The abundance of spring often shows it first blaze of glory in the form of perfectly ripe, richly red, amazingly sweet, little strawberry gems. We wait rather impatiently for them as they shift from green to white to red and then eat as many as we can straight off the plant and still warm from the sun. Once we’ve had…
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Hello, Friend! How are you? Are you well? Is the season treating you wonderfully? Growing you, learning you, calling you home to yourself? It’s been a bit since I’ve been able to pop in here and so I’d like to share a bit about why I’ve been MIA with a good ol’ Shown, Unshown catch up post 🙂 Shown Spring…
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If we were having coffee… I’d greet you with a big fat hug and tell you how wonderful it is to see you! It’s lightly snowing outside again so we’d find a cozy nook to catch up in. I’d ask how you’ve been…how your family’s doing…how work is going? And we’d dive straight in to Catch Up Mode because, gosh…
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Being new to a property and micro-climate is a trip! You know… We’d noticed a few of the trees in the orchard that grew at incredibly wonky angles, but it wasn’t until the winds picked up in the spring and sent very heavy items spinning about like children’s toys, that we made the connection between bent trees and the “wind events”…
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Despite my sporadic presence here this year, I simply could not let us slip into 2019 without a review of 2018, now could I?! It seems as though the thing to do these days instead of making a resolution or two to kick off a new year is to pick a word as a theme to focus on in the…
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What a summer it’s been! I swear to you that I’ve written this post at least 15 times in my head over the past few weeks, updating it as new things have happened and trying to pull seconds out of free minutes to put pen to paper (or cursor to screen, if you will). I’ve thought around how to communicate months…
