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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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Jan 139 min read
Poon Hill Incident
Just before Christmas I was writing about a journey that Mimi and I had taken in Nepal. To refresh your memory Mimi was three months...
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Jan 66 min read
Destination: Hooville (another story)
Well, here we are. By the time this edition reaches homes and businesses we will be a few days past Christmas and likely into the New...
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Dec 28, 20238 min read
Destination: Hooville
WE HAVE MOVED into our last week to set our final Christmas plans. Our gifts are purchased and wrapped up under the tree. The packages...
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martinsonsgw
Dec 28, 20238 min read
Keep the Kerosene Lamp Lit
WE HAVE MOVED INTO our last week to set our final Christmas plans. Our gifts are purchased and wrapped up under the tree. The packages...
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martinsonsgw
Dec 28, 20236 min read
No Plans to Go to Shangri-La
THE COOLER temperatures have brought back a memory for me that I can’t help but think about every time the cold moves in. When I was...
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Dec 1, 20238 min read
Co Existing
MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN blessed and cursed with a whitetail deer population. There are many of us who enjoy hunting and spending an equal...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 23, 20237 min read
Headed for the Kiddie Table
THIS WEEK IS going to be one that big decisions will be made by most families. The decision to get everyone together to feast as is the...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 18, 20235 min read
Sticky Pants
IT SEEMS TO ME like we just went through all four seasons last week. On Monday we were avoiding heat exhaustion. We drink too much water...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 10, 20236 min read
There’s No Place Like Home
We are entering a week that I like to call my wrap-up week. Some tasks in our yards should have been completed by now, or at least you...
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martinsonsgw
Nov 6, 20235 min read
Sweet Tea
I AM GOING to jump back one story that I was in the middle of telling before I wrote last week‘s fall gardening tips. Mimi and I had...
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martinsonsgw
Oct 27, 20236 min read
Pumpkin Head
This is the last weekend before Halloween. The day after that it will be November, it’s time to start thinking thanksgiving, Christmas...
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Oct 14, 20239 min read
Walk With Purpose
MIMI AND I HAD a hometown friend who we hadn’t seen in a while. We wondered where he had gone. One day when we bumped into him in Jackson...
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