What a blessing.

 What a blessing to wake up to a quiet morning, with no threat of harm as many have daily where they live.  It's one of those count your blessings mornings, name them one by one.  See what God has done for me.  Because of blessings I must work for others.  So it's bird morning.  

So the morning work so far has been to help the birds along.  New fresh sweet water for the humming bird.  There was a very brief stop by for our  local bird, so perhaps the water needed to be refreshed.  Another handful of black sunflower seed for the basket was added and the finch food currently in the feeders must be not so good so I dumped that and put in fresh seed.  Not to be forgotten is a new cake of suet now in place for the woodpeckers.    Later today I'll clean up the birdbath.  It's a favorite for the robin.  Splash, splash.  

Yesterday was spent drinking lots of fluids and I must admit by evening I was feeling like my old self.  When that comes along gratitude abounds.  I guess one could say fluids are  the gasoline for the body making all things work correctly.  I discovered a tea/lemon power combination at the store and it is worth having on hand.  The fruit combination drink just tastes like liquid jello.  Not so good.  

And yesterday in the late afternoon in the heat of 93 degrees I visited the garden and received a great reward.  The heat of the day fueled the Monarch.  Yes...there she was in all her glory dress.  So now it's time to look for chewed leaves on the swamp milkweed,  Such fun to come.  

Today is church day Doug is waiting to leave and so the word for the day....Make it the best you can.  Blessings are here to be counted.