What are your simple pleasures?

Whenever I get up to skip to the Lou in the morning after about 5-6 hours sleep, I fold the dog blankets into place on her side of the bed and bring my dog up from the basement to finish our sleeps together. As I begin to wake up for real, I take off my CPAP mask and she comes up and puts her head on my shoulder and rubs her brow into my beard and we have snuggles.

Once up I make my first cup of tea with a couple slices of toast and jam to have while playing Quordle games while sitting on the couch and have a look at the forums.

Later I'll have breakfast with my wife over a couple of hands of 500 rummy. Before or after we eat I'll feed the dog and leave her outside a bit. Then we will take a walk at a large park where she can use her walker and dogs are permitted off leash. When we get back I'll take a stroll in the garden and if I see something that could use a little pruning I like to do it while it is fresh in my mind. This morning I noticed there was a 4th head forming on a low growing Aeonium which is irreplaceable. So I pulled it off getting lots of independent roots and potted it up.

Some time this afternoon we'll have our dinner together over a couple more hands of rummy. Today I plan on finishing a letter to my German friend after our walk and then around 4:30 our local NBA team, the Warriors, will be playing New Orleans in a game ESPN is televising. After I will either read another chapter or two in The Razor's Edge or else read more of Philip Ball's How Life Works. Then I'll take care of my teeth, take the dog to bed and take my meds. End of another day in my simple little life.
 
I'm conflicted over today's simple pleasure.

I just went full flannel sheets and pillow cases on my bed, and a heavy comforter to boot. Climbing in bed tonight coddled by softness and warmth will be an absolute delight!

The cost of my nightly simple pleasure will be cold and nasty weather for the next three or four months.

Wish I could enjoy one without the other.
 
Gardenlover said:
I hear the train horns (miles away) often in the middle of the night and two things come to mind:
1. Is it a lonely job?
2. Although a peaceful sound to me, it would be maddening to live close to the train tracks in the middle of the night.
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I spent a summer camping by the upper Sacramento River with my Dad when I was 12. was a train that was about 300 yards from our camp site across the river. Every night it would come , making all kinds of wacky noise. At first I couldn't sleep well, but then after a full day of playing/fishing/swimming/motor cycle riding, I began to sleep like a baby even while occasionally hearing the faint sound of the train.
 

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