Showing posts with label screened porch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screened porch. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Happiness is a Warm Gun

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I'll call it guano. Birds at my feeders left several spots on my porch screens, and just as you don't leave guano on a vehicle or yo...
Monday, April 8, 2019

Nests

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 Without screens for 19 days the Divine Cabin looked like a skull, or a jaw without teeth, or eyeless, or simply shabby, conked-out, or ab...
Friday, March 22, 2019

The Old-Timey Screens

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The screened porch is 50 percent of the reason I live here, and I'd patched its holes for years but last summer so many that fresh scr...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

R & R & T

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I am a workaholic and realized I almost never spend whole days outdoors anymore. So out I go into the mists of October, scaring packs of d...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

The High Sign

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Final days of August, the dog days, are always hot, humid and unnerving -- what, summer is almost over? I lie low, work as little as pos...
Monday, August 6, 2018

It's White-Trash Repair Month

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I truly loved July but felt something sad around its edges until I realized it was my beloved house, The Divine Cabin. After 17 years with...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Jailed Lizard

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This lizard, God knows how, ended up trapped between the layers of screen on the porch door's lower half, layers reinforced over time ...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Zero Gravity Chair

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My old tube-framed, woven-plastic folding porch lawn chair finally gave out and I gracefully let it go, taking it to the recycling place, ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Smiling Lizard

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I know May is here when a lizard gets trapped on the wrong side of the screened porch and climbs around on the screens all day trying to e...