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      • Hossgrappers!
        07/23/06
        When I was a little kid, I used to call grasshoppers hossgrappers. My mom used to pay me a penny a head for them to keep them out of the garden. I'm pretty sure this was my first paying job. I remember spending hours in the garden hunting hossgappers. I know you'll think this sounds Ic

      • Warm Rain
        07/16/06
        Thankful for the summer rain we had. Such a great feeling to have warm rain and the smell of wet earth in the summer. That smell always takes me back to my days of growing up in Arizona and the summer monsoons, which are one of two things I miss about the southwest, the other being the Grand Canyo

      • Sonic Bloom
        07/09/06
        Well, some of you might laugh and shrug us off on this one but here on the farm we are playing our plants music. There is a cd called Sonic Bloom. I honestly don't know a whole lot about it but basically it's classical music combined with certain tones that plants are proven to respond t

      • Independence
        07/04/06
        Happy fourth of July! What a beautiful day. So nice to have a day to work but not have to scramble or be on someone else's schedule. Maybe the ultimate independence. I've been busy sowing new beds and getting the last succession of some things like summer squash and beans into the grou

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