I reached my tolerance for staying indoors around two this afternoon. (I have asthma, so I try to take it easy when the air is this obviously bad.) The plan was to head to Mackworth Island in Falmouth, but sadly, when I got there, the lot was full. So, figuring that any sea breeze at […]
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I divided out one of the clivias today, and got three rather good-sized babies out of the deal. It’s funny, because I remember them fitting into smaller pots the last time I divided them, so I must have done it at an earlier growth stage. Since I had the benefit of some plant largess from
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So, during the, hmm, festivities (I hate to use this word, but it actually fits) surrounding my grandmother’s funeral, a boot-sized shoe box of old family photos was unearthed. And while pouring over said photos, my boyfriend casually mentioned that we could scan them all, and that way anyone could get a cd, and have
Great conclusion to this series. I thought it was a great young adult way to handle the book. (Aimed any older, and the two main characters would have ended up married, but I actually like that they don’t.) I honestly didn’t see Tal’s ultimate path coming until it was staring me in the face, so
I enjoy one of the city maintained parks close to me, near USM. In the Spring, they put in tons of tulips which look absolutely lovely. Once those go by, they pull them out and replace most of the beds with annuals, but the central bed is planted every year with cannas. It’s fun to
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Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. Only Bill Bryson can make driving through an endless wasteland into an amusing story. I very much enjoyed this book. My prior knowledge of Australia has been pretty much limited to what I’ve seen on Crocodile Hunter episodes and a Lonely Planet podcast on Perth, so it was
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Garden geek alert again. I visited my mother’s (and her garden) today, and she actually had a parasitized horn worm caterpillar. You know you’re a total geek when this is the most fascinating event of the evening.
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Went to a birthday party in MA this weekend. Because I am such a garden geek, the highlight of my weekend photographs are pictures of the hummingbird moth in my friend’s garden. So cool!! What would have otherwise been the chief highlight of the trip down was the garden at the Stonewall Kitchen factory store
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Just got back from seeing Stardust. Loved it. I did read the book, but it was long enough ago that all but the main plot points have long since been buried in my memory, so I was able to watch it without remembering what was going on, which was great. Robert De Niro was fabulous
My sister just got back from vacation in Hawaii. And she brought me back shells. I can now take out my guidebook, catalog them to my hearts content, and then, there’s actually enough here I may be able to pull off a shadowbox. I really am excessively easy to please 🙂
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