Back On Line

Working. On the outside back screened porch. Northwest corner of the house off the back porch, family room and kitchen. From a cone shaped hanging basket peeks the beady eye of a bird. The bird couple built their nest on this periphery of Patty’s Garden. To discourage cats and raccoons, Linda moved away the table that was under the basket. Jeremy is the bird watcher in the family, hoping for their survival we’ll wait for him to tell us their breed, and about this bird family and their habits.

MIND THE GAP. In the mug Malinda and Kristen brought me from London in 2009, a cup of Gevalia coffee, on introductory sale at Publix. Michael Jackson died while they were in London and when I texted or emailed informing them they were at a tearoom near Kensington Palace for a pot of English tea, little sandwiches, scones with thick cream and strawberry preserve (conserve?). My first cup of Gevalia was when calling on Fred at his beach house at Cape San Blas soon after his wife died. About 1995, 6, 7. A member of our congregation, he was part owner of Franklin Ford, later Gulf Ford-Mercury, where I enjoyed buying cars our years in Apalachicola. Gevalia. Proliferation of coffees with the advent of Keurig and K-cups. As I left, Fred gave me a bag of Gevalia coffee grounds to take home.

A lovely spring dawn so far. 60 F out here. Wednesday afternoon Bible Seminar at the beach. At the Carousel, Dock has some decent Australia reds at about $5 a bottle, a shiraz and a cabernet, so I may drive out early and get another bottle or two of each. Can’t do it afterward because of a 3:15 PM appointment at the Eye Center.

Caroline is in the Great Smoky Mountains this week with her class from Holy Comforter Episcopal School, Tallahassee. Papa worries about her. That’s my job, it’s why God made papas.

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