“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day!
I am on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, USA, zone 8b. The recent cold burnt the star magnolia blossoms. We covered them one night when the temp dipped to an obscene level, but not the next. Do you know they have these bushes, magnolia stellata, I think, in England, too? The summer snowflakes have started…
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Starting Monday Out Right…
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour…
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Winter Makes a Last Stab
There are our new chicks here, a new foal in the pasture next door, and three new tiny goats at the house down the road. The paperwhites are all but done, the green peas have come up, and the star magnolia is blooming. All say spring, and here comes winter with a last stab. For…
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Chicks Are Home…
…still alive and so am I. I have worried over them like, well, you have to say it– a mother hen. I believe I’ve had more stress than they have. Are they eating? Why is that one sleeping so much? Is it too hot? Is it too cold? Are they pooping right? They were peeping…
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Another Chicken Hurdle in Progress– looking for gluten-free feed
My son telephoned. “How’s the chicken coop building comin’ along?” “Good…only we discovered that all the chicken feed has wheat and barley in it.” “Oh, yeah?” Great laughter ensues on the other end of the line. “You know, I guess you could expect that. I just never thought of it. Can’t you use gloves…oh, man,…
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Starting Friday out right… Dear God, today grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…and to know that all is well, and all will be well. You have good plans for me and for each of my loved ones. I am open to those good plans. Amen. So it is.
“Matlock writes about generous people striving to live and love well. She does it beautifully.
~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 