Been pondering this morning on the beautiful vegetable garden I had the spring of Rosie’s death. I poured all my heartache and grief into my little kitchen garden and it flourished. I built a spider web trellis from twine for the cucumbers to climb, put a small brick path through the herbs, made a scarecrow…

I think God gave us the ability to laugh, a gift we should all enjoy. Laughter is such a wonderful stress reliever. Laughter helps us battle anxiety and worry. And its so much fun to really have a good laugh. And the best thing about laughter is it’s free and it’s catching. Job 8:21 reads,…

I love this quote by Dixie Carter talking about crazy folks — “This is the South and we’re proud of our crazy people. We don’t hide them up in the attic, we bring them right down to the living room to show them off. No one in the South ever asks if you have crazy…

Sat in the swing all morning it was so pleasant. I dozed off several times, waking when my head bobbed down. There was a cool breeze blowing, making the wind chimes sing. I love wind chimes. I have seven of them hanging around the swings, each one representing a special memory, and I love to…

Can’t even remember how the sky and clouds looked this morning. I was too excited picking the first squash and counting the little bell peppers. My tomatoes are still just blooms, same on the cucumbers. The cucumbers are beautiful, filling up the bird trellis with their vines and blooms. After lunch I sat in the…

“The rain begins with a single drop,” Manal al-Sharif. Been reading quotes today about the rain. I love a rainy day. Good time for some of us to nap or to read. Never can take a nap in the day time, I just lie there wide awake. Guess you can call it resting. Not good…

Well my worst fear has come to fruition. I had a loose crown on a tooth, been ignoring it for several weeks. The crown was connected to some dental work with two other teeth and today the little bridge of teeth just saw fit to come “aloose” and fall out. It doesn’t hurt but…woe is…

Sat on the porch swing today watching all the beautiful crimson cardinals on the feeders. I always feel Chief’s presence with the cardinals. The females, dressed in their fawn brown beauty, were flitting around the feeders, too. The wind chimes were singing along with the birds’ symphony. I watched the rain clouds, watercolored in their…

Another quiet peaceful morning passing as I sit in the porch swing pondering, watching the earth spin on its axis. We had a heavy rain last night, so everything is crayon green from the rain’s nitrogen. My vegetables are showing out, all dressed in yellow blooms, their leaves upward worshipping the sun’s warmth. The bell…

I think I’ve used this quote before but it just fits perfectly with today. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom,” Marcel Proust. Today my brothers and I and all our children and grandchildren gathered at baby brother’s house for our annual…