Author Archives: snowbirdredux

BACTERIUM ADDENDUM

Posted on April 28, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  Just after posting my bird feeder diatribe, I received a bit of synchronicity in the form of an email from Val Cunningham, the bird columnist in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune. What great timing. I never expected to receive … Continue reading →

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AVIAN BACTERIUM

Posted on April 27, 2012 by snowbirdredux

On the first day of resurgence from the throes of illness, I still have bacteria on the brain. It’s been weeks since I cleaned the bird feeders and, much as I dislike the task, I made it a priority to … Continue reading →

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THE EYE OF THE STORM

Posted on April 26, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  Not just any old bacterial infection. Not this season’s bout of springtime sniffles. Not even a whopping case of influenza. It was a monster of a malady that blasted in and brought me down these past few weeks. I … Continue reading →

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TIME OUT!

Posted on April 19, 2012 by snowbirdredux

TIME OUT! I KNOW I’LL FEEL BETTER SOON.

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ROCKS IN MY BED

Posted on April 6, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  There is one garden chore I have been itching to do ever since we moved to Mt. Faith. It’s a massive undertaking and requires a much better and younger body than either of us have at this point in … Continue reading →

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READING, WRITING, AND ‘RITHMATIC

Posted on April 2, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  My husband calls me the Grandma Moses of Writing. When I was little the only thing I ever wanted to be was a writer and occasionally I still come upon ancient, faded, childish attempts at moralistic tales ( i.e. … Continue reading →

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MUSKRAT LOVE

Posted on March 28, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  Muskrat, muskrat candlelight Doin’ the town and doin’ it right In the evenin’, it’s pretty pleasin’   Muskrat Susie, muskrat Sam Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land And they shimmy, and Sammy’s so skinny   And they whirled … Continue reading →

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WEATHERWISE

Posted on March 26, 2012 by snowbirdredux

Who is that crazy lady running about her yard, shrieking for her husband to quick, come outside and look, snapping pictures at the sky, north, west, south and east? Oh yes, that’s me. I guess I’m a weather freak now.  … Continue reading →

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SNEAK PREVIEW

Posted on March 22, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  I have been scanning the yard for true signs of Spring after my Robin Redbreast discovery. The grass is greening more each day and a true “leafing out” of trees and shrubs, it seems, would seal the promise for … Continue reading →

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THE IDES OF MARCH

Posted on March 16, 2012 by snowbirdredux

  Whenever I thought of  Shakespeare’s soothsayer advising Julius Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March,” I hadn’t a clue. Ides could have been, for all I knew, a boogeyman of the nth degree. A hocus-pocus curse. A portent of … Continue reading →

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