Kerry’s Garden

Getting this picture was no easy task without a tripod. This was the best of about 60 or 70 that I took with different settings using my little Canon A570IS in manual mode. Taken at about 10:35pm, the specs are: exposure 1/2 sec, aperature f5.5, ISO 400 no flash using both the digital and optical [...]

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I wrote this up back in early October but some how it never got posted. Thought I would share it. ——————– It’s Sunday evening and I’m sitting at my computer at about 11:30 pm contemplating retiring for the evening when I hear, “KERRY THERE IS A POSSUM ON THE BACK PORCH!!!!” The problem with that [...]

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Three weeks ago tomorrow I had some minor surgery. I was only out of work for 2 weeks but this past week it was all I could do to get through work. By the time I got home I was exhausted. The garden received NO attention. This morning I was out in the garden by [...]

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This past week has been spent trying to get things done before my surgery on Monday. Wednesday through half of Friday was pretty much shot thanks to another procedure this week. Needless to say my garden hasn’t had the attention it deserves. I knew going into this season that this would be the case so [...]

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This evening after work I decided to empty out the small alfalfa tea barrel and give the tomatoes, peppers, a couple of roses and eggplant a feeding. About 15 minutes into it the following conversation occurred with my neighbor from way across the yard (we have no fences between the properties) Neighbor: “Do you smell [...]

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This is a quick story about a journey through three countries or ‘a gift that kept on giving’. I read about Kiva from another blogger a little over a year ago. Kiva is a non profit organization that connects small business owners in developing countries with people around the world willing to help with as [...]

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Last week two of my great aunts crossed over within about 24 hours of each other. One, Aunt Lillian, I had known since I was a child. She was my grandmother’s brother’s wife, my mom’s aunt. She and her husband Doyle were two of the sweetest, most gentle souls I have ever known. She lived [...]

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