About a hundred years ago, when I first started gardening out here in the country in my red dirt, I subscribed to Kitchen Gardener …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2010: Achieving Winter Bloom
Last year, my January Bloom Day post consisted of little, so I vowed to give you more in 2010. Like last year, let's begin with …
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White Christmases are highly overrated
A little, light, powdered-sugar dusting would be okay, but fourteen inches is a record breaker. I still haven't seen my mom for …
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Think we’ll have a white Christmas?
In Oklahoma, the weather outside is truly frightful. As I wrote before, we rarely have a white Christmas, but the blizzard of …
On the occasion of the Winter Solstice
For those of us with colder temperatures, or even snow, winter seems like it arrived a few weeks ago, but according to the U.S …
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Oh Christmas Tree . . . part II
As a member of the Society, and at our president, Carol's, informal request at the last virtual meeting, I'm pleased to share my …
Frigid Friday
Welcome to Frigid Friday hosted by Mr. McGregor's Daughter. It's a balmy 25F in Oklahoma today, and we are supposed to reach a …
Muse Day, December: Common Cold, by Ogden Nash
Common Cold By Odgen Nash Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! You shall not sneer at me. Pick up your hat and stethoscope, Go …
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Jumped in a pile of leaves lately?
When was the last time, you raked up a large pile of leaves, getting the heart pumping, and the other muscles working? Then, once …
Here’s to a gluten & dairy free Thanksgiving
with a few survival tips and a recipe to boot! For those of us with food allergies and intolerances, the holiday …
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Vegetable garden tour
Although you may have surmised from my letters with Carol and Mary Ann, it wasn't all bad news in my vegetable garden this year. …
Garden Bloggers’ Muse Day for October
Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay ALL in the Downs the fleet was moor’d, The streamers waving in the wind, When …
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