Bird Notes

This is the third month I've joined the Note Card Party by Vee at
A Haven for Vee.

The rules are simple ~  post 4 pictures from previous posts that you think would make a nice note card. Link up, link back, and then go a-visitin'.


This month I chose birds.  I have birds everywhere throughout my house, not unlike many of you (: 

  When I started blogging I naively thought I was somewhat unique in my love

for all things bird-twiggy-nest-feathery.

 Now I know better (: 

In fact, it may be an unspoken prerequisite

"love blogging, love birds"

and the garden, and tea, and reading

and fur babies

This last one is a picture from one of my

favorite posts God Chix

I've learned a few things about blogging since then,

but one thing that hasn't changed is my real "peeps"

They were here last night until nearly midnight.

Seventeen of us laughing and crying, singing, 

sharing our hearts and praying for each other.

In this day and age, I think that's very noteworthy too.

Counting My Blessings,

xo  Susy

I'm flitting over toVee's 

come join the fun!

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

About this time every year, when the summer mornings start warming up, I open the bay windows over the kitchen sink for the season.

They're the old fashioned kind that swing open, so it means clearing the plants off, opening the windows on each side, and then putting everything back. 

It's one of my simple pleasures, and I'm sure I blogged about it last year.  The problem is this year there's major remodeling going on to the house next door ~ which means extra noise and dust.  So I'm stalling.

Here's a pic from last year

In the meantime I'm enjoying the morning light.

Some of my favorite pieces are perched on the window counter,

things I enjoy seeing every day.

 

Things that make me happy

 like my Salvation Army girl with a penny in her tambourine

that has The Lord's Prayer engraved on it

Plants in pretty pots

an orchid gifted to me for my birthday

a flea market donkey

 ~ only $10 at the end of the day ~

[btw - there's an article in Romantic Country Home this month about

our local flea market.  Named in the top 5 ~ and I can walk there!]

always a bird or two

And a spoon rack that belonged to my mother,

was almost given away, then retrieved

and pressed back into service

a vintage sugar and creamer turning purple

and if you look carefully between the flower pots.

sitting on the base of the old kitchen clock you'll find...

two tiny

meeces

 frolicking in the hickory dickory dust

* * * * *

It's pretty quiet next door...

maybe today is the day I let Summer in (:

what'ya think?

Counting My Blessings

and so much more

xo Susy

While the cats away  ^ .. ^  I'm playing with Carol at

 Vintage Inspiration Friday

Porch Musings

I'm not a gardener, although I love plants.  My husband does it all.  He mows and edges, cleans out the beds, and goes to the nursery and plants new things.  He invites me to tag along for input once in a while  ~ but mostly he has it figured out.


 

I was outside waiting for the "gate guy" to come fix the electric gate that goes across the driveway, and snapped a few pix.  (I have my digital camera set so it makes a "shutter" sound - how about you?)

 

I wanted to show you what I got Hubby for Father's Day

  Just what he wanted ~  ANOTHER FROG for the pond!

  But this one was really old, heavy cement, and was already drilled to be a fountain.

 

I found it at the local flea market and said

"how much?  I'll take it"

  * * * * *

We enjoy our little courtyard ~ lots of wildlife to see year round

doves, sparrows, finch, hummingbirds, dragonflies, bees

hawks, egrets, and the occasional evidence of a raccoon

Imagine a square.  On the left side is the driveway.

At the top of the square is the fence the separates the courtyard

 from the front grass.

To the right is the gate and long porch that leads to our front door

(Not sure why that picture is crooked  /~")

 

We keep the gate locked, which means you can't get to our doorbell.

This is what people have to ring ~ and they DO!

  

And the bottom of the square is the porch that leads to the kitchen door.

   

It's a little square of happiness, complete with it's own eco-system

for our entertainment

 

 

P.S. I bought some folding, chippy chairs at the flea market

and they SOLD in one week

Counting My Blessings,

xo Susy

I'm following the garden path to Vintage Inspiration Friday