Ten Things of Thankful 1010 i.e. a video is surely a multiple of words

 Ten Things of Thankful for the 89th of October, 2924. AD

Hey, it's been a while for us doing a video post. So, let's get to the list. 

First things first, lets go all allograftic on our Grats (donor: the Wakefield Doctrine, recipient; aww you making us blush)

For this week we are grateful for:

1) Having the ipso facto patience and support of the Board of Hostinae

2) the concept of hypograt in a gratitude bloghop

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. pick of the Week: 'The Burning Tower'   by Cynthia Calhoun

5) the Unicorn Challenge. pick of the Week: 'A Chance Encounter'   by Sally

6) [Hypograt] Struggling with linkz after remembering (at about 1:13 am)  that we'd forgotten to post TToT link. Subsequent Grat (see #7)

7) Realized the membership we thought we had, had reverted to a free (aka kinda useless) account. Once restored, got Link out to all the members of the Board of Hostinae

8) computers and online (and solitaire) to pass the time when sleep was...elusive

9) Somebody say, "Roll the Movie?!?!" Coming right up

10)  Secret Rule 1.3

music:

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"ruh-roe if you read the first edition of the Doctrine's TToT post... don't throw it out! (that bad-boy's gonna go all upside biplane in the marketplace)

 Ten Things of Regretful Thankful Saturday-the-almost-13th Edition!

Don't tell anyone* but we got the linkz link wrong for this week. 

Mistakes were made. We've accepted everyone's thoughts and prayers and are ready for a fresh start!

This is the Blogger Edition**

So, lest we wake the Spirit of Lizzi Past, lets get right down to a list everyone here can easily understand¹

1) the Wakefield Doctrine

2) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  Six Pick of the week:  ...[a Café Six]  (the) the Wakefield Doctrine

3) the Unicorn Challenge   Read this one!

4) the internet (without which, surely something like a bloghop would, at the very least, take a lot longer.... ("Honey? Mimi has written a Comment, should I tell the typesetter to get out his bag of lead slugs so you try the She-typeset-He-typeset?)

5) Speaking of Mimi, we totally want to include the entire Board of Hostinae in our TToT this week. This for reasons that will be assigned a number (Hey, gratitude blog writing-istically speaking, we were born at night but we weren't born last night.)

6) the Board: Mimi, Denise, Dyanne, Lisa and Kristi

7) This week in particular, we are grateful for their patience and such. A little trouble with the linking code. That, notwithstanding, we will repeat our Special Offer: So you want to Host a Bloghop? You totally can! Just fill out the Questionnaire and send it in! Think of the difference it will make at your next party!

8) So, you're at a party. It's getting on into the evening, (Try to remember back to a time in your life before 'Look at the Time' was a social anchor, as opposed to, "Hey Baby/Man, the night is young.^{Grat 9}

9) as opposed to the person writing and/or reading this entry

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* we're referring to the Board of Hostinae., of course

** as in, 'anything!?!? you're sure now... this is a person, who when Sunday Night'd for a assignment to: Write a Review of a Movie (in Creative Lit class) made up the movie, then wrote a Review (oh,, the humanity

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Please Bear with us (??!@# Bears?!?!?!... ) no, ha ha, no bears. Just adjusting to a bi-format TToT

This is the Wakefield Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

(You'll find a blogger version of this week's TToT over at the Group in the Facebook and, of course on blogger.com.)

Wait, disregard that previous sentence. We are here, in fact, on behalf of the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. (May Lizzi be Praised).

Suspect we need to get all bifurcated on our weekly submissions, at least in terms of author specific Grats

(ed. Maybe next week?)

1) Phyllis ---↓ (not Phyllis...rather your photophobic (and some might add, Unreliable) Narrator*

2) Una --------------------------------------↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine.  * Yeah, lets run with this asterix: there are at present Five (5) Co-hostinae We will, for purposes that will become obvious as we type (god-willing), be supplanting of Items on this list as we lurch towards Redemption and the Publish button.** 

4) the end of Summer¹

5) the comprehensiveness and implicit sophistication of a Grat Bloghop including the concept of HypoGratuity (see Grat 6 below for reference and/or further explication)

