Twiggybet1's Blog

Where to begin?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:21:00 GMT

*sigh* I need to share. I've had a couple of strange days....

Yesterday, my daughter had her first automobile accident. She's o.k., but it sure gave me a scare. She was on her way to ...

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Busy days in the garden

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:51:00 GMT

It's Monday morning, hubby's at work and daughter's at school. I have a some time to myself to reflect, write my blog, and plan my day. Well, some of it's already planned for me. Dentist appoint...

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It's good to be back home...

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:38:00 GMT

We spent the 4th and the weekend out of town visiting relatives. While we had a very enjoyable time, it still is good to be back home. I could hardly wait to get back to check on the garden. Onl...

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Update on Garden's Progress 6-28-08

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:06:00 GMT

How about that? I can't think of a very original name for my blog post, but that describes it best, I suppose. It has been 8 days since my last post. I had intended to blog w/ photos about once a...

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A very happy gardener...

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:14:00 GMT

am I! Today my sweet potato slips arrived. Boy, that sure was fast! I placed the order less than a week ago. I had called the grower to make sure that some were available before I mailed in my ...

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Happy Father's Day

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:11:00 GMT

It's Sunday morning and the sun is shining! It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day. I haven't checked the forecast for the day, but I think I'll just take what I see. I couldn't ask for...

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Sweet Potatoes finally arrived...

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:30:00 GMT

...and this is the condition they arrived in:

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Things are coming along nicely...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:32:00 GMT

I don't remember which kind of lettuce this pic shows, but they are finally large enough to tell them from the weeds. Now I need to finish weeding this area...

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Back home from the holiday weekend get-away

Thu, 29 May 2008 02:24:00 GMT

Before we left to go visiting for the holiday weekend, we managed to get the sweet corn planted. I think we squeezed in 6 rows. I am SO excited! I absolutely love corn-on-the-cob, and we have ne...

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A productive day

Wed, 21 May 2008 03:58:00 GMT

Between yesterday and today, hubby and I managed to almost finish planting the garden. Yesterday we planted the potatoes, and readied the row for the sweet potatoes. The sweet potato starts proba...

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Strange weather last couple of days

Mon, 19 May 2008 02:44:00 GMT

The weather here has been pretty weird the last couple of days. Yesterday was the day my daughter had her friends over for a cook-out. It was sunny and gusty in the morning, clouded up, rained a ...

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Moving day for the compost pile

Fri, 16 May 2008 04:29:00 GMT

I haven't done much in the garden all week, because I pulled a muscle (or something?) in my leg earlier this week and have been hobbling around like.....I don't know, an infirm person or something....

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Ducks in the Swimming pool

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:17:00 GMT

Here's a photo of a pair of ducks enjoying the neighbor...

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Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Tue, 06 May 2008 04:32:00 GMT

Happy Cinco De Mayo! We had tacos for dinner, and (of course) used our home canned salsa. I love mexican food. Yeah, yeah, I know, what we call mexican is an americanized version of their authen...

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I've had better days...

Sat, 03 May 2008 05:19:00 GMT

The weather today has been stormy, kind of matches my mood. I've been in a weird funk all day....

I tried to get a few things done outside. I got some soil mixed up for planters, in the...

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