2026 Happy Blog Challenge

 January 11th Intention for the day:  compliment someone. Here are some happy things from today: Yesterday seems to have taken a lot out of me.  Still, I got much of what I wanted to get accomplished, between breaks. One of those things was assembling the shelves I got to go on my closet door.  More organization can happen, but not today. The next item on my list was to replace the toilet seat in the bathroom near my room.  After that was done, I took a shower and finished the laundry I had started earlier. My last task for today was more cleaning in the kitchen.  The cabinets are now basically done.  The next step is to finish rearranging what we've been using and to start putting only the things we want into the cabinets.  This process seems to be taking forever.  There are many extenuating circumstances that don't fall under the category of “happy” so they don't need to be here.  😊 This is Mochi the cat.  Just before taking this...

 January 9th Intention for the day: to be joyfully productive. Here are some happy things from today: Before 9:30 AM I had already brought Gideon to school, went to the old house, saw a red fox on the way, started some laundry for sewing, and found some things to bring back to the new house. The trees were beautiful this morning with a layer of ice coating them. At just about 10 AM I was back at the new house and planning time to do things with Bel.  We started by going back to the old house and they took care of the chickens, I cycled laundry and did some shoveling. After those chores were done we did some driving around talking and played a game called Ingress.   At home Bel and I started tackling the kitchen again.  The former owners left a bunch of stuff behind and soon we will know what we do and don't want.  I look forward to that.  Let me be more specific, I look forward to getting rid of a bunch of things we shouldn't need. Eventually I went to...