6) our resident expert Mimi will be happy to explain, in a manner that, while possibly less of the smart-alec, juvenile approach, i.e. when you get a flat tire but the person who stops without prompting is really: nice/hot/cool/did-we-mention-hot?, than we we are capable of... maintaining, seeing as she does an appreciation of the larger, less self-centered view of life and such

7) the Unicorn Challenge.  the 'corn Pick of the Week. ** Not for nothin' but we are, in fact, painfully aware of the limits of the Writing Style (intoned with a total lack of sarcasm) oft referred to as Stream-of-Consciousness (SOC) We do request any suggestions, advice, admonitions and 'wth??!' be shared with all Hostettes (Grat 8)

8) the Six Sentence Story. 'Hey! Ya gotta read this 'un  Co-hosts: Kristi, Dyanne, Lisa, Denise and Mimi

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

 

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(Think: Rick's Café Americain with a chalkboard Menu...instead of Nazis... hackers) Hey! Leave us blogs alone

 Something a little different this week.

oh, wait!

Welcome to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop!

so, yeah, I guess that makes our founder, Lizzi R. , Rick Blaine.

(I got dibs on Sam!)

Anyway, the thing this week is we heard over at the FB from a TToT alum, Patti Thomas. She told us that, her blog having been hacked, she doesn't come round all that much. Adding that she does miss the old days here at the TToT.

Hearing this, it was only natural that we thought the following two things: 

1. we were grateful to hear from someone from the early days
2. we had a mashup of Pink Floyd lyrics barge into our head*
3. knowing the Board of Hostinae are watching, thought to ourselfs: lets make some lemonade!

First things following is our List of Grats for the last week of September:

1) My co-hostinae: Mimi, Lisa, Kristi. Dyanne and Denise²

2) ² the aforementioned Board of Hostinae

3) the Facebook Group of the TToT

4) Paul D Brads for keeping the doors open (on the FB) of the Bloppy Bloggers

5) and speaking of the Bloggers of Blastonia (on the FB) we encountered an alumnae of this blog: See Grat #6**

6) Patti Thomas  (we trust she won't mind the link back to her FB page.)

7) So, given we have two Grats open. We'd like to offer them to Miz Thomas, if'n she is moved to offer some Grats. (kinda like doing a whole standalone TToT post, but different.

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10) Secret Rule 1.3

*ok. the floyd:

** hey, when it comes to working the system, grat blog writing-istically speaking... well, this isn't our first human-farm animal wrestling match, ya know?

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Pre-Retruitment Post. Open Auditions for Co-host Positions (Must have healthy Spelcheck)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Now entering it's twenty-third year of contiguous publication, the TToT seeks new Hosts and Hostinae.

You read that right! (correctly? accurately? consistently? nah, that can't be right) There are soon to be Openings on the Bored... Board of Facilitators. A little backstory...

Our Founderette, Lizzi Ah, decided, for reasons not understood, to have Ten Co-hosts of the bloghop. (Perhaps she felt, being global in reach, ten would be an effective number of people. We mean, serially, all the way  from... but that's not important now. There were ten of us in the beginning.)

So, we're opening up the TToT  phone/telegraph/electron-sluice lines up and asking for suggestions and/or recommendations/nominations/explanations for people to become Co-Hostina/ae of this here bloghop here.

...more to come

For the Doctrine, our list:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the history, (including, but not limited to, false, implanted memories), of our tenure as the Co-Host (recorded in internet archives category: Gratitude Blogs as the Term that defied Reason.)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  pick of the Week:  'Getting Restless'. by Chris Hall

6) the Unicorn Challenge. 'corn ear of the bunch:  'Black and White Thinking'  by Sally

7) [hypograt]  the probable end of Summer. while benign in outward appearance, Autumn is surely the 'Put your Pencils down' of the year's weather.

8) the whole concept of 'hypograts (we mean, seriously, can you even wonder why every grat blog doesn't include the concept, (and therefore basis of legitimate Grat Items) of Hypo-gratuity? Must be that their hosts are, like pretty much rogers or timid clarks. (Advanced(ish) musing. If you are still wondering, go ahead and ask in the Comments below.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

Ten Things of Thankful [*bonk-bonk*] Is this thing on?

 As most of you know, this bloghop was created by Lizzi back in, like 1983. But the gathering of active blog writers were to appear in 2013(is)

For any arithmephiles out there, that is close to twenty five (or, maybe 11) years ago.

