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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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Get Big!
WHEN I MET MIMI during college, I was 23 and Mimi was 18 years old. I was just back from my first trip to India and my year long journey...
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Nov 26, 202111 min read


Wrap It Up!
CHRISTMAS TREES have arrived. I always know it’s the Christmas season because this time of year everybody in the nursery business has...
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Nov 19, 20217 min read


Wrap it Up
WE ARE HEADING into a week that I like to call my wrap up week. There are some things in our yard that need to have been done by now or...
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Nov 12, 20216 min read


Changes
MIMI AND I ARE JUST getting back from a quick tour of some of our favorite states with some of our favorite people living there. Mimi’s...
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Nov 5, 20214 min read


Everything Works Out In The End
LAST WEEK I RAN out of space while I was telling about our adventures in Peru. We had met up with our friend from Jackson who was working...
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Oct 22, 20218 min read


Walk With Purpose
MIMI AND I HAD a hometown friend who we hadn’t seen in a while. We wondered where he had gone. One day when we bumped into him in Jackson...
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Oct 14, 20219 min read


Fireside Chat
A FEW YEARS AGO, Mimi and I were informed by Mia and Max that we were free to travel without them. We were on a hike on the Appalachian...
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Oct 8, 20219 min read


Plants, Pumpkins and Pinot 2.0
AS WE ROLL INTO October there is a change in the air. We have finally reached the temperatures that make things change in our yard and in...
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Sep 30, 20214 min read


A Battery Operated Dog
EVERY YEAR OCTOBER sneaks up on me, but this year has been such a whirlwind that I’ll have to say this is the sneakiest October I can...
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Sep 24, 20217 min read


Go For It!
ONE CHRISTMAS I was feeling generous towards my brother, Chip. I bought two tickets to McAllen, Texas. That is one of the gateways into...
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Sep 17, 20218 min read


It's Time to Roll
WE HAVE LABOR Day behind us. To me the countdown towards fall begins now. The stores are beginning to bring in the fall stuff. The coffee...
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Sep 10, 20215 min read


Under Pressure
THE COLORADO GREENHOUSE saga continues. When I got home from Denver last week it was ten o’clock on Monday night. On Tuesday the truck...
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Aug 29, 20215 min read
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