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Monthly Archives: May 2011
The Shards of Our Lives
The Significant Other is like a bull in a china shop. That is the image that usually goes through my mind when I take a dish out of the kitchen cabinet and see the condition of it. My dishes, which … Continue reading
To Market
Today was the opening day of the season for our local Farmer’s Market, which is one of the nicer perks of living in a small city. Even though it is early for some of the produce, we grabbed our little eco-friendly shopping bags and walked … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged Community, Farmer's Market, Neighborhoods, Produce
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The Rain Garden
Looks like it’s going to be yet another week of rain, or at the very least, “percent-chance-of-rain”. Thirty percent chance of or forty percent chance of is still pretty good odds, at least around these parts. Everything is lush and verdant. … Continue reading
Thoughts on a Chicken
Traffic was moderate and moving steadily yesterday on the two lane road that is the middle leg of my commute home from work, when I spied a chicken on the edge of the northbound lane, waiting to cross the road. I looked again to make … Continue reading
Would You Like Some Mice With That?
Yesterday my friend discovered a stunned little mouse lying out in the parking lot of the condominium where she lives. What had happened to it is a mystery, but I speculate that perhaps a cat had been playing with it, as … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Uncategorized
Tagged cottage in the woods, Mice, mouse problem, older boyfriend
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Passion
A few years ago I discovered this seriously cool looking plant growing at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria, B.C. It was a vine-like plant growing on a fence with fringed flowers that I can only describe as psychedelic space eyes. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Uncategorized
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The Morning Smoothie
I have a Sears Countercraft blender, probably circa late 1970’s, color Harvest Gold. I hadn’t seen it for a while though, as it got lost in the bottom cabinet that contains the large rotating lazy susan that is overstuffed with items, wobbles and doesn’t go around … Continue reading
Posted in Diet, Uncategorized, Wow!
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Skinny Girl
I was always the skinny girl. Not the long, lithe, willowy model skinny girl, but the gawkishly thin, angular, hollow-eyed skinny girl. A skinny girl in school who looked like an X-ray…….with knobby knees, tiny bones, all feet and nose and elbows and spine. The … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Diet, Perspective, Uncategorized, Weight
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What’s Up With the Strawberries?
What’s up with the strawberries lately? Has anyone else noticed these mega-giant, shiny uber-red strawberries that have been appearing for sale in the supermarket? The last few containers I bought seem to be filled with behemoths. I have been marveling over the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized, Wow!
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Intoxication
Feeling intoxicated by the scent of Lilac, Allysum and Lily of the Valley that perfume the garden. Sweet spring……
Posted in Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized
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Fences
It has been an adjustment getting used to living in a small city, with neighbors dwelling very close by. Most of the homes on our street, built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, have weathered, stockade fences between them. However, this house came equipped … Continue reading
100 Things
Even though I am a mother, and even now the mother of a mother, each year when the Mother’s Day holiday comes around, instead of celebrating my mother status, I find myself mostly reflecting on memories of my own mom. There are those … Continue reading
Just Married
My car sat parked out in the driveway beneath the crabapple tree overnight. When I went out to it the following morning, the blue car was totally covered in bright pink petals. Actually plastered in pink. It was enough to cause me … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized
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Free
Ok, it looks like I am actually going to recant something I said earlier about hardly ever winning anything, because I actually just won something of significant value. Almost every year for the past fifteen years I have attended a work … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Unfolding
During this time of renewal, it is as if we, too, are uncurling from the winter darkness and reaching towards the light. It is exciting and joyful to be amidst the awakening garden.
Posted in Spring, Uncategorized
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