Ponderings from the Porch Swing

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  • A sorrowful event

    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…

  • Yard critters in the house!

    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…

  • A house I call The Gran

    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…

  • I’ll take her!

    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…

  • Courthouses and pocket knives

    I went to Wedowee this morning to get my license plate yearly sticker and decided to buy an Alabama Audubon bird tag. It’s so pretty. Has a hawk on one side and says Save Our Birds across the bottom. My sister-in-law Debbie was tagging along. When she got here she said she’d drive so I…

  • Day care and young’ us

    I always wondered how I ended up in the world of day care. You love children, they said; you’ll love working there, they said. Worked ten years in day care and that is WORK. Most unappreciated, under paid job I’ve ever done. School teachers work the same grueling days and they are unappreciated, and underpaid,…

  • Jewelry store and shoe shopping

    Went shopping with my youngest sister-in-law yesterday. Our first stop was at Wares Jewelry where I had to have my wedding rings cut off. I had shut the door of a camper my hand Sunday and the rings took the brunt of the blow. The diamond was knocked out of my mother’s engagement ring. My…

  • Raccoon Party at 325 Guy Street

    I’m gonna tell y’all a tale about raccoons that came down the chimney in our Roanoke house. They threw themselves a raucous party in every room of the house and had a grand ol’ time. Chief came over to Roanoke by himself to check on things the week after Christmas. This was several years ago.…

  • Songbirds and the Clothes Dryer Debacle

    Been talking to my bird friends this morning. My niece told me folks would think I’m senile if I told them I talk to birds. I really can identify some of them who are constant visitors to my bird cafe — Nutty, the blue nuthatch; Woody, the male downy woodpecker and his wife, Nuttia; Chubby,…

  • Pondering from the porch swing

    Been thinking a lot lately about writing a blog. Writing my thoughts down and describing the little adventures I experience each day seem to help me through another day. Today marks a year and 322 days that I have been a widow. Such a coarse word for loosing a spouse. The path of widowhood doesn’t…