Destination: Hooville
WE HAVE MOVED into our last week to set our final Christmas plans. Our gifts are purchased and wrapped up under the tree. The packages...
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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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Dec 28, 20238 min read
Keep the Kerosene Lamp Lit
WE HAVE MOVED INTO our last week to set our final Christmas plans. Our gifts are purchased and wrapped up under the tree. The packages...
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martinsonsgw
Dec 28, 20236 min read
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 1, 20238 min read
Co Existing
MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN blessed and cursed with a whitetail deer population. There are many of us who enjoy hunting and spending an equal...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 23, 20237 min read
Headed for the Kiddie Table
THIS WEEK IS going to be one that big decisions will be made by most families. The decision to get everyone together to feast as is the...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 18, 20235 min read
Sticky Pants
IT SEEMS TO ME like we just went through all four seasons last week. On Monday we were avoiding heat exhaustion. We drink too much water...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 10, 20236 min read
There’s No Place Like Home
We are entering a week that I like to call my wrap-up week. Some tasks in our yards should have been completed by now, or at least you...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 6, 20235 min read
Sweet Tea
I AM GOING to jump back one story that I was in the middle of telling before I wrote last week‘s fall gardening tips. Mimi and I had...
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martinsonsgw
Oct 27, 20236 min read
Pumpkin Head
This is the last weekend before Halloween. The day after that it will be November, it’s time to start thinking thanksgiving, Christmas...
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martinsonsgw
Oct 14, 20239 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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martinsonsgw
Oct 6, 20237 min read
Big Decisions
Happy October! We have finally arrived at the gates of fall, leading down the road toward the Christmas season, next stop: winter. I have...
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martinsonsgw
Sep 29, 20236 min read
Mission Accomplished
Last weekend Mimi and I drove to Nashville. One of our suppliers hosted an expo in the Music City Center in the middle of downtown. We...
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