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1. Your link to the handyman article doesn’t work.

   I added a slash “/” between “com” and “home” and that took me to the site. Very good information to be found there.

   • thank you! I’m trying to figure out how to fix that…this tweet reposting thing is very strange backstage.

2. When we drove from Memphis to my great-aunt’s house in Mississippi, my great Aunt Willie would say, “We get up with the chickens and go to bed with the chickens.” I was about 7 or less and marveled that they would all go sleep out in the chicken house when I could see five bedrooms down the hallway. Since they also had an outhouse that frightened me and horseflies that bit, I just accepted that they slept in the chicken house. They also tried to trick me into drinking fresh milk and riding a horse. So, I suppose nothing they did was really too shocking.

   • Ha!!!

   • I grew up on a farm and used to marvel when people said that “farmers get up at sunrise and work until sunset”. I would have loved to be able to sleep in that late and knock off work that early! 😉

3. My backyard has large trees in it. This is great in the summer for shading the house, it really saves on A/C. However it plays havoc with trying to grow vegetables.
   I wish someone would write an article on how grow vegetables around trees.

   • Actually, there are sites that tell what food plants can be grown in shade or partial shade. About 80% of my yard is mostly full shade. However, if I used the 20% in full sun is absolutely blazing and almost too hot to even walk in that area.

4. Bill,
   Have you ever heard: “A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”?

   There were times I wanted to knock off at midnight!

   By the way, “sun to sun” is sunrise to sunset.

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