At the feeder...

It is bitter cold here...did not even get in the teens today.  The birds were busy....

They would all flock in...and all flee at the same time.

Not going overboard with photos...will post a few more another day.

All of these have been cropped and played with.  They were taken through my dining room window.

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It has been an odd sort of day.  The wind has blew all day....it would blow the snow sideways.  And act like a regular blizzard was setting in.  Then in two or three or four minutes, the sun would pop out, there would be vivid blue skies, with big puffy clouds.  I am sure to the north and west was probably clouds...but this window faces south.

Then the sun would disappear and we would have blizzard type weather again.  But only for the very few minutes.  Then back to the sunshine and blue skies.  I don't know how many times it did that but all evening.  I think it stayed sunny just a bit longer than it was blizzard type weather.

If I Were

Mama Squirrel

If I Were...

I saw this activity on another blog and thought it would be fun to do myself and fun to challenge others to do.   I copied and pasted it, and forgot about it for years.  I just happened to come across it today.



So, here goes:

If I were a month I’d be October.


If I were a day I’d be Thursday.


If I were a time of day I’d be 7:00a.m..


If I were a font I’d be Papyrus.


If I were a planet I’d be Saturn...


If I were a direction I’d be really screwed cause I would be going between the North and the South....all things north appeal to me....but South because the minute I have to call a business in the south and hear that southern voice, I feel home.

If I were a piece of furniture I’d be a recliner.


If I were a liquid I’d be a home canned tomato juiced.


If I were a gemstone I’d be a an opal.


If I were a tree I’d be a sweet gum in autumn or pink dogwood in spring.


If I were an element I’d be gold.


If I were a tool I’d be a sewing machine.


If I were a flower I’d be an iris.


If I were an element of weather I’d be a summer storm.


If I were a musical instrument I’d be a mandolin.


If I were a colour I’d be yellow.


If I were an emotion I’d be joy.


If I were a fruit I’d be a pineapple .


If I were a sound I’d be the sound of Lorelei's laughter.


If I were a car/truck I’d be the a Toyota Tundra.


If I were a food I’d be Southern style cornbread--the kind made without sugar.


If I were a place I’d be a beloved home.


If I were material I’d be cotton.


If I were a taste I’d be salty.


If I were a scent I’d be honeysuckle, woodsmoke, or new mown hay.


If I were a body part I’d be sparkling eyes .


If I were a song I’d  be "Good to Be Home" by the Everybodyfieds

If I were a bird I’d be a Northern Harrier.


If I were a gift I’d be under a Christmas tree.


If I were a city I’d be sad--no matter where I live I will always feel like I am a country girl.... .


If I were a door I’d open into a log cabin.


If I were a pair of shoes I’d be earth shoes.


If I were a poem I’d be about autumn.

OK, so who is next????

If you choose to do this, let me know...I for sure don't want to miss what others have to say....I am sure there will be answers I wish I had thought of.

Lorelei and her quilt

This was taken a while after she had received her quilt...how I wish I could have had a picture of her the minute she pulled it out of the bag.

When she asked me for a heart quilt, I was fine with it.  But at that time she thought I should be able to sew it up in a day and mail it to her.  No joke.  I was first of all surprised that she did ask about it every so often.  When I had it all together and on the design wall, she did not seem impressed.

But when she asked about it on the phone the other night, and I told her I was doing the finishing stitches on it, she says, "You are?  Really, Mamaw?  Are you?"  I should have known by that that it would get a good reaction...I forget her words when she pulled it out but she hugged it and her eyes just sparkled.  She said something about having her very own quilt...I did not quite understand since she has two or three others.  Unless it is the fact that this one has flannel backing...

She later wrapped up with it on the floor, and played....then graduated to this chair.  I asked her if it was going to be her couch quilt and she said yes.