Ponderings from the Porch Swing

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.…

Father Sky looked in his box of pastels today and picked up a beautiful blue stick to sketch the sky. His sky is perfect, looks like a deep blue sapphire ring resting on the warm finger of the sun, so in love she’s beaming with joy. I wonder if Father Sky gave it to her.…

Today marks two years of my writing a blog. I’m sitting here tonight looking at a blank piece of paper patiently waiting for the words to come. Maybe I’m done…no I’m not, just kidding. Been doing chores all day in happy anticipation of Thanksgiving guests and didn’t ponder in the swing long enough to get…

Listened to Anne Murray last night singing the lyrics to Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good. And it was. God blessed us with a good rain. I took my pansies out of their urns and put the pots on the sidewalk so they could enjoy the rain showers. We haven’t had good pansy growing…