Last week, the kind and generous Emily from over at Chasing the Dish – a UK based food blog with all kinds of cool and unique recipes and food information – awarded me the Happy 101 Award. Thanks Emily!

The rules are…
1 – Copy and paste the award onto your blog
2 – Link to the person who gave you the award
3 – List ten things that make you happy
4 – Pass the award on to your favorite bloggers and let them know about the award
Without further adieu, ten of my favorite things that make me happy.
1 – My blog and all my readers and commenters. You guys are awesome.
2 – A sunny Spring day (with no allergies!)
3 – Food, food, food. GOOD food, made from great product. Sharing a meal with people who can appreciate good food.
4 – Running and exercise in general, and being at a point in my life where I actually enjoy doing it.
5 – Morel mushrooms, and hunting them, and eating wild foods in general. It’s awesome.
6 – Traveling to exotic places and the feeling you get when you are surrounded by unfamiliar culture.
7 – Music, playing music, seeing music played, enjoying all the things that music does to bring people together.
8 – Saturdays.
9 – Daydreaming about the future of my family with my wife.
10 – My wife… of course.
To pay it forward, I am passing this award on to…
1 – Kim at Rustic Garden Bistro. She’s on vacation right now but she always posts such beautiful pictures of her yard and her food that I find very inspiring.
2 – Beth at The Confused Homemaker, a great writer and I particularly love following her “How I Met Your Father” series about her husband and herself.
3 – Chase at Chase Blackwell for taking a ground-up approach to food, and being a guitar player doesn’t hurt either.
Thanks again Emily!

