The new week started yesterday with bright sunshine, after a very bleak, cold, wet, dreary week. My mood brightened just a bit, too.When we moved into our house last summer, good friends gave us a fire pit as a housewarming gift. It was hot and muggy and while we appreciated the thought, it's use seemed [...]
It's been really cold and rainy and dreary this week and I'm really missing my back porch meditations. They always sooth me, even in the depression. I sit out there on the white wicker love seat with the lovely light yellow and blue flower cushions under the neat white ceiling fan and watch the tops [...]
Hey!We made it through the cold snap and it's now back up to 48 degrees here at nearly noon today. That's still cold for here, but not as bad as 17 degrees and a hard freeze for a couple of nights. I mean, we're talking about South Mississippi.Now I understand it's supposed to be fairly [...]
Thunderstorms have been crackling and booming in the past several afternoons. Very loudly and ferociously. Tom says that when storms move from east to west, against the flow in the U. S., which is normally west to east, at least generally, the thunder and lightening are much worse. I don't know about that, but it seems [...]
Y'all have been clamoring to see some pictures of the house since we've moved in. Well - today you have that opportunity, plywood kitchen counter tops and all. Just send the housewarming gifts via comment below, okay?!
I'm posting a lot of pictures, so don't get bored. I'm also going to post them all to the [...]
I absolutely write some of the most brilliant blog posts in my head in between actually sitting down here to write. But then when I do finally really sit down here to write, they have suddenly all disappeared from my brain.Why is that?Just yesterday afternoon I was thinking of one and started to sit down [...]
Do y'all realize that we have been living in limbo now for a year and a half!?!Seventeen and 1/2 months, to be exact. I would - could - tell you the days, hours and minutes, but I won't stop to add them all up. I know them by heart in my own heart, for sure.It [...]
Tom's funny.How many of you go home for lunch every day or any time? Anybody out there?Tom comes home for lunch every day. He was able to begin doing so when we moved up to Picayune last spring into the apartment to start building our house. Before we moved out here two weeks ago he [...]
We have fireflies and hummingbirds.The woods at night are filled with tiny flickers of light that are the fireflies. Tom stands and leans out over the railing of the high back deck above the woods and watches them before he comes to bed. Night lights of the best kind.By day, hummingbirds come to gather sweet [...]
I'm tired of thinking about and even writing about plumbing, so I won't. As of yesterday, it's presumably (do I sound a bit skeptical here in my cynical years?) fixed. So, an element of calm has descended upon the land.I say element of calm because that elusive peace is still to be completely captured, [...]