We are having wind in the high teens with gusts to 25mph. It is snowing right now (may be graupel or just go straight to styrofoam). This is a little better weather than yesterday and certainly better than Friday & Saturday. Tuff spring weather and it just seems like winter won't let go. . . David, your roof story reminds me of working on the big glass greenhouses back in my youth. Surely, you can find a younger person to get up there and do that work. During a windstorm, it seemed hard to decide whether it was safer inside the greenhouse or outside. Certainly, you'd want to be upwind of a large structure made of a single layer of GLASS! Of course, they'd often lose glass and if it got very bad - out we'd go with roof ladders, caulking guns, and replacement glass. Whoa!! You never realize until times like those that you can hold on, not only with fingers and toes, but with knees, ankles, elbows, and wrists. All the while, pinning a loose piece of glass down with your forehead, nose and cheek . . . I enjoyed something called "bouldering" during those days. It was just kind of a natural evolution from roof work. I mean, anything was more reasonable than climbing where your safety net was thin wood glazing bars and glass. . . . malfunctioning autoimmunity put a stop to all that, before malfunctioning self-preservation did. Steve

Thanks BDW, we enjoy the porch, too. I always call it the 'porch' and DH corrects me. "It's not a porch... it's a deck!" Funny man.... but he built it so I 'let' him name it, lol. We spend a lot of our time sitting on the porch swing watching the cardinal and hummingbirds. I've attached a pic of our birdie having his breakfast this morning. I found the little chicks at the dollar store, only it's not a true dollar store. These cost me $1.29 for a mama chicken and four baby chicks. This post was edited by sunnysa on Thu, Jul 3, 14 at 9:03

I don't check in here often, in fact my reply to the Art Depicting Season post was my first ever. I felt very strongly about it because the art in our home is what defines it and we have decorated our home to go with our pictures colourwise. They are definitely the most important part of our home and very carefully chosen. There was a typo in my last post, our pictures are NOT expensive. But we have acquired a few more expensive paintings in later years. However, the most important thing in any home is to love your pictures, whatever they are and for them to mean something to you, something more than adding to the décor. I think having too many common prints is not very personal. I don't understand how anyone can have a van Gogh print. The flat surface shows nothing of his broad brush strokes. And there are literally millions of Renoir prints out there. I think that's what struck me most forcibly. Wisconsin relatives had a Renoir print in a frame that must have cost 10 times more than the piece of paper of the print. Those same relatives took me to a great exhibition of local Wisconsin artists, some of which works still haunt me after 25 years. I am not suggesting that Swedes in general have more original art, many have Ikea prints, but at the same time many older homes display some local artist showing their local environment on their walls. Please excuse any linguistic mistakes I may have made, English is not my first language.

haha, cute.