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I have not had a grateful post in some time, so I thought today would be a good time for one. These are five of the things I am grateful for right now. I would love to see your five things, please post them in the comments I am grateful for my health, because if you have your health you really do have everything I am grateful for my family, they are the reason I do what I do everyday I am grateful for all of the things Brian does for us, his full time job to mowing the lawn I am grateful for our little piece of heaven (our property) it's a lot of work but it's a dream come true I am grateful to be able to do what I love and make a living

It was a fantastic day! Beautiful weather and lots of people walking the market. I think Summer is finally here. Earrings where the big seller this weekend, I need to make more for the 4th. Have a great day, hope it nice by you.

I am sitting here with my 4th cup of decafe, reading my favorite blogs and forums thinking about my post this morning. I have a lot of ideas that are not ready for prime time yet. I saw this idea on one of the blogs and loved it. 100 things about me, I will start out with 10. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Oak Park to be exact. My sophomore year of high school I went to Olney Friends Boarding School I did accounting for 15 years,, it was very painful :) I love to create, and must do it everyday. I have lived with Brian for 16 years, we don't plan on getting married I was married twice before I have two grown children, Erin 30 and Tyler 26 I am raising my granddaughter Willow 5 I am 48 years young We live in NW Illinois on a 9 acre farmette I just edited the title for spelling,, I am also a really bad speller :P

It is the time of Midsummer, the point between May Day and Lammas, when many modern Pagans celebrate the sun god in all his glory. Yet, as he shines brightly, we know that his light will begin to dim. The sunlight begins to give way to darkness until the winter solstice when he will rise again. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice is when the sun reaches it farthest point north of the celestial equator. This day has the greatest amount of time between sunrise and sunset making it the longest day and shortest night of the year. It falls around June 21st every year. In the southern hemisphere, the winter and summer solstices are reversed. Here is another link with a ton of information