After talking longer about this with Michelle, I am grateful that my wife and I see so much eye to eye on things. She and I try to laugh at the ironic humor that fills our lives. And we do enjoy irony. Example would be this picture.
Now, I don't drink wine, and I am not promoting drinking for anyone, but I still found this to be very funny.
That being said, we talked and laughed about the idea of doing sort of a tongue in cheek version, since real life is full of positives and negatives. So we hit on the plan of sharing some "Negs", as "Big Bang Theory's" Howard Wolowitz would call them. "Negative Compliments", or in this case, "negative expressions of gratitude".
Here goes: I am grateful that the coldest night of the year so far, (hit 19 degrees), came 6 days AFTER we got new chicks in the farm houses, rather than the night before, when it would have been impossible to heat up to the required 90 degrees with a broken heating system. And a previous week with Michelle and Ben both sick, so all repairs, prep and most of the housework was done by yours truly after school hours. Had to prioritize and feed/water and air systems were top.
I am grateful that of the three damaged heating units in that building, only one of them broke beyond repair as I was disassembling it for replacement.
And I am grateful that last night, after 7 1/2 hours of standing at the top of a 10 foot ladder, breaking down, and then re-assembling a heater unit, it fired up, and I didn't have to spend the entire night shifting small electric heaters back and forth in the chicken-house to keep 6 day old chicks from dying of the cold.
Gratitude.....See, now that wasn't too hard. :))
