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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Dee Andrews, Esq.
Attorney, Former Journalist, Author
South Mississippi