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I can’t recall just when we first got together, but I know it has been years. You were new to the area and I was familiar with the territory already. We hit it off right away- you were comfortable to be with. A good fit. No, we didn’t do those milesContinue Reading

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The past few days have been spent shifting and sorting all my potted shrubs. Over the years, the pots get mixed up and the name tags fade and I can’t tell which is Which- Now, with concentrated efforts, all the blue lace caps are in one row. The pink inContinue Reading

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I’m starting this piece once again – “when I was a child”-  Well, it started when I was just a child in the mid 1940s. I was healthy, but constant skin problems. I was plagued with abscesses and boils. Every time a mosquito bit me, a boil would develop there.Continue Reading

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Back in 2013 I released for limited use, my exclusive recipe for the wonderful Egg-Puff-O.  After that period expired, no one was permitted to use that recipe. Now for a limited time only- Now thru May 12th, I am allowing Chatlist Readers to make it at home. FROM GRITS TOContinue Reading

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I am a lover of corn bread. Man of man- with greens and buttermilk! For years i tried to mix my own and was never satisfied, but when I started using Tender Bake- it made all the difference. When I was a child living in Montgomery county- (1940s) my folksContinue Reading

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In the mid 1970s or 80s- it all blurs together these days- I grew a phlox called “Eco Happy Traveler”- One of the many kinds of wild phlox, this one was sold by Don Jacobs of Eco Gardens in Georgia. It blooms about two weeks after phlox diviracata and isContinue Reading

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On March 26th I wrote a Chatlist piece telling how i found civilized Sweet Peas growing in the ditch of hyway 64 and trying to figure out how they got there. I don’t remember throwing them there and there are so many of them, I don’t think I would haveContinue Reading

I heard a flutter

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As I sat in the garden today, taking a rest from planting the too many plants I “just had to have”, I was writing an email to S.D.- discussing if having ‘tea’ together would be a reality sometime in the next few months, there was a very distinct ‘fluttering’ nearContinue Reading

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Thank you for your very down to earth comments and musings- both you and Brad Page with his poems,  are a delight in the chaos. I feel like we are stepping back in history when you write- like you are the neighbor out on his back porch, yelling and sharingContinue Reading

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I have had two electrical accounts since 1972. Both at the same location. I have always paid my bills on time. Several changes in company owners over the years. Now I am owned by Duke Energy Progress. I don’t seem to have any choice in the matter. I live onContinue Reading

But don’t bring you-know-who-loo

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Its been so long since i had company and talked to anyone, it now seems it will be hard to do so again, without getting into practice. You fall into new patterns- become lax in some and fiercely accurate in others. Take short cuts you never used to take before.Continue Reading

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I’ll be the first to point out that I’m no more or less perfect than anyone else, so it’s not my place to do that… but it seems to me that there’s some content on here that’s perhaps not befitting the proper dignity of the Chatlist. I come here forContinue Reading