I recently took over a community garden plot from a friend who moved.  I was finally able to get over there yesterday to clean it up.  There was a tomato plant left that wasn’t producing much fruit, two pepper plants and what looked like herbs, but I couldn’t tell what exactly they were.  So I pulled the tomato plant, one pepper plant (the other had peppers successfully sprouting) and some weeds that had taken place of what used to be…

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There used to be a time when I really, really couldn’t wait for Summer to end.  I couldn’t wait to embrace the magic of Fall that brought us pumpkin everything, apple picking and hay rides, Halloween spooks and thrills, sweater weather, the changing colors in nature and even the anticipation of the holiday season beginning.  Then last Winter happened.  SO MUCH SNOW.  I don’t even want to think about the possibility of its return this year.  A former lover of…

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I am far from a risk-taker. I plan ahead. I play it safe. I wouldn’t walk a tightrope without a safety net. I would never jump out of a plane (if you could get me on one first, of course). But this past week I became Adventure Girl with my husband being my trusty sidekick. He was off from work and we made plans to do some things out our normal realm of walks, mini-golf (although that was still involved),…

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