Front Porch Stories

I love to hunt!!!  I sit in a box stand most of the time shielded from the rain, wind and cold.  Sunday was a different day for me.  I sat in my stand that morning and as the wind blew the leaves were falling like snow.  It was really beautiful.  I saw several deer but none that I wanted to hang on the wall.  I came to the house around eleven and fixed our lunch. It was warm enough that we had lunch on the porch and talked about hunting.  I told my husband that I wanted to try to sit out in the  open and still hunt.  He laughed and said he didn't think I could sit still that long, that I was to used to being in my stand.  He said that if  I wanted to try it to go out our back gate and I would come to a ridge line that overlooked a draw behind our house.  So I did and I found a good vantage point and sat down.  It was a perfect afternoon, not to cold, sunshine a great day to be in the woods.  Not long after I sat down a couple of does started up the draw.  My heart was racing as the

I just want to tell each of you Happy Thanksgiving and I pray that each of you have a wonderful day.  All the kids are grow with families of their own. Pop just had back surgery, and his immune system isn't what it used to be so we will be spending the day without the kids this year.  I miss them badly!  Even though they are not here with us physically they will be here with us in spirit.  Don't eat too much!!!

It was our first year of independence and the I certainly couldn't afford to buy a Christmas tree.  The kids and I got this great idea to go down in the woods and cut us one.  We examined every little cedar that we saw, to tall, to short, to thin and then the kids said they found just the right one.  I looked at it and said it's to tall, no it isn't mama cut this one.  Please, it's the right one.  Okay, but I think it's gonna be to tall.  We carried the tree out of the woods singing jingle bells all the way to the house with our prize.  In the house we go, no way this tree is gonna fit.  We'll trim some off!  Cut off about a foot, still too tall.  Get the tape measure,  7 ft ceiling, 14 ft tree!!!  Cut in half, beautiful tree, now it's a perfect fit!!!!  That was one of the best Christmas's that I can remember.  The kids and I made a lot of the ornaments that we used that year.  We made a construction paper chain that stretched across the living room.  I

would love to hunt the way I do.  Being born and raised in the country I hunted and fished with my dad as I grew up.  We didn't have all the fancy scopes and stuff that people do now.  When I got married and moved away from home, I didn't hunt anymore for years.  Then I met this man who loves to hunt!  He would rather hunt than eat!!! I told him that I would go with him and maybe take a camera.  Then he got me to shoot my first deer, and I was hooked!!!  Now, I hunt as much if not more than he does.  My dad taught me to shoot, but my husband taught me to use a scope and be accurate with my shots.  We love to eat venison!  It is our main meat and it is so much better for you than processed meats. Due to my husbands health he doesn't hunt as much as he used to, but he makes sure that I get to hunt as much as I want to.  God Bless each and everyone of you!

While watching television this evening, a commercial came on advertising pringles potato chips. It made me think of my mom, and how she hid them from the kids.  You see we lived in an old house and being one of America's working poor, I never seemed to manage to put together enough money, to up grade to a central heat and air system.  We had a big window air conditioner in our kitchen and we heated the living room and kitchen with a gas space heater.  The kitchen had a large floor to ceiling window and our table sat in front of that window and over the air conditioner.  The table acted as a director to force the air out into the room.  In order to keep the curtain out of the way, we pinned it up.  After my mom had her first stroke, it was very hard to get her to eat.  I tried everything, all her favorite things, she just wouldn't eat. Then I bought her a can of pringles and she ate half the can.  Then she took that can and hid it, in that folded up curtain so that the kids woul

The old house was built around an old log cabin with each addition there was another door added.  This made for a perfect raceway for small children to have a blast.  Their Granny would tell them if you don't slow down someone is going to get hurt.  You better leave those doors open!  OOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!  MY EYE!! Blood running down the face of the youngest child!!  Somebody call your Mama!!!  The phone rings where I am taking a secretarial class and the instructor says Deb, it's for you.  My oldest son says Mom there has been an accident and Steven's eyebrow is split open and I think he needs stitches.  Great, just great!! I make a quick call to the doctor to see if he would wait for us, because that would be cheaper than the hospital.  I rushed home, it seemed I got behind every slow piece of traffic that was on the road.  When I got to the house, and got both boys in the car   Steven would tell his brother look at me and he would remove the towel and the bone was showing an

