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Spring is Keeping Me Awake at Night
Written April 9, 2012. It’s 2 AM and I can’t sleep. Maybe it’s the full moon. Maybe it’s the mediocre cup of instant Folgers I brewed and drank at 10 PM. Maybe it’s the fact that my husband, Jarred,...
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Lessons Learned from Gardening: Letting Kids Plant is (Mostly) Wonderful
I really need to get out more often. Sometimes show tunes from Oklahoma pop into my head for no apparent reason, especially if I don’t get enough sleep at night. Looking out at the end of the summer...
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Green Eggs and Hampered Plans
Apparently, chickens understand English. They also have super-human hearing and are telepathic. That’s the only reasonable explanation. It seems they overheard the whispered conversations over the...
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The Tale of the Missing Chicken Foot: A True Story
The feather-covered chicken leg, complete with a foot, laying near the welcome mat on the front porch one Sunday morning a few months back barely caught my attention. It wasn’t until my husband...
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Seven Lessons Learned in Seven Days
Children possess uncanny permanent marker detection…just one of the life lessons I learned this week. Life’s been especially busy around here lately. My husband spent a week in Montana working on a...
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Goats, Grace and Golf Carts
Written August 19, 2013. Good neighbors make good fences. (Robert Frost had it backwards.) That’s just one of things I learned this past week. Another lesson learned: 13 people can ride a...
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Back 40 Adventures
I do believe that to grow up properly, every kid needs to spend a little time on exploring adventures. My favorite playground growing up was our “Back 40:” about 240 acres or so of cropland, CRP,...
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