Well, kind of. As I head towards what is for me a milestone birthday I have begun to finally do a couple of things. One is to embrace the gifts the Lord has given me, one of them being a great imagination. The other is to accept that for most of my life I have denied a lot of reality….good thing I had a great imagination, eh? Anyway, back to the porch. From this spot (which I hope one day will really be our porch) you can see for miles. Weather shows up in the distance, over a hundred miles away usually, giving you time to do whatever might be appropriate for it. Company coming? You can see the dust from whoever is driving up the road from miles and miles away. Anything crawling/slithering through the grass? We’ve mowed it so for the most part those things will be visible. I love being able to see things coming and know in advance what I need to do. But it doesn’t work that way in my everyday life. I never know what the next week, or day, or even hour might hold. This ‘porch’, the panoramic vistas we enjoy, the ability to enjoy the peace and quiet, or to hear the wind blowing across the prairie grass heading towards you….over you….and then leaving you, are all gifts to enjoy right now, and then become memories. Dreaming about, preparing for, and accepting what is coming in the future takes using all my faith and trust, and sometimes it is downright scary or painful. Perhaps it’s a good thing I can’t see what is coming…. As the saying goes, I don’t know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future. He’s got this, I don’t have to.

On my birthday wishlist: Microwave answers to my problems and a schedule of upcoming future events…and how to deal with them. Yeah, this one isn’t happening 😉 But that’s ok, I’m used to it. It’s been this way all my life and I’m pretty sure all of yours, too, and look how far we’ve come! Some of us are getting kind of old (me), some of us are trying to get there (you), and we have survived 🙂

Ok, so it really wasn’t quick. It was agonizingly slow because I have never blogged before, and despite how easy WordPress makes it to do so, I found myself completely baffled at what to do. Thankfully my friend Judy over at https://apronstringsandothertiesthatbind2.wordpress.com/ has faith in my abilities and encouraged me to persevere. She has “lifted” me up so many times she ought to be able to benchpress a Buick by now!

This blog was named such because my husband says I’m the biggest dawdler he knows, and every time we are leaving I have to run back (ok, it’s not a run, more like a saunter with purpose) in the house for something I forgot, and I usually tell him, “Hang on a minute….” Thank the Lord he is a patient man 😉 Seems I always remember something else I want to share, bring or do at the last minute.

I reckon if you enjoy the ramblings of an imaginative mind, photography, other assorted simple things, and have nothing else to do at the moment, you will be right at home here 😀

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton