Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Retiring into my own back yard. Turns out Tucson is best.
I cut and pasted this........."BusinessWeek has published their latest survey of the best places to live and tops on the list is Tucson, Arizona. With 284 sunny days and a cost of living index of 109.44, so close to average (100) in the US. Tucson, home of the University of Arizona, is a scenic,...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Raked and hauled things away and still it is a mess. Sigh...
My back porch is now ready for meals to be eaten outdoors on the tabel on the back porch and I have put the mobile kitchen cabinet out there for serving and for putting away supplies that have no space in the tiny kitchen. I cleaned off shelving and threw away MUCHO for the bulk pick up trucks to...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
If you are jealous of the greener lawns and pastures on the other side of
your own fences, consider this. It is the abundance of BS and cow manure over there that is causing it all. Tend your own garden..........
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
My tree is circled with my neighbor's planters and I miss her.
She could only pack her life into one large 4runner. She left so much behind. I now have a large t.v. again and may have to pass it on if she doesn't come back for it in Nov. as she hopes to. I filled the guesthouse storage shed with her leftovers for November and then gave the guesthouse neighbor...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Grandma's Garden fills her with despair. Oh my goodness me.
The plumber trenched from one end to the other and then around back of my house and the guest house. Totally new water lines. He upended walkways and covered my amended soil little side garden, ripped out separators and delineators and generally had a good old time while I hid in the house, sobbing....
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Washing and drying machines are in the garden, so I am raking as I do them.
I have Zap Mama playing on my cd player, trying to outshout the construction workers' rock in the guesthouse. These ladies follow in the voice patterns of Sweet Honey in the Rock and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon who lead them into being.........life is a long road of sound, as sound speaks to our...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Playing this album and feeding the birds and playing with the dogs.
I should be raking, but, not today, just fun............ and music, good music.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Grandma's garden has ten thousands holes in it now.
Mosinha on her chain has taken to digging deep deep holes and now Baby helps her by doing one next to her or taking turns with her inside the tunnel. I try NOT to forget this when taking laundry outside to the washing machine at the side of the house where there is no light. However, I have been...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Being ill makes things look much worse than they are, no??
I crawled out of bed after getting a vicious bug from a grandson. The dogs had knocked over a garbage can in my absence and had scattered things everywhere. Two days of wind had shaken 500 pounds of bamboo debris into the garden. My dogs had pooped their brains out behind the bamboo, making piles...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
My naughtiest doggie, who jumps over fences now the very exact moment
that she steps out the door, must now be chained for her outdoor time. The other dogs don't like to spend much time out there if I am in here. so, I lock them outside to be with her and then after about twnety minutes, I bring her back inside. The garden is a disaster again, fallen bamboo debris...
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