Even with an intensive clean-up session after breakfast Saturday morning, even though we had to vacate the premises by lunch that day to let realtors bring prospective buyers through, our weekend was wonderful by a…
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Watching the sunrise, waiting for a Toddler Girl to wake so I can scoop her up, maybe give her parents a rare extra hour of sleep. Her Cousin from Rome arrives today with Seven-Year-Old Cousin…
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We have to be out of the house most of the day today (real estate doings), and so of course it’s raining, and even better (yes, that’s sarcasm), we left the car in the (big)…
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My last season in this garden we’ve created over the past 23+ years is bound to be bittersweet, but I’m doing my best simply to focus on the joys. And this osmanthus delavayi is chief among them…
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I know, I know, I know. I made promises I’m not keeping here, but life’s a bit busy right now, and the va-et-vient means that sometimes the books I’d like to write about are not…
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