We live an easy, laid back life here in the mountains of East Kentucky..Our front porches are very important to us..If we are fortunate enough to have a covered porch we are doubly blest, because not only do we have shade from the hot noonday sun, but we have a place to hang the wooden swing...

The wooden swing is an essential part of our favorite pasttime..Watchin the kids and dogs playing, and keeping an eye on the road to see where the neighbors are off to..

The swing...

There is a white very ornate metal bench on the lawn of our courthouse. In the winter it looks cold and desolate..The rest of the year it is a busy place and you will usually see two to four of our mature, retired gentlemen sitting there and visiting with one another, or just enjoying the sunshine dozing or watching the coming and going of busy people who don't have the time for a smile or friendly word..

Sometimes people make jokes about the "ole geezers" and their idleness...

Another new feature and another first thing for me..I have never blogged before and I think I could become very addicted to being able to pull up my little soap box and reach for the mike and make a speech all by my self..about whatever is on my little mind..

Right now my mind is on the fathers here on cd and I hope they are enjoying a day of "Kingship"

I also have the people in Iowa and other upper midwest states who have lost homes and valuable crops to the...