Thankful Thursday

It’s Thankful Thursday hosted by Brian of Brian’s Home. He wants us to post what we’re thankful for.

I think it’s a good thing to do each week. Focus on the positive things in our lives.

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We’re thankful for the wonderful trip we took to meet up with friends in Rio Vista last month. We had a great time and enjoyed each others company and some great food. We were sitting on the dock when this small dinghy went by The Point Restaurant. The weather was warm. It was heaven.

While heading home on Sunday morning we ran into another small dinghy while getting ready to come out of Three Mile Slough onto the San Joaquin. Look how the weather had changed. It was chilly, but the cruise was delightful.

What are you thankful for today?


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58 thoughts on “Thankful Thursday

  1. Rosey says:

    I am thankful for every good thing in my life (too numerous to count). I watched the videos and they do not look so small to me. 🙂 Have a wonderful Thankful Thrusday!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I hear you and it’s good to look at all the blessings around us. You have a wonderful Thankful Thursday too. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I was being a smarty pants. I was calling those huge ships, dinghies. 🙂

      • Tails Around the Ranch – Denver, CO – The inspiration behind this blog was one knuckleheaded Standard Poodle named Sam but is now inspired by a House Pony-Wilson. I'm Monika, the upright. Living in the Denver metro area, we post about dogs, rescue and nature. So grab your favorite beverage and be prepared to howl along with our adventures. And don't forget to bark your 'pup-tacular' comment; we'd love to hear from you.
        Tails Around the Ranch says:

        I watched the videos again to see what I was missing on the dinghies. 😆 So thankful for your quick wit and sense of humor!

          • Tails Around the Ranch – Denver, CO – The inspiration behind this blog was one knuckleheaded Standard Poodle named Sam but is now inspired by a House Pony-Wilson. I'm Monika, the upright. Living in the Denver metro area, we post about dogs, rescue and nature. So grab your favorite beverage and be prepared to howl along with our adventures. And don't forget to bark your 'pup-tacular' comment; we'd love to hear from you.
            Tails Around the Ranch says:

            And it was quite enjoyable! Enjoy your weekend as well.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We had such a great time. We’re planning our next cruise for April. We were going to go this month, but that didn’t work out. 🙂

  2. My GBGV Life – Minnesota, USA – I am a GBGV, Grand Basset Griffon Vendeén - enjoying my life and sharing my experiences.
    My GBGV Life says:

    Watching ships is always fun and we love hearing the horns.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      It sure is. We enjoy seeing them and especially when we are tied up and don’t have to avoid them. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      They are huge and they are fun to see. They make our boat look so very small. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      They are huge, Nancy. Huge and some of the waterways aren’t very big, but the manage to get through them. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I did get chilly that Sunday morning. Nothing like the warm Friday and Saturday. 🙂

  3. Eugi – Atlanta Ga – A Pushcart Prize nominee in 2025, my poetry appears in twelve anthologies, and my work is published across six platforms, inclusive of WordPress, PoetrySoup, Spillwords, BlueSky, Mastodon, and Tumblr. I am among those who received Socialite of the Year (Honorary Award) for the Year 2025 by Spillwords Press. I’m thrilled in be in the company of such a talented group of kindred souls. Now retired, I enjoyed a dedicated career in the insurance industry for over 40 years being rewarded professionally and personally.
    Eugenia says:

    What a lovely visit you had with your friends. Thank you for sharing your adventures. Happy Thursday!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We’d not been on a cruise since last year in July. Way to long. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I wish we were closer and you and your hubby could go on a cruise with us. A nice lunch and a cruise. Hugs. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We did have a great time and the best part is we were together. Love you, my only. 🙂

  4. A ShutterBug Explores says:

    Beautiful place ~ love to be there with those ‘little dinghys’ going by ~ So glad you had a wonderful time ~ Xo

    Love and hugs to you from me and Angel ~

    Wishing you lots of love and peace in your day ~

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We sure did, Carol. I always refer to them as dinghies, but they are huge as you know. You live on the water. 🙂

