Everything is tickety-boo

Lots of lovely things this week have made me feel that everything is tickety-boo:

Happy Birthday Chui!

• A birthday for Chui and two friends this week! 
• singing at the beautiful, moving, and touching British Legion service for Remembrance Day and Veterans day at Grace Cathedral.  Lots of bagpipes and then red poppy petals floating down from the ceiling of the cathedral as we sing Abide with me.  
• buying Xmas presents ready to take back to England with me
• meeting a friend for lunch
• book club - discussing the sweet book "Mrs Queen takes the train"
• a fun Food as Medicine class - the photo below is from our Tuesday group, just before we tucked into the fruit of our labors: Green Tea Buddha Bowl, pumpkin gnocchi with sage and cranberries, 'cream' of mushroom soup, followed by Rosehip truffles.
• getting excited about our trip back to England
• planting some new veggies in our garden ready
• eating our first home grown passion fruit
• continued sunny days
• A sweet card from my sister
• hearing about Batkid in SF - so heartwarming

I do hope you are feeling tickety-boo too.

Everything is tickety-boo

Here is this week's list of things that make me realize that everything is tickety-boo.  Feeling tickety-boo doesn't mean everything is perfect, but is more that you focus on the good things in life and they keep you going and then you see more good things.

Photos by Dean Johnson

• my nephews birthday yesterday - and have a lovely chat with him on Facetime
• eating quince puree on my oatmeal for breakfast, from the quinces on our trees
• having friends around for dinner
• the vase of red roses picked from our garden.  So pretty. They look like they should be a painting
• the smell of cloves and ginger cooking and filling the house
• watching two acorn woodpeckers in the olive trees
• starting a new role at Ceres and enjoying it
• hearing my friend is doing well
• hearing good news about another friend's diagnosis
• finally figuring something out after my voice lesson, and enjoying practicing
• admiring the work in the photo attached.  They are glass beads, made by Elizabeth Johnson. Doesn't that fruit look incredible.  I've never seen her work before but came across it on Daily Art Muse.  I want to eat those gooseberries!  
• finishing and thoroughly enjoying the first season of the Danish program Borgen.  We both loved it.  And then I found out there were two more seasons :-D
• planning Christmas pressies!

I hope you are feeling tickety-boo too!