It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

The flag is flying, the sun is shining, the petunias are still blooming. I must have gotten flustered when setting up, this, my first blog, because I chose the name of my girlfriend's house for the name of my blog, instead of the name of my own house, which is Podmore's Thatch. Years ago, when we were both attending The Church of Eternal Despair ; ) we became friends and spent as much time together as possible, trying to counteract as much of the joyless lifestyle of "The CED" as we could. So, we named our houses and pretended that we had the sweet homekeeping life that we didn't actually have. Over the years we've moved a few times, but her house has always been Wheatberry Cottage and mine has always been Podmore's Thatch. (Podmore's Thatch is the name of a house in "The Shell Seekers" by Rosamunde Pilcher. I loved the name and adopted it for my own house. My husband surprised me on Mother's Day last year, by getting me a custom made sign which now hangs on our front porch.) I said all that to say that perhaps I'll go back and correct it later on, when and if I figure out how!