Gratitude Nov. 29

1. Photos from and of Barbara and Sacha
2. Chinese take out especially broccoli
3. Spinach dip and hummus
4. Whole wheat pita chips and organic blue tortilla chips
5. All good food (am repeating myself probably here)

6. Melatonin and seratonin and what they do (as described in YOU book)
7. Well drilling should be moved to a tree-free spot
8. A good night's sleep
9. Yoga and meditation
10. Tomatoes and tomato products, especially salsa
11. Visit to Avanti on Nov. 29

The latest from Sacha, for which I am grateful, is that she went to a conference for South African tourism. It was at a resort in South Africa and her boss was one of the speakers. She says sh is working non-stop and up till 2am working on one of her reports. "It feels like I'm in school with all this work. I keep saying that once I submit this, I will be less stressed, but after that there are mounds of other projects I have to finish." She promised herself not take work with her to Cape Town this weekend.

safari pics

http://picasaweb.google.com/sacha.sachaevans/Safari

Iraq war cost

$20,000 for every family of four per year
3.5 trillion dollars a year
12 billion dollars a month out of us treasury
$390,000 for one soldier per year, per taxpayer
from Brookings Institute

Important dates

Monday Nov 26, 8:00 HH P&Z meeting at City Hall (Bass NOT there. No need to attend.)

Tuesday Nov 27. 7:30 to 8:00 HH Council of the whole meeting at City Hall (Council and Mayor WILL discuss gas wells. Public can listen but can't speak.

Tuesday Nov 27. 8:00 to 9:30 (right after Council of the whole) HH regular City Council meeting at City Hall - - public can speak at point when opened for public comment. PLEASE VOICE YOUR OPINION TO MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

Friday Nov 30, Not a meeting date but I just want to note this is last day according to Bass that they have lease on tree-clearing large equipment.

Tuesday December 4, 6:30 to 9:00 at Mayfield Village Hall - - A special holiday party and fundraiser for Friends of Euclid Creek. I want to personally ask your support of this event. The Friends of Euclid Creek have been a tremendous help to us behind the scenes on the gas well issues. And they are the organization that made it happen that the Mayfield BOE property abutting the baja path to the north has been bought with CleanOhio grant money and established as a long-term nature conservancy. I'll send more information in a next email.

Monday Dec 10, 8:00 HH P&Z meeting at City Hall (we have to keep following the gas well issues...)

Tuesday Dec 11. 7:30 to 8:00 HH Council of the whole meeting at City Hall

Tuesday Dec 11. 8:00 to 9:30 (right after Council of the whole) HH regular City Council meeting at City Hall.

Gratitude Nov. 26

1 Email and other correspondence included Christmas cards
2 Cards and wrapping paper including cat paper
3 Walgreens and their digital print service
4 Chocolate and the decaf mocha at work
5 Tea and decaf coffee

6 Cabbage soup both vegetarian and not
7 Movies (Borat, Helvetica, Electric Car come to mind)
8 TV (The Daily Show, Colbert, The Office, SNL)
9 Carpet in basement from Home Depot
10 Hope for a better world including 01.20.2009 birthday

11 Charities (Humane Society, Hunger Site, Komen, others)
12 Inspiration from people who keep trying to do good
13 Triumph over evil like Hitler and polio
14 Good health care
15 Nature

Gratitude journal

The new YOU book recommends keeping a gratitude journal. So, here goes at least some of it. I am grateful for these things.

Nov 22
1. God helping me get through everything
2. All the people who help me get through a day
3. This blog
4. Today and the fact that I am still alive
5. Thanksgiving and all food in general


Nov. 23
6. Good books like the Oz book, The Kite Runner, and the bios I recently read
7. The Mayfield public library
8. Trees, including, especially, evergreen trees at this time of year
9. Cats and all other living things both animal and vegetable
10. Our Prius, Honda CRV, Accord, and Cirrus

Nov 24
11. My nice Canon digital camera
12. The Plain Dealer (the Marlboro Man story and how I did not go to Iraq)
13. My house and the heat and other stuff in it
14. The History Channel and report about the Kennedys
15. The Cleveland Orchestra and their playing of Russian composers

Nov. 25
1. Christmas trees including Barbie's two trees
2. Sacha's telephone and Skype calls, plus emails
3. Rick's chili both vegetarian and turkey
4. Russian icons as in Russian Orthodox
5. Wikipedia and dictionaries, including the Scrabble dictionary

Pie and Safari

More unrelated items, well, loosely related since the all concern Sacha.
Sacha made a pumpkin pie for her coworkers in Pretoria. This I will consider Sacha's celebration, in part, of Thanksgiving, sharing with others. She says -

Pie is fluffy and delicious. Combined eggs, sugar, flower, salt,
vanilla, pumpkin puree, evaporated milk and [a secret ingredient!]. Put it in a pie crust and viola! I will send pictures tonight. I am making a second tonight as well!