Porch, Masters & Skeeter

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New furniture for the front porch. It’s comfortable and really looks good.

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We had our spring clean-up and mulching completed this week. Dee made sure that her spring flowers were planted prior to the project.

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Some days the writing goes slow ......

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My April Lady

"When down the stair at morning 

The sunbeams round her float, 

Sweet rivulets of laughter

Are bubbling in her throat;

The gladness of her greeting

Is gold without alloy;

And in the morning sunlight

I think her name is Joy. 

When in the evening twilight

The quiet book-room lies, 

We read the sad old ballads,

While 

from her hidden eyes 

The tears are falling, falling,

That give her heart relief; 

And in the evening twilight,

I think her name is Grief. 

My little April lady,

Of sunshine and of showers, 

She weaves the old spring magic,

And breaks my heart in flowers! 

But when her moods are ended,

She nestles like a dove;

Then, by the pain and rapture,

I know her name is Love."

Henry Van Dyke

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The Masters Tournament is being played at Augusta National Golf Course, April 11 through April 14, 2019. I’m pulling for Phil Mickelson.

He has won three Masters Tournaments, 2004, 2006 and 2010.

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Skeeter Davis - "The End Of The World (1963) HQ"

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Go over to "This Ain't the Lyceum," where Kelly is hosting more takes.