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Batman rides again
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A New Mushroom Legend
A story to pass on to the Grandchildren: So, Daddy was driving down an old country road, driving about 60 mph, (minus 55), and Mommy was looking out the window, and she yelled, “Stop, I see one!” Once the car stops, she jumps out of the car to retrieve her treasure. You can’t see it? It’s right there! A wild snakehead mushroom. Never in my life, nor have I met anyone, who spotted a wild snakehead mushroom from the inside of a moving car. It’s almost as if a fairy told me where to look, and when. Thinking we had hit the mother-load, we pulled over and started looking…
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Every little thing will turn out OK
I tend to wrap myself so tight around decisions, trying my best to foresee every possible outcome of each side of the issue. This, of course, leads to paralysis… or indecisiveness. I look hard, I pray, I meditate, I think. Less than I should, I talk to other people. Even though talking seems to help the most, I rarely talk, as I am a bit isolated in my world of children now. Or maybe just because I’m thinking too hard to talk. Some days, a decision I made three years ago about one of the boys will come barrelling down so hard on me today, that I realize now, was…
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Glitter is never a good thing
It’s craft time, I say! trace his body on paper. This is not enough. I pull out the stuff; every Mother’s worst nightmare; glittery sprinkles. It’s OK, I think, We’ll be outside! No messes. Friends, I am so calm. What is the big deal when they cover the driveway in sprays of sparkle? My son said it best; I think our driveway looks cool. He’s right about this. But things turn ugly, “Take these glitter tubes inside!” The laundry suffers. Now, I must learn this one rule about the glitter It’s ALWAYS a mess. So, no wonder this guy’s hiding…If you would like to see the mess they made,…
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Grow Better Veggies With Companion Plants
A list of plants with their beneficial companion plants, to help deter bugs and attract beneficial insects. Plan Dill with squash and pumpkins, but Dill will attract the tomato hornworm. Mint and parsley are enemies, Keep onions away from peas, keep potatoes and tomatoes apart as they both can get early and late blight contaminating each other.
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Our Earth Plans
How to grow a Jack-In-The-Beanstalk fort out of pole beans, which are extra tall green beans.
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Cheap Clothes Hurt Mother Earth
A true picture of Motherhood. My favorite jeans are now a casualty from crawling on the floor one too many times to retrieve lost puzzle and bionicle pieces, scrubbing stubborn stains on hands and knees, and the wear-and-tear from endless airplane rides. My son took this BSM picture. An article in Wired (Peak Water, May 2008), says that the production of a single pair of jeans takes 2,866 gallons of water. (A single sheet of paper requires 3 gallons of water.) A friend of mine, who works for a clothing retailer, says sales stay high, even when they sell cheap-quality clothes. So no, it isn’t just you, you’re clothes really…
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Finding Paradise
It didn’t help that each and every one of the 1,000,000 dogwoods that grow in my old neighborhood were blooming today, as I drove through to drop off a check. A stupid, time-wasting errand that could have been avoided if I would have just put a stamp on the envelope and mailed it days ago. The houses, many stone, and wood, look luminescent under the filtered sunlight of the dogwood flowers. They do that; the flowers of the dogwoods cast a shimmer down on anything that stands beneath them, for that so brief time when they bloom. Rather than houses, they suddenly look like large-over-sized pillows, beckoning me to take…
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