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The Spring Plant Sale

The Spring Plant Sale

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The local University’s botanical society just hosted their Annual Spring Plant Sale….. My daughters both went….. They took our “State Fair wagon” with them….. …..that’s kind of scary…because when you have the capacity to drag a wagon around with you….. …..you also have the ability to fill it….. And that’s exactly what happened….. My daughters bought lots of young fruit bearing trees and bushes….. A few years ago…I dutifully bought and planted and…

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Gatsby’s getting old….. He didn’t have an easy life as a kitten or as a young cat….. At that time…my older daughter worked at a nearby pet shop….. This shop worked with a local cat rescue…which had recently found a litter of kittens…left in an abandoned rental house….. The renters had left….. When the landlords came to clean the house for the next tenants (six+ weeks later)…they found an empty bag of cat…

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Sometimes…Somethings…

Sometimes…Somethings…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Sometimes it’s just better to walk away from something….. Sometimes…(no matter how hard you try)…sometimes…somethings…refuse to be fixed….. There’s been a lot of things over years that I’ve walked away from….. There have been some things that I’ve just forgotten totally…(I can’t even remember how many…but I guess that’s the point of forgetting)….. Somethings are better forgotten….. My older daughter is still learning that fact of life….. She wants to fix anything that’s…

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A New “Audrey” Appears

A New “Audrey” Appears

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The other day I saw my older daughter contemplating what I thought was the corner post of the paddock….. My first thoughts were….. Oh dear………….she’s having a bad day….. …..something has gone wrong….. …..or maybe…something died….. I need to be supportive and approach this situation very carefully…and quietly….. …..but not too quietly…because I don’t want to startle her….. Maybe I should leave her alone………….(I’ll set the oven timer–and go back out and bring…

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*Skijoring*

*Skijoring*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* With the Winter Olympics currently going on in Milan, Italy….. I thought this would be an appropriate post….. The Winter months are time for cold weather sports…but what kind of Sports?….. You are only limited by your imagination….. *****(Skijoring–Explained)***** I should check back in my past posts…I’m fairly sure I wrote about the winter donkey escapades of my youth….. *****(I Did Write About It Before–In A Post In 2017–“Bad Playgrounds #2”)***** My older…

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Winter In Florida Has Arrived

Winter In Florida Has Arrived

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Florida Winter weather is very variable with its rapid-fire Up’s and Down’s….. We are at the cold end of the Down’s right now…and we are all over-reacting….. Last weekend brought a deluge of rain…if that same amount of rain (between 4″ and 7″) had occurred during the Hurricane Season…we would’ve slapped a name on it and called it a “Tropical-Something”….. This weather front missed a moniker by just a week….. But the end…

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Farm Maintenance Projects

Farm Maintenance Projects

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* After having watched the neighbors recent late night fireball of a bonfire…I’ve decided…I’m not going to burn any of our remaining piles of wood that are still scattered around our property after last year’s Hurricane Season….. I decided there’s another option rather than the risk of more fires…it just too dry right now….. The meteorologist just said that compared to last year rainfall…we are 22″ less than last year…(granted we were in the…

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~Common Sense~

~Common Sense~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* …..Or Lack There Of….. Just a little common sense makes the world a better place….. It’s not hard….. With a little practice…common sense can become common place….. I’ve seen very intelligent well-educated professional people…talk themselves (and others) into some really stupid dumb-butt choices….. …..where all it would’ve taken was a minuscule amount of common sense…and some old-fashioned housewife logic….. Here’s a colorful example….. A couple of nights ago…our abutting neighbors (who shall not…

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One Thing Leads To Another…

One Thing Leads To Another…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Because we were able to inflate the flat tractor tire so easily….. And because my older daughter had already fixed a list of things which were wrong with our sad tractor’s engine….. We were able to rev up the tractor and roll it onto a flat bed….. …..and take it down to the friendly Mahindra tractor repair shop….. This wasn’t a surprise…we knew it was on the agenda…even after all the things my…

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A Tractor Tire

A Tractor Tire

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* When you live on a farm…no matter what size farm…there are ALWAYS things to do….. …..things are broken…things need replacing…things need planting…or weeding….. …..and on…and on…and on….. You just keep working down the list….. …..but which list?….. …..where did I put the last list?….. …..oh…not “that other” list too….. Or better yet….. Geez! “That one” really should’ve been put at the top of the first list….. But because we’ve lived here for so…

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