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Anniversary update from a boring blogger

It’s winter. I’m bored and boring. I always hated winter and it has gotten worse as I got older. I always tended to hibernate like some big fat bear. Now there is COVID added to that. I’ve had my...

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What a new gardening challenge!

Garden plants were being eaten. I was blaming rabbits, but couldn’t understand how some taller things were being eaten…..by rabbits. It never occurred to me that the animal that could eat taller...

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Around the garden and around here

It’s hot and dry and if I wasn’t watering almost every day nothing would be growing in the garden. But I’m thankful to be able to grow what I can. In our midwest, cattle farmers are selling off some...

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Gardening is sanity

Yea I need to write more blogs.  Some garden updates, now that it’s over.  Some ranting.  Some discussion of how strange it feels to feel like your head is spinning while we watch our country go more...

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A little indoor gardening in the fall and winter

If you know me you know I’m just not happy if I’m not growing…..something. In the winter, it can be almost anything. But now I actually have a lot growing on. I’m fortunate to have this big ugly glass...

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Now, some garden excitement!

It’s time to get out the old pickin’ basket. Things are getting good around here. The first Mortgage Lifter tomatoes are small but we have had way too much heat. Hopefully they will get bigger as we...

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I wanted garden excitement?

I wanted to catch the local groundhog. He ate some chicory and I know he will eat my tomatoes. So far I’ve caught 2 squirrels, 1 catbird, and 4 small rabbits, or 1 rabbit 4 times. And then there was...

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If a fine August morning could last………..

Being retired, of course I still have a lot of things to do that take me out of my house. But my favorite kind of morning is one where the schedule is set by my cat’s breakfast, my coffee and...

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Little bumble bee, we both know it’s August

I need to admit that all my life I never liked August much. I was always so busy stressing on the hateful winter that was coming, that I never took the time to appreciate August for August’s sake, and...

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The Good Earth will provide

Each day in the summer I’m reminded how short the time that’s left could be, for the garden, for me, for humanity as a whole. As an individual, I can’t do anything about what is happening around us,...

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