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My state. Like so many others, this weekend is getting buried under snow. I've prepped for heating with the woodstove, prepared the snowblower, and charged all the rechargeable items and batteries. I've also prepared dinner items that can be warmed on top of the woodstove. I took the last of the fall pumpkins, and I'm …
There was a drive to excel and do well for the patient
Impatience this time of year is measured in inches.
Every year in the fall, I bring in the houseplants, plants that are experiments, and sometimes plants that are mysteries ( no one in the house acknowledges that they are theirs). Then I light up the banks of daylight LED's, and grow lights and tend my indoor garden. Somewhere around this time of January, with …
Pithy, trite, boring, and pensive. Favorite sayings can, by turn, be all of this, especially if they are endlessly repeated as a sort of tagline on everything a person utters. "It just goes to show..." was one that a friend endlessly noted, even when it made no sense. But they can be powerful reminders of …
It's all a plot to empty your home and then allow you to fill it up with more stuff.
The bog garden is a half whiskey barrel. Originally, I put a plastic liner in it and used it as a transfer station for plants and fish before being put in our garden pond. Eventually, it developed a life of its own after being partially filled. I had basically ignored it for about a year …
It's happened a bit earlier than I'd like. Most years, we have a seasonal coverage of snow from mid-December to early March. I hustle outside in sapping season and start cleaning up the detritus of the fall, the rubbish that the first snows covered up, and that I conveniently forgot till the beginnings of mud …
There is a Christmas gift of cashew nuts waiting for me.
The normal mark had supreme confidence in their ability to avoid all the pitfalls of life. But they'd pretty much lived milk toast lives.
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