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My Little Big Pumpkin
I am around two little boys all the time and I tend to forget that I am actually a grown up and they are quite small. It’s like when a dog or cat doesn’t realize that it’s not human, because it’s around people all the time and never around other animals. This was especially true in the early days of motherhood for both sons. Those first couple months, moms typically don’t get out of the house that often, and people…
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Uprooted
It took me three years to start an asparagus bed, one year of putting up with the Man grumbling about the location of the asparagus bed, and two hours to dig it all up and move it to a new location. Oh my, my arms hurt today! Instead of having a single row of asparagus up the property line, I now have a rectangular bed just outside the fenced vegetable garden when my two raspberry bare root plants gave up…
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Well, It Sounded Like a Good Idea
Hi. I’m back. So if you’ve been following my journey through Postpartum Depression, either through my random texts or emails to you or through occasional Twitter posts, you know that it’s an ongoing process. I don’t know when PPD is technically over and the woman is just left dealing with crazy. However, over the past month I felt I’d arrived and last week decided to go off medication. I was already on a fairly low dose, so I figured tapering…
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Plant Portraits
French Marigolds Purple Hyacinth Beans Pea Blossom
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North Carolina State Fair in Pictures
Gawking at a turkey The Man-child’s one demand this year: Ferris Wheel Waiting in line, classic Ferris Wheel shot On our way up! Aerial of the fair from the Ferris Wheel Kettle Corn Train Garden Hogway Speedway #18 Rutter Busch These little pigs really wanted the Cheetos! Hogway Speedway
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Farmer’s Market in the Fall
The Farmer’s Market is at its pinnacle of glory in the weeks leading up to Halloween. I took the boys and camera to get our annual pumpkin pictures and to pick up some fig trees and blueberry bushes. It was a forgetful afternoon. Not only did I forget the memory card for the camera, but I also forgot the names of the figs and blueberries I purchased. I know I didn’t get Turkey figs – I opted for the sweeter,…
