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78One year in the backyard
This hub was getting so large it was beginning to slow down. So I've continued the narrative in a hub, One Year in the Backyard, Part II. Check out the latest there. A blue jay scans the yard from a dead...
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73Spiders! Itsy Bitsy Unless It's in Your Hair!!
I have few phobias. I am strong; I am woman; hear me roar. They're hardly worth mentioning: cellars, liver and onions, and creepy crawlies. Oh, and worms. Possibly snakes, frogs, lizards, ok maybe I have a...
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78The Wolf Spider In The Hole
We lived on this property for months before the wolf spider stuck its really, really ugly face out of the hole. Oh, we knew about the holes, all right, just not what made them. What on Earth--what IN...
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69Spinnerets Wide World Web -- Part II
I think of the spinnerets amazing story whenever I click on Google's wonder wheel and wonder if the garden spider knows how much we've copied her world here on the Internet. Previously, I've talked about...
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73Spinnerets World - Part I
Come quick!!! What's black, all hairy, with ugly eyes, and has turquoise blue on it? Grandpa it's an emergency!! That was the hysterical voice of my oldest granddaughter when she encountered a spider that...
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68Jungle Fever - How I Acquired My Addiction To Houseplants
In the early 1990's, New Hampshire was hit with rather rough economic times. Banks closed, jobs were hard to come by and after nine years at the local electric utility, the company filed chapter eleven,...
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68Your Backyard: An Outdoor Classroom
When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all These lyrics from Paul Simon’s Kodachrome often repeat themselves in my mind, especially when I think about...
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