Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful. (TToT) bloghop. Each week, Readers, writers and bloggers visit and contribute to this exercise in the cultivation of the state of gratitude.
Following is a list of Ten people, places and things that have inspired, sparked and/or hit-me-in-the-face-with-a-dead carp creating a moment of gratitude. Not bad, given our starting point/baseline vis-à-vis seeing the world in a healthy, productive way.
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) Hey! New Hostinae has joined this band of mutants! Reelika Pedak. No! It’s true! Voluntarily and everthang. All kidding aside, we’re very grate…. what?!?! cha…ching! See Grat #7
5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
6) Photo at the top of the post: been a quick Autumn… most leaves down. There is surely an old Swamp Yankee muttering about how this Winter will be snowy…way more’n last year.
7) The thing of it is, given how much time we’ve spent in the Grat Space. It’d be a surprise if we hadn’t learned a trick or two in creating lists (of Grats) and such. So, yeah seeing the company of talented writers and bloggers grow here at the bloghop that Lizzi created is so a grat!
8) something, something
9) oh yeah! forgot to chronicle the end of the summer landscaping at Phyllis’ cottage. (Before photos? Never remember those). But here’s your After photation:
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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The cottage looks perfect. Although I don’t know what it looked like before, it looks homey now.
most of the ‘After’ in the photo was landscaping the small island in the lawn in front (to right) of the structure
That little cottage is the cutest thing ever! Seriously, I would love to live in such a thing. And am grateful for being a part of something as old as this bloghop, thank you for the invitation…
Now I can show the fancy banner on my blog and perhaps… Lure people in… hopefully.
very cool for us as well!
The cottage looks so awesome! 👌 Also, congrats to Reelika for becoming the co-hostinae of the TToT. ☺️
Also, creating a list of gratitude sounds so much fun, and I enjoy it a lot ☺️
I totally concur on all points
Nice photos. I like the way how you predict the coming winter. The trees are as old as the landscape and wise.
you got that right… the area (New England) is full of traditions for predicting the coming Winter as it is a significant element in our year
It’s always a joy to read your list. I still have just a touch of cottage envy, not really, but it’s beautiful and it’s one of those things I’d have if I could.
thank you, M
So happy that Reelika has joined us, and is that frost on the roof of the cottage? It’s a darling cottage.
yes
we’ve had at least three (separate) of frost and freezing nighttime temperatures
In one week (I love weather btw — I’ve more weather apps than shopping ones) we’ve had two named fierce storms, followed by another that felt equally strong but wasn’t apparently, therefore lacking its own name. No damage, thankfully, all the old trees held their roots to ground, although we lost a few brackets from the bird netting on the solar panels.
Luckily we can remember the Before state – landscaping project looks great, Clark…
Thank you, Andrew