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Woolgathering

10.07.2010

I have a bone to pick with Webster. I looked up the definition of woolgathering and found: an indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining. Indulgence? Aimless thought? That’s absurd. There’s nothing aimless about thinking. Especially when thinking, imagining, and musing are such important writers’ tools. In a previous post I talked about finding the time [...]

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Oh, Those Raccoons

26.06.2010

The trouble with raccoons is they’re too cute. But cute can be deceiving. You almost want to forget all the trouble they can cause. The operative word, though, is almost. And I make sure I keep all that trouble in mind when I’m thinking about planting vegetables. What I definitely will not get is tomato [...]

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Garden? Really?

13.06.2010

No garden this year. Time has been like water through a sieve. I could have sworn it was just March last week, and I had loads of time. Ha. Here we are in June already. I’m sure it’s way too late to do any kind of gardening. Except, I did manage to score some lemon-drop [...]

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A Bit of Spring (and summer for that matter) in the Mailbox

28.12.2009

It’s here—my Burpee catalogue. Winter only officially began one week ago, but this rite of spring can never come soon enough. Last spring and summer were such disappointments. We had so much rain that all the veggies and herbs I planted drowned. The flowers hung on a bit longer, but in the end, never were [...]

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