From my front room window, I can see a squirrel’s nest on a high limb of my neighbor’s tree. I wonder about these nests that are easily visible when leaves are off the trees. In summer, they’re hidden by thick leaves but in winter, that covering is gone. Do the squirrels still live there? I […]
Jan 8, 2026
Cats and Thursdays
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She was crouched down by my azalea bush beside the house this morning, watching and waiting. So, I promptly filled the food and water dishes on the front porch. A minute later, there she was, munching and crunching. This little gray and white cat was hungry and, although she wasn’t mine, I fed her. Good […]
Nov 25, 2025
A Recipe
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Here it is–only a couple of days before Thanksgiving! The house will be full of the aroma of pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing, and cranberry cheese bread! Then, in a couple of days the family will gather around my mother’s hundred-year old table, thankful for the Lord’s blessings. The biggest blessing of all is family and […]
Oct 10, 2024
A Staple of Life
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Sometimes when I’m tired or just want to relax, I pour a cold glass of buttermilk. It refreshes like no other drink. My family, sadly, does not share my enthusiasm for buttermilk. But, I inherited the taste for it from a long line of ancestors–southern, that is. When my mother was a child, the farm […]
Nov 22, 2023
‘Twas the Day Before
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Here it is–the day before Thanksgiving! The house will be full of the aroma of pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing, and cranberry cheese bread! Then, tomorrow the family will gather around my mother’s hundred-year old table, thankful for the Lord’s blessings. The biggest blessing of all is family and friends and the love we share. My […]
Jan 2, 2022
In An Icebox
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Brrr and double brrr. It’s a white world outside, just enough snow to cover things and a few lazy flakes still drifting down. Temperature? Well, it’s shivering somewhere around thirteen degrees and I feel like I’m in an icebox. The thermometer sank two degrees in about three minutes last night. However, the biting cold didn’t […]
