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Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Progress
It’s starting to grow! What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Today I’m grateful for our ”lazy” Sundays. Our goal for Sundays is to not have any plans, and to enjoy the day whatever way we feel like when we wake up. Often a mix of baking something, food prepping for the week to come without any stress, long conversations, biking, hiking, crafting and reading. I…
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Today I am grateful for a happy outing with my daughter. She needs a desk for her room. I’ve been suggesting different options for the past six months, but they were not what she imagined. Today she finally agreed on going to Ikea in a nearby town. Everything went well and we both agreed on…
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Today I’m grateful for an amazing sunny Sunday in February. I took my bike up to the allotment garden and started some more seeds. I also enjoyed listening to the birds and nature around me. What are you grateful for today? Please tell me in a comment. Maria
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Weekend Coffee Share – Let the fun begin!
Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? It is snowing outside.. and I started planting seeds yesterday. What? Why? Isn’t it a bit early, you ask. Well, I only sow seeds that benefit from the natural cold stratification to trigger germination. I have them outdoors in…
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Today I spent some time making a map of my allotment garden. I placed all the perennials in their places, and now I can easily see the spaces available (the empty squares are empty garden beds) for annuals. Annuals are plants that only live for a year. In colder climates many plants are grown as…
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Today I am grateful for the endless possibilities ahead of me this upcoming gardening season. In a garden the saying “Imagination is the only limits” is very true. Imagining how I want my garden this year fills me with gratitude considering all the possibilities. As the snow keeps falling I enjoy planning for a bountiful…
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February is the time of the year when I go through all the seeds I’ve saved in my personal seed bank, and order new seeds as needed. The ones I “needed” this year arrived in the mail today. What are you grateful for today? Would you like to join me in this Daily Gratitude Practice 2026?…
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I am grateful for all the gardens that are a part of my gardening journey. This is an experimental garden I had in California back in 2018, where half of the garden was planted in-ground and half of the garden was a container garden. My daughter had begged me for years to have her own…