  5. Kismet – New River, Arizona. – I'm a 16 year old Indian Ringneck parrot curmudgeon in New River, Arizona in the wild west country. If you're a sunflower seed, you're dinner.
    Kismet says:

    I’m thankful for that boat which is bringing you a ton of money and will enable you to fill up your car these days.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I’m not looking forward to filling the boat with gas this year. We can take 110 gallons per side. A whopping 220 gallons. I’m guessing it will be around 8 bucks a gallon in most places. Bugger. I love you, Kismet. 🙂

  6. Dakota/Caren/Cody – Michigan – Freelance writer, pet blogging professional, product influencer, half of the writing team behind Dakota's Den and "Cat Chat With Cody & Caren" Most importantly, I am a "pet mom" to Dakota, (Shetland Sheepdog) and Cody (my silver gray tabby!)
    Caren says:

    Oh how I would LOVE to live by water!!!!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I would too, but it’s very pricey. We do enjoy being out on the water though. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We had a most wonderful cruise. Can’t wait to go somewhere else. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      It was indeed. Chilly on Sunday, but the rest of the weekend was perfect. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We were on the dock when that ship went by. It was most wonderful. You enjoy the rest of the day too, Barbara. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I was being a smarty pants, Patricia. Our boat is a dinghy compared to that ship. 🙂

  7. mjgolch – Cleveland Ohio – I'm a retired Corrections Officer. I served in the USAF from July 1971 until July 1974. I quit smoking in 1994. I have been sober since 02/02/2022 prior sober date 12/12/1990. I've been married to my Celestine since March 1,1980 and lost her to kidney failure October 2020
    mjgolch says:

    Sandee,Thanks for taking me a ride in your boat.💋 💋 💋 💋 🌹 🌹 🌹🌹

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      It was a wonderful weekend, Yvonne. First of the year is always so special. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I was being a smarty pants, Cathy. Our boat is a dingy compared to that ship. 🙂

  8. Bette A. Stevens – Central Maine, USA – "I'm a writer inspired by nature and human nature!" ~ Bette A. Stevens Bette A. Stevens is a retired teacher, a wife, mother of two and grandmother of five. Stevens lives in Central Maine with her husband on their 37-acre farmstead where she enjoys writing, gardening, walking and reveling in the beauty of nature. She advocates for children and childhood literacy and for monarch butterflies, an endangered species. Stevens’s children’s activity book, THE TANGRAM ZOO and WORD PUZZLES TOO! was first published in 1997 by Windswept House Publishing, Mt. Desert, ME; a second edition was self-published by the author in 2012. AMAZING MATILDA , Stevens's second children's book, self-published in 2012, won a 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (Honorable Mention for Excellence in Children's Literature - Ages 6 and older category) and placed #9 on The 2013 Gittle List TOP 10for Self-published Children’s Picture Books. Stevens has written articles for ECHOES, The Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture based in Caribou, Maine. In 2013, the author published her first book for the YA/Adult audience: PURE TRASH, a short story of a boy growing up in rural New England in a family whose poverty and alcoholism mark him as a target for bullying by young and old alike. This short story is a prequel to Stevens's debut novel, DOG BONE SOUP, A Boomer’s Journey released in January of 2015.
    Bette A. Stevens says:

    Lovely, Sandee! Thanks for taking us along for a ride… 💞 I’m thankful for melting snow and a beautiful, sunny day! xo

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      You’re most welcome. We love our boat very much. Happy Thankful Thursday. 🙂

  9. Xena, Lucy and Chia – Soddy Daisy, TN USA
    Xena and Lucy says:

    How fun! And that’s small? Wow. I would rather be out in the weather in the first picture, for sure. We’re supposed to get a snow storm here on Saturday, with the temperatures going up to 55 later in the same day. Crazy weather!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I wish you could take a cruise with us too.. We’d have a great time. 🙂

  10. Carol anne – I am in my mid 40's. I'm blind and I have dissociative identity disorder, I also have complex PTSD. I blog about my life with these disorders. I live in Ireland.
    Carol anne says:

    Awesome videos Sandee! xoxo

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      That was a long time ago when we still had our boat. We don’t miss boating anymore. It’s a good thing. 🙂

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