6.14.2017

Another 100 Favorite Things

1. Buying the half-dead plants from the discount shelf at Lowe's and babying them back to health.

2. Knight Rider marathons.

3. Finding strawberries on sale.

4. Cutting off the bottoms of grocery store veggies to put in cups of water on windowsills and regrow.

5. Board games.

6. Going through recipe boxes and copying favorite recipes for your own.

7. Spatchcocked turkey.

8. Enormous cups of coffee.

9. Geraniums.

10. Rain on a tin roof.

11. The busy sound of someone typing.

12. Laundry warm from the dryer.

13. Kids drawing on foggy windows.

14. Happy wrinkles, evidence of many smiles.

15. A good thunderstorm.

16. Mother's Day hydrangeas.

17. Billy Joel music.

18. Mug cakes.

19. Refrigerators right after a good deep clean.

20. The sound of strong wind in the trees.

21. Making bruschetta.

22. Hemming curtains.

23. Having a full gas tank in your car.

24. Planting apple trees in the back yard.

25. Sturdy shelves.

26. Mismatch silverware.

27. Really old windows that only stay open if you prop them with something.

28. Sunday afternoon cheesecake.

29. Nature documentaries.

30. Sun porches.

31. Lentil soup.

32. Game plans.

33. Reading with a highlighter.

34. Ordering books online.

35. Philippians.

36. Birch bark.

37. Chickadees.

38. Coleman camp stoves.

39. Taking the long way home.

40. Ice cream and midol.

41. The theme song to MacGyver.

42. Driving past a Christmas tree farm in summer.

43. Counting all the cars on a train.

44. Babies with really thick eyelashes.

45. Putting celery in water so it perks up before you serve it.

46. Kids on trampolines.

47. Ajax dish soap.

48. Keith Urban on the radio.

49. Sandpipers.

50. Spring dandelion greens with bacon.

51. Overtipping.

52. Saying "Hi" to cows while driving past.

53. Electric blankets.

54. Snoopy.

55. Apricots.

56. Deep windowsills.

57. Asking for the recipe.

58. Pizza with extra sauce.

59. Window fans.

60. Egg cartons.

61. Watching someone pursue something they're passionate about.

62. Porch lights.

63. Ice cream sandwiches.

64. Breaker boxes with labels on all the switches.

65. Bored mall kiosk salesman.

66. The sky before it rains.

67. Murphy's Oil Soap.

68. Eating peanut butter on a spoon for breakfast in a rush.

69. Turning on the lights after replacing burnt out bulbs.

70. Flowered sheets.

71. French press coffee.

72. Refrigerator pickles.

73. Landscape paintings.

74. Camping out in the yard.

75. Free books.

76. Trix cereal.

77. Swirl glass sundae dishes.

78. Barnswallows.

79. Getting off work early.

80. Cookbook shelves.

81. Olive Garden's house salad.

82. Morning fog burning off in the sun.

83. Opening stuck windows.

84. When old people call daffodils "Jonquils."

85. Potato Mashers.

86. Really hot water.

87. Traffic lights.

88. Ticket windows.

89. Those miniature corn cobs in Chinese restaurant food.

90. Free road maps.

91. Spring Peepers.

92. Newly paved parking lots.

93. Fluffy pillows.

94. Dimples.

95. Buckwheat cakes.

96. EMTs.

97. Paddington.

98. Bathrooms with heaters in them.

99. Hydroponics.

100. Textbooks.

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