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After the Sudden Storm: Minding the Light Again!

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About 10:30 Wednesday night, I was ready to pack it in: tired and frazzled from a day spent largely looking for chargers to recharge chargers for phone & Ipad, and then charging the devices while circling in the Fair Wendy’s air-conditioned EV, and buying drippy bags of ice from a darkened but open vape shop for the room temperature fridge/freezer.

I turned off the MSNBC audio feed my phone still had and was starting the push up out of the recliner when — voilá!

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In The Yard: Daisy In Peril—An August Thriller

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Outside our kitchen door, a single daisy has appeared. Daisies are generally pretty good at standing up for themselves.

But our Daisy faces a very serious challenge; she appeared in the middle of a larger patch of very pushy, one might even say aggressive and imperialistic morning glories. Continue reading In The Yard: Daisy In Peril—An August Thriller →

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In The Yard: The Stump, the Wild Strawberry & the Pollinators’ Friend

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The stump & the wild strawberry: Tuesday it was my difficult duty to explain to a great-granddaughter that wild strawberries look good, but don’t taste good. Later this year, or maybe next, I may have to address her definite suspicion that not long after Thanksgiving, her grandpa turns into Santa Claus . . . .

A clover, one of my spring favorites, and the bees’ staunch ally. But where are the bees? Continue reading In The Yard: The Stump, the Wild Strawberry & the Pollinators’ Friend →

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In The Yard: Our Flowery May Day Demonstration

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In many parts of the world, May 1 is Labor Day, a holiday, and observances typically have a noticeably leftwing or socialist character.

But the U. S. Doesn’t recognize such subversive notions, preferring its very tame beer-hotdogs-and-baseball version in September. (That’s Labor — excuse me, Labour Day — in Canada also; I mistakenly thought that was their Thanksgiving Day, but they’ve slotted that in for the second Monday of October. I’ve also long believed that occasion is secretly focused on giving thanks that Canada’s long southern border remains yet unbreached from below since the War of 1812, which, by the way, they won.) Continue reading In The Yard: Our Flowery May Day Demonstration →