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Dealing With Bermuda Grass
And today’s lesson, boys and girls, is all about Bermuda grass. The scientific name for Bermuda grass is Cynodon dactylon, though it goes by many names besides Bermuda grass, such as quickgrass, devil grass, twitch grass, and couch grass. It is a weed found all over the world, probably originating in sub-Saharan Africa or perhaps on islands in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. It’s called…
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Outdated Technology
Daily writing promptWhich outdated technology do you miss the most, and why?View all responses I’ve been thinking about this blog prompt for a couple of days now, and I can’t really think of anything. The one thing would be the simple internal combustion engine as well as a simple dashboard with no electronic beeps or flashing lights or voices telling me what to do, but I don’t have to miss all…
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Singing Our Laws
People have often used songs and rhymes as memory aids. In fact, I still have to run through that ditty we learned in grade school when I need to know how many days in a month. You know the one: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Save February at twenty-eight, But leap year, coming once in four, February then has one day more. To be honest, I only…
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My Back Forty
Usually at this time of year, my “back forty” is lying fallow. It’s really a “back twenty” — an area about twenty feet by ten feet, but who’s counting. Almost everything I ever planted back there has died off except for a couple of plum trees I planted a few years ago, which in six years have produced a grand total of four plums. The plants that were here when I bought the place are still going…
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Technology in 2046
Daily writing promptWhat’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years?View all responses I’m not convinced anything will exist in twenty years. In fact, I truly doubt I will exist in twenty years, so it won’t matter to me what, if any, technology will exist at that time. Chances are, technology will progress as it always has, with artificial intelligence becoming more and more…
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Lily Forest Update
My lily forest is still going strong. Lush and vibrant, it’s at its peak, so I am making sure to enjoy the blooms every day. And now, you can enjoy them, too! It’s interesting that this tiger lily showed up among the more traditional lilies. You can see it hiding among its taller brethren in the following photo. As I’m sure you’ve figured, I have nothing much to say today. Still, considering…
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Alien Invasion
If you think you’re going to be reading a blog about invaders from another planet or even from another country, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Though, truly, for all I know, this discussion of alienism could be about something from outer space. Spores, perhaps. These plants are called hen and chicks because, I presume, of the way they proliferate. The mother hen grows multiple babies, then, when…
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Lifelong Learner
Daily writing promptAre you a lifelong learner?View all responses For sure! I have always been a dedicated learner. From complicated subjects such as quantum physics to simple subjects such as the etymology of words, anything new to me has always been grist for my mental mill. A lot of this desire to know is innate. I tend to think most of us are born with such a desire — all you have to do is…
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Being Noticed
It rained the night before last, enough rain that not only did I not have to water yesterday, it was too muddy to work in the yard. So I went for a walk. It felt good being out and about despite the heat and humidity, though I actually did more visiting during that hour than walking. First, I chatted with a neighbor who was thrilled with the almost two inches of rain, and then we moved onto other…
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Keeping the Past in the Past
Daily writing promptWhat’s one habit that has improved your life the most?View all responses The one habit that has improved my life the most is training myself not to look back. What is done is done, and cannot be redone, so it’s best to look to today — what exists today — no matter how I got here, and then go on from here. This philosophy was described to me using a golf metaphor. If your…
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All the World's a Stage
It’s only recently that I’ve become aware of politics as identity and identity as ideology. Somehow, I thought people were bright enough to stand apart from what they believed, to see themselves as a person believing a thing, not believing that they were the thing believed. But apparently not. When some people buy into a political ideology, they identify with that ideology, and when the ideology…
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Lily Tree Forest
When I first started thinking about a garden, I came across photos of a luscious flower called a tree lily, a hybrid between an Oriental lily and a trumpet lily. (For obvious reasons, they’re also known as Orienpet lilies.) I’d always thought lilies were a rarified flower that only professional gardeners could grow, but apparently not. I loved the idea of a lily tree forest, so I decided to take…
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Where I Want to Live
Daily writing promptIf you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?View all responses Ha! I bet you can guess my answer to this blog prompt! Yep, it’s true. If I could live anywhere in the world, I would choose to live exactly where I am living now — in this tiny forgotten town, in my own house with my own yard and my own flowers, and friends that I seldom make the effort to see but…
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Betrayer of Hope
Daily writing promptWhat villain actually had a good point?View all responses In The Wheel of Time, there are several villains, all with their own reasons for turning to the Shadow aka the Dark One. A music lover wanted to be able to make and listen to music forever, so he figured it was a good bargain. Some turned because they wanted immortality and power beyond imagining. A few turned because…
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Favorite Blogger
Daily writing promptWho is your favorite blogger to follow?View all responses I always tend to bring everything back to myself. I hope that doesn’t make me seem as totally self-absorbed as I think it does, because the truth is, just about the only time do think about myself is when I am writing a blog post and need to figure out what to write about. And since what I know is me, that’s what I…
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Orange You Glad
When my little brother was small, three or four maybe, he was annoyingly smart. He’d ask if I wanted to play a particular game, and if I said no, he’d say, “I’ll let you win.” That’s how smart he was — he knew how to beat me (even though I was more than a decade older than he was) as well as figure out how to let me win. He also had an infectious laugh. He used to tell one of those knock knocks…
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Happy Birthday, USA!
Happy birthday, USA. Thank you for letting me live a part of your history. You’ve made me who I am today, and for that — and for so many things — I am truly grateful. *** Pat Bertram is the author of Grief: The Inside Story – A Guide to Surviving the Loss of a Loved One
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