The background took a whopping 6+ hours to render. I think it was worth the wait. If the clipart looks familiar, its because I used a blue version in a previous image.

Today’s Gratitude Item: A really good day doing Community Service (ie: track maintenance). This involved shoveling gravel into sacks and the sending said sacks up a track and laying the gravel. All done by 9th grade students and their teachers in a beautiful reserve where its too hard to get machinery in. The kids had fun and so did we. After working in the morning, we had an awesome lunch, the kids got to go swimming in the ocean / play sports and we had a bit of a break. All in all a great day.