Day 13. “Wild Geese that Fly with the Moon on their Wings…
HOME– … these are a few of my favorite things.” It’s Friday morning. I have the day off. The sunrise wakes me up slowly and sweetly. Soon, coffee in hand, I’m surfing my favorite blogs when I run across The Cutting Edge of Ordinary’s post about Lisa’s 50 favorite things. She had run across a similar post on Elsewhere Living.
My heart is beaming with good memories of my own favorite things. And, of course, that song is running through my head over and over and over.
However, things soon go Friday-the-13th on me. My site goes down on my 13th post. It comes back and then crashes again — a good 13 times. And now it’s Saturday. And that song is still running through my head.
It seems Friday the 13th wasn’t so lucky for a lot of blogs hosted by DreamHost. Apparently thousands of sites were down. This afternoon seems better and it looks like I may be able to finally post yesterday’s post without crashing the Paper Apron.
So, without further ado– fifty of my favorite things:
1. My faded green, moth-eaten, fuzzy cashmere cardigan
2. Anthropologie!
3. Balconies
4. A small glass of peppery, red wine
5. My French blue table outside my window
6. The furry white rabbit coat on my cat’s chest
7. The smell of tomato vines
8. Green moss on bricks
9. This American Life
10. Getting my back scratched
11. Picking lettuce from my garden
12. Remembering dreams after I wake up
13. Daydreaming about Paris
14. A glass vase filled with fluffy, white Annabelle hydrangeas
15. Reading Ruth Riechl’s words
16. Black sweet frozen cherries
17. Taking a nap to the sound of the rain
18. Amy Winehouse’s music
19. A two-tiered box of Crayola crayons
20. Buying bread at the local farmer’s market
21. Foie Gras
22. Meyer Lemons
23. Topiaries in small clay pots
24. My wooden Henkel paring knife
25. Cows in fields
26. Linen napkins
27. Eating by candlelight
28. Blackened farmhouses that have never been painted
29. Hummingbirds
30. Live Oaks
31. Spontaneous dates
32. Chilies and Cherries chocolate bars from Chocolove
33. Whistling
34. Dolphins
35. Waving at low-flying planes
36. Taking a class
37. The sound of my husband, practicing on the piano
38. Old furniture at a yard sale
39. Vietnamese Jelly Pearl Smoothies
40. Kites
41. A fire in the fireplace
42. Brian Andreas’ Story People
43. Book covers
44. Bike rides on a sunny afternoon
45. Picnics that last for hours
46. The sun sparkling on the water
47. A good hair day
48. A new word
49. Old, 100% Cotton T-shirts
50. Sun streaming through the trees
November 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I remember waving at low-flying planes!
November 14th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Love it! I’m so happy that the 50 faves is moving along. I could easily check off about 30 of your faves as my own.
November 14th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Love this. What a fantastic list…so many are my favorites, too.
November 14th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I think I should start making a list of my own too. This is one way of getting to know yourself better. You what like and don’t like. This is probably of the things that would lead me to the best job in the world. You’ve got a fantastic list.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 am
I’m a bad girl, i dont come to your site as much as i’d like, but when I come I stay a while, i’m halfway through the month, and I have to stop to take a breath and share. I have your blue chair, and i am sure the set that goes with it that I painted red in my breakfast nook decorated in lots of greenery. What is the lighting you are using on your indoor shots, that’s how I want my shots to turn out, and I am not getting it, or is it the lens? I only have a 50mm manual and have a astigmatism in one eye, so I really need the automatic. I have a 70-120 i think that i usually use. And half of your 50 favs i said, oh mine too! especially those pearl shakes, yum! And i love all the recipes, especially the lemon bark, so pretty. I also love the happy b’day to your aunt, that’s so sweet. I ended up with all my family’s pictures, I have so many. My home is full of antiques, nothing fancy, from my family and yard sales. I have 2 full sets of china, a huge set of silver, and so many kitchen pieces. I dont share the love for wearing aprons. Its always so hot! Late at night when i’m cooking i’m usually in shorty shorts and a tank, i wish we were further north or closer to the coast, soon.