Rejoice!
WELL, HERE WE COME down the homestretch. By the time this edition reaches homes and businesses we will be a few days from Christmas....
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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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- Dec 20, 2022
- 6 min
No Plans to Go To Shangri-La
THE COOLER temperatures have brought back a memory for me that I can’t help but think about every time the cold moves in. When I was...
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martinsonsgw
- Dec 9, 2022
- 5 min
Get Lit in Your Yard
I DO LOVE TO WALK around in my yard during the evening hours after the tools have been put away, dirty clothes thrown in the washer and a...
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martinsonsgw
- Dec 2, 2022
- 9 min
Necessity, the Mother of all Invention
THIS WEEK WE are moving into December. We’ve been through our normal up-and-down weather-wise November. It seems like the temperatures...
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martinsonsgw
- Nov 24, 2022
- 7 min
Thanksgiving from a Hubcap
THIS WEEK IS GOING to be one that big decisions will be made by most fami- lies: the decision to get everyone together to feast as is the...
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martinsonsgw
- Nov 18, 2022
- 6 min
Good and Sticky
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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martinsonsgw
- Nov 11, 2022
- 6 min
Wrap Up a Wonderful Garden Year
WE ARE HEADING INTO A week that I like to call my wrap up week. There are some things in our yards that should have been done by now or...
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martinsonsgw
- Nov 4, 2022
- 6 min
Dirt Daubers
LAST WEEKEND MIMI AND I attended a wedding in Clarksdale. A great friend of our family married a new favorite friend of ours whose family...
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martinsonsgw
- Oct 28, 2022
- 6 min
Like a Dream
LAST NIGHT I ASKED Mimi if our new seed rack had come into the garden center. I am ready to plant carrots and some other fall and winter...
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martinsonsgw
- Oct 22, 2022
- 5 min
Window Farming
THIS PAST WEEKEND Mimi and I decided that if the stars aligned that we would be prepared for a funday Sunday. At least a funday in our...
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martinsonsgw
- Oct 14, 2022
- 6 min
My Job as a Peace Corps Volunteer
THIS SEEMS LIKE a good time to think about becoming self sufficient in our lives. It looks like we are going to be at home with our...
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martinsonsgw
- Oct 8, 2022
- 8 min
Scarlet Begonias
MY FAVORITE MONTH of the year has arrived. October is that month the humidity seems to release its grip, the temperatures begin to...
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