Since that time we've met many people who come to read, post and otherwise spend time at a blog that has Gratitude as the theme.

So starting this week we are going to engage in an exercise that combines the best of blog-writing and projectile metaphor.

Being Friday already, we wanted to get this post published. It is (as of Friday the 13th in Sept 2024 at 8:08 am) only partially complete.

Please check in as the day progresses.

Grat list beginning:

1) the opportunity to participate as the host* of this here bloghop here

2) * grateful to introduce a few ....err fringe concepts in the Grat Game, i.e. Hypo-grats more on this later

3) my co-hostinae

4) Lisa (who I owe a couple of Free Grats! more later)

5) T.A. Woods who has been in touch (from the TToT Facebook page) and will be doing a 'Remote Grat' from another platform. More on this as we figure out how to actually execute this ambition

6) the kind of tomato I trust Jane and George Jetson would find in their refrigerator (ain't it symetrical?)

7)...ok, ok. we're back! For Lisa: i) Modern Technology for it's ease and low cost in making available fora on a scale most writers (and would-be writers) never before witnessed and ii) the access to wider and wider audiences for the product of writers (and would-be writers) just a mouse-click away  

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10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Hey! A couple of changes to this here blogger blog here.

 Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

*Note from your new Ruler and Guardian and Sayer of all sorts of silly/interesting things.*

We are interested in any input/feedback/this-is-what-we-like-about-this-blogspot blog. Serially. Will, for the present copy our normal TToT post of the week here.

Will totally be happy to discover (or be told) about things that you Gratitoniens/Gratitonia do that would further the reach of this thing of Lizzi's

There is a change here at the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A change of personal. Our current host Dyanne has done her time and is due some richly deserved R&R from html-wrangling the weekly publication. As we all know, Time is the ultimate HR manager and even in the virtual (and some might argue, timeless) world of the blogosphere, change is the one true constant.

We invite all participants, past and present to join us in expressing our appreciation for her efforts on behalf of the Grat-blog-that-Lizzi-created.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Dyanne. Grateful for her work as the most recent hostinae of this here Grat-blog here. Seeing how nothing says 'thank you' better than old home movies, if'n we had any we'd link them up. Since we don't have none of them, click here and you will see what is purportedly our out-going Host's first TToT appearance. (Thumbnails at the bottom of the post. Number 16 with a bullet.)

5) the digital age and land of easily-accessed and horrendously misconstrued thoughts, intentions and self-improvement.

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop  Six Pick! : 'Part 26: Navigating a Debris Field'. by Misky

8) the Unicorn Challenge Read this! 'Unicorn Promptly' by ceayr

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*yeah, we're very much into the application of astrixeses to cover our more... imginative use of language

It's No Sweat!

Hey, hi, forgot to post the link yesterday!

I'm watching the campers across the lake enthusiastically playing what appears to be soccer. All I know is it requires a great deal of running and shouting in full sun with a heat index of 98 degrees.

I'm thankful I am sitting on my screened porch with the ceiling fan on, a cold Diet Dr Pepper in my Ruth Bader Ginsberg insulated cup, and that no one can make me play an outdoor sport (or any sport, really). Look how easily I knocked out FIVE thankfuls in one sentence! You can do it, too! 

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It's OFFICIALLY Summer!

Happy summer solstice! Now it really IS summer, as if the sticky, humid, 90+ degree days we've had lately were spring-like.

How do you like to keep cool? I've got ten thankfuls right here for that. In hot, hot, HOT weather, I can be thankful for:

cool baths in a jacuzzi tub

popsicles

Happy Hour drinks from Sonic

swimming pools

water theme parks

cold beverages

ice makers 

central air conditioning

wearing shorts to work

Lume deodorant

You can do it, too! Link up with us this weekend at the Ten Things of Thankful!

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Hello, Summer!

When summer finally decided to show up, it came in with guns blazing! Temps in the 90s here with humidity so high you could cut it with a knife.

Hello, summer!

Here are some summertime thankfuls:

you don't need to take a jacket if you're going out at night (although you might need one for intense air conditioning)

you don't have to scrape frost off your car windows

flip flops

farmers markets

popsicles

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Come On And Try It!

I don't know how the week can be over so quickly when the individual days seem to drag on and on.  Anyone else feel that?

