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I thought I would tell you about my new home.
The house is over 100 years old. Its rundown but that happens when there is no one around to love it.
The yard has pecan and pear trees. There is a rose bush and a rose of Sharon bush that are nearly as old as the house.
Back east of the house there's a garage, a well house, a root cell er, a huge barn and several other assorted buildings. Farther east of the house is a huge pond, it's beautiful.
On the south side of the house is a big garden which so far has okra, yellow squash, 6 different types of onions, beans & cucumbers. Since I've been sick my mom and one of my neighbors has been working in it for me. Mom is going to add tomatoes in a couple of days.
Life is never boring here. On my first night I had been cleaning all day and I was exhausted so I fell on the bed and I think I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. I hadn't been asleep long when I woke up to what sounded like WW III was going on under my kitchen floor. I jumped up and ran out the back door. Just left of the back porch there was a hole where my pop and my brother had been working on the gas and water pipes. My first thought was that my cat was killing something. So I got down on my knees and yelled into the hole "What have you got?" "Bring it to me right now." Just then I saw movement in the hole that was way too big to be a cat. I backed up just as a huge male raccoon came sailing out and nearly ran over me. One I got over the shock my next thought was that it had been hurting one of my cats. So, I put my head back near the hole and called "Kitty, kitty." I saw movement again, I backed up and another huge male raccoon ran out and in the general direction of the other one. I sat there shaking for quite a while before I finally went back in the house. This time I just fell across my bed and sort of passed out.
A short time later I woke up to what sounded like monkeys yelling by my window. I looked out and discovered two barn owls mating in my eves. After several hours of listening to this I finally fell asleep and didn't wake up till morning. At that point I think a train could have run right through the bedroom and I wouldn't have noticed. LOL.
Since then I've seen baby raccoons on the back porch eating with my cats. One night I found a coyote eating the cat food. The place is overrun with rabbits, squirrels and deer. There are too many birds to mention here, although the most amazing are the hawks, there are so beautiful. And I even saw a buzzard the other day. My favorite happened a couple of weeks ago. I was sitting on my front porch waiting for my son to come pick me up and I saw a big wild bronze turkey run across my front yard. There are wrens making nests in my eves and the owls have nested in my attic.
I love this place. Believe it or not, even with nature getting up close and personal this is the most peaceful place I've ever lived. In the morning I sit out on my front porch with a cup of tea. What a wonderful way to start your morning.
...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most expensive painting ever sold at auction was Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh. On May 15, 1990, Ryoei Saito paid $75 million for it. He followed up that spending spree by paying the second-highest price ever, $71 million for Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre Auguste Renoir, just two days later.
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My New Home
(Spring 2006)
