My brother Joe who lives is Weatherford sent me a recipe for Angel Biscuits and he has asked me every day if I have made them yet. He made them and said they are the best he has ever eaten. So this morning I had the biscuit dough together by 8:30. You use yeast and after combining all the ingredients the dough must be refrigerated overnight. So I sent him an E-mail to say I had accomplished the task thus far. Tomorrow morning I shall roll out the dough and cut the biscuits and cook for 15 minutes. Makes about a dozen he said. Yesterday I shopped so today I have stayed in to clean and catch up on chores. James came to mow the lawn. It is growing so fast that I had to call him back again in less than a week. My brother Joe has insisted that I go organic so I have and I think it is working as my yard looks pretty. You might have figured out that my brother is older than I by about 6 years. He is married but they have no children as their daughter was killed in an accident years ago. I must tell you that I have been watching a pair of woodpeckers building a nest in a dead tree in my neighbors back yard. They took turns pecking the hole in the tree and it took them about 2 days. I watch them out of my kitchen window. I read the bird book which says they lay 2 to 7 eggs and they hatch in 14 days and leave the nest in 20 to 24 days. I love the birds and have several feeders up. Next week is my social week so I am trying to get everything done so I can run and play. I belong to the Avid Readers Club at the Ridglea Library and it starts the week off next Monday at 1pm. I have been reading a book published in 1906 about the San Francisco fire. I have been there and traveled the street where the fire started but altho I have had this book for years I have never really read the details. San Francisco at that time was about 25 square miles and 15 square miles were burning for three days. Not only that but the people had no water, food or shelter. The water and gas pipes broke and the rich along with the poor were sleeping on the ground in the park. Nob Hill, the elite part of town, went up in smoke along with all the business district. The binding on this book is not in real good shape but the pages and the print are in good condition. I should really have it re-bound.

Today is my first post to this blog. My son established this blog for me and named it Viv's Ponderings. I found it necessary to go directly to the dictionary to check out the word Ponder. Ponder is to be deep in thought according to Webster. I really don't think that applies to me as I have not had an in=depth conversation with anyone in years. I find that in-depth conversations can get one in trouble with friends, especially if they don't agree with your thoughts. Anyway, today was rather slow. I spent a lot of time this morning reading the paper and enjoying my coffee. My friend Ann called around noon to tell me of all her exciting adventures - especially at the Ft. Worth Art Fair which she has never missed. I talked to her about an hour. Then I checked my E-mail to find my brother had sent a beautiful picture of his roses. They were huge and he thinks it is due to all the rain we've had. Louise Brogoitti stopped by and we drank coffee and she had been down to check out the map that was in the Ft. Worth paper showing the planned changes to the Botanical Gardens. She thinks the Antique Mall on the corner of Montgomery and I30 belongs to the Gardens and it will be torn down. Looking at the map I rather agree with her. They certainally have big plans to extend the Gardens with new pools and gardens. I sat on the porch after Louise left and watched the Mockening Birds across the street either building a nest or feeding their young as they made numerous trips back and forth to a big shrub in the front of that house.

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