The Good Life

Often, I day dream about the life I hope to have, when the kids a grown (ok, they are grown), when the bills are paid off (God willing some day), when we have more time...

I'm working to live the life I love - right here and now.

These are some things that make my life one that I love; right now (my top 20 in no particular order):

• Family (Especially my Frenchman, our grandbaby, my sisters - big sis & my twin sis)

• Caffe Prego in Ogunquit, Maine

• The little toad that lives in our vegetable garden
• LL Bean Flannel PJs
• Google - makes me look smarter than I am
• My Palm Centro with bible reader, pocket tunes, and audible audio books.
• Singing silly songs and laughing out loud
• Our dogs
• Flagler Ave Coffee & News in New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Motorcycle rides with my Frenchman
• Travel to new places and places I love to see again and again
• A house full of friends
• Dark Chocolate, skittles, real licorice, chocolate covered gummy bears, and snickers.
• New - Water view from my back door
• Early mornings alone with God

• Camping at Disney, Mi-ti-jo in New Hampshire, almost anywhere
  
• Lee's fried chicken livers (I know I lost you on that one!)
  
• MAC lipstick
  
• Ikea coffee
  
• Tivo-like DVR - my new discovery and time saver

Solar Lighting Comes Indoors

I wish I could remember the blog that I was reading last week as I was researching solar lights. I came across a post about Solig solar lights at Ikea. The handsome Frenchman and I started discussing solar indoor lighting. We live Florida and have a small home with lots of windows. Why not try it? So we debated the larger ($9.99) and smaller ($6.99) in the crowed isle at Ikea and decided on the smaller for this experiment. So excited that I couln't wait, I checked it out on the way home. Once home we sat it near a window and had family over for dinner on the screened porch. That night after eveyone went to bed, I used a velcro tabs to attach the domed ligh under the kitchen cabinet. I fully expected it never to shine again. To my suprise, it has come on at dusk and stayed on well after dawn for 3 days now! The little fixture is barely visable and casts a soft amber light across the counter that is enough light to get a glass of milk without clicking on a light. My only problem, I have a nearly unconrolable erge to shut it off when I go to bed! Looks like I'm taking another trip to Ikea.