The Front Porch Swing

[LeslieDJoyce]

I wish I had enough hair to worry about.

Cool frozen fog photos!

 

[PrairieChicks]

Bee and Triple Willow, I've been praying for you today. May God give you His peace. I'm always sad to hear when people in churches don't reflect God's love to others.

It sounds like quite a few are experiencing difficult weather today. Stay safe and hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow and warm up for you. It's staying cold here in Saskatchewan, but at least the sun was out today.

Looking at the pictures of the jackrabbit and reading about the peace and quiet in the country around San Diego warms my heart. I have also experienced being out where there are no "man made" sounds and remember the peacefulness and stillness. Good to remember times like that in the middle of winter! Some nights when I come back from the barn after my last check, I stand and look up at the stars and the moon and sometimes the northern lights, and feel so small. The crunch of the snow under foot and the cold air in my lungs feels so clean. Often the silence is broken by the hoot of a snowy owl and when the coyotes start singing, I hurry for the house

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Thank you for sharing your friendly porch with me. You are a wonderful group of people!

 

[LindaB220]

Wrap em in bacon and bake 'em.

My chickens have been out in this rain and ice foraging all day long like their very lives depended upon it...right alongside the crows, robins and squirrels. Something is mighty tasty out there guys and my chooks are tanking up on it, no matter the weather. Whatever it is they were out after it yesterday too, turned up every leaf on 3 acres of meadow to find it and I got 6 eggs this morning, up from 3, so I hope they keep on eatin' it.

Thank you all for the prayers....I love having so many wonderful, helpful people to depend on in a pinch. The prayers are working!

Absolutely my favorite way. Been away all day, Bee. Love you..

 

[Beekissed]

Absolutely my favorite way. Been away all day, Bee. Love you..

Love you too!

 

[perchie.girl]

Here is what we got yesterday:




This is what happens when the snow clouds are too low and we end up enveloped by them. I could see the moisture swirling through as fog as the storm moved through, It will take a couple of days for the woodpile to defrost. Good thing I loaded up the house before the storm rolled in.

Is that the results of what they call a White out? I have heard about them..... sooo many particles in the air youcant even find your way twenty feet from the house. Old time farmers used to run a rope from the house to the barn sothey could tend the animals.... Its pretty but it must be freaking cold to do that.... Right?

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Bee and Triple Willow, I've been praying for you today. May God give you His peace. I'm always sad to hear when people in churches don't reflect God's love to others.

It sounds like quite a few are experiencing difficult weather today. Stay safe and hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow and warm up for you. It's staying cold here in Saskatchewan, but at least the sun was out today.

Looking at the pictures of the jackrabbit and reading about the peace and quiet in the country around San Diego warms my heart. I have also experienced being out where there are no "man made" sounds and remember the peacefulness and stillness. Good to remember times like that in the middle of winter! Some nights when I come back from the barn after my last check, I stand and look up at the stars and the moon and sometimes the northern lights, and feel so small. The crunch of the snow under foot and the cold air in my lungs feels so clean. Often the silence is broken by the hoot of a snowy owl and when the coyotes start singing, I hurry for the house

.

Thank you for sharing your friendly porch with me. You are a wonderful group of people!

There is intense beauty everywhere..... you just have to look for it or be open to see it.... I love your vision..... I love Coyotes.... even huge packs of them. We dont have snowy owls but we do have Barn owls and owls that dig down and nest in rabbit holes. They are incredibly cute....

One day I will hear a loon and see the northern lights and swim in a stream that is so impossibly clear you cant tell how deep it is.

deb

 

[LindaB220]

I started getting grey in my mid thirties and so started adding subtle lighter shades in with foiling to cover the grey and that worked really well until the grey started taking over...too much and too often to keep from looking like a tri-colored skunk head.

Then I met a lady in her 50s that had the most beautiful white hair and her face was still tan and young and so I wanted to be released from this ritual too. Everyone thought I was too young to "let myself go" but nothing sounded more freeing to me than letting go of trying to be different than what I am. I had no man to impress and happen to think that silver hair is very pretty...especially in the sunlight. Men get to do it and they look handsome, but women aren't allowed to do it or they get accused of "letting yourself go".

My kids fought me on it, the people I worked with fought me on it and my siblings fought me on it....don't know why but, suddenly, everyone thought they owned my hair! My sisters actually got mad about it! I saw an old friend of mine this past year and the first thing she blurted out was, "They run out of box color at the store?" and I pointedly glanced at her head and replied, "Apparently not!".

Some days I think it makes me look old and tired and sometimes I think I love it more than I ever have loved my hair at any other color. It's healthier and saves me money, time and effort. My kids finally admitted they think it is pretty. My mother and siblings still feel like I need color, as do others. For me it's honest and the new normal for me at this stage in my life...this is me! (... it's me, it's me, O Lord, standin' in the need of prayer!

)

I saw my oldest DD Jenny from Austin this week. Two whole hours!!!. She just turned 43 and has decided to abandon hair color and has 2 or 3 small patches of grey now. I was shocked. I didn't stop with the color until late fifties. Made me feel old (er).

 

[Beekissed]

Bee and Triple Willow, I've been praying for you today. May God give you His peace. I'm always sad to hear when people in churches don't reflect God's love to others.

It sounds like quite a few are experiencing difficult weather today. Stay safe and hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow and warm up for you. It's staying cold here in Saskatchewan, but at least the sun was out today.

Looking at the pictures of the jackrabbit and reading about the peace and quiet in the country around San Diego warms my heart. I have also experienced being out where there are no "man made" sounds and remember the peacefulness and stillness. Good to remember times like that in the middle of winter! Some nights when I come back from the barn after my last check, I stand and look up at the stars and the moon and sometimes the northern lights, and feel so small. The crunch of the snow under foot and the cold air in my lungs feels so clean. Often the silence is broken by the hoot of a snowy owl and when the coyotes start singing, I hurry for the house

.

Thank you for sharing your friendly porch with me. You are a wonderful group of people!

That's my favorite time to be outside....all alone but the animals and God's spectacular sky filled with diamonds! I love your description...I can see it, smell it and feel it from here! We are so glad to have you here!

Thank you so much for the prayers....like pure gold to me they are.

 

[lovingmyhens]

Okay when I woke up this morning it was 78 outside, now it is 31 with a wind chill of 27.  CRAZY weather!

Crazy in Houston too! Gotta go dig out my winter digs

 

[enola]

The last time it snowed here I took my boyfriend out on the front porch so we could listen to it snowing. Traffic was at a standstill on the interstate. The silence was over whelming. Mike had never heard snow falling before. He is a city boy.

Standing there listening to the snow falling made me realize how badly I need to go back to WV...........