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Open Season for Wasps
When the weather turns warm here in the South the wasps come out. Here in East Texas we have black wasps, black-winged red wasps, all-red red wasps, yellow and black guinea wasps (we call them yellow jackets), dirt daubers, cicada killers (hornets), bumblebees, wood borers, and honeybees. We’ve been blessed with quite a variety of…
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A Toy Story, Part I
Some of my fondest memories of my childhood involve the toys I played with. Now my parents weren’t well off by any stretch of the imagination, but we kids always had plenty of toys to play with. From the deep cardboard box at the Willow Branch Road farmhouse to the old wooden trunk at the…
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Magnificent Monday: What a little rain can do
Last week we got some rain, and not just a little. Some folks in our area of East Texas received 5 or 6 inches of rain, but we only got 2.6 inches at our place. It was enough to give a burst of renewed energy to the potted plants on our back deck, which were…
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AT HOME MONDAY: Wedding Clutter?
It’s the Monday post-wedding and I am still alive and well and here to tell you about it! I was alive but very tired yesterday but still I spent the entire day gathering all the decor and gifts from the tent between the rain showers that politely waited until the day after the wedding to…
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AT HOME MONDAY: Gobble Holler!
Welcome to my blog today from rainy Gobble Holler, Indiana! I am visiting my sister in Marengo near where her husband grew up in an area they call Gobble Holler. This is the country, folks. In East Texas we think we live in the country, but that ain’t country. THIS is the most country country…
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