Posted on 04/20/2021 9:18:06 AM PDT by weston
Oh my goodness. My porch faces north as well. It is also very narrow. I have two wicker chairs and a wicker table and I have to squeeze by as well. I call it my front perch. I doubt it’s even 4 feet - closer to 3. Pain in the neck.
Pretty!! I like that combo.
Prayers sent for your Father
This is true! There’s a cat here called the neighborhood cat. Not sure if she was a stray or someone moved off & abandoned her or what. But she started hanging mostly at one neighbor’s house; they feed her, let her in to sleep and take her to the vet. But she comes to my back deck once or twice a day. She’s been known to sleep in the sun out there for hours. I don’t feed her and she runs if I even act like I’m going to open the door.
But she sure enjoys watching the birds that come to the feeders on my back deck. Sometimes she even takes a bird home with her. Then she gets in trouble with Daddy.
Given the right house, that can totally work. Best on one of those ‘painted lady’ Victorians. LOL
I wish my house was a gray, but not enough to paint the vinyl or replace it. But I hear color trends are swinging back to beige, so I might be au courant in the future!
Thank you , ALL, for the prayers. nothing has changed.
Mornin’ lysie.....
I hope today brings some better news your way...on all fronts.
It's going to be in the mid 80s here today.
I can remember once when I was just a little boy my Mom, Nana and I drove to my Nana’s sister’s house in the next town. It was a warm, Summer afternoon so I went outside to play in the yard while they all sat around the kitchen table to talk. After over an hour playing and exploring by myself I got bored and walked inside to see what they were doing. Laid out on the kitchen table was a large, homemade quilt that was still being sown together. Scraps of multicolored fabrics were scattered everywhere. I sat on a chair and watched as my great aunt painstakingly sewed a little piece onto the collage of color. I looked over at one edge of the quilt and saw a piece of thread sticking out. Without thinking I reached over to pull it.
“NO!” It was my Nana’s voice. I jumped back. That was the first time I can ever remember her yelling at me. Seeing the startled look on my face she smiled and gently showed me why she had yelled. That single piece of thread wove in and out of the different pieces of fabric. Like a curvy mountain road it made its way from one end of the quilt to the other. If I had yanked on it I might have torn the entire quilt and ruined hours of work.
As I look back on that moment today I can see that each of our lives is a lot like that thread. We are all just a single string in God’s tapestry. We can’t always see where we are going or what we are connected to but God, the master artist can. He is creating something so beautiful, so interconnected that it is beyond our ability to comprehend. All we can know is that we are an important part of His creation and if we pull ourselves out of it, we will leave a gaping hole.
Don’t feel lost in the tapestry of life then. Embrace your place in it. You may only be a single piece of thread but your love and your life helps to hold the whole thing together. God loves you and has put you here for a purpose. Find it and live it each and every day of your life.
Our new neighbor’s cat likes our birds and chipmunks. It is nice having a cat around without the catfood and litter box.
That is lovely, lysie. Thank you for posting. I passed it along to my ex sister-in-law, who is now a good friend.
Thank you so much for the prayers. Love all of you.
You are welcome , Judy. It sure reminds me of my younger years.
ROFL
We’re at mid 80s as well, only, because we’re Canadian weenies who follow Europe, we call it 28 degrees. I don’t like it when I turn on the air-conditioning within a week of turning off the furnace. It just doesn’t feel right lol. With all of the construction going on around here, we have to keep the windows closed, so on goes the air!
There has been a gray cat hanging around our place as well. Good luck to him with the chipmunks.
We have been known to have the heat and aircon on on the same day!
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