Yesterday was one of those rare, golden days, a day when I reaped the bounty of years gone by. Dad planted some grape vines a long time ago; I don’t even remember how many years ago. Yesterday, I gathered what he had painstakingly planted. His great-grandchildren will be beneficiaries of those lovely grapes made into jelly. That’s, let […]
Aug 12, 2015
A Wonderful Chill
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A wonderful crispness greeted me as I opened the door this morning. There’s a chill in the air. A new feeling. Is it because school is starting next week? Is it because summer is winding down? I haven’t read a cozy mystery this morning, so it can’t be that. When school starts, I am ready […]
Aug 9, 2015
A Morning Celebration
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Each morning when I get out of bed, I feel like celebrating! It’s great to be alive, to have a new day before me, to visit with family and friends, to be able to write again! Wonderful. And, I’m enjoying my first cup of Folgers. Some of my instructions from the hospital said to beware […]
Jul 28, 2015
Daylight
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This first cup of coffee is having a tough time making inroads on pre-dawn drowsiness. But, reinforced by a second cup of steaming brew, I’m counting on the caffeine. Do you ever watch a commercial that must have taken an astounding amount of money to produce and, when it finishes, wonder what it was promoting? I remember […]
Jul 24, 2015
The View From My Front Porch
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This is not my front porch. It is a front porch. But the view is not too different from mine. I like front porches. They aren’t as popular as they once were. Maybe it’s because we have so little time to come and sit a spell, talk things over with friends, or just simply stop and look at […]
Jul 23, 2015
When Critters Get Together
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We managed a cozy critique yesterday between showers. Three of our critters couldn’t make it but three could and we had a lot to share. Jane brought a lovely painting, an old-fashioned little boy that she had painted using multi-media, pen and ink and colored pencils. She also brought a sheet for us writers to […]
