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Archive for September, 2007

now this is frustrating

Posted: Sunday, September 30th, 2007 in blogging and technology | 5 Comments »

It started when I posted a comment on Kathy’s blog. I pressed “submit” and waited but the comment just went away. I submitted the same comment again and got a message that I was posting a “duplicate” message. But still there was no comment from me on the post. […]

a hoe lot of nuthin’

Posted: Friday, September 28th, 2007 in book reviews | 9 Comments »

This is a review of the book A Hoe Lot of Trouble, a selection of The Garden Bloggers Book Club.
I went to a lot of trouble to read this book. As you may already know, I participate in an online Paperback Book Swap and depend on it to obtain most of my light reading. […]

up the lazy river

Posted: Monday, September 17th, 2007 in places | 4 Comments »

Our neighbor has his deckboat running again and one cool morning last week he called and asked if we wanted to go up the river. Of course. We had never been up the little creek that flows into the lake we live on. We had heard it was an interesting little trip. […]

an expiring garden

Posted: Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in garden tours | 6 Comments »

The Museum of Science in Ft Worth is going to be remodeled, and the native plant garden along the east side of the building is going to be torn out. Beginning today, the plants are available to anyone who wants to try to rescue them.
We were there just last week to see the […]

prairie point is the best - not

Posted: Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in blogging and technology | 3 Comments »

You know those articles that attempt to dispel bad information by listing a commonly held belief and then labeling it as “false?” Here is an example of what I mean.
Well, new research seems to show that this way of writing could cause as much harm as good.
A study by the University of Michigan […]

 

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