Sometimes you go through a dry stretch, with more hard things happening in your life than you really care for. The desert. You know that God is hearing your prayers,…
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Tomato varieties that I’ll grow again, cross my 2018 ‘mater-pickin’ heart
(See how sneakily I got the date into that title? This old gal still has a few tricks up her tomato vines-stained sleeve!) EVERY SUMMER, as I stand in my…
Read moreWhat Marguerite has Wrought
This is one of my favorite types of posts to write. This is one of my favorite types of events to report! What type of event? This one: when a…
Read moreThe Girlies Days of Summer: on raising grandchildren through a difficult time
While our sweet daughter-in-law Sonia undergoes treatment for her Hodgkin’s lymphoma (recently– distressingly–returned, after eight years’ absence), we frequently have her two little girls for house guests. Raising these grandies…
Read moreHow to prune basil for the longest, most abundant harvest ever: a game changer!
Sometimes I think about my life before abundant basil (or BAB) . . . Truly it was a sad, colorless time for me. Just a few years ago, for example,…
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