Too wet to ponder on the porch plus cannot miss watching the Sugar Bowl. Love me some Alabama football. Gonna watch the Georgia game if I can stay awake. Woke up every hour on the hour last night. I can’t do without sleep. Don’t feel well, hope I’m just tired. I was thinking about the…

Pretty day today. Blue sky with fast moving clouds. Never seen the clouds move so fast. Laid my head back on the swing chains, let the sun warm my face, and just watched the clouds race by as their shapes distorted from one design to another. Ate breakfast and lunch on the porch in the…

“Whoa…I feel good! Knew that I would. So good, so good….” — James Brown’s song lyrics perfectly describe today! Back on the porch pondering in the swing with Penelope sun bathing in her play pen. Didn’t lose my bagel this morning and had some cantaloupe with it and drank my coffee without sugar. Course I…

Have not done any pondering today. Went to LaGrange with my niece, her pharmacy schooling daughter, and her mother. We had the best time with each other. The young ones enjoyed the older ones and our gracefulness getting in and out of the car and stepping off the curbs. We had lots of laughs. I…

Sat in the swing today. Felt good to feel the sun on my face. Penelope took a sun bath. Stretched her leash as far as she could then sat down to survey her domain. I saw lots of bird friends on the feeders — downy woodpecker, nuthatch, red headed woodpecker, chickadee, couple purple finches and…

Went outside today and took a doggie pondering walk. The furious wind blew the Santa hat off Mr. Claus. I looked all over the neighborhood for that hat. Mrs. Claus still has her hat. The wooden figures belonged to my Aunt Margaret Shaffer. Cousin Blake gave them to me after she died. I put them…

Got up this morning to a 50 degree house and ice on my windows, on the inside! My steam boiler furnace is getting a work out. Have the thermostat on 90 but she can’t get out of the fifties. She’s working hard to heat this big old house. I’m not cold and the irony of…

Actually sat in the swing a few minutes this morning. Was hoping to see some male goldfinches but only cardinals and chickadees were feeding at the bird buffet. Got to fill up the feeders, too. Birds are such beautiful creatures. I get so much pleasure in watching them. When the feeders are full of song…

Pondering in the lady den this morning and thinking about how blessed I am with friends. When I was a child my favorite friend was a boy. We were inseparable. Our mothers and fathers were best friends. Someone told me every time she came home from school in the summers she would see my friend…