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~ It's in the air~

Sitting in my bedroom this morning, looking out the window,at the different hues of autumn. I am actually awestruck at the beauty that my eyes behold. I have wonderful visions in my head, visions of an earlier time, a time when my children and I, would spend hours in the woods....enjoying one anothers company, and our surroundings. 

This time of the year, makes me feel so alive, I just want to run through the leaves that fallen all around me, stopping to pick up handfuls of them, to throw up into the air.......only to watch them tumble, slowly, back down to the ground. 

hanging out laundry

I don't think there's anything that smells better then cloths that have been hanging out on the line. Brings back memories of my childhood, when Mom would spent the day doing the tedious job of washing and hanging out to dry or cloths. There was the old wringer washer out on the back porch, with the galvanized wash tub (which also doubled as our bathtub), to catch the cloths. I don't think I've ever been so embarrassed, as when the whole neighborhood could see our unmentionables, frozen stiff as a board, not even able to flap if there was a breeze.
I can honestly say that I truly treasure all of my childhood memories, so when i'm out there hanging out taking down my laundry, my mind meanders back....to the good old days....and I smile.

What I've been doing

Another beautiful evening outside, not too hot...just right. I'm a country bumpkin and would have it no other way. I love sitting outside and really do love the simple things in life. My husband just finished mowing the lawn, and it smells so good right now.
Way back when...I used to do macrame, and I've just recently picked it back up. It's funny, but they say...if you wait long enough, that things do come back in style. I just finished a couple pretty bracelets for two of my Granddaughters...hope they like them.

What a lovely evening

Sitting out on the front porch, swinging to my hearts content. I've found much more time to enjoy this simple pleasure, especially since my retirement. I honestly cannot imagine myself living the city life....where would be the tranquility? My little hummers are back, much to my enjoyment, and this year their hanging around the tree, right beside the porch..yippee.

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~