I ran across this piece below on waking up smiling this morning and thought I'd share.
It includes some worthwhile suggestions for starting each day off right.
The article especially really resonated because I read it on the morning after a fulfilling and fun day.
Hope others find it helpful.
My Monday included mostly satisfying results with a white bucket.
Three trips to the garden netted almost a quart of raspberries, two freezer bags of green beans and two quarts of blueberries.
Twas the best picking and grinning day so far for this summer.
The only UNsatisfying result with the white buckets, purchased a couple of weeks ago from Naples store involved huckleberries and another lack thereof.
This time we traveled a loop from Trestle Creek to Clark Fork and back home.
Except for a few bushes with a few small berries on the roadside as we walked into Char Falls, nary a berry was to be seen on huckleberry bushes easily visible from the main roads as we passed through both drainages.
What we did see very clearly was the damage done by the wildland fire in Trestle Creek last summer. Hundreds of acres in some of the most pristine and beautiful areas of the Trestle Creek drainage were burned.
It will most likely be years before the stunning beauty of the pass up on top will return.
Seeing this devastation in one of our most favorite spots was definitely a sad part of the day.
Char Falls still had its charm and beauty, and the bees were having a heydey flitting from bloom to bloom and doing their work on wildflowers around the spot.
As we drove down the Lightning Creek drainage, I told Bill that lots of memories were packed in those scenes.
Some dated back to my early adolescent years when our family would get together with our friends Bill, Betty Cross and their son Bill for summer picnics alongside Lightning Creek.
One year Bill had brought along some fresh chicken---half a fried chicken apiece.
In later years, trips twice weekly up and down that road with my friend Chris to record traffic counter information for the U.S. Forest Service engineers helped the two of us become well acquainted with the main road and its side roads.
Bill and I also recalled an evening when he and my brother Jim fished the creek. That evening my mother and I joined them with Kentucky fried chicken and the trimmings.
On another fishing trip, my sister Barbara and I brought the picnic goodies.
Nowadays, Bill and I make the trip at least once a year, and he puts in his share of time fishing.
As we were coming down Lightning Creek and edging closer to Clark Fork, Bill suggested that we go once again to the Pantry for sandwiches. We had just enjoyed those sandwiches Saturday night on our family kayak outing.
I thought that was an excellent idea, so dinner was pretty tasty last night.
While at The Pantry, I noticed a lemonade stand next door. The young ladies running the stand had just gotten started selling their refreshing treats of either strawberry or regular lemonade----75 cents a glass.
Their jar, already stuffed with 40 bucks, held even more after I purchased a couple of glasses.
The enterprise kept thriving as friend and former student Dr. Michelle Ward yelled hi and came over to our pickup to visit.
Michelle, who works in emergency after-hours veterinary medicine at a facility in Liberty Lake, is laying the groundwork to establish a similar facility right here in our area.
What a great need that would fulfill!
Two of her veterinary friends from California, who may join her, were with her. The trio had just finished their own kayaking adventure.
We enjoyed our visit and headed home to bite into those sandwiches.
Lots of good memories from yesterday, and maybe even more today as it cools down a bit.
Time to sign off now because a farrier will be here in a few minutes to work on horses' hooves.
Happy Tuesday.
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