Life's Simple Pleasures

What are some of life's simple pleasures that you enjoy? Share them with us!

This evening DH and I had date night. We went out to eat and to a movie. While waiting for the movie to start, we walked around the mall. Getting bored, we sat on a bench and watched people walk by. The bench had a vinyl covered padded seat and when we moved the slightest, it made a fart sound. This immediately entranced DH and he perfected scooting on the bench to make a loud, long bubbly fart sound. Then we waited......

As people walked by, DH wiggled his bottom and it sounded like he really cut one. It was hilarious. Our simple pleasure tonight was the absolute look of horror on passers by faces who were probably sure that at least one of those two white haired old people just pooped their pants. They quickened their step so the smell wouldn't catch up with them.

I bet y'all thought I was gonna say something like watching the sunset or something like that, didn't you?

No, I didn't expect watching the sunset bay. This is EXACTLY you!

Mary

And this thread was prompted by the thread "Your Favorite Outdoor Smells"?

A simple pleasure for DH and myself is sitting on the swing/bench with a cup of coffee in the early morning or a glass of wine in the early evening. DS made two bench swings -- one for his grandma and one for me. We now have them both. DS intends to make a coffee table/seat to complete the set.

Hm-m-m-m, I should get a photo.

Sounds like a lovely simple pleasure @Smart Red My DH and I like to sit on the glider bench in the evenings after supper and enjoy being outside together, relaxing.

Early twilight is our favorite time of day. We like to just sit with a glass of something- wine, iced tea, lemonade... whatever. The herbs and flowers smell their strongest after the heat of the day, the ducks are wandering around being silly, and a lot of the wildlife comes out.

Yesterday I spent about an hour in the late afternoon watching 7 or 8 dragon flies hunt gnats (or something similar) in the open space near the barn. It occured to me that the dragon flies' movements - zipping, dipping, swooping - through the cloud of tiny bugs was exactly like watching a few larger fish hunting/feeding on a school of smaller ones.
It was a very nice ending to a busy day.

But Bay's afternoon sounds like SO MUCH for FUN!

Yesterday evening we watched Mr. and Mrs. Mockingbird feeding their third batch of babies. They have built two nests in the crepe myrtle tree and are fledging their third nestlings now. The dogs snuffled around, finding the babies nestled in the garden, while the parents screamed warnings at them. We called the dogs to us and enjoyed the mockingbirds.

favorite simple pleasure:
falling asleep in the recliner with some HMC movie on that I've seen a billion times, one cat sleeping on my lap and the other next to my head purring the afternoon away.......