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Prepping
I’ve been in the gardens, and there’s a ton of work to be done. But there’s nothing like the warm sun on your back, little wind in the air, and soil that is ready to give up its weeds to
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Excursion Day
Yesterday M, the host for our vacation, and I went to the Naples Botanical Garden, while Earl stayed home and had the condo to himself. We all had a great time.
The Naples Botanical Garden, started in 1993, is
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Palm Trees
Earl and I haven’t taken a winter vacation since the pandemic; before that we managed to get away for two or three weeks every year while Benton Harbor suffered under snow and ice and gloom.
By car, plane, or cruise
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Grouchy
You’ve been warned: I am grouchy. I could wait until tomorrow to blog under the assumption that I’ll feel better. And I probably will, since I don’t hold grievances tightly. Still, things I thought were handled have become unhandled.
There
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Life on the Pond
The ice is in various stages of melt on our pond, and each day that the temperature climbs and the sun shines brings more water to the surface. With it come the ducks; there are three of them, and I
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Date Night
Earl and I went to the movies tonight, a very rare occurrence. We don’t like the same type of movies at all, and neither one of us is particularly accommodating to the other’s taste. He wants John Wayne and shoot-em-up-bang-bang.
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Just in Time
Weather-wise everything has been strange this year. Copious Spring rains caused farmers to plant their crops later than usual. A mild summer, with more rain, brought more challenges. In my world, the roses were unhappy; the coneflowers were late, and
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Garden Wind Down
I’m so glad I don’t live where you garden twelve months of the year. Although . . . one benefit might be that Fall clean-up would never occur. And quite possible Spring preparations wouldn’t be a special event either.
But
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Moles
Anyone who’s had moles infest their lawn and gardens knows what I’m talking about. They are pesky little animals who burrow just under the earth’s surface, creating tunnels all over the place. These tunnels are squishy, ruin the grass, and
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June Bugs
They go by many names: June bugs, fireflies, lightning bugs, glow worms, and – officially – photuris pensylvanica. But my childhood remembers them as June bugs because they always appeared in June no matter where I lived. They found me
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