I was saving this up for one big happy something, but too many good things happened this week, so here's a bulleted list of happy for you:
- They found Ken Knight! Thank God this story has a happy ending, though I said to a friend of mine on Friday morning that if there were anybody I'd have laid money on to come through something like that alive, it'd be Ken. Go Ken! All us Arkies were praying for you.
- I helped build a play structure and raised bed gardens this afternoon at Peace House. The weather was gorgeous, the neighborhood kids worked even harder than most of the volunteers, and I had a fantastic time. Gonna be soooo sore tomorrow.
- First day of Farmer's Market means saying hello to old familiar faces, buying baby lettuces, and fresh asparagus. Woo! Also, my sugarsnap peas, which I planted on St. Pat's Day, are 10" tall, and my self-seeded arugula and parsley are EXPLODING!
- Dylan Meconis is selling dead-tree versions of Bite Me! at long last! Go get yours now before the first printing runs out, like Kate Beaton's did. Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough.
- Long and wonderful conversations with four dear close friends in the last three days. I am so blessed.
- The new Asian Grocery here in town carries whole frozen teriyaki unagi. Life is good.
- After hearing Steppin' in it the other night, I went to their record label Fox on a Hill Records and bought waaaaay too much music. It showed up today and I spent a while burning discs to my iPod. There're some really amazing Michigan artists on there; if you like good earnest old-time folk and bluegrass retold in a present-day voice, you should poke around their catalogue. I found an awful lot to like.
- This video made me crazy happy.
So there you go! A super-sized pile of happy for the last day of my meme.