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Snowy Speculations

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If I could paint, I would have tried to replicate the landscape very early this morning. Illuminated by the faintest hints of light and hours before sunrise, the cold, stark landscape lay completely still in its snowy blanket. Naked trees stood proudly and quietly against this backdrop, this palate of pure white an unforgiving place for any creature, big or small, to attempt to cross without drawing attention to its existence at this time. Even our ancient tire swing looked sleepy and droopy, suspended precariously close to the ground, as if the effort of hanging from a tree limb was too much for it. To the east, the only rays of light visible were the ones coming from the across the river, and even those seem hushed and muffled, like a child tired and murmuring not to wake them up just yet.  The young families down the road have gone all out with Christmas lights this year. Bright colours adorn the night skies and my neighbours even have a Christmas Cat and a Christmas Dinosaur th...
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Feeling Sentimental about Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings...

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  Feeling Sentimental about Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings... When I was younger, the farm kids that I grew up with always had interesting little shacks and sheds made from old discarded wood and these were usually situated in the oddest locations on their property. Great for playing hide and go seek, these were generally used for storage for farm equipment or old items that had once served a purpose and were set aside until someone found use for them again. Sadly, these things were generally forgotten and often ruined by the elements and time. When we moved to our home in the fall of 2009, a double car garage was attached to the main house by a breezeway. About 30' behind that was the original garage or work shop that had been there probably since the 50's or 60's. The floor was just a dirt floor and over the years, piles of large pieces of plywood had been laid on top to create a dry floor. It's not a huge building. It could probably house two cars in tandem, but for u...
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My Pop-Up Pumpkin Patch!

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My Pop-Up Pumpkin Patch Our son decided that he would use the huge pile of compost that had been acccumulating for over ten years and fill the low spots on our property with this dirt. Our compost pile has been more of an everything pile from the get-go. Grass clippings, piles of leaves, old watermelon halves that nobody wanted to finish, cucumbers that were picked too late and had turned bright orange, leftover tomato seedlings and so much more, all thrown together in a mash of anything that would break down on its own accord. We never had a purpose for this compost pile. It just started and then became what it was.  He spent the afternoon wheelbarrowing and shovelling the beautiful, almost silky soil into the low spots in order for my husband to sprinkle them with grass seed when he was finished. Once generously seeded and watered, these newborn dirt patches would grow and blend with the rest of the property, creating one uniform bed of green. Grow they did. Blend -  they d...
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