Tag: nature
member name: Mary H.
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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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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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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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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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July 31, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
Ghost lilies are haunting Birdland. I noticed them blooming in town last week, and knew ours were not far behind. Do you know about Ghost Lilies? They are the pale pink wild cousins to Amaryllis, and . . .
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January 10, 2009 11:20 AM EST --
It is 2,181 miles from Birdland to Seattle. Today it's 42 degrees there, and cloudy, with showers in the forecast. I have to think about these things, when I imagine my boy, who just said goodbye . . .
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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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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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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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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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June 19, 2009 09:06 AM EDT --
This week brought even more rain to Birdland, and a mild tornado shows me the wisdom of folks who do a barn raising in one day. The storm hit early in th e morning with a grass green sky and a wind . . .
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June 26, 2009 12:42 PM EDT --
Birdland has a new bonfire pit, thanks to Alexsis, home from the East Coast for a while. My niece loves her home, yet she is no homebody. She is always on some migratory path, and I can't keep track . . .
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July 24, 2009 12:03 PM EDT --
In Birdland the sunflowers I planted around the garden coop have grown strong stalks to carry their faces up over the roof of the coop to greet the morning sun. They clear the coop, but are still in the . . .
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