Tag: hatched
member name: Mary H.
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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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January 28, 2009 09:44 AM EST --
In first grade we had a substitute teacher. It was right around my birthday. I don't remember her name, but I have a vivid memory of her standing at the front of the classroom. She had a modest beehive . . .
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March 13, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
Aren't spring shoots amazing? Pushing up out of frozen, grey earth, shouldering aside clods, each shoot with a different shape. A rosette of green tulip leaves is tinged with red, each leaf like the . . .
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June 14, 2009 11:22 AM EDT --
This column was born of letters to friends. In correspondence, I found myself describing in detail the microcosm of my yard. It seemed like I just had to look out the window or walk out to the bean field . . .
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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 19, 2008 08:04 PM EDT --
Part I
The corn is now the color of Ms. Tawny Hen, the beans a little browner than Pepper’s saddle. The day is chilly and dark at both ends, but still nicely warm in the middle. Remember those . . .
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November 01, 2008 10:12 PM EDT --
Time seems to speed up for me on the edge of any season. So much going on! Halloween came so fast that L.S. and I made his costume the night before. It was a good thing that this year's costume didn't . . .
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February 09, 2009 03:04 PM EST --
I guess I'm a cheap date. I love the excitement of eating out (and the relaxation of not having to cook or clean the kitchen afterwards) but even more than eating out in a restaurant, I love a community . . .
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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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February 13, 2009 10:05 AM EST --
We've had such extreme weather in Birdland, as if February were running through several months in one week, giving us a preview of April. Just when I began to think we were digging into another ice . . .
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June 11, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
Fireflies have returned to Birdland, adding a busy starlight to my evening chores: watering the garden, closing up the chicken coop against night-time predators, thinking about tomorrow’s tasks. . . .
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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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