Tag: birdland
member name: Mary H.
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December 30, 2008 12:38 PM EST --
In Houston they’re serious about FFA. My suburban niece is raising a steer, a Black Angus named Marvin. On Christmas day I begged to accompany her to the barn, an open-air shelter the size of an airplane . . .
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August 24, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
The end of the summer is like a carnival ride. You're enjoying the roller coaster, zipping around and over and under and up.... You go over one last turn, down the hill and suddenly, before you realize . . .
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September 17, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
The curtain is coming down on summer. Each morning it's a little darker when I wake up, the light illuminating my morning chicken chores is a little more muted. In another month I'll need a flashlight . . .
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August 11, 2008 12:46 AM EDT --
This week I want to write to Dylan, my fancy pants middle son in Chicago, even though he was just down here to attend another wedding. He spent some time, too, helping his grandparents move, and I appreciate . . .
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September 15, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
I didn't have high hopes for the eggs L.S. and I snuck under the Tawnies. Twice last week the first Ta wny managed to somehow carry an egg about 5 feet away from the nest. Both eggs were smelly when . . .
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December 14, 2008 09:09 PM EST --
My second favorite place on the farm is the piney woods. It’s such a sheltered and orderly little forest. It is a Christmas tree lot my great grandfather planted with the help of his grandchildren, and . . .
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September 10, 2009 10:29 PM EDT --
When I was 13 I stopped eating meat. I went all "Fern and Wilber" and "where's-Papa-going-with-that-axe?" I didn't eat meat for one very simple reason: I didn't want to harm animals. I had seen Bambi. . . .
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September 11, 2009 12:38 AM EDT --
In Birdland mornings are foggy. Isis comes in from her run with beads of dew on her coat. My dog had a su mmer cut (which the groomer loosely interpreted as a shave) about six weeks ago, and her . . .
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November 23, 2008 10:14 PM EST --
I've always loved our windmill. I remember climbing the rusty ladder toward the twirling blades when I was thirteen or fourteen. I was halfway up when my grandfather tore out of the house, yelling . . .
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January 16, 2009 10:14 AM EST --
Nothing makes me feel like a real she-woman more than splitting logs for the fire. It's frighteningly cold in Birdland, going on three days of below zero, and a fire makes the house a little more . . .
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January 17, 2009 01:40 PM EST --
My book, A Year in Birdland , is now available on my Etsy site . Just thought you'd like to know.
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February 20, 2009 09:57 AM EST --
In Birdland Spring teases us with the bright blue skies and occasional warmish breeze. Last week I saw a robin as I carried seed out to the aviary, and my daffodils are sending up green shoots, almost . . .
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May 15, 2009 01:01 PM EDT --
So much rain this week in Birdland! I'm not sure when they'll be able to get into our fields. We seem to have permanent wetlands, both a running stream and several ponds, and may have to consider . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
In Birdland Daylilies have their green-bean buds, but no shot of orange yet, Black-Eyed Susans are still all fuzzy, gangly stalks of leaf. In a week, Yellow will be all the rage, but for now we have the . . .
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October 15, 2009 09:13 AM EDT --
So much rain in Birdland, I wonder when they will be able to bring in the corn. A late sunrise and over cast skies make for dark mornings and shadowy chicken duties. It's not that I'm wishing . . .
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March 31, 2009 10:46 PM EDT --
This week I left detailed notes for Michael and Ellis about bird care and am on my way with my sister, Betsy, to catch a flight to visit my beautiful niece on the East Coast. I write to you courtesy . . .
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July 14, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
It's been an emotional summer, full of family gatherings. This week I wanted to write to my Aunt Anna Mary to thank her for caring for her uncle, my great-uncle, Francis, who we lost last week. I'm . . .
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July 28, 2008 09:12 AM EDT --
This week in Birdland I've learned a little about the empty nest while L.S. was away at camp. It's really just a preview; he won't even be away for a whole week. Not like when I dropped my . . .
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September 07, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
It's dark out and the chickens are in bed. The ducks go in on their own now, and sleep in the chicken coop, but they intimidate the chickens, who roost up on the roof, and I have to go out and catch . . .
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January 22, 2009 10:54 PM EST --
The axe I bought last week has a fiberglass handle and a special built-in wedge, so that if it gets stuck in a log I can hit the back end with a sledge hammer and split the wood open that w ay. It has . . .
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