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Rural Life and Recipe for Apricot Fruit Spread by Beth Trissel 7/13/2010 8:39:30 AM
A soft summer night is descending over the ridges and settling into the Shenandoah Valley after much needed rain today. The garden greened up immediately and seemed quite invigorated this evening. The prize pumpkin vine that daughter Elise and I h... more
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Low Arvie Ladies on the loose! by Linda Watson 7/1/2010 9:50:50 PM
An exciting event occurred here at Low Arvie last night! On Tuesday Richard had moved the Ladies and their calves into the silage fields for a couple of days to eat the standing grass around the edges. Yesterday he opened the gates for them to find... more
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Vickie's Garden by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse 6/9/2010 3:42:55 AM
My Garden Is Larger This Year... more
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Hanging Washing on the line by Judith Lawrence 5/30/2010 4:38:46 AM
'Tis the season to stop using the dryer... more
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Garden Season!! by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse 5/14/2010 5:02:59 AM
DYK?... more
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Make Way For Ducklings~ by Beth Trissel 5/4/2010 4:40:06 AM
One of my favorite childrens’ books is also true of life here in the country. There’s even a Duck Crossing sign in the neighboring town of Dayton near the creek that runs off of Silver Lake. And plenty of ducks to watch for.
This time of ... more
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Moving is Hard when you have No Home by Brendan Carroll 5/3/2010 1:30:28 PM
What happened to my lake house?... more
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A Burst Of Spring~ by Beth Trissel 5/2/2010 12:36:41 PM
Ah spring, that glorious season, came in a rush here in the Shenandoah Valley. We went from seemingly endless snow to new life emerging as the white stuff receded. Then the weather grew unseasonably warm, urging everything into bloom at once, which... more
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My aching back By Fern Lutkins by Fern Lutkins 4/15/2010 6:39:00 AM
Hi, Here is some sensible advice for garden lovers. The other day I over did weed pulling and paid the price. I have spent two days in bed. Watch your backs. Use some kind of brace on your back. What my daughter ues is an old belt. She claims it does... more
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End of a perfect week.By Fern Lutkins by Fern Lutkins 4/11/2010 2:51:52 PM
Hi, The end of another week. My, just where does the time go? I spent most of the day cleaning the garden and putting out the nic-naks all around the yard. Some of the solor lights had to have the batterys' removed and new put in. but I can't complai... more
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Erect Throngs by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse 12/22/2009 7:10:51 AM
Photography Hobbyist
Poeticizing Photography
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August Garden by Beth Trissel 8/17/2009 7:14:16 PM
If, by late August, a gardener is wondering how long it will be until the first frost arrives and tidies up the robust stand of weeds growing in and among everything, or if she is thinking of tacking up a sign to declare the grounds a wild game prese... more
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THE WORRYING THING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE by John W Townsend 8/16/2009 4:17:51 AM
If you look around your enviroment from an ecological view, how has it changed in the last ten years.... more
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THE BIRCH JOHN SOCIETY by Robert A. Mills 8/10/2009 6:52:28 AM
Every time I fire up the old PC, turn on the radio in the shower, punch the remote to enable the TV, open a copy of the Sunday New York Times, or flip through a year old Reader’s Digest in some sawbone’s office, I am disappointed and feel cheated if ... more
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Cucumbers by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse 8/4/2009 12:45:39 PM
how does your garden grow?
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FAIRLY BLUE SKIES by John W Townsend 7/25/2009 10:56:30 AM
A look at aspects of a day.... more
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Quack grass--the scourge of the garden by Adrean Aynsley 6/5/2009 12:30:18 AM
The "major" landscaping at my new home.... more
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How to Love Ironing Clothes (and other household chores!) by Randall Davis Barfield 4/29/2009 9:43:52 AM
If you go away to college, you learn to cook, iron, wash car and clothes, and just about all the other chores anybody can name. Well, I've always hated ironing. I'd rather wash dishes just about all day than iron. (my wife hates washing dishes) So, e... more
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NAKED GNOMES by Robert A. Mills 4/24/2009 5:32:38 AM
My friend Willy Moncrief, the effervescent Irishman, stops over once or twice a week, and he always brings a six-pack of Dortmunder’s Lite Dark Lager, all of which he drinks himself. I think he brings it because he knows I keep nothing in the house,... more
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10 Pounds by Blue Sleighty 4/21/2009 11:43:56 AM
I THOUGHT I Knew What I Was Doing... more
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