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Gardening Gifts
My boyfriend got me some of the best gardening gifts for Christmas this year. In the collection I received two books (Bountiful Gardner and You Grow Girl), Hi-tech leather gardening gloves, Seed organizing bag, Gardening Apron, and the coolest tool case and tools. How I lived without the gloves and divet I do not know.
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Meyer Lemon Tree
“On the First day of Christmas my true love gave to me,” .. A Meyer Lemon tree. I had tried my first Meyer Lemons at the farmers market a couple of months ago. It was so good and juicy. I used it with Chicken piccata and in a few martini’s. Meyer Lemons are a hybrid…
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! 2007 was a pretty interesting year. I hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday. We had a few friends come over and we munched on some great snack foods and sipped champagne while playing Wii sports. I think Cher’s character in Mermaids had the right idea people should just eat hor’devours.…
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Still Can’t Find the Tripod. .
I still haven’t located the tripod. So here is a picture of Maya and Jack in front of last years tree. Aren’t they cute, they are like an old married couple.
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It’s beginning to look and feel a lot like winter. It rained all last week and now it’s starting to feel downright chilly. Here’s one of the roses after a good rain storm.
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Ode to Trader Joes
I was having a particularly bad day last week. I had to cater to some high maintenance clients. I was returning to the office after my third hour long trip when I spotted something in the horizon. It was the grocery store oasis of Trader Joe’s. Not living near a Trader Joe’s I had forgotten…
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Falling Off the Ol Writing Everyday Wagon
So it looks like I have neglected my poor site for a few days. But I do have a valid excuse first I was sick with the dreaded stomach flu of doom and then my job was actually having me work. But I’m feeling much better now so I will try to be more dilligent…
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Marketing to the “Weaker Sex” aka Advertising 60’s
The Daily Mail has posted some archaic ads from the 60’s and 50’s representing women as hopeless, fragile humans. There is even an ad where the husband is spanking his wife for buying the wrong coffe and there is another where they are justifying homicide because his wife didn’t use a pitney bowels stamp machine…
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Babe the Blue Ox Loses His Head
If you have ever gone to the Redwood you have probably passed by the famous Klamath Paul Bunyon and Blue Ox statues. Last year we posed by these big guys on our way up to the Oregon border. I was suprised to read that poor ol Blue has lost his head due to heavy rain…
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Black and White Kind of Day
It’s chilly and overcast and I just feel like playing around with my black and white photos. Here are some of my favorites. This is Neo my sister’s Lab/Golden Retriever mix. He’s a ball of energy and only slows down for the rare photo shoot. Here are some flower shots. I thought they looked more…