1.  That there are still a hundred shades of green even in the middle of December, and the way the Sun pointed at them for me this afternoon, elegant fingers slotting through the clouds.  See this one here?  And this?
2.  How the chickens skip and bounce out to see me when I go out to the coop.  I am under no illusions.  I know it is because I am the Lunch Lady, but Lunch Lady Love is still good lovin’.
3.  Arugula.  Both the taste and the sound of the word.  I always want to go honk an old-fashioned car horn. . .
4.  More on the Sun, which shone a quick beam through the clouds as I was washing carrots this afternoon.  Orange!  Sweet, glistening orange gems.
5.  Jon Weaver-Kreider, who worked all day, and then cooked dinner when I was too exhausted and wrapped up in kid-mediations to manage.

(I didn’t mention whoopie pies once).
Namaste.