August Happiness Challenge -- Day 17

Today's happiness: Lake Michigan

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I take our very great lake for granted. Most important, I'm grateful for the water that comes into my home. It tastes great and never leaves me with flat hair, like I sometimes have when I travel and visit places with mineral-laden water. Lake Michigan is beautiful -- every time I see it my tiny heart swells a bit, like the Grinch's -- and it keeps life interesting.

For example, here I was today, in my living room, less than 20 miles from Wrigley Field. It was sunny outside my window, yet they were rolling the tarp across the field, protecting it from the sudden downpour. Huh? What? Rain? Not in this neighborhood. Yet in Wrigleyville, it came down so hard there were two separate rain delays.

I mentioned this on my Facebook feed and friends all over Chicagoland chimed in. Just as we get "lake effect" snow, today we had showers only near the lake. It's amazing, fascinating. 

BTW, the Cubs won!

Happy August Happiness Challenge!

 

Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there are positive things going on in our lives, our communities, and the world.