Reasons to be Cheerful: Caterpillars, Roses and Odd Socks #R2BC

It was great to read so many happy posts again and welcome some new linkers, hopefully some regulars will be back this week if their lives aren't so crazy! Here are my reasons this week:
1) Garden Surprises
Whilst weeding the garden I discovered that we had lots of Cinnabar moth caterpillars on the ragwort. Of course this means I daren't remove all of this invasive and poisonous plant but the moths are worth saving:

2) Roses

These are one of my favourite flowers and at the moment they are just looking stunning everywhere. This is one that belongs to a neighbour:

#R2BC Week 2 2014

Thanks everyone who joined in once again last week. It's always great to read what has made other people cheerful! So what is making me smile this week apart from all the other lovely blogs?

1) Operation House

It's a slow project but its actually becoming easier now I've started doing smaller bits at a time. Using Fly Lady's Beginner's Baby Steps I am doing jobs in chunks of 2, 5 or 15 minutes. It's actually amazing what you can achieve if you concentrate your efforts on a small area whilst waiting for your toast!

Bonuses achieved so far include a great reduction in the number of odd socks:

And more importantly the kitchen table is now being used for its proper purpose which is eating meals and not for anything else! The kitchen itself is being decluttered of all the things that migrate there too...

2) Running

So happy to be out in the fresh air enjoying views like this again:

Victoria Bridge from Stramongate Bridge, Kendal, Cumbria

3) Blue Skies

Its not been a sight we have had much of this year so a whole day of it was blissful:

Blue Sky and pink clouds, Staveley, Cumbria

Dockwray Foot bridge, Kendal, Cumbria 

4) Winning things

First up a hamper from Swizzels Matlow I won for doing a survey:

Swizzels Matlow hamper

And then today I heard that I won a bundle of Walking with Dinosaur Goodies from The Mummy Blogger! Not a bad start to 2014 at all. 

What is making you smile?
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