Thunderstorm

This part of the state is under a thunderstorm watch. After the heat and humidity of yesterday, the relative coolness this morning is welcome. Thunderstorms? Well, they are interesting and necessary. I just hope this one doesn’t lose its temper and become violent. Putting water into birdbaths is a must all year round.  Little feathered […]

Coffee Served with Memories

The first thing I do each morning is make a pot of coffee. Some of my fondest memories center around cups of coffee and the people who brewed them. I guess a person’s mother is always the yardstick by which everything else is measured, but really, my mother could make the most excellent coffee. I’ve […]

The New Old Quilt

It’s a bright little quilt top. It doesn’t look as if it’s several decades old, and it has a story–a history. Many years ago, when I was just a young girl, I started this quilt for my sister’s new baby–a little boy. I wanted to hand stitch it so he’d know his Aunt Blanche had […]

A Look Through Their Glasses

My sister-in-law Linda and I found some old glasses in their case when we were cleaning out Mom and Dad’s storage room.  I know two things about them:  they are old and I like them a lot. They did not belong to my parents and I’m guessing some previous owner of the house and storage […]

St. Swithin

For the past two mornings, thunder roused me out of sleep. Rain! It’s wonderful to have rain in July. St. Swithin’s Day is tomorrow. What does an ancient saint have to do with the weather? His is an intriguing story, if you’d like to look him up. It has to do with rain and July. […]

A Crawly World

A Crawly World