About
All of the houses I’ve owned in Montana have had a covered front porch… There is something about sitting on the front porch - watching and listening, visiting with a dear friend, waving to passers by… In my current home, my front porch looks out through the woods to a meadow beyond and the Swan Range in the distance. Deer, turkeys, the occasional coyote, bear and raccoon are the passers by. My Karelian Bear dog, Karl and cat, Bob - a Garfield looking marmalade cat of 20 pounds - are my front porch companions. All year, no matter the weather, I like sitting on the front porch morning and evening. I begin and end my day there.
I do my best thinking on the front porch - simply enjoying and being quiet triggers all kinds of thoughts…some are even worth writing down :) ! - well, I think they are and this is the place where I will do that. The writing won’t all be profound, intellectual writing - most will be a simple chronicle of my day to day life, things I’d like to share and remember.
Here we go, then… me, I’m Elizabeth Ann Summers - known as Liz to family and friends of my youth, Ann to the friends of my adulthood. I live in a small, but cozy and comfortable 1 bedroom cabin-ranch house on a little over 8 acres near Kalispell, MT. I am a computer programmer and have worked from a home office as an independent consultant for 23 years. I love to walk in the summer, snowshoe in the winter with Karl, am an avid reader, enjoy my work and the flexibility that working from home allows me. I bought a motorhome several years ago and as my work can go with me, my “front porch” is sometimes under the awning of my RV - on the road. I believe in God, the creator of all the things that I have been priviledged to enjoy and experience and I believe that Jesus is who he said he was and that we are spiritual beings having a human experience* - this earthly experience is just part of the adventure. Let’s roll!
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* part of a quote from Teilhard de Chardin French Geologist, Priest, Philosopher and Mystic, 1881-1955
update Nov 2007 - Summer 2008 - what started as a companionable sharing of life and jokes via email and phone with a fellow solo rvR - Bill - somewhat miraculously developed into a romance. And to add a bit of challenge we lived in homes 2500 plus miles apart…NW vs SE. We shared Bill’s Florida home Winter 2007 and mine Summer 2008. Bill will be returning to Florida sometime before the snow flies after a wonderful shared time.