by Kay~Kacey on 7/28/2008
My grandmother had a rocking chair. I have memories of sitting in it as a little girl. It probably is the cause of my rocking chair addiction now. I can hardly walk by a rocking chair without plopping down for a spell.
After the rocking chair spent years and years at my grandmother’s home, it spent its next life at my mother’s house when my boys were little. Such pictures in my head of my mom rocking my boys when they were babies.
But now I have the chair.
The rocking chair isn’t set in any special place of honor in my house. It’s stuck in the corner of my office amid yoga mats, old manuscripts and colored pencils. Which is right where it belongs. Beckoning my boys to drop into it and sit and chat with me as they buzz in and out of town, in and out of my life. Filling me in on details. Telling me secrets. Sharing simple moments of their lives. SuperGuy comes in with his coffee in the morning and slides into the rocking chair and we chat as he slowly rocks back and forth, easing into the day.
The afghan my grandmother crocheted for me when I was a young girl rests on the back of the chair.
Doesn’t it just call out to be wrapped around your shoulders on a crisp fall morning?
Think of all the love and time that went into each of those stitches. :love: I can still pictured her weathered hands, hovering over her needlework, her knitting, her crocheting. When I sat down to write this post, I thought this post was about the rocking chair, but maybe it’s about the afghan, or maybe it’s about the memories, old and new. Maybe it’s about my boys remembering this rocking chair sitting in my office, a safe place to sit down and talk to their mom.
So if you could now have just one item from your childhoood, what would it be? Do you have it?
by Kay~Kacey on 7/27/2008
Remember when I had all these Indigo Buntings in my backyard? :love:
Well, now look. One lone Indigo Bunting.
See, SuperGuy read that if you put peppers in the birdfood, it will keep the squirrels away, but the birds like them. Okay, I wasn’t thrilled…in fact I said let’s NOT, we’ve got a good thing going here…but when SuperGuy has his mind made up there’s no stopping him. So into the bird food the peppers went.
Well, the Indigo Buntings went too. They left. All of them except this one lone indigo bunting that got left behind. Sigh. Now, you can try some nonsense like SuperGuy said to try and appease me. “They were just passing through, and migrated away.” Yeah, right. Except for this one poor little lonely guy. Maybe he’ll make friends with the one lone baby turkey?
So I’m just counting to ten so I don’t say I TOLD YOU SO to SuperGuy. One… two… three…
by Kay~Kacey on 7/26/2008
This month’s photo of the month theme is Red, White, or Blue. Send a link to your photo…taken this month…of something Red. Or Something Blue. Or Something White. Let me know which color you’re entering it under if it’s not obvious, okay?
Red moss rose. Portulaca. See, it’s almost pink. Any shade of red will do.
White lighthouse. See, I could have picked blue for this photo…the ocean and the sky…but I picked white for the lighthouse. I’m tricky that way.
Blue Chuck Taylor tennis shoes. Yes, turquoise is a shade of blue. That works.
Any shade of red, white, or blue will work. I’m easy that way.
So you get to pick one color, one entry. Use the contact button at the top of my website to send me a link to your entry. All entries must be in by July 31 by midnight CST. Sooner would be better. She said pleadingly to spread out the workload of getting the photo of the month post finished. You can title your photo if you’d like. See previous photo of the month contests here. Let me know if you have any questions. I’m looking forward to some great entries again.
Can you believe it’s almost the end of July??? Where did the summer go? ❓
