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Seven years of blogging

February 5, 2017by sarasinart 4 Comments

7 years ago (2/11/10) I started to write a blog, mostly about a small business I did for a while.  Life got in the way and I didn’t continue that […]

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Garden/Yard, Health, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Shippensburg

Hundreds of birds have a refuge

January 24, 2017by sarasinart 7 Comments

Every evening near dusk, hundreds of sparrows come to spend the night in the bamboo. They are all around all day, eating seeds I put out on the patio for […]

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Nature
winter

Winter has its blessings too

January 22, 2017by sarasinart 4 Comments

The earth is  brown and gray now.  And if you’re a regular reader, you know I don’t like winter, cos it’s cold and dark and long, and I can’t grow garden! […]

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Cooking/Food, Ecology, Garden/Yard
whistle pig

Wilbur wrote a blog!

November 26, 2016by sarasinart 3 Comments

HI!  I’m Wilbur. I’m a groundhog from southern Pennsylvania. I lived in a small forested area for a while, but last fall I moved to a subterranean apartment den under […]

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Garden/Yard, Nature
garden

Wilbur strikes again

November 11, 2016by sarasinart 6 Comments

That’s parsley.  Well, it used to be parsley, and now it’s mostly parsley stems.  Some readers will remember a blog post about a big fat groundhog who was stealing tomatoes […]

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Garden/Yard, Nature
Lima beans

The last of the Limas

October 11, 2016by sarasinart Leave a comment

Oh the last of the garden is always sad, but the time has come for the good earth in Pennsylvania to take a rest. Today I took the tomato plants […]

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Cooking/Food, Ecology, Garden/Yard, Nature
parrots

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo, what a wonderful day

September 13, 2016by sarasinart 8 Comments

I spent a wonderful day at a place my son and daughter in law love, but I had never been there.  Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo http://cwpzoo.com/  is located near […]

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Nature
whistlepig

We have a thief in the garden

September 6, 2016by sarasinart 4 Comments

Strange things had been happening.  I had a volunteer cantaloupe plant that had 2 melons growing on it.  They were under bean plants and didn’t get a lot of sun, […]

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Ecology, Garden/Yard, Nature
corn meal sticks

It all started with blue corn

September 2, 2016by sarasinart 4 Comments

Blue Hopi corn, to be exact.  The seeds were given to me last year by a dear lady who has since passed away.  Her family had been growing this corn […]

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Cooking/Food, Garden/Yard, Nature, Nostalgia
growing food

The good earth provides

July 30, 2016by sarasinart 6 Comments

Let the harvests continue!  I love to see beans curing in a jar on the window sash.  Those are the first black turtle beans, and later there will be some […]

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Cooking/Food, Ecology, Garden/Yard, Health, Nature

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