{ Friday Foto Friends }

 I downloaded this pic from my phone and was going to come back and edit it on the desktop....

yesterday!!!

Anyway....here's my new little friend. He/she likes to sit in the window or on the back of the porch swing, if it's raining. Sage staring at him through the window doesn't phase him one bit. He's very determined to get into that little feeder and chow down on some sunflower seeds.

HOPE everybody is having a great Saturday!

{ On the porch }

 I think in the last couple of weeks I've only missed one morning of my front porch sitting. One of my favorite things is listening to the birds. They're waking up and welcoming the day with what I think of as praise. I think of my Daddy... he loved the birds! He especially came to mind yesterday when I heard a mourning dove... he really liked doves. If you love bird watching and listening, you might want to download the Merlin app. It's absolutely free and all you have to do is hit the sound identify button and it'll pick up and list the birds it hears. It's so neat! Here are a few I heard this morning....

Hope everybody has a great SONday! 

 

{ Friday Foto Friends #95 }

I ♥ September!

Here are a few September skies I spotted this week.

For those who will be feeling the effects of Hurricane Irma, 
please know you have friends in Tennessee praying for your safety.

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{ Friday Foto Friends #94 }

First of all.....

Happy September!

This is one of my very favorite months!

You'll be noticing brand new headers of fall scenes coming soon!

Now onto our Friday Foto Friends.  Do any of you scramble to come up with fotos to post on Friday's? Being the one who came up with this little meme, you'd think I'd be prepared, right?

Ummm.....not always!

I found myself last night going through my phone looking for pics and here's what I found.....

I took this one out our back door one morning this week.  Notice the birds flying at the top of the pic. A couple of times lately I've heard geese flying over.

I went to Jess' to stay with two of the kiddos one morning and had to stop and say "hi" to this cow standing all alone in a field!

A sky pic that same morning as I pulled into their driveway.

Do you see him/her?  We came home one day and parked the car under the carport and this little squirrel was in the tree right in front of us. The birds and animals in our yard must have gotten pretty used to us because they seem to pay us no mind a lot of the time!  I told somebody I think I'm the bird whisperer!!!

Pappy and I went to Sevierville one day and the fog/clouds were so pretty hovering below the Great Smoky Mountains!

And, this lizard is a resident on our front porch.

He/she (how do I tell them apart?) isn't one bit afraid of me, either!  He'll crawl right by my foot, scaring the heebie jeebies outta me!  Y'all, I'm too old to be scared like that!

(Yes, our porch needs to be painted.

It's on the to-do list!)

Well, I had more to share than I thought I would!

Do y'all have big plans for the Labor Day weekend?

I'm thinking some thrift store shopping with my girl and a cook-out on Monday with our kiddos.....

oh, and church on SONday!

Life is good, Y'all!

Have a great weekend.....

have fun, but stay safe!

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{ Friday Foto Friends #79 }

Y'all,  I really thought I wasn't going to have fotos to share this week, but then I went kinda crazy yesterday taking pics!  

This has been a busy week.  Our kiddos have been camping all week so Pappy and I were the designated caretakers for their animals.  And, my brother and sis have been on vacation, too, so we checked on their kitties a few times.  And,  I had to take my Momma to the dentist to have two teeth pulled.

(by the way, Brother, if you're reading this and you should decide to get rid of Fuzz, 
PLEASE let me be the first to know!)

So, here goes with an overload of pics (as usual).....

These were taken at my brother and sis's house.

They grow some beautiful flowers.

This rose bush came from a cutting at my Mamaw's house and is probably at least 150 years old because it was part of the old home place.....

This rose is in our yard and I've shared pics of it in the past.    

Pappy took this pic of freshly hatched baby robins underneath our back deck.....

My froggy friend who always scares me by jumping when I turn the water hose on.....

All of these pics are part of the animals that belong to our kiddos.  

I failed to get a pic of the two bunnies.....

I had to tell a couple of hens "excuse me" when I opened the lid to retrieve eggs and they weren't finished.....

Fresh eggs....yummy!!!

I'll leave you with this picture my brother sent me of the sunrise at the beach.  

It's been over 10 years since we've been to the beach, 

so I have to live vicariously through others.....

LOL!

Thanks for sticking with me through this really long line of fotos!

And, thanks for bearing with the new linky as we worked out the kinks last week.  

I think it's going to be a lot better.  

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HOPE everybody has a great Mother's Day weekend!

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