This is the time of year that I miss my mom the most.  As far back as I can remember she always started cooking stuff about a week before Thanksgiving and it didn't seem to let up much until after New Year's Day.  She would cook some of the cakes and put them in the freezer and dressing and beans were always better when they were a day old.  We didn't always have a turkey on Thanksgiving it was usually an ole fat hen that had been stewed or a ham from a hog that we had killed. The house was always full of people!  We always celebrated Christmas the weekend before, because older siblings had homes and families of their own for Santa Claus to come see.  If I close my eyes and breath deep, I swear I can smell the food cooking in her kitchen!  There would be all kind of food, chocolate gravy and biscuits for breakfast, sausage cookies, spinach dip, fried apple pies, pinto beans, potato salad and the list would go on and on.  I know how much this time of year meant to her, and h

I have a wide variety of flowers scattered around our yard. I've tried to plant in a way that we always have a little color .  The fall is a beautiful time of year with the changing of the leaves, but then comes winter and all the color is gone.  I have a few potted plants that I bring indoors. One of which is a Huge beautiful Christmas Catus.  I decide to sit it in the archway going into the kitchen.  I added a growing light to be sure that it would get enough light.  The light seems to be working, because the plant is holding its blooms.  Today I put my finger in the plant to see if it needed water and found I had brought in a visitor!!  A tiny frog jumped out on my shirt and I instinctively swiped him off and into the floor.  A few hours later he was trapped in a jar and moved outside.  I am already looking forward to the spring.  Thank you all for stopping by my blog.

my Daddy's birthday.  He would have been 94. I really miss him.  We had our differences, but if I had needed him he would have rowed a boat to China to get to me.  I would have done the same for him.  It's sad that sometimes we don't realize what good parents we have until we are grown or they are gone.  I read a Dear Abby column one time that really stuck in my head.  It was a story about would have, could have and should have.  A man whose mom had passed away wrote that he would have fixed her sink if he could have.  He would have taken her to lunch more if he had the time. He should have made more time for her and he should have told her that he loved her more.  I read that a long time before my dad or mom passed away and I'm glad that I did.  The would've, should have and could have do not haunt me when I think of them.  Take the time to tell your parents that you love them, do what you can for them.  One thing that has always confused me,  if one mama and one d

One of the things that make us who we are is our families.  In today's time the family unit struggles to survive.  There are so many children born out of wed lock to teenagers.  Then there are those who are born into families who really don't want a child. The children of today have so many obstacles to over come and so many more temptations than we had as children.  Sometimes I am sure that they fell overwhelmed with all the pressure that their peers place on them.  Children are like plants, they  need love, water, food, shelter and trained to grow in the directions that we want them to.  When you take on a child from a troubled family sometimes they have a really hard time acclimating to their new home.  Grandparents, brothers and sisters are taking care of children to help them grow into productive members of society.  It's a hard thing to deal with for both that loving family member and the child.  My prayer is that the Lord will be with my son, and his wife who opened

With all this political stuff and voting I remembered a story my Dad once told me.  My  dad taught us all to vote for the man not the party.  He encouraged us to do our homework on who was running.  My dad could not read or write, he could barely write his name but he was one of the smartest men I've ever know.  He got to know candidates by listening to the things they had to say and talking to everyone he knew.  He was raised up in a democratic house.  It didn't matter to my granddad who the man was as long as he had a D after his name.  Since cars were own by few when my dad was a young man, one of my granddad's friends would take car loads of folks to vote.  My dad, granddad and several others were on there way home from voting and when they ask my dad who he had voted for he said he had voted for the republican.  Well they stopped the car and made my dad get out.  They told him that since he voted republican he couldn't ride with them!!  He said his dad didn't s

The topic of conversation on our front porch for the last week or so has been politics.  Tomorrow is probably one of the most important mid-terms in years.  I hope everyone gets out to vote.  We must take our country back and turn our direction back around before we find ourselves on a one way track of no return.  We all need to start making preparations for hard times.  Buy up some extra groceries and learn how to grow a few things to eat.  Folks things are going to get tuff before it gets better. There are some tough choices that have to be made and people who depend on the government to feed them and put a roof over there heads are going to get cold and hungry when the government can no longer do that.  We have a long road to travel and we have to be prepared to make the best of it.  Please vote!!!