The Garden In Bloom

Today is the bi-annual garden tour for our local garden club. We may be a small town (less than 2000), but we do have some beautiful gardens. I suppose that most folks around here are farmers helps, but nonetheless, it is a very enjoyable day. Some day I hope to have my yard on the tour, but I still have a long way to go before it is ready for the...

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Iris Are Blooming

I have always loved Irises. In particular the Tall Bearded variety. I am sure that it has something to do with the fact that they come in a huge number of variations. Mom and I have brought and traded over the years and I have finally decided to try to track what I have!I am taking pictures, laminating them and securing them in the ground next to...

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End of Ski Season

Well -- ski season is just about to come to an end. I was up on the mountain yesterday and actually taught a couple of classes, but the snow is getting thin and just as I was leaving a RAIN storm started up. They are hoping to be open through next weekend, but I am not sure that is really going to happen.It has been a fun year and I hope to doing the part-time ski instructing thing again, but I wish it didn't clash with "knitting season". I have...

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Poetry Day

Not too long ago I discovered a great blog site from a children's writer called Gotta Book The thing that got me there was a new form of poetry he coined called Fibs which he described one year ago today. This poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8) starting out with 0 and 1 adding them together to get the next number in the sequence. So in honor of Poetry Day, here is my first Fib:MathGeek.Don't getPoetry.But I like these Fibs.Even...

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