The sky is beautifully blue today filled with mackerel scale clouds bleached Clorox white on their crowns by the sun’s rays. The clouds are moving quickly across the sky taking the dark blueness of the sky with them, leaving the sky cloudless and a lighter blue. The yard is full of birds happily performing symphonies…

Well, Alabama pulled out a win at the Iron Bowl. Roll Tide! I love college football and miss watching it with Chief. We’d always have a tea party while we watched the ballgames. There are no perks to widowhood, changes every aspect of your life. Several Bible verses comforted me after Chief’s death. My favorite…

The day was so beautiful, crisp and bright, a cool wind blowing with a touch of the holiday spirit in the air. The sky was winter blue, illustrated with a few clouds sketched by Father Sky. I missed the sun setting but I took Penelope on a walk right as the night drank in the…

Today is a day of thankfulness. The McMurrays celebrated our Thanksgiving together Saturday so today my youngest son and oldest brother will be eating supper with me tonight. I just cooked a pork loin and made bbq and we’ll have chips and baked beans. I thought this Thanksgiving day of what blessings I’m most thankful…

Sat in the porch swing today pondering in the warm sun, a reward between chores I didn’t want to do. My bird feeders are full of cardinals, the males so handsome in their dark crimson robes and jet black bibs, the females pretty in their dusty brown dresses. The little purple finches are providing a…

Penelope went to see vet brother this morning. He has the best pet bedside manner, always sweet to Penelope, calls her “Baby.” She had a terrible cough, sounded like a croupy baby all night long. She does this frequently from finding a minuscule piece of trash in the yard and scarfing it down. He always…

Today was so pretty. I’ve been lazy, sitting in the swing, bird watching and pondering most of the day. The sky was sunny and blue, crammed full of all kinds of different shaped clouds — skinny and thin, wispy like cotton candy, some lumpy and clumped together like marshmallows. I think Father Sky had sketched…

I’m perched in the swing watching the squirrels and songbirds, holding a cup of hot coffee in a turkey mug. The birds are enjoying apple peelings, the squirrrels are eating corn and peanuts in the shell. The sky is cerulean blue, all clear but for one big thin cloud, sketched by Father Sky, that looks…

From my November 2023 archives… Today was a beautiful blue sky day. Warm sunshine and time for much porch pondering before I retreated inside for some Thanksgiving cooking. Having our McMurray family dinner tomorrow. I’m the ham cooker, the chocolate and caramel cake and pecan pie baker, and the collard cooker. Chief was always the…

Read this quote on a friend’s Facebook page today. “If you focus on gratitude, you will feel grateful. If you focus on those who love you, you will feel loved. If you focus on those you love, you will feel loving. If you focus on the times you’ve felt joy, you will feel joyful,” Dr.…