what are you grateful for today?

aka the scourge!  

I am grateful that I got the brambles sorted this morning without major wounds

These have invaded from some unkept land at the bottom of the garden and are wild ones which keep coming back. It's irritating when I think back to when I picked the main crop of gooseberries the other day. They have spines too which can come sharp but I've found with them that I can brush up the branches with an arm and pick the gooseberries without too much bother. Not so brambles which seem designed to hook from any angle

The lightning is pretty intense. I'm grateful I am home and not on the road.

I'm grateful for another day with no real plans and I can do whatever I want.

Streetwise and luck yes, and  being aware of your surroundings.. I see these girls on tv wearing scanty clothes and being so drunk they cant stand up and I wonder how they ever get home in one piece I could never allow myself to be so vunerable.

I was followed once in a shop I realised it when the man stood too close on the escalator, I got off and went into the lingerie dept for about 10 mins but the moment I got back on the escalator he was there behind me.
I needed to get my car from the underground car park but no way was I going to let him follow me there so I went into a revolving door and instead of stepping out inside the building that had the entrace to the car park  I went all the way round and as soon as I had enough room to get out I shoved against the doors causing it to jam ( safety feature) and I ran round the other side of the building and into another entrance.  As I exited the car park I spotted him standing on the curb looking around..

Here in the country  I feel safe walking in the woods or the common  and I noticed when I was in Germany that  the only people out at 6am in the woods were women walking dogs !

Statistically, I read, that you are more likely to be assaulted in urban areas. But you are more likely to be murdered in the countryside. 

I miss my nightlife. All my friends got old before I did. I wouldn't mind, but they were all younger than me. 
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That I got out of bed early: it meant I got the cleaning done sooner rather than later.

I'm grateful for a place to stay out of the heat!

I'm grateful for having my own apartment.

I'm grateful for indoor plumbing. Usually, we think nothing of it, but reading my great-aunt's stories from the 1920's reminded me that I should be grateful for water from an indoor tap, plus an indoor toilet!

That I had a cold shower this afternoon.