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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Peekaboo

    Remember my friend who brought over the salt water aquarium? She’s a clever one. She invited friends with kids for a cook out, Monday, and…

  • The bees: grasping at straws.

    After two years of keeping a humming, populous hive, I lost my bees last winter.  No sign of the infamous colony collapse, though I’ve been…

  • My token garden…

    Last summer, before I started school, I tore out the fence around my 30X40 veggie garden, dug up the perennial plants and mowed it flat. It’s…

  • New critter and bike adventures

    Sunday was the last regular sunday school class at church. The lesson was about recycling, animals and our environment. The guest speaker was a woman…