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saturday morning

August 10, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Daylight peeps into our windows, moving across the longleaf pine floors just as it has each morning for over a hundred years. Same windows. Same floors. Same walls.
Yet the angle of the sun feels different on Saturday. 
Lucy snoozes in a bright spot near the window keeping one eye on a squirrel already gathering nuts for winter.
John reads the comic section of the newspaper. He is silent except for an occasional chuckle.
I write and enjoy my first cup of coffee, just as I did yesterday and the day before. But coffee tastes different on Saturday.

talya

Musical Pairing:

Saturday Sun, Nick Drake

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Comments

  1. Bryan Jones says

    August 10, 2013 at 6:52 am

    Saturday IS different! Enjoy yours!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 10, 2013 at 6:54 am

      You too Bryan!

  2. Brittany says

    August 10, 2013 at 6:53 am

    I love your front door! Good morning!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 10, 2013 at 6:54 am

      Good morning Brittany and thank you!

  3. Corinne Rodrigues says

    August 10, 2013 at 6:58 am

    I’m absolutely in love with what I’ve seen of your house, Talya. To think of the many Saturday mornings that various individuals have enjoyed in your home! Have a nice one!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 10, 2013 at 10:37 am

      Thank you Corinne! It’s a pretty special place:)

  4. Tash says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:50 am

    true dat:)

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 10, 2013 at 10:16 am

      Word.

  5. Suzy says

    August 10, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    Yep weekends are pretty special. Enjoy yours.

  6. Val Young says

    August 11, 2013 at 6:15 am

    nice

  7. mail4rosey says

    August 11, 2013 at 6:18 am

    Saturday different is a good different. 🙂

    Thank you for linking up at Super Sunday Sync!

  8. Patricia A. Laster says

    August 11, 2013 at 6:31 am

    Once again on Saturday, I changed my writing/reading spot in the 81-year-old house o’ mine. Duh! I now have the lamp on my right–I’m left-handed–so when I write, the shadow (shudder) won’t get in the way. That’s after I swept up the borax sprinkled on the hardwood floor against any fleas in the area. xoxox

  9. Dorothy Latimer Johnson says

    August 12, 2013 at 4:42 am

    It’s a nice place to drink coffee Thursday and Friday too! One of those mornings, I wrote about the slant of the sun on the hardwood floor for my practice writing. Beautiful space, beautiful home!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 12, 2013 at 4:44 am

      Thanks Dorothy! I know you are happy to be drinking coffee at home this morning:)

  10. Kathy says

    August 12, 2013 at 7:25 am

    I have noticed that everything is so much better on Saturday…I don’t drink coffee but I think it applies to just about anything.

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 13, 2013 at 10:44 am

      I agree Kathy!

  11. Mel@Mellywood's Mansion says

    August 17, 2013 at 8:05 pm

    Everything is better on a Saturday especially when the morning rush is skipped. Thanks for linking with me Talya

  12. Rebecca Zirkle says

    August 17, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    Nice post. Something about writers and old houses.. must be a connection.


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

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