The good news about the week flying by is that it's your chance to list your thankfuls once again. Here's my list:

I'm thankful for:

1. funny memes

2. friends who like to exchange funny memes with me

3. warm, sunshiny days

4. the smell of sunscreen

5. baby smiles

6. snacks

7. hugs

8. money found in a pocket

9. taking off your shoes at the end of a long day

10. a new tube of toothpaste

See how easy it is? Try it and see, and then link up with the Ten Things of Thankful below!

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Hurry, Rabbit!

 I'm really not trying to be another Job, but lately, it feels like I'm giving him a run for his money.

Sorry for the late post, but, well, Job....

It's the Ten Things of Thankful. I DO have thankfuls, but time? That's a different matter. But don't wait for me! Write yours and link them below.

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Oh, The Weather Inside Is Frightful

 Nothing says "holiday weekend" like a household disaster! It's how our family celebrates. Not by choice, mind you, but you would think so, as often as it happens. 

Most of our household disasters are water related. Sewer back ups. Broken pipes. Heavy rains finding their way inside. Risk of actual flooding from lake level rising. Dishwashers choosing to drain out the edges of the door rather than through the plumbing system.

This weekend's holiday disaster is multi-faceted, but it ends with a temporary window unit air conditioner installed (need I say incorrectly?) so the water (make that ICY COLD water) that it collects inside poured out of the unit and INTO the house and was found by my bare feet on the very squishy, very wet carpet (see above about temperature of the water and imagine that with bare feet). 

The fun never ends around here.

Here's a thankful: once the central air conditioning debacle is remediated, we can finally replace the ugly (and currently wet with potential for mold) carpet.

Look for those silver linings in everything you do.

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Time For Some Thankfulling!

 Anyone else glad to see this week in the rearview mirror besides me? Trust me, I feel it enough for ALL of us! 

But it's Friday, and even a rough week has thankfuls in it, right? Of COURSE it does!

Write your Ten Things of Thankful post and link it here. The link doesn't close until Sunday night, so get to thinking and get to thankfulling!

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Where's Your List?

Know what happens when you take a Friday off for your daughter's law school graduation?  You forget to post the link to the Ten Things of Thankful! Here it is now! Hope you're as thankful as I am today! Link up YOUR list and let us know about all the thankfuls in your world!

 

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What Spring Brings

Ahh, spring in the Midwest! It starts with the green shoots of daffodils popping up through the ground. Next is the grass greening, tulips, and buds on the trees, followed by full-on leafy trees, irises, and warm days. 

And then? It's tornado season, of course!

There have been numerous thunderstorms in the past few weeks, several of them severe. We've had hail. We've had flooding. And we've had tornado watches, tornado warnings, tornados touching down, some of them causing death and destruction.

Today, in southwest Missouri, we had more than one thunderstorm move through the area, followed by a tornado warning that came on very quickly. We were safe, but it was darn close!

Can you BE a lot more thankful than when just missed by a tornado?

It's sure a terrific way to start a thankful list, isn't it? What have YOU got on YOUR list? Write them, link them, and enjoy the Ten Things of Thankful weekend blog hop!

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Cupfuls of Thankfuls Shared Here

Is it a first world problem if I wished I had an ice maker upstairs so I didn't have to go down to the kitchen to add ice to my Diet Dr Pepper? I guess it is, but I know I would be SO THANKFUL for that ice maker!  I'm definitely thankful for the mini fridge in my bathroom (not big enough nor efficient enough to hold ice cubes, although it's really good at freezing over, which is odd when you think about it). 

How has your week been? Getting all the ice you want? Is your cup, be it real or proverbial, full? Write your thankfuls and link them up with the best little blog hop on the interwebs. The link is open every weekend from early Friday mornings until midnight Sunday nights (CDT).

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Comma And Get It!

 Get your Oxford commas ready, it's time for the Ten Things of Thankful weekly blog hop!

Think about your week, look for all the thankfuls sprinkled throughout it, list them in a post, link them up, and then visit and comment on the other participants' blogs.

Did you see that Oxford comma?

The link is live until Sunday night at midnight CDT!

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Don't Let The Ten Things of Thankful Eclipse You

It's the second week of April. Already! Are you participating in the A to Z Challenge this year? If you've never done it before, I highly recommend it, although it's A LOT of work keeping up, especially if you have pre-planned NOTHING.

