Tag: rural
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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October 06, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
In Autumn more than any other time I'm keenly aware of how quickly the seasons pass. Maybe because I can look back over the summer and see all of the berries I didn't pick, all of the chores left . . .
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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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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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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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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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