Tag: springtime
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Oh, my Gosh is it May First?
Wait! Wait! I spent yesterday afternoon repotting the houseplants that live at my north window. If being rootbound is an indication of doing something right during the winter, then my rather brown thumb is leaning toward green. I have corpses of bonsai trees in the breezeway that will testify to the opposite, they insist I…
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Winter and July
We know it is springtime in Montana because the overnight warming shelter for our local homeless people has closed until next fall. We also know it is springtime because the voles are out and the grass hasn’t grown high enough to hide their trails. A third sign of springtime is the arrival and withdrawal of…
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Beware of the Ladder Backed Chair
My son, my granddaughter and now my grandson have all fallen over backward in them. My very dramatic grandson, managed to land with his feet on the floor side of the rungs. To say he was mad about it is an understatement. He survived and the hard to believe part of it is that no…