Favorite blog from December 7. Well, haven’t had time to do much porch sitting lately but have found time to get my pansies nestled in their pots. Been running errands for the carpenter and his carpenter wife and moving things around in the house for new flooring and painting. The “handeymen couple” are so congenital…

Don’t know much today! Only a few cardinals on the feeders. Kinda a cool breeze but I love these cloudless blue sky, cool mornings. Had to put on a sweater to sit in the swing. Penelope is sporting her sweater and is under her fox blanket in the play pen. Some days you just can’t…

Anybody collect something? Obviously by the amount of coffee cups I’ve found in the high cabinets here, my mother collected them. Never saw her drink but one cup of coffee a day but guess she didn’t want to use the same cup more than once. I’ve been slowly weeding them out to thrift store piles…

Got any pet peeves….I unashamedly have lots! Let’s start with the shopping carts at Wal Mart. Why on earth do some of you not put the buggy back in the rack? Been sitting in the porch swing trying to think of a legitimate reason for this indiscretion. Don’t leave the buggy in a random parking…

I’m sitting on the porch in the this morning under a blanket. Accu Weather says it’s 68 degrees but feels 74. Ok…feels 44 to me with this cool brisk wind blowing. Yesterday the wind blew my peace lily plants all over the porch. One of the plant stands blew over, too. I saw Penelope looking…

I am loving these cool mornings on the porch. The bright blue fall sky, cloudless, the sun warm on my face and feet. Today a brisk cool wind is stirring the trees. Penelope is taking her morning sun bath in the yard, pretending to be sleeping, and hoping for the next door cat to try…

Back on the porch this Sunday morning. Roofers are gone till Monday so Penelope is in her porch playpen and I’m comfortably ensconced on the porch swing. Ever noticed how your brain just fills sentences with correct words. Ensconced just rolled off my fingers. Thought maybe that wasn’t the correct word, but it fit so…

Ever had a critter in your house? Not talking about bugs! You’ve read of my raccoon party…. Guess the first critter in the house was when I was a child. My daddy brought a new born calf home to the living room to warm up. The calf’s mother had birthed in the creek on an…

So fallish this morning, the second day of fall. Penelope was so frisky in the cool morning air, she drug me all over Guy Street on her morning walk. Can’t sit on the porch because the roofers are busy as bees tearing 102 years of layers of shingles and slate off the roof. Can’t even…

Anybody got a lap dog that rules the roost? I do…Penelope Grace Saunders. Eighteen pounds of dachshund resting on chihuahua legs. Always said I’d never have a dog whose toenails clicked on the floor but now I do. Every time she goes to my brother’s vet office I ask him to cut her toenails. I’m…