I am thankful that I can hear. Yesterday, I was home after husband and kids went out to the mall and Aunt, after stopping by for coffee, had left.
I put my dog on his leash and stepped forward out the front door when I heard the strangest sound. It sound like a blast of powerful air or the sound from a fire-extinguisher blast and it seemed too loud to be coming from anywhere outside the home.
I doubted myself and my hearing and almost just kept going, but instead I turned around just to take a brief look at what it might have possibly been. I took the corner into a room and there on a long narrow table was our video camera, plugged in, and with a flame a few inches above it, the defective battery burning and melting and smoke having well started filling that room. And, there was this lace curtain hanging right in the proximity of where this had suddenly popped, lit up and occurred.
So again, I am thankful for my hearing, and for checking things out, and for not continuing on to go take the dog out for a walk.