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  • mourning

    The hardest part is coming home. It doesn't matter if I've been to work or the grocery store or just down the sidewalk to the mailbox, when I open the door of my house I subconsciously expect my cat to be there, or to c…

  • Welcome spring

    My azaleas are just about over. So is the redbud tree. The mayhaw tree is in full bloom, and the bits of the blackberry bramble that I didn't pull out of the azalea hedge last weekend are blooming too; I feel bad abou…

  • February in south Louisiana

    Epeemom went out on snowshoes today. Meanwhile, my azaleas are blooming. I went out this morning to do some more work on pulling the blackberry brambles out of the azalea hedge, since my brother and sister, who are b…

  • I notice that the patch in the back yard where there is no St. Augustine grass is also where the water is deepest and stands longest if it rains hard enough to flood the yard. I finally got the herbs transplanted to the…

  • My parents had this patio table made from an old iron tractor wheel, with three legs screwed to the spokes and a glass top. I don't know what happened to the glass top; it's gone, and I assume it got broken at some poin…

  • I went with a couple of friends to an herb festival at a little town up the road this weekend. I told my neighbor about this afterwards and he asked if there was live reggae music: not that kind of herb! Plumeria is ap…

  • Went out to see the Brit's new property out in the sticks, and at least make a nod in the general direction of Beltane, which is coming up in the middle of next week. None of us are going to make it to New Orleans for t…

  • So, the flowering tree that I couldn't identify? I think it might possibly be a mayhaw tree. The name popped into my head last night, and now I'm almost convinced I heard Mom refer to it as such. But I'm having some d…

  • The redbud is almost over blooming, but another tree in the yard is all over white flowers now. I do not know what kind of tree this is; I'm sure Mom told me, more than once, but the name slipped out of my mind and now …

  • Man, I need to go out my own back door more often, now that I have one with a patio and a yard outside it. I hadn't even realized the redbud tree is blooming and has bees all over it. The neighbor's dog barks at me lik…

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