Tag: friends
member name: Mary H.
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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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December 01, 2008 10:24 AM EST --
It's cold this week in Birdland, and it's a trick trying to keep the water thawed out. We have some electric water bowls and a heated pad, but the ducks drink much more water than the chickens . . .
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November 19, 2009 10:50 AM EST --
It’s raining in Birdland as if it would never end. The gray sky stretches from East to West. Water flows down the grass waterway and across the road without stopping. The retaining basin . . .
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July 03, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
In Birdland the Black-Eyed-Susans are still blooming, and the Jerusalem artichokes are budding. Another yellow flower (one that looks so much like ragweed when it comes up that I used to pull it all . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
It’s a sunny day in Birdland, but I need to get something off my chest. I’m tired of the secrecy, the deception, the juggling of half-truths, the panic I get when I realize I’ve left . . .
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August 21, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
School has started, bringing a whole new set of rhythms that reminds us that Fall is on its way. Bedtimes and breakfast are earlier, and we settle into a schedule of making lunches, doing homework, and . . .
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October 01, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
It's chilly in Birdland, and gets dark early, and the light comes late in the morning. Almost time to plasticize the coops. The quince is turning golden on the little tree, each heavy fruit weighing . . .
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April 05, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
It finally feels like spring in Birdland: warm, sunny weekend, golden crocuses blooming, intensely red buds on the maple trees. The wind is beginnng to shred the plastic sheets on the aviary and chicken . . .
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October 29, 2009 12:24 PM EDT --
In Birdland we have one foot in Autumn, the other reluctantly stepping out of Summer. The abundant rain keeps the grass green, and the corn in the fields, but the leaves are turning yellow, filtering . . .
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June 02, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
This week I wanted to write to Carolyn and Earl in the City of Brotherly Love. They have a daughter we haven't met yet, and I think we're due for a visit. Carolyn and Earl . . .
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November 28, 2008 10:47 PM EST --
We had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend, and not just because of the kids' visits--Chandra for dinner, Dylan for most of a week; the weather was also lovely. It has warmed up and the little pond has . . .
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November 05, 2009 02:40 PM EST --
In Birdland we finally got some sun, and they've harvested corn in the west end of the farm. The time change brings on an early evening, but it's been warm and sunny in the afternoons and I spend . . .
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August 07, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
A young cardinal wants badly to get into the house. It flies up to the kitchen window and peers in, only to fly away when it sees me at the counter. It comes to the door, too, clinging to the edge of . . .
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March 23, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
March 23, 2008
This week I wanted to write to our good friend, Bill, over in Willow Branch Township to thank him for taking care of the critters while we were away for Spring Break. We had a good trip . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:26 PM EDT --
This week I wanted to write again to my good friend, Nancy in Indiana. I know I just wrote to her a few weeks ago, but she is the first friend who has answered a letter from Birdland since I began this . . .
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April 20, 2008 10:16 AM EDT --
We're deep into spring cleaning in Birdland. trying to win the battle against accumulation. I was taking some books to drop off at the Books for Prisoners bin, when a postcard dropped out of a paperback. . . .
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May 05, 2008 08:40 AM EDT --
May 5, 2008
This week I've been thinking about community, so I'll write to Nancy, my oldest friend (since first grade--longer than I've known some of my sisters!) out by Indianapolis. . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
Was that me last week with the thinly veiled complaint that I don't get too many answers to my letters from Birdland? Well, I got smacked in the face on two counts. The first lesson the universe wanted . . .
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