Always make sure your tent is waterproof…

We went camping over the Memorial Day weekend. It’s an annual camping trip we make with folks from our church, and we have a good time.
The weather has always been good, but neither my partner or I object to rain – we both like the sound of rain on a tent.
So when it started to [...]

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Quote: Experience

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Raymond Holliwell

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Free range tomatoes

My partner planted flowers this spring to liven up some beds we had started last fall. He told me he had done the usual soil remediation with potting soil and compost.
I didn’t think much of it until I noticed plants springing up in the flower beds. Plants that looked and smelled an awful lot like [...]

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Quote: Trying

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury

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The happy cat dance

Our older cat is fourteen, and is a great cat. He will allow himself to be picked up, carried around, cuddled and turned over, all without protest. He lives a fairly quiet life. Sleeping most of the time, coming downstairs when he thinks there is food in order to (hopefully) score some chicken or beef [...]

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A Lesson Learned: Always Count First

If it’s invasive and viney, it grows in the woods behind our backyard. And sometimes it wanders into our yard as well. Honeysuckle, English ivy, vinca, and a cute little specimen called Virginia Creeper. Virginia Creeper looks just like poison ivy, except it has five leaves instead of three.
I was doing some weeding the other [...]

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Quote: Consistency

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Ducks and the White Cat

Mama and Papa duck were scoping out our yard for a possible short term rental. They waddled here and there for several days, testing out the various ground cover and using the puddles in the side yard as a drinking source.
I watched them several mornings as they woke from the night in the park, then [...]

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Quote: Today

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman

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Strawberry Picking

I have gone strawberry picking with my daughter for four years now. We started when she was small, and was more interested in eating than in filling a bucket. But every year we go back around mid-May, taking advantage of the big strawberry fields that are in our area.
This year the weather was overcast, and [...]

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