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member name: Mary H.
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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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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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February 06, 2009 11:40 AM EST --
The ad in the newspaper said: You have 3 Choices
1. Connect your older TV to a digital-to-analog converter box; or
2. Buy a digital television (a TV with a built-in digital tuner); or
3. Subscribe . . .
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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 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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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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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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May 08, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
Is it me, or does everything speed up in the springtime? In Birdland the lilacs are already gone, mostly turned brown, the lovely scent evaporated. All this rain has made everything a deep jade green, . . .
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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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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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September 21, 2008 10:20 PM EDT --
I always feel romantic at the corners of the year. I think it is something about standing on the threshold--any threshold. Here we are at the edge of autumn. It's not here yet, but we know it's . . .
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September 29, 2008 12:31 AM EDT --
It is the season of the yellow butterflies and the tiny, biting gnats. I don't know if they are really gnats, but they are the size of a large fleck of pepper and have a silver triangle on their heads. . . .
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April 24, 2009 11:49 AM EDT --
This week in Birdland listening to a post-apocalypse story on audio book as I drive, and an adventure in the depths of the well pit has me thinking about culture and dependence. Thursday morning the water . . .
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May 01, 2009 11:47 AM EDT --
Man, I hope my editor understands why my column is late this week! Last week's well emergency put me back on my chores, and I never got to the laundry. Despite overcast skies I am determined to stop . . .
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April 27, 2008 07:26 PM EDT --
April 27, 2008
Hanging the wash always gets me thinking of my cousin, Patty, in D.C., who understands laundry. We once bonded over the discovery that we both, separated by half a continent, used to . . .
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April 03, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
Birdland is fresh with spring green and sprouts. Tiny, dicots polka dot the worn spots in the yard, and I wonder what kinds of weeds I might be pulling in the next few weeks. My seeds arrive d in the . . .
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April 10, 2009 10:11 AM EDT --
Birdland is damp and overcast today, and the ducks are happy. They wandered off somewhere this morning and I was just sure that they were gone—carried away by a sneaky predat or or lured away by a handsome . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:54 AM EDT --
Abundant rain and a broken lawn mower make Birdland a lush place. The red peonies are blooming an d they’re so beautiful it almost hurts to look at them. I haven’t seen my first frog yet, . . .
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