Time to Get Serious
IT SEEMS LIKE THIS is the week that things get kind of serious. We know all year long that Christmas is coming every year. This is when...
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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 5 min
The Good Old Days
THESE ARE THE GOOD old days in the garden world. The temperatures are beginning to drop, the rains are beginning to fall and the hours of...
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- Dec 3, 2021
- 9 min
Hail Caesar
I THINK IN THE LAST couple of articles this year I have worried out loud about the quantity and the quality of this year’s Christmas...
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martinsonsgw
- Nov 26, 2021
- 11 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Nov 19, 2021
- 7 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Nov 12, 2021
- 6 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Nov 5, 2021
- 4 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Oct 22, 2021
- 8 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Oct 14, 2021
- 9 min
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 8, 2021
- 9 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Sep 30, 2021
- 4 min
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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martinsonsgw
- Sep 24, 2021
- 7 min
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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