Front Porch Stories

Days like today I really miss my old house.  The house where my Mom and I lived, the house where I raised my kids.  Mama would have gotten up around six took her medicine and turned up the heat.  Then we would have slept til about eight.  We had floor to ceiling windows in the dinning room and our table sat in front of them, we could see the whole back yard from there.  I can hear her telling me that the birds were waiting on me and she was gonna start the coffee.  That was my cue to go out and feed the birds so that we could watch them eat while we were eating.  We always had red birds, sparrows, wrens, chickadee's an occasional bunting and others that were just passing thru.  I miss my mom and at times I just miss that ole house.  Sitting at that table watching the birds would be a great place to be this morning. I have a great place to live here with my son and his family, but sometimes I miss having my own place.  I used to love to...

I just want to say Merry Christmas to all those who stop by my blog.  Today has been a great day filled with love, laughter, food and most of all family.  I hope that each of you have had the same.  I know that some of you have spent most of the day in a deer stand and I hope that you brought home more than just a cold. May the Lord bless each and everyone of you!  May your New Year get off to an amazing start and be filled with health, wealth and happiness!!!

The Christmas Season brings with it many wonderful memories.  Thoughts of how the house smelled when Mama was cooking up all our favorites.  Christmas Plays, concerts, friends and family.  I think about the effort that used to go into getting just the right gift. Sending the card that best fits the receiver.  The love and happiness that used to fill the air. However those things are no longer a priority!  It has been over commercialized.  The largest tragedy of all is the removal of Christ from everything.  God loaned us his son so that we might have everlasting life and a lot of people want to shut him out!  As you go from day to day take the time to include God in your daily activities.  Make memories that will last a lifetime.

I remember like it was yesterday.  We were getting ready to move again!  My Dad was a sharecropper and that meant moving whenever he could get a bigger piece of land or a better split on the crops.  It always meant moving in December, when school was out for Christmas break.  Lots of times we stayed in the same school district, but not this time. Sometimes the houses we lived in were decent, but sometimes they were awful!!  This place was bad, really bad.  This was back before central heat and air, back when a wood heater or fireplace was you source of warmth, and when the fire died out you could freeze water in the room where you slept.  It was coming a light snow when we got the last of our things in the house and daddy got fires going in the heater and the fireplace in the bedroom.  When we got the bed up, my mom noticed that the snow was coming thru the roof, so she put a layer of newspaper between the cover so the covers next to us wouldn't...

This past spring my sister shared a lot of her flowers with us.  She and my Mom had a great collection of  Iris's. I was not expecting them to bloom until this coming spring and was shocked the other day to see one that had blooms!  I showed them to my son and we waited and watched for a few days to see what color it would be.  My phone is rather outdated so the picture is not very good, but I had to post it for all to see.  I think it is my Mom's way of saying Merry Christmas from heaven.  That woman could get anything to grow!

One evening an old Cherokee Chef told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ' My son, the battle is between two ' wolves ' inside us all. One is Evil. - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. - It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. ' The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: ' Which wolf wins? ' The old Cherokee simply replied, ' The one you feed. '