Last Saturday Tom and I visited the Uptown Westerville Farmers Market for the first time.  I’ve always loved the idea of Farmers Markets.  It makes me think of old-time market days where everyone in a village goes to the market to sell or buy.  In my imagination, you can buy the freshest produce or yummiest …

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On our recent evening with Pete and Cathy, we stopped to look at some beautiful wildflowers.  Cathy mentioned that someone had told her they were phlox and she asked me if they were.  I assured her they were, indeed, native phlox.  Wild phlox look very different from the creeping phlox that are used for garden …

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Tom and I recently visited the Groovy Plants Ranch.  We have been building up the landscaped beds in our yard, and wanted some daylilies.  Our usual nursery, Hoover Gardens, didn’t have a good selection of daylilies, so I called several places to see what they had.  When I called Groovy Plants Ranch, the woman on …

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Today I want to make a few observations about life and aging.  They are not profound or even particularly important.  As an introvert, I have lots of conversations in my head, and these are a few of the observations I have made from the conversations with myself. First, why does one side of my face …

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Tom and I didn’t get as many visitors to the Golden Isles in 2022 as we have in the past.  Wendy and Ron were going to spend all of January on Amelia Island, close to us, but they had to cancel because of work responsibilities.  John and Jackie were going to come down but John …

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Last week my brother and his wife, Steve and Kathy, came to visit us on St. Simons Island.  It was Steve’s spring break and he had never traveled anyplace warm before for spring break.  They arrived on the island on Tuesday afternoon and left on Thursday morning, so it wasn’t a long visit.  But we …

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I recently started thinking about racial bias in cell phone technology.  This isn’t something that I would have considered, being covered by white privilege.  But, during the Super Bowl, there was a commercial for the Google Pixel 6.  One of the advantages to this new camera is new technology that gets skin tones of non-white …

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My favorite deep dish pie plate that I have been using for years recently developed a crack.  I use this pie plate every time I do living history cooking or make a pie.  It is the perfect size to fit inside the baking kettle (dutch oven) and holds rolls, a small cake, or a fruit …

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When we arrived at Fort Frederica National Monument at the end of December, we noticed that construction had finally begun on the realignment of Frederica Road.  Frederica Road is the road that goes past Christ Church, the National Monument, and Wesley United Methodist. Christ Church has struggled with parking for years.  The church is a …

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Last week on our adventure day, Tom and I headed to the St Marys Submarine Museum in St Marys, Georgia.  The Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base is located in St Marys, so it seems like the perfect place for a museum.  Tom and I have seen just about every submarine movie ever made, so this …

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