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A brief respite…

Yesterday was my one day home between my trip to Canada and my trip to Maryland to teach a class for FEMA. It was almost 12 AM by the time I walked in my front door Friday nite (but I guess that is...

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A hot boyfriend or a hot flash – I’ll take either.

Tonight I am hoping that Mother Nature has found herself a hot boyfriend.  A boyfriend who warms the cockles of her sometimes chilly heart.  My thought is that her Romeo will help forward my fervent...

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Weird – level 10.

I am weird, but I don’t have to tell you that.  Anyone who has read a handful of my blogs can easily arrive at that conclusion.  There are levels of weird though – and let’s face it, the level matters....

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My garden companions have returned…

I have been uplifted by three straight days of robin sightings.  The robins are back in the area my friends.  I have seen a pair of them frequenting my deck. I wonder if they are the babies from last...

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The season of dirty fingernails – garden therapy 2013.

I have concluded that my mental health is greatly improved by a day out in the garden.  Yesterday was my first real concentrated effort in garden therapy and in the few short hours I invested I was...

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What goes around, comes around.

Last year I had Mike bunny-proof the garden after the adorable little bunny babies that visited us daily had consumed a couple hundred dollars worth of plants by gnawing them down to mere stems.  Of...

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Sitting out in the dirt…

I spent many hours in my garden today.  I find work in the garden so gratifying and peaceful.  It is a chance to think quiet thoughts while doing productive work that results in one of my greatest joys...

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The intermittent gardener…

On days when the temperatures are tolerable I do marathon sessions in my garden.  I typically tell myself that I will just be out there for two hours and six hours later when I wander back inside I...

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One can never have too many flowers…

I took a quick trip to Menards today.  I have made a few such trips recently.  Truth-be-told, I have been methodically checking in on the Menards’ garden center.  Some may call it stalking.  The simple...

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Help me with this mystery please…

I am not the consummate gardener.  I just enjoy flowers and do my best to tend them well and not kill them.  I have decent success.  I don’t win them all, but I hold my own. I am presently disappointed...

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