stereoman's blog

My juicer is here! My juicer is here!

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:00 GMT

Way back in the early eighties, when I was working in the very last corporate job I had, I used to take a lunch hour every day. Often I'd take my company car, a Subaru Brat, over the big bridge t...

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First Day of Summer

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:22:00 GMT

It's a sign I tell you! First day of summer dawned cool and breezy, heated up to a swelter only briefly, then succumbed to a refreshing shower. I had intended to spend the entire day...

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Honeymoon

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:29:00 GMT

I want to send a great big thank you to everyone who has over the past few days thought of me and my Beloved, wished us well, said a prayer for us, sent us a smile, posted on my "getting married" t...

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Still Life With Radishes

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:40:00 GMT

My little patch of urban paradise is really shaping up! Everything that's going in the ground is in the ground, everything that needs to be mulched is mulched, flowers are blooming in reckless aban...

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Out of Time, Out of Mulch

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT

O! that there were more hours in the day! My work -- my "real" job -- has been taking its toll of late, coupled with planning for an upcoming event of great importance. Three weeks from tomorrow, o...

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A special visitor

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:17:00 GMT

Sarawila is everybody's favorite little girl. She's cute, bright, glib, fearless, imaginative, energetic, and kind to all living things. Her mom, Adrianne, is one of my favorite people. Wila -- she...

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That groaning is the sound of plants exploding!

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:33:00 GMT

Suddenly, there are masses of plants popping up everywhere! Flowers bursting all over the yard, perennials smothered in buds, potatoes popping up without warning, onions leaping forth, an avalanche...

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A fabulistic week

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:45:00 GMT

So many good things being born this spring! I'm all kinds of excited!

My business got a new commercial client, a bus tour company. I've never worked on buses before, but apparently they've no...

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Veggie Babies

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:33:00 GMT

As soon as it was Spring, I started planting veggies. Almost to the minute! Before the sun went down on Mar 20, I was out in the garden with a little tiny bowl of carefully counted radish seeds (25...

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My Babies

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:58:00 GMT

I can't remember a time when I wasn't equally fascinated by the texture of leaves as I am enamored of the sight and smell of flowers. For the first dozen years of my gardening experience, I was so ...

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The Stump

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:01:00 GMT

A few years before I moved into this house, there was a lovely red maple covering much of the front yard. One day, the power company, having determined that the tree was a "hazard" to the electrica...

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Spring Has Sprung! March 22, 2008

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:20:00 GMT

Spring has sprung!

Today was the first gardening day of the season. It felt so good in the bright warm sunshine, getting grit under my fingernails, spraying water in my face, the warm, dark c...

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