Reflections From a Country Girl

I LOVE to go to auctions. There’s this song by John Michael Montgomery called “Sold” in which he talks about the auction house he goes to one evening.

It’s birthday time. With my family and friends it means a month or more long of celebrating, dinners, meeting for drinks, etc.

A friend died today.

I’d been looking forward to Saturday evening all week. After all, there was an opportunity to go out with friends on their boat at Lake Murray. We planned to have dinner on the boat and go out to an island where a wonderful event occurs this time of year.

As I opened the back door last night there was a long “thing” on my screen door. It looked like a snake in the shadows so I closed the door carefully and headed for the flashlight. It was actually