3 things that make you happy:

• balls & other round things
• blocks & other square things
• amoeba & other amorphous things

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• rain
• music

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• sun
• music

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• elvis

3 things that make you happy:

• Bouncing
• Camping
• Tasha

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Talking with Lisa
• Music

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Seeing Tasha turn into an adult
• A week of warm, sunny weather

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Lisa

3 things that make you happy:

• Auf der schwäbsche Eisenbahne *
• much more music lately
• long walky at Carkeek yesterday both north & south bluff trails & much up & down in between

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• therp
• short walky

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• mountain trails
• mountain lakes

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Willy Reichert

* at 0:20 I said "I know what railway that is ... uh ... uh ..." - I finally had to look in a book to come up with the name - Kaiserstuhlbahn - now a museum operation [ala Snoqualmie to North Bend] - nice train action & singing but the dialect is a bit thick   ;)

Mineral

3 things that make you happy:

• giant rocks in rivers
• sand on the beach
• glacial erratics

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• concrete
• dirt

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• channeled scablands
• mountains

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• harlen bretz

Back on the road again

3 things that make you happy:

• back on the road again*
• foxgloves
• osprey

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• therp
• bookstore

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• back on the road again
• 'mostly harmless'

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• mineko

*back on the road again - For several years i have had intermittent head trouble driving alone, so have kept close to home unless someone was with me. I also had problems listening to music as an accompaniment to another activity, including driving. A while back, after seeing a "singing cowboys" book at Goodwill, I started listening to cowboy songs, then expanded to other kinds of music. Last week I started playing music while I was driving, using my Kindle Fire (through the car stereo) with a playlist of German female (mostly) singers. It worked. Yesterday I drove to North Bend & into the mountains a bit. Success. Drove home via Fall City - Redmond road ('old highway' - US-10 before the floating bridge was built). As I headed up Perkins Way, in Lake Forest Park, I realized that one of the ways the music was helping was that almost all the lyrics were in German, which put my head in German mode & discouraged random or triggery thoughts. 

3 things that make you happy:

• Frankie in the living room
• sun through the trees
• camping

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• some sunshine?
• friendly visitors

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Getting my car back!!!!!!!!!!!
• Getting my taxes done

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Barbara

perpetual penultimacy

3 things that make you happy:

• cannibal socks
• perpetual penultimacy
• tawdry toes

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• weather
• water

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• cherries
• apples

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• jo

3 things that make you happy:

• Fridays- whether they come on Thursday or Friday
• Franklin purring while playing
• Fezz being his sweet, mellow self

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Leaving work at 4:30
• Giving a sustainable design tour to Cleveland High School students.

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Playing games with Nae & co.
• Skiing

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Julie

Horns

3 things that make you happy:

• horns
• apples
• cats

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• lunch with eliza
• rain

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• dancing on bridges
• wading in rivers

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• eliza

Golfball

3 things that make you happy:

• Wunderland bei Nacht
• Lili Marleen in Japanese
• Someday Soon

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• beach
• libraries

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• cummulative declutter 
• grandtwerp

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• WWII Allied soldiers of D-Day, 6/6/44

Lolly

3 things that make you happy:

• Lale Andersen*
• John Stewart
• Linda Ronstadt

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• rainy walky
• decluttering

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Lale Andersen* CD(s)
• declutter benefits

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Lale Andersen

*Lale ("LAH-lay", quite similar to a relaxed pronunciation of "Lolly") Anderson's stage name of "Lale" comes from being called "la la" as a child, for her constant singing. She grew up in Bremerhaven, learning many seafarer songs there. Her German often has a very comfortable, familiar touch to my Bremerhaven-trained ears., though her voice was judged "harsh" by Berlin critics in her early performing years there.

3 things that make you happy:

• Cantaloupe
• Cedar Waxwings back again
• Quiet work mornings

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Fun visitors
• Time with Steve

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Time with Eliza
• Floyd swimming?

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Steve

3 things that make you happy:

• Floyd's new trick
• car talk
• nae

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• going to the farm
• planning camping

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Camping with Nae- not that far away
• My car all fixed

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• michelle

3 things that make you happy:

• white crowned sparrows
• beverly bivens
• nap

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• day with jo
• an outing?

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• jo's retirement
• brassed off

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• jo