Tuesday morning and I am sitting in the best recliner in the world, the one in my sunporch. We got home yesterday afternoon and as John Denver used to sing; “It’s good to be back home again.”. Our vacation took us right at 3950 miles and as I have previously said, we saw an awful lot of beautiful  country. It would be hard to pick out a favorite sight. Yes, the Grand Teton Mountain range is awe inspiring; — but so is the cardinal that sits on my bird bath every day. It was an awesome experience walking out of my quarters on FE Warren AFB and seeing five antelope laying out by my car.  But it is an awesome experience watching the hummingbird as it come to feed at my feeders and dart among my flowers. It is so peaceful to stand in the forests and listen to the wind in the pines and the rushing water in the streams; but it is also peaceful to simply sit and listen to a songbird out there on the limb of the Pussy Willow tree. The bottom line is that we can experience God’s handiwork at any place and at any time. One only need look and listen and open our eyes; and God’s beauty is always right there.

It is a warm kind of rainy morning and the bird feeders are empty and I have zero guests in the back yard as would be expected. After all I suspect they haven’t had food here for at least a week. However, I’ll go out there, fill those feeders, and I’d bet there will be birds on these feeders within the hour after I feed them. I’m glad I stocked up on feed though before we left.

Ms. Kate started the laundry this morning and the wash cycle went fine. However, — something has gone wrong because it wont’t go through any of the other cycles. So now it is sitting there full of water and dark clothes and we are now waiting on the repairman to come this afternoon and fix it. We can’t complain, — we bought that washer when we moved here 16 years ago. This is the first problem we have had with it. I’d hate to have to by a new one. I can’t believe the prices they get for new appliances these days.

I have a lot of leaves to rakes and blow off of the patio and sidewalks but it isn’t near as bad as I anticipated. It is supposed to be sunny tomorrow so maybe I’ll run the lawn mower over the back yard tomorrow. Yardwork gangs up on ya if you don’t stay on top of it.

I guess I better get busy with the things I need to do today. I hope your day brings you joy and happiness and if it does, — please share it with someone. Peace!