, tangling with her cousin Cody (a Great Pyrenees mix of some kind), chewing up some stuffed toys and scattering their stuffing around the living room floor, stretching out in front of the fire, and finally retreating to her crate to eat a fat marrow bone while my parents head down to Uncle Ben's for the feast.  I heard about what they're bringing to Thanksgiving and told them about the landscape here.

There's a fire in the next room, and three dogs, and two energetic children, and excellent smells are beginning to emanate from the kitchen.... 

Comments

[Christy]

We are so lucky to have such a fun and energetic person to NC to see what craziness goes on in our lives each year on Thanksgiving... Things to be thankful for today... a NEW friend who seems to make my brother smile in a way that I have never seen him smile. Thank you!

[Jill]

Happy Thanksgiving!