Gratitude – 04/17/2010

Today, I am grateful for:

1. Bicycles.  Particularly when they replace old, dual-wheeled dilapidated death chariots like the one Elizabeth was riding previously.  Her former chain-churner should, by rights, have been taken out behind the barn and shot quite some time ago, but we had never really gotten around to it.  This weekend, that changed when we rolled her shiny new toy out to the park, where we did one lap before being driven back inside by frigid winds and the ever increasing threat of chill rain.

2. Caramel squares.  Elizabeth doesn’t make these terribly often, which is probably good because otherwise I would be enormously fat.  I’m talking manatee levels of fat.  Nonetheless, when she does make them, and when I can get to them before they are (horrors!) given away, I stuff them into my face like a chipmunk in autumn.

3.  Blanton‘s.  We’ve spoken before about bourbon, and the merits thereof.  Blanton’s takes bourbon to a whole new level – a wonderful, caramel-y level, where the stars pour forth their melodies and noble stallions charge about your living room.  Metaphorically.

Incidentally, the fact that each bottle is hand-labeled just makes it that much more awesome.

photo credit: josef.stuefer