From my archives on this day of 2023. I’m visiting the grandchildren but headed home tomorrow so new blog coming Tuesday morning. Thanks for reading my words! Sitting on the porch and pondering in the porch swing. Lots of birds flitting around. Penelope is surveying her kingdom. Barks every time the mailman comes by. He…

From my archives… Pondering in the swing on the porch today. Have a metal colander full of popcorn in my lap and a pint fruit jar of Dr. Pepper, sporting a purple straw. Penelope is in her pen snuggled under her red bird blanket. She just heard the brakes squeak on the FedX truck up…

Henry David Thoreau said, “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” I was greeted by a glorious morning as I took Penelope on her first walk of the day and have been blessed with a beautiful Friday. Mother Nature is blowing the bamboo around this morning, rustling their slender branches, fanning…

Was walking Penelope this afternoon in the crisp air of a beautiful blue sky winter afternoon and I noticed a few solitaire dandelions, their yellow blooms sparkling in the warm sun like jewels in a pile of trash. Amid the limbs and the remains of a huge cardboard stove box four bright yellow dandelion blooms…

“Do today what should be done. Your tomorrow may never come,” Harry F. Banks. Read this quote today. Just another reminder that we’re not promised another tomorrow. God gifts us with breath for another day at his discretion. I really should have done some Christmas cleaning today but I sat down in my reading chair…

Today’s sky was so blue and clear, sketched without a cloud. Mother Nature invited Mr. North Wind for tea and he kept the oak leaves and magnolia leaves dancing down the street with his strong breezes, creating large whirlwinds that danced and spun around. The bamboo bent in the wind, knocking together like wind chimes,…

Today’s quote in my daily quote book is “Let us always meet each other with a smile,” Mother Teresa. Wouldn’t that be great if the world tried to follow that advice. I’m thinking of the random smiles I shared with folks today. I was walking Penelope as a stranger walked down our street this morning.…

I’m perched in the porch swing enjoying this winter day’s awakening. The sky is so beautiful after last night’s storm, the blue sky is bluer, the white clouds are whiter. The clouds are color washed on their bottoms in shades of grays and blues and purples. The sun is bright and yellow making the yellow…

Two friends from Alexander City spent the day with me today. We had the most fun, lots of laughter, lunch at Pizza Hut, shopping at the local feed and seed store, and a little thrift store thrifting. Friendship is a beautiful thing! Friends are people we choose to spend our time with. They cheer us…

Just finished washing the last of the Christmas china from my family dinner. Been collecting Christmas china since I was a teenager. Santa Claus brought me a hope chest one Christmas. A hope chest is a piece of furniture where young women collect items in anticipation of married life. I loved it. It sits at…