You gotta love the smaller things in life.

In a day filled with entirely too much rain and craziness, I managed to let the small things impress me.  For example, my riding lawn mower hasn’t started in over a year and I was able to start it yesterday.  Yeah, I know, its no big deal, but it was great.  All I had to do was charge the battery and apply the choke a little.  You see, normally something like this would turn in to a huge problem and money would have to be spent to fix my ailing lawn mower, but not yesterday.    The whole thing didn’t end with the lawn mower though.  I submit example two.  Abbey (Golden Retriever) needs to visit the bathroom I call a yard several times a day.  On a normal sunny day, this is no big deal, but yesterday it rained ALL day!  For those of you that haven’t seen my yard, it has a lot of dirt in it and dirt, when it rains, turns to mud.  Mud on the bottom of Abbey’s feet is not good.  It creates a lot of problems when she comes in contact with the carpet.  Our solution to this problem has been to wipe her feet off before she comes inside.  I suppose that is easy enough, but last night when we got home, the last thing I wanted to deal with was Abbey’s paws.  So, I let out the dog and she did her business and then ran around a bit.  In my mind, I was thinking that her paws were going to be a big mess.  Ugh!  When Abbey decided she was done, she ran back to the door.  Next, she sat down and waited for me to clean her paws.  Well, what do you know, her paws weren’t really dirty.  How could this be?  She ran through the mud, but the paws weren’t dirty.  Without giving it too much thought, I wiped off her feet and let her in to the house.  Yup, it was the small things that mattered on this day.