Good morning! Let me tell you some of what I’m cheery about and thankful for this morning. (I’ll leave some space at the end for you to add some of your own cheerful thankfulness.)<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude42 We made it to twenty ten. We’re ten years past the old projected end of the world (2000). Furthermore, we have yet to be struck by the fearsome Y2K bug.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude42 The story in the EU Times is likely untrue. (You know the one<\/a> about the Russians expecting “outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.”)<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 Only one of my business partners has dealt gracelessly with me.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 Our immediate Roth kin are to show up today to celebrate our Christmas, sans the usual gift exchange.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 I got a good night’s sleep last night despite the trials that have come upon me in the last month.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 I finally get to put up the new calendar I got from Christian Light Publications. (I also need to find a place for the one I got from Rod & Staff Publishers.)<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 This new-to-me, hard-to-find, IBM trackpoint keyboard works wonderfully!<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 My two-year-old grandson Trenton just came into my office to show me a bulldozer he must have found in our toy box.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 My body still works so that I can get up from here and go outside to feed the cat, lose the dog, and sing to the cows.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42 It doesn’t matter whether or not we have started a new decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning! Let me tell you some of what I’m cheery about and thankful for this morning. (I’ll leave some space at the end for you to add some of your own cheerful thankfulness.) \ud83d\ude42 We made it to twenty ten. We’re ten years past the old projected end of the world (2000). Furthermore, we … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[704,463],"tags":[706],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thankful","category-thisandthat","tag-gratefulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-tF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}