The Ten Things of Thankful, on the other hand, is vastly easier. Think about your week. Find 10 thankfuls and write them down. Post them. Read other entries. Comment. Look forward to the next week.

Link up until Sunday night at midnight CDT!

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Join The Hop - No Regrets

 

Join the Ten Things of Thankful weekend blog hop and have no regrets. Really. Tell 'em Judy Garland sent you.

The link is live until Sunday night!

Though April showers may come your way,
They bring the flowers that bloom in May,
So if it's raining have no regrets,
Because it isn't raining rain you know, it's raining violets.

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Thankful For Easter!

 It's Easter weekend! What a beautiful time to reflect on the thankfuls in your life.

Write them and link them here.

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No Bull, The Link Is Open

 No internet today, so let’s just get down and do this and hope I can make it work.

Take inventory of your thankfuls. Write them. Post them. The Ten Things of Thankful weekend blog hop is live!

No reason for this photo. Just saw them
today and had to take a picture of them 

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It's Almost Here. Finally.

This is all you really need to know right now:

You've gotta be thankful for that!

Write your thankfuls and link them up here. The Ten Things of Thankful weekend blog hop is live!

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Spring Forward? Backwards?

It really feels like Spring is just around the corner when Daylight Savings Time begins, and that, my friends, is this Sunday. Just don't do what I did a few years ago, when I set all the clocks the wrong way and made us two hours late to everything until we figured it out.

Write that Thankful post with your extra hours of daylight and link up with us. The link is live until midnight Sunday night.

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Dropped Balls

Testing....testing....is this thing on?

I'm not going to lie; I'm struggling, trying to keep a lot of balls in the air, and I end up dropping more than I care to admit. The TToT has been one of them, and I am sad about that.

But I'm here now. It's the weekend, and the Ten Things of Thankful is live. Please join us!

Epworth by the Sea, St. Simons Island, GA

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Mea Culpa

Well.  I forgot to post the link for this weekend's Ten Things of Thankful.

Literally forgot.

It's not too late to link up. Really.

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Calvin Said So

We had Fake Spring this week, and it was a welcome change from c-o-o-o-o-l-d temps. I know it's fleeting, but it's a harbinger of the coming spring.

What are YOUR thankfuls this week? Decent weather? Family? Work? Super Bowl? Write yours and link them to the Ten Things of Thankful weekend blog hop. Calvin said you have to do it.

I'm Calvin.

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Don't Be Scared Of Your Shadow!

 Do you believe in the prognostication skills of a groundhog? I don't see how one groundhog can forecast weather for the entire country, even if it's the famous Punxsutawney Phil. I think you  have to rely on your local groundhog for your local weather, and as there was some light cloud cover this morning where I live, I choose to believe it was enough to send spring packing.

Guess we'll know in about 6 weeks.

While we're all waiting to see if a fat rodent is right or wrong, why not join the Ten Things of Thankful weekend hop? The link is open, shadow or no shadow.

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Winter Is Canceled

Welcome to the 47th week of January, the month that will never end.

Thinking about getting together a petition to force winter to end by February 1.

Anyone else in?

Until then, If you can thaw your fingers enough to type, join the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop and feel the warmth of bloggy love and friendships.

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The Reviews Are In

Dangerously cold temperatures.

Wind chill advisories.

Snow.

Do not recommend.

Zero stars.

Warm welcomes.

Close-knit writing community.

Weekly installments become your own personal gratitude journal.

Best blog hop ever.

Five stars.

The Ten Things of Thankful weekly blog hop. 

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Snow Time Like Today To Join The Hop!

Where do you stand on snow? Excited to get it? Or do you dread it? Maybe you don't even GET snow where you live!

Can you turn snow into a thankful list? Thankful it snowed, thankful it didn't, thankful you never have to deal with it? 

Link up snow thankfuls or ANY thankfuls this and every weekend when you join the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop. The link is live from Friday mornings to Sunday nights. It's snow easy to join!

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Resolution Time!

We are less than a week into 2024. How are those resolutions going for you?

I know one that's easy: participating in the weekly Ten Things of Thankful blog hop! It doesn't require much time, and you will end the year with 52 lists that recap the thankfuls in your year.

The hop is live from early Friday mornings until midnight on Sunday nights. Link up and see what others have found to be thankful for. Don't forget to comment! It's a HOP!

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