2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

 Here are some happy things from today: Keziah played with the cats this morning, I took pictures. While scrolling on Facebook Marketplace this morning looking for hiking things I spotted a women's puffy jacket.  It appeared to be the right size, $30, and definitely made for backpacking.  Unfortunately it was located about an hour away.  Last week I saw a similar item and chickened out.  The thought of meeting with a stranger to do something like this bothers me.  Then I looked again and saw that I knew the person selling it.  She is a teacher who used to work in the school where I was a paraeducator.  I messaged her and made the trip.  She had some other items that she was planning to donate that she offered as well.  I now have a few things that I can wear backpacking. Yesterday I wrote about Keziah's phone being broken.  Her replacement was here early this afternoon.  Things have been a little stressful lately, so getting th...

Today we had the first snow (flurries) of the season.  Here are some happy things from today: Work sometimes offers up gifts for good performance.   This morning I had an email with gift options to choose from.  Considering the snow flurries this morning and how that and the cold sent me back under the covers, I chose a snow shovel.  Not just any snow shovel, but a Snow Joe Shovelution.  I watched some YouTube videos about it and decided that it is worth a shot.  Hopefully I won't need it often this winter.   There really were flurries, just not enough to see in the picture.  Thankfully, the weather cleared.  With temperatures close to 50 degrees and a bright sunny sky, Amy and I went for a walk.  We chose the same rail trail as last week.  We went about half of a mile more.  There was a tunnel, more ponds, and we found a parking lot that we can use if we want to explore farther down the rail trail.  For Inktober...