Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

The news from my doctor wasn’t good yesterday, so today I bought geraniums.
I’ve only had the traditional bright red geraniums once before several years ago and I came to love them dearly.  My plants grew and grew and bloomed and bloomed all through the spring, summer and long after.  By mid-winter that year, none [...]

The snow last week was short lived, but we’re still in the Christmas spirit.  Just tired out, is all.  Somehow, Tom & I both have run out of steam and plan on just coasting through the rest of this month til year’s end.  I hope that’s the case, anyway, because I’ve needed my afternoon naps [...]

I seem to be finally over the shingles.  Haven’t taken a pain pill since Friday.
I’m very happy about that because it lasted a little over three weeks.  But, I plowed through and have come out on the other side.  For now, anyway.
I’m certainly in much better mental spirits than I have been in [...]

Anyway, back to the loose screw on the towel rod.  (See Monday’s post here.)  
Well . . . a day later (we’re up to last Saturday here) & $50 something bucks shorter (home repairmen husbands & Home Depot will get you every time), Tom got it "fixed." 
But, not before he had worked on it [...]

It’s the little things, you know?  That add up to the huge irritations and inconveniences.
That’s been my life, of late.
Actually, considering all that’s gone on, I’ve been in pretty good – make that extremely good – spirits.  But, alas, my composure sort of slipped this afternoon.  I was confused, irritated and impatient, for which [...]

There comes a time in life, and I’ve arrived there, when "saving" good things – the best, whatever it is – for "company" seems to be a loss of the lovely for each and every day.   The one we’re living now.
I did not come to this realization on my own.  
As with most of the [...]

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 [...]