Blessed in So Many Ways...

Life can turn on a dime and mine changed from being a suburban housewife and mom to a rural empty nester 12 years ago.  Natureman has enabled me to have so many new people in my life. Those Coulee factions were well represented at last night's b-day celebration...

Some 20+ Jazzerbuddies were there...

Folks from my work days at UW-L and Viterbo, many of my Jazzerbuddies, the Happy Bookers, my spirituality buds (both Rosh Chodesh and synagogue), friends met through mutual friends, and of course people I met through Irv. All of these factions were able to mingle last night. 

AND how does an asportual non-beer drinker end up at a Packer Sports bar for her birthday?  I purchased raffle tickets as a donation to a Relay for Life benefit last summer and I won not one but two of the 18 possible raffle prizes. The phrase I never win anything now has been deleted from my sayings...  One prize was the 1/2 barrel beer party at Glory Days in La Crosse. Through word of mouth, Facebook and the internet we gathered to mark my new decade. 

I feel so blessed in so many ways... 

Here's to a new decade and many more happy celebrations from a gal so content with life with my Natureman in the End of the Rainbow Valley...