I've been counting my blessings lately and thought I'd share a few of the things on my list. These are not huge things, nothing profound, just little things I've been thanking God for -- you may think some of them are silly but am thankful for every one of them.

• Tomatoes from the garden that are piling up all over the kitchen counter.


• Fresh figs, summer squash, and peaches given to us by family.


• Blueberries, found on sale, to eat with my cottage cheese.


• A second freezer with frozen tomatoes, figs, grapes, and blueberries in it for when the fresh ones are all gone.


• Harvesting onions, peppers, or greenbeans right out of the garden when I need them for something I'm cooking.


• New recipes, that my family loves, from friends I haven't even met.


• A bag of free pecans that we picked up various places earlier in the year.


• Learning where the good pecan trees are so we can pick up even more next year.


• Watermelons on the vine and lots of cantaloupe blooms (and the hope of cantaloupes soon).


• Wild bees to pollinate our garden and ladybugs to eat the aphids.


• Purple Martins who kept most of the moths out of the garden and flies out of the house (the flies have always been really bad here, 'til this year).


• Being able to see such beauty every day when I walk outside.


• Wildflowers and weeds in my yard, instead of a boring stretch of plain ol' grass.


• Learning how to tell which weeds are toxic, which are useful, and which are just very pretty if you give the a place of their own to grow.


• The fig tree that we thought had died last year, came back this year and is doing well.
  
• Finding little things on sale that I can use to bless others.


• All the people who have blessed me so many times in so many ways.