Sat on the porch to ponder this morning. It’s was cool and damp. I watched a male cardinal nibbling from the platform feeder and saw him fly away. He landed on a sweet gum tree at the corner of the porch. The little tree, no taller than five feet, has somehow managed to hold on…

Sitting on the porch this morning. It’s 80 degrees on Thursday, December 8. High next week on Thursday is 49. You never know what season you wake up to in Alabama. Sometimes it even thunders when it snows. My pansies friends are not enjoying the heat.They are fainting like Southern belles and hanging over the…

Sat on the porch for a long time today. My birds have either found another restaurant or are eating berries from someone’s yard. Had a couple of cardinal pairs about dusk and the four fighting finches fought over their favorite feeder. I have 18 feeders from the front yard to the backyard deck and the…

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…