Back home after babysitting the grandchildren for several days. I’m blissfully tired and full of happiness. Gonna dip into my archives tonight for this day in 2023 and get back on schedule tomorrow. Thanks for reading! No porch pondering today! Winter is back with its winds! I need to batten down the hatches. The wind…

Still babysitting the grandchildren. We had to get up around four o’clock this morning and head to the basement storage room because of an emergency tornado warning. Never seen the word “emergency” on a warning but I jumped out of the bed when the phone pinged and the weather siren started blaring. I waked the…

“Life is not meant to be perfect but it’s meant to be spent together.” Heard that sentence on tv yesterday. I’m babysitting my grandchildren and spending time with them is so much fun. They keep me laughing, make me feel loved and special. Had a nightmare last night and my oldest grandson ran to my…

From my archives… Heard this quote on tv last night and it’s been hanging around in my mind since. “Always do what you can but leave room for a miracle.” Guess that’s God speaking, telling us to never give up on our prayers. We all need to have enough faith to leave room for a…

Today is Valentine’s day so I got my Valentine’s letter from Chief out of my jewelry box and sat down to read it slowly, hearing his words in his Southern drawl. He had told me he had no money to buy me a Valentine gift that year so I jokingly said, “Write me a love…

An overcast sky hung over me this morning pouring out rain from my door to my grandchildren’s door. When I left Roanoke my yard was full of finches and cardinals. Bet the heavy rain stopped the finches’ quarrels. I could’ve studied the colors of the overcast sky and watched for birds but I had to…

Another cool day, a few rain sprinkles sprinkled around. There are so many birds in the yard, I can hear them with the dishwasher going. The fighting finches chose the feeder outside the lady den windows for their fighting arena this afternoon. They were squabbling loudly. I had to turn up the volume on the…

I felt like winter was on the way back this morning. The air was cool and damp, the sky overcast in its cloud cover of vanilla and cigar smoke colored clouds, the cement damp from the early raindrops. The feeders were full of birds, the street’s old oaks full of squirrels. Penelope and I walked…

Could not go to sleep last night, I tossed and turned, the fitted sheet corners popped off. I asked Alexa to play music, to play ocean wave sounds. Thought about getting up. I hate nights like this. Last time I asked Alexa what time it was, it was 5:09 AM. Finally went to sleep and…

Another beautiful porch pondering day. The sky was full of grayish purple clouds traveling quickly across the sky this morning, Mother Nature and Mr. North Wind helping push the clouds along. Soon the sun burst through and the day enjoyed her blue sky canvas and patches of snow white clouds. My little dandelion garden is…