Thankful, yep

Shelly at This Eclectic Life chose Fridays to speak Only the Good and asked us to share our good, too. Ironically, I wrote the following before I realized it was Friday. Minds work in cool ways occasionally.

Note: Writing this, I started out playful, and turned a tad bit serious. A flaw? Or another level of appreciation of mankind?

Today, I am thankful for my usual, plus:

• a perfect Florida day,again. The kind that sucks Winter tourists into living here year round. Rotten thing for Nature to do, but for today, we all enjoy.
• our landlord, for hiring a contractor that is personable, pays attention to detail, and likes to clean up as he is going!
• obviously, for said contractor and his assistant
• the removal of old jalousies that allowed indoors constant waves of hot and humid Florida air and for the new insulated windows in their place. I can peek through the blinds and see (until the ocean spray coats them) the parking lot and palm trees rather than frosted glass.
• Facebook’s ability to keep me from tossing and turning while you know who is trying to sleep (Please note, I am only referring to those nights I can’t sleep because my mind refuses to. My iphone, as much as I love it, does not share our bed normally.)
• obviously, my iPhone for allowing me access to the internet without lugging my laptop to bed – or even get out of bed.
• Those who are trying to tweak the recipe to make lemonade since life gave them some pretty sour lemons recently. Hopefully, they will write down the recipe to share with any of us who are later tossed similar lemons.

Note, again. As I was posting this, a neighbor stopped to see our still unfinished windows and commented on the fact David did a nice job on them. He, also, noted that time had been taken to rebuild the window frame, something, he mentioned, many other contractors had not bothered doing. (I remembered David telling Leon he was sorry how long it was taking be cause he had to rebuild the frames.) I had assumed any contractor would do that part. Now I know how special David is. There are tradesmen who do it right the first time. I am witnessing it!

Off subject, if we could have a washer/dryer, make the A/C a closed system, AND redo the entire tile floor with the proper padding beneath to keep from giving poor Henry below so many headaches, we’d buy out here. Well, if they would miraculously come up with more parking. Oh, and make the building AND parking lot non-smoking! And, get rid of the fire ants on the path to the beach….

Yeah, guess we will be moving. Now, if we could only find a cheap fixer upper in a good neighborhood — in the county he works — we’d hire David.

Seek the good today, y’all. It’s there, might be just around the corner, or beneath the house – or in the far reaches of your memory – or even at someone else’s home, but it is there.

Stereotyped Florida

Yes, some of you saw that photo before, but it is so very much South Florida!

Note: David Suarez, Sr. of DSS Construction Inc, of West Palm Beach, is the contractor mentioned above!