…when it is 19 degrees at 6:30 in the morning and we are back to walking the streets of Small Town USA.

But I am so very grateful to be walking again with my walking partner and best friend.

I am also very grateful today for the most ridiculous hilarity that happened in our front yard at noon that made my jaw ache from the laughter that would not stop as I watched from the 2nd floor. My husband received a water witching lesson…I have pictures and a video, but I will not share without his permission because oh my.

This is NOT Sam. But Sam struck gold, just like this guy!

I am grateful for a Dad and a good friend who cared enough to spend a very late night with Natia at the ER on Friday night.

I am grateful for new friends and a Sunday evening trek to a small town bowling alley just to have dinner (also known as supper in these parts) at the snack bar.

SEE WHAT I MEAN?!

And I am grateful for a very small slip of paper that appeared on the top shelf of our armoire yesterday, a “fortune” without its cookie:

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”  Jeremiah 31:3