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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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Broke on Through to the Other Side
THE LAST TIME I wrote about my adventure in India I had acclimatize for 10 days in Kashmir, I was ready to head farther into the...
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May 26, 20237 min read


Faintly Singing
IT’S BEEN PRETTY clear that travel and vacations are not going to be easy to plan for and probably just not the same as it used to be....
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May 19, 20236 min read


Take a Trip and Never Leave the Farm!
MAY IS UPON US. Mother’s Day is a few days away. I’m hoping by now that you have found the easiest place to Mother’s Day shop is at a...
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May 12, 20234 min read


A Fist Full of Sheckles
I THINK IT’S been long enough after the winter storm to report on what the outcome has caused. At first it looked pretty bad. The...
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May 6, 20238 min read


You Gotta Be Smarter than the Tools You are Using!
APRIL WILL BE behind us soon. It’s been a great spring so far. We have had more rain than usual for the year but not a bad amount. We...
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Apr 28, 20237 min read


Happy Earth Day & Happy Arbor Day!
HOPEFULLY EASTER was a good time for all. This year, on the weekend of Easter we had a family member get married at my sisters house...
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Apr 21, 20235 min read


Chicken Little
I think back to my childhood growing up in Madison County after our family moved out from Jackson. I remember when Highway 51 was a...
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Apr 15, 20235 min read


Old Wives Tale Prevails
MIMI AND I LOOKED at the calendar and saw that Good Friday is upon us. We had decided earlier this spring we were going to follow the...
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Apr 7, 20234 min read


The Birds and the Bees
THERE IS MORE exciting news for the horticulture world in Mississippi. On March 6 our Governor signed a bill into law designating April...
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Mar 31, 20238 min read


Unpredictably Predictable
I FEEL LIKE we are having another good ole predictably unpredictable March in Mississippi. We were watching a really fast and comforting...
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Mar 25, 20237 min read


Yards, Nurseries, True Local
I SPEND A LOT of time in the woods in nearby Yazoo County. On my drive to get there I get to see what is happening in the country yards....
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Mar 17, 20234 min read


Time to Drag out Those Shorts
THIS IS THE WEEK we really get our wake up call from Mother Nature. When Daylight saving time comes it feels like a huge release to me....
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Mar 9, 20238 min read
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