Front Porch Stories

Daddy the car won't start!  What's wrong with it? I don't know, it just won't start! Daddy please, I'm gonna be late for school.  Okay, lets go see what we got. Daddy gets in the car and it starts first try!  I can't believe that!!!  I have been out it 15 minutes, I thought I was gonna kill the battery.  Then he says those magic words, that applied to anything that wasn't working right, "you weren't holding your mouth right!".  Guess not, I gotta go. Don't you drive fast to make up time, have the school call if you're late.  Yes sir, thank you daddy, I love you. Holding your mouth right, can apply to anything.  If he caught more fish than me, I wasn't holding my mouth right.  If I didn't hit something hard enough, I wasn't holding my mouth right.  I wonder if that also applies to why this computer does crazy things sometimes?  I loved and still love my daddy. He passed away over thirty years ago but sometimes it seems like...

My son and his family have been gracious enough to allow me to live with them since I have come back to Alabama.  We have finally gotten things moved around in the basement so that I can create myself an efficiency apartment.   There are so many things that I want to add to my space.  I've been looking for stuff online and have found several sites that have a lot of things that I want.    I found one site called "tiger direct" they have such neat and affordable stuff! I don't have a lot of cash to spend so I have to look for ways to save on all the things I buy.  I also need a new bed!  I have my own bathroom that I want to dress up.  So now that I will have a regular pay check coming in I'll be able to do lots of the things to really turn my space into a home. Have A Blessed Day!

Years ago a disease killed most of the chestnut trees across the country.  I was amazed to see that my son has three of them in his yard that produces nuts.  Yesterday my grandson brought some in that the squirrels had hulled out of their prickly home.  Then today as I walked by I wondered how hard it would be to get those nuts out.  As I picked some of them up I remembered the story my mom used to tell about going barefooted. She said that she hated shoes and that in the summer her feet would get so tough that she could walk on chestnut hulls and not get stuck.  That would be some tough feet!!! I decided to get my leather gloves and see how hard they would be to separate.  The fresh ones were really not that hard, and the nuts are very good.  I showed my grandson how to hull them when he came home from football practice. Have a blessed day!

The rain not only helped with the earths need to replenish it's water supply, but it brought with it the wind.  We had lots of small limbs down and it cleaned a lot of pine needles from the trees.  We have spent the last few days between work, school, and regular chores picking up all that Mother Nature left behind.  Yesterday my grandson was cleaning off the top of my son's photography studio when his girlfriend and best friend showed up out of the blue.  One of the girls Dad had seen him up there and told the girls to go help him.  He wouldn't let them on the roof with him but, he did let them ride with him in an old blue work truck to haul of the straw and sticks.  While he was working the girls now included my 8 year old granddaughter.  So as they were watching D work the three of them were doing cheerleader stunts.  Making memories to last a lifetime!!!  Have you made any good memories lately?

I love to watch it rain!  We really needed the rain.  It doesn't matter what the weather is someone is going to complain.  My son's yard has been a beautiful green all summer long and his plants were doing wonderful, then we hit a dry spell.  All of the plants were starting to get stressed and the grass was turning brown in places.  I for one was glad to see the rain.  I love to hear it on the metal roof, and see the flowers and grass start coming back to life.  The ground was so dry and the rain so hard to start with that a lot of it just ran off,  then it became that slow steady rain that soaks in the ground and replenishes everything. When I had my place out on the other Mountain we had a floor to ceiling window in our kitchen.  My Mom and I used to sit at the table for hours just watching it rain or snow.  That was where we sat to watch the birds she loved so well.  Birds eat even in the rain she would say.  I would put o...

Jealousy comes in all forms and sizes.  There is the jealousy a guy or gal has over other people in a relationship.  There is the jealousy of sibling rivalry.  Then there is the jealousy involving the way man or woman resents the children of someone they are involved with.  Sometimes they don't realize that the love between parent and child is completely different than the love shared between two adults.  One person cannot be so self centered and self absorbed that they can't share a parent with a child.  When the Bible was written a bill of divorcement was a rarity.  The wedding vows were based on a child leaving a parent and cleaving solely to one man or woman.  Times have changed a parent who already has children and marries another parent, puts themselves in a position where they have to treat all children equally and be sure that neither adult feels used. Any form of jealousy can ruin a perfectly wonderful relationship. Everyone should be l...

I love cornbread!  My son rather have biscuits.  My Mom had him spoiled!!  Anytime we had cornbread she also made a pan of biscuits just for him.  A friend of ours gave us a huge bag of beans, that look kinda like pinto beans.  So I cooked some for dinner tonight.  I also made a pan of sweet cornbread.  My son said now if Granny had cooked those, there would be a pan of biscuits for me!  I told him he had the wrong kind of flour for me or his Granny to make biscuits.  She always used White Lily Self Rising Flour and that is also my favorite cooking flour.  We all got a good laugh.    My son and I talk a lot about my Mom.  We were the ones who were around the most so the bond between the three of us was very special.  Neither of us would be the people we are today if it were not for her. Mom, even tho you are up in heaven we love you so!  You are missed and thought of each and every day.