Sometimes It’s the Small Things

I haven’t written in awhile. I have lots of ideas floating around in my head, but haven’t sat down to actually put them in writing recently. My son started high school, I started a new job, and life gets in the way. I’ve been consumed by the routines and monotony of daily life, which has gotten me thinking about the small things I’ve been appreciating recently. Every day can’t be exciting, unless we make it that way. Every day when I get home from work, I’m noticing more things I love about my house.

We had our first snow a couple of weeks ago. It wasn’t much, though it was predicted to be much more and we were bracing for the start of our first Wyoming winter. It turned out to be barely more than a dusting. However, something really interesting came out of that first frost. We have a rain gutter that certainly belongs on a Poshranch. It’s a series of little copper buckets that lead into a larger bucket at the bottom. I never thought much of it; it’s cute, seems fairly practical, but when the snow and cold came, this rain gutter made a beautiful frozen waterfall in our little courtyard right outside the front door. It fascinated me the way the water had been running in the gutter and then just froze there. It’s hard to capture the full beauty of this delicate design of nature, but I took a couple pictures anyway. I plan on getting a better picture the next time this happens; won’t be long, I’m sure.

Another thing at the Poshranch that I’ve just started appreciating is my bathtub. This is no ordinary bathtub. It’s huge. It has jets. It has a sprayer and a spigot. It has an underwater light that gives the water a soft purple glow. It has a handle (that one in the forefront of the picture) that switches water between the sprayer and the spigot. When I first turned it on I couldn’t figure out how to get the water to come out of the spigot.

This bathtub takes a huge amount of water to fill so I haven’t actually filled it all the way up. And I discovered that if you turn on the jets and haven’t filled up the whole tub, the jets at the edge of the water squirt in all directions and get water everywhere. And recently when I was filling it, my son wanted to take a shower and I was told that the water pressure was near zero for him, so I had to stop filling because he would have been waiting a very long time to shower if he had to wait for me. But even with only a partial fill, I felt very fancy in my giant tub (remember Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman??).

Ok, maybe mine is not quite that big. And I don’t have any idea how they got so many strategically placed bubbles in that tub. Those are really good bubbles! And while I love Prince, I don’t sing Prince songs in my bathtub with my Walkman….However, I did kind of slide around in the tub as I was trying to get comfortable. It’s so big my legs don’t hit the end unless I really crouch down, so there is really nothing to brace my legs on, and the tub is slippery. I’ll have to figure out how to provide a little more stability for my future soaks. I did drop a big lavender bath bomb in my tub and it smelled lovely.

The third thing that I have really been loving recently is the hammock I bought on Amazon. While you might be thinking, how can you use a hammock in windy Wyoming, let me assure you that we have had more nice days than not, and we spend a lot of time out on the patio. I probably won’t be using my hammock in the winter, unless it’s in the living room, which really doesn’t seem quite as magical as sitting in the hammock out on the patio with the gentle breeze blowing and the sounds of birds chirping.

This hammock is big enough that I can wrap the sides around me like a cocoon. I recently did that on a fairly windy day and thought it would have been even better if I put some Velcro on the sides and then I could Velcro it closed and be shielded from the wind. Or that I could even sleep in it, but I’d have to have some sort of bug net because I don’t want the moths flying around me all night. Maybe something like this??

I’m learning to appreciate more the small things in life that make our daily life more relaxing, interesting, and extraordinary that we can find in our own little habitats.

Sometimes it’s the small things.

Until next time…

Thanks for reading!!