One Buck or Two?

Yesterday morning, I was at my lap-top and was startled by a young buck who had nudged right up to the window to see what I was doing. I knocked on the floor.

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Winter and July – Spring Fever Complaints

So, busy people, what have you got going on in your life? Are you keeping up with your projects? Are you gardening? Are you shoveling snow?

I wish someone would email a topic. Any topic, rated G. Then, you won’t have to listen to me complain about SNOW IN MAY!
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Shall I Compare this to a Summer Day?

The only drawback to good weather is the reflection on bright white paper and difficulty seeing a computer screen. Both, make it difficult to get any work done without coming back inside.

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Gone Fishing or Mirror Mirror

Adam Lambert and Kate Gosselin have the same hairstyle. When the temperature drops below zero the dog does her business toot-sweet. Our Ecclectus Parrot only needs to see the orange handled nail clippers coming out of the drawer and she scrambles beak over feet to her big iron bird cage.

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Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Calender Shopping

During the next few weeks I will take stock of all the things I thought of doing, but never committed to getting done. I’ll look at all the new things I learned, those moments when I stopped everything to say aloud, “I did not know that.” I will try to come up with a good and economical answer to that pesky question about what I want for Christmas. I may even set some goals for the year coming.

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Montana has Two Seasons – Winter and July

Every year about this time, our quaking aspens grow leaves seemingly overnight and having leaves they begin to quake. The plum bush out front begins to bud and while the lilacs and roses seem slow they too begin to stretch and yawn and tease me with remembered color and smells.
Every year I begin to prepare to garden knowing full well that we have only 90 frost free days here and they don’t necessarily come in a row. Yesterday, I went to the store and bought some cheap garden gloves, I always loose last year’s pair. I also bought a garden hat. I went for straw again, this year crocheted straw, and floppy.
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