Reflections of Years Gone By

Driving in the country, going no place in particular...just me and Dad.
Trying hard not to kick up a dust storm, as we slowly meander down the road. Coming upon a group of about ten teenage Amish girls, with there sweet smiling faces, wrapped with a head covering, their coming from a church service, just up the road...I drive even s l o w e r. Many buggies pass us by, or should I say, we pass them?
I have always enjoyed a simplistic lifestyle, so this day is very relaxing, and rewarding to me.
My Dad, he'll be close to a spry eighty nine years old, is smiling ear to ear, thoroughly enjoying our ittle excursion.
I sit, as i'm driving, listening to his voice, as he gladly talks of his many remembrances of his past. This means so very much to me, I want to remember everything that he tells me.
One of the places that I make sure we visit, is our old homestead. This is a place that holds many prescious memories of our past.
As we sit in the car, parked out front, on the road....we reflect about days of old.
Looking up at the front lawn, I see the two huge old maple trees, one on either side of the front of the house.  Almost like watching a scene from a movie, I can see myself, a little girl with curly blond hair, lying on a blanket that I've spread beneath the tree on the right. I'm lying on my side....with my dolly (can't remember her name), and I slowly pull my little blouse up, and begin to breast feed my baby. This came so natural to me, as I was one of eight siblings, and Mom, breast fed us all.
This brought a smile to my face, one of many, as I reflected on my blessed childhood.
Until the next time.....God bless, and take care.

What a lovely weekend

I had decided that this weekend would be a lazy one, one for enjoying the outdoors, one for sitting on the porch swing with a good book. We sometimes get so wrapped up in the world, that we don't take time for us, and I so much needed...us.
Time has a way of slipping between our fingers, and ya just cannot get it back, time needs to be treasured, made the best of, spent wisely....but well.
I enjoyed the time that I had with my husband, son and grandson. Little Larry had a blast with the bubbles he was blowing, and the breeze gave him, along withTess, (our mini dach), reason to take chase.
We've had the pleasure of keeping our eyes on a birds nest that was found in a honeysuckle vine along the splitrail fence. There were four eggs, blue...robin eggs. I would sneak out and get a picture, when the mama had left the nest. As they hatched and grew, more pictures. One day...poof! their gone, having flown the nest. Wendell was cutting back the pompass grass, which I should have done months ago, and to his dismay, had came upon three baby sparrows in a little nest :( We were concerned that the mother would abandon the nest, but alas, she's back.....yippeee! Wendell had taken a big arm full of the cut pompass grass and laid it on top, for protection from the rain. The first night..she didn't return, but did come back the next morning :)  My neighbors have wooed my handfull of hummingbirds, to across the road, hopefully some will return. I love to watch them as we're sitting on the porch. As I talked to the neighbor lady, she took me out back, and much to my surprise, she had a fenced in area that had hummers, lots of them, roosting on the fence.  It was just odd to see them all just Sitt'n there.
~make the most of your day~