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2023: Spring Blooms

Spring has sprung. These pictures came from tiny grape hyacinths and forsythia in my yard. As I was taking the picture of the hyacinths, a bee buzzed me. I was unable to capture his likeness for posterity but it made … Continue reading

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2022: A Lazy Week

It’s been an uneventful week. I like those now and then. Next Sunday is Father’s Day and the following is a milestone anniversary for my husband and me. Fifty years—and they said it wouldn’t last! This morning we took the … Continue reading

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2022: Easter!

Happy Easter! Easter is time of renewal for spring and a holiday for Christians. Other religions also celebrate near the same time. My Easter Lilies are up about three inches and will not bloom until summer. They don’t have a … Continue reading

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2022: Return to the Garden

It’s spring! I know because I worked on the lawn yesterday. Not really the lawn, but pots around the lawn. I made my maiden voyage to the greenhouse and spent the first of many fortunes. Like everything else, the prices … Continue reading

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2021: Expect the Unexpected – Almost Spring

According to my calculations it is 48 days until spring.  The jonquils in my front flower bed are up about two inches.  We have cold weather in the forecast for next weekend but a fairly warm week prior to the … Continue reading

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2020: Fewer Possessions More Experiences – Surgery!

    I spent a couple of days this week at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital South.  No there is nothing wrong with my heart.  But my spine is another story. My neurosurgeon works out of that hospital and he gave … Continue reading

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2020: More Experiences, Fewer Possessions – Walmart Has Toilet Paper!

    Back in January, I came up with the subject of More Experiences and Fewer Possessions.  I had no idea what would happen to our world. I envisioned cleaning out the closets and taking trips to places I’d never … Continue reading

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2018 Clearing your Life: Weeds, Weeds, Weeds!

If you read this blog regularly or follow me on Instragram, you may be sick to death of reading about my gardening – complete with pictures.  Here we go again. It’s summertime (well, not by the calendar) and the livin’ … Continue reading

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2017 Something New: A Thank You Gift

    A friend gave me a thank you gift after I provided them with food post-op.  I never know whether to send a thank you note for a thank you gift.  If I do, will they respond in kind and … Continue reading

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Free Plants

    I’ve been gardening for a lot of years and if you counted up what I’ve spent at nurseries, it is a wonder I ever got to retire.  I know that a perennial plant comes back year after year from … Continue reading

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