Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Today has just flown by, don’t know what I accomplished if anything. Oldest brother came by to tell me had taken his new puppy to vet brother for a checkup. He was talking about the dog like it was a grandchild. Good to see him so happy about something. We checked on my garden and…

So pretty today, bright and green and HOT when you’re putting pine straw around things. Can’t find my gardening gloves so it’s slow go with the pine straw. That stuff is prickly. I swear that raccoon that opened my plastic box of things on the porch several months ago stole them. I’ve always kept the…

Opened the door this morning on a beautiful blue sky day and there was Fatty, hanging upside down on a bird feeder raking in the seeds as fast as she could. She scampered off when she heard the door shut and I promptly greased the pole again. Ordered some squirrel food that looks pretty good,…

Going to bed last night I gave myself a lecture about doing some household chores today. Nope! Sat down on the porch to eat my bagel and I’m still sitting here at 3:30 in the afternoon. And in the great schemes of things it doesn’t matter if I sit here as long as I want.…

Today was rather fallish in my corner of the world. I walked Penelope in a light rain this morning and tried to sit on the porch and ponder but it was just too cool and damp. Pitiful when 61 degrees makes me cold. Guess I’m getting old. If this day was in the fall it…

Hope all have had a beautiful Mother’s Day with your children. For those of us who have children in heaven I know they are looking down and smiling at us. The day has been a good day in so many ways! My youngest son gave me the World Encyclopedia of Butterflies and Moths and I…

Been pondering on Mother’s Day perched in the porch swing and watching the songbirds. The sky is dark blue and has a few wisps of clouds floating along like beautiful fish in a blue crystal fish bowl. When the fish swam away the sky stayed cloud free the rest of the day. I read quotes…

“Jesus, it’s beautiful! Great mother of big apples it is a pretty world,” Kenneth Patchen. I feel the same way. Just as pretty a day as I knew it would be after the storms of yesterday and last night. The earth is fresh and green and the sun is warm and the sky is blue…

Pennies from Heaven, I love the lyrics of that song — “Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven. Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? You’ll find your fortunes fallin’ all over the town. Be sure your umbrella is upside down. Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers. If…

Took Penelope for her morning walk and watched an acrobatic routine with the squirrels jumping from the power lines to the bamboo forest. Looked like they were practicing to join the Flying Wallendas. They always jump off the bamboo right before they’re slapped to the ground. Later I took oldest sister-in-law to the grocery store…