Birds, Coneflowers, Books, and Etsy The coneflowers are beginning to open, which brings a smile to my face. This morning, I looked outside and a goldfinch was sitting on top of the zinnias, eating the seeds. Don loves goldfinches, he’s fascinated by them. I also briefly saw Phileas – or part of Phileas – as he jumped into the water […]
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Saturday Morning Sorry for not posting on Friday. The events in the House on Thursday and the blatant cruelty on full display were tremendously  upsetting. I woke up at 3 am on Friday morning and never got back to sleep. I couldn’t stop my thoughts, my worry, my outrage. So I only had a few hours of […]
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Midweek Yesterday was the kind of humid day where you just know that thunderstorms will appear. And they did. Not too much, just enough. It’s going to be warm again today, but without the crazy humidity. I’m very angry at yesterday’s vote. All I will say here is part of what I said online, without the […]
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The Weekend We did a heck of a lot of work outside last week; mowing the entire property, pruning, weeding, weed trimming, mowing the trails in the woods. After all of the rain, followed by the dangerous heat, we had a lot of catching up to do. We don’t like the fact that doing all of that […]
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They’re Chomping on my Garden Again More day lilies have opened. Some pesky deer have been chomping on my David phlox (just like last year) and even some of my coneflowers – that has never happened before! So I sprayed everything the other day, but I’ll spray again today as we’ve had some rain. Oh, and I saw that my big […]
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