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…

Today was perfect for porch pondering. Just could not stay in the house on such a beautiful day. The sun was hot and raised the temperature to the high 70s. The sky was just glorious, winter blue filled with large fluffy clouds, colored in shades of gray and purple and bleached white where the sun…

Today was awakened with an overcast sky diffusing the warm sun’s rays, illuminating my yard in soft light. The clouds were pressed close, keeping their colors secret, making the vanilla clouds stand in the forefront, soldiers bravely keeping the sun away. My yard was full of cardinals, beautiful birds, the male and female plumage contrasting…

Well, it seems I need to be packing my purple suitcase for Shady Oaks. I was putting up my Wally World pick-up groceries and noticed I didn’t see a canteloupe so I just figured my youngest son had already put it in the refrigerator. This morning I asked him, “You seen my cantaloupe?” He says,…

Pondering on the porch today. The sky is blue, the sun is warm, the birds are singing, the wind chimes are pinging. God is touching the wind chimes through the breezes he’s creating. The wind is whispering softly right now, playing church music on the organ wind chimes across the street. The day is so…

So many beautiful colors in my world today — the colorful shades and patterns of the beautiful songbirds in their myriad of plumage, the bright clean white of the clouds mixed with grays and purple tints, the wondrous winter blue of Father Sky’s sketched sky canvas, the golden yellow rays of the sunshine, the dark…

Today was a glorious day for porch pondering and porch sitting. My yard is full of a charm of finches and a vatican of cardinals. It’s squabbles and bird songs around the feeders with Fatty and his dove friends frolicking underneath. The mosquitoes came calling today, biting me on the face. Seems too early for…

From my archives on this day of 2024… Been lazy today, sitting in the lady den staring at the bird feeders, Penelope and I cozy under my cardinal blanket. Not many birds on the feeders this morning. I figured the little goldfinches ate so much yesterday they were home in their warm nests, sitting comfortably…

Tom Bodett writes, “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” I think those words are a good definition of happiness but I think I’d change the word happiness to the word content. I think happiness comes…