"It's Christmas time in the city"

I absolutely love this time of year. I love the lights, sounds, smells and chill in the air that goes along with the season's change from what my daughter calls "double summer" aka Indian Summer, to fall and then early winter. By the time January rolls around I'm ready for warm weather again, but for a couple of months every year I'm in heaven.

This year I'm singing with a Victorian Ladies group and am especially enjoying the sounds of beautiful voices performing traditional carols from the Victorian era. It has been awhile since I last performed with a group of this caliber and I'm having a blast. It's the second year for the group, and we've landed a nice gig performing at the Haliburton Christmas party at the Houston Club in downtown Houston as well as a few other more local gigs around Montgomery County.

I've also been watching as the lights go up around the neighborhood. We always used to go see the lights in Houston when I was growing up and I still love seeing them.

I had the friendly baristas at our local Starbucks attempt my winter drink, Mocha Chai, tonight. No one can make 'em like my brother, though. Everybody thinks it's the same as a Chai latte and I'm just too coffee ignorant to help set them straight. Maybe my coffee guru/friend over at White On can help me out with instructions and suggestions for a new Christmastime fave...

In the Beginning

Ok, I guess a person has to start somewhere. For me, this is it. I've been enjoying the posts on a few of my favorite blogs http://www.whiteon.blogspot.com, http://www.muscodinewine.blogspot.com and http://www.grammablefthanded.blogspot.com for some time now and have decided to try my hand at this whole web journaling thing.

As for the name, you can ask my husband about me and porches. I always wanted one, have yet to get a good one, so had to create one in cyberspace. I kind of visualize this porch as one of those deep and wide jobs you see a lot of in southern states like Mississippi (where we lived for a short time) with rocking chairs, a few slowly turning ceiling fans, tables with pitchers of lemonade or iced tea on them and nothing to do but sit and talk for hours. (What a rich fantasy life I have!)

So, make yourself a cup of coffee or tea, pull up a comfy chair and let's chat about everything and nothing.