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Maybe it’s a southern thing, but in the summertime I love sandwiches for breakfast. Top five? Cucumber and mayo, cream cheese and green olive, tomato and mayo, leftover ham and mayo and the all time winner- homemade egg salad with a baby kosher dill on…

Breakfast of Champions

July 3, 2012

That’s what my Dad, a WWII Air force instructor, called us kids when we were sick, and that’s me today. No porch news for about 24 hours. Stuck with my tree house views which will test my powers of observation between the shivers. To be…

Sad Sack

June 24, 2012

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Today was my lucky day. For unknown reasons I beat the sun up and found a beautiful four point buck in my front yard. I stood at my window for fifteen minutes waiting for enough light to catch an iPhone shot of him. Wish I…

Know Your Neighbors

June 24, 2012

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I love my neighborhood. It feels like a zoo without fences. Visitors to my yard include: squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, deer, moles, mice, o’possums, raccoons, cats, cardinals, towhees, blue jays, bluebirds, robins, thrashers, hummingbirds, black snakes, garter snakes, morning doves, bats, grackles, herons, crows, foxes, finches,…

Urban Menagerie

June 21, 2012

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I could tell by the photos she was posting that they were having a grand time. What a nice family my daughter married into. Annual beach trip with all the kids and grandkids. I’m feeling mildly green, but happy for them. Those family vacations are…

Armchair Tourist

June 10, 2012

I think I missed the Venus transit thing.

June 6, 2012

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Love these afternoon thunderstorms in the summertime. Makes me think of lazy days at the pool. Hot as the devil. Aquamarine pool. Shockingly cold on first plunge. Tadpoles with an appetite for snack bar fries and milkshakes. The three of us napping in the sun.…

Too Brief

June 1, 2012

The empty eggshells we found today make me sad. Kids All grown up. Parents still here, thank God, but the seasons seem to be speeding up, and I don’t like it. We lost an anchor tenant in the neighborhood last week. My friend who lived…

Gone Shelling

May 29, 2012

Early morning in the Grand Tetons. Very quiet. Slightly smokey. Little quakes here and there. From here, on to Yellowstone. For the next week I have the uneasy feeling of being a lobster on top of a gigantic pot about to boil.

Another Porch Another Place

May 28, 2012

Somebody in the neighborhood is cooking bacon. Or is it pancakes? Or maybe a dead chipmunk? Whatever it is, it is very interesting and tempting, but not worth getting up for. I love to watch the girls. They are endlessly entertaining. What I imagine they…

The Nose Knows

May 28, 2012