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Eight Days of Happy: Day 1
I was tagged! I don't necessarily do tag-memes unless I want to, and I don't tag people, but I was thinking this one looked fun anyway; I enjoy looking on my f'list and seeing "days of happy" posts.
EIGHT DAYS OF HAPPY!
1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for eight days.
3. Tag eight of your friends to do the same.
1. Well, today's big happy is of course this: Vermont becomes 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. This also kinda clinches it: if we ever move somewhere other than Alaska, Vermont is at the top of the list. On a driving trip with my sister two years ago, I fell in love with their gorgeous mountains and waterfalls and little mill towns. And I really can't tell you how well a state with gay marriage and some of the most permissive gun laws in the country fits the political profile of this household. *g*
(I think the bit that really got me in the article was the maple syrup farmer who came down to the capital for the passing of the bill. Because "rural" does not have to be synonymous with "close-minded", "bigoted" or "redneck".)
2. The sun is out, and it's supposed to get above freezing every day this week! I'm thoroughly ready to get rid of some of this snow.
3. Yesterday I did a cleaning job on the upstairs that really needed to be done, and it makes me happy to look around and see my office space all tidy -- not immaculate (I don't think I'm capable of that), but not taunting me with a massive cleaning job that needed doing, either.
4. I'm happy for the people on my f'list who are heading into Passover and Easter, because it makes them happy. Those aren't my holidays, but going on my f'list and seeing people making preparations to celebrate their holidays with family and friends definitely makes me happy.
EIGHT DAYS OF HAPPY!
1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for eight days.
1. Well, today's big happy is of course this: Vermont becomes 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. This also kinda clinches it: if we ever move somewhere other than Alaska, Vermont is at the top of the list. On a driving trip with my sister two years ago, I fell in love with their gorgeous mountains and waterfalls and little mill towns. And I really can't tell you how well a state with gay marriage and some of the most permissive gun laws in the country fits the political profile of this household. *g*
(I think the bit that really got me in the article was the maple syrup farmer who came down to the capital for the passing of the bill. Because "rural" does not have to be synonymous with "close-minded", "bigoted" or "redneck".)
2. The sun is out, and it's supposed to get above freezing every day this week! I'm thoroughly ready to get rid of some of this snow.
3. Yesterday I did a cleaning job on the upstairs that really needed to be done, and it makes me happy to look around and see my office space all tidy -- not immaculate (I don't think I'm capable of that), but not taunting me with a massive cleaning job that needed doing, either.
4. I'm happy for the people on my f'list who are heading into Passover and Easter, because it makes them happy. Those aren't my holidays, but going on my f'list and seeing people making preparations to celebrate their holidays with family and friends definitely makes me happy.
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My happy is I got home tonight before 8! That's my current FTW! And NCIS was actually twisty for once! I love me some twisty tale-making!
Hope all is well up there as they days get longer (I'm loving the sun being out 'til 7:30 thing here...getting later! Whoot!)
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Huh. I never thought about it, but of course maple syrup would have to be farmed, wouldn't it? I wonder what that job is like. *goes to bug wikipedia*
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This stuff is fascinating. *g*
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I knew about the spring thing -- when I was a little kid we had a kids' book about a little girl who went to live with her aunt and uncle in the woods in Vermont or someplace, and I remember a part of the book where they went out in the spring and hung buckets on trees to collect sap, and then boiled it down to syrup in a big kettle. And then I went and asked my mom if I could drill holes in the trees in our yard and she said no ...
The whole thing sounds very, very labor-intensive. No wonder actual maple syrup is so expensive!
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But yeah, the most progress in the sap-gathering and -boiling industry seems to have been made when it became too expensive to employ laborers. Which is somewhat sad, because I loved the idea of thousands of people moving from tree to tree (though I really do feel for the trees) much like I imagine cotton-picking would have gone.
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