Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Another beautiful day the Lord has created, warm sunshine with that beautiful blue fall sky I enjoying gazing on. I love the word beautiful, use it too much, but sometimes it just fits perfectly. I ate my bagel sitting in the swing this morning working on my grocery list for Thanksgiving, watching the songbirds and…

My children took me out for lunch Friday at The Curious Kitchen in Senoia, Georgia. Dessert was apple pie cooked in a very small cast iron skillet with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on top. Delicious! So delicious! Cast iron skillets, I love them. Can’t imagine cooking cornbread in anything else. Fried green…

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…