Drove up to see the grandchildren under a vanilla ice cream sky Thursday morning, happily perched in my purple Kia Sorento. I’ve named her Theodosia. I drove a Tahoe for 23 years, “Bertha,” and it’s taking a while to get used to a smaller SUV but I am loving it and all her bells and…

From my archives, November 14, 2023 Too cool and damp for any porch pondering but on my walks with Penelope I watched the birds on the feeders and the squirrels running around the oaks trees. My oak tree has lost it leaves of sunshine and is now covered in brown leaves. The large oak tree…

From my archives… Finally got my photo taken standing by the Shady Oaks sign. If you’ve been reading my blogs the last year you know my youngest child threatens me, in good fun, to pack me up and send me to Shady Oaks. On the Golden Girls TV show Dorothy ships her mother off to…

Today was a wondrous fall day with a blustery wind creating whirl winds of leaves that travelled down the street. I love watching the leaves dancing in the wind. My water oak is covering my yard with its brown and yellow ballerinas. Gonna have to rake the leaves, soon. The wind chimes were pounding out…

So happy to have bagels and fruit in my fridge this morning. I enjoyed eating breakfast perched in the swing and watching the songbirds on the feeders. Been suffering from bagel withdrawal for several days. I’m addicted to bagels and cream cheese and raspberry preserves with hot coffee on the side. I pondered on the…

Ate breakfast on the porch this morning looking at an azure blue sky filled with white fluffy clouds sketched by Father’s Sky’s pastels. A murder of crows was providing the sound track of the early morning coming alive. The sun was warm and bright, making me go from one swing to other to escape the…

Pretty day today if you liked the vanilla colored layers of an overcast sky. I do because I love looking for different shades of clouds subdued and hiding in the sky. It’s a little cool but I sat perched in the porch swing and enjoyed watching all the birds — a college of cardinals, a…

Had a happy morning today with my oldest niece and her precious daughter, a beautiful clone of her mother at that age. We ate breakfast at the Huddle House, my first time, and I enjoyed my breakfast and being with them. Taught the youngest niece how to drink the little coffee creamer milks from their…

Another beautiful fall day with deep blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and again, no rain. Decided to water the tomatoes still growing in my garden and I found a squash plant blooming. Guess watering was the wrong thing to do ‘cause I just read decreasing watering at the end of the season helps speed up…

“This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it,” Psalm 118:24. Such a beautiful sunset this afternoon, pale wildfire embers of pink and orange and blue and lavender, softly burning across the skyline and up into the blue heavens. The sun was behind her vanilla colored clouds but…