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Fencing With the Garden

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Sometimes you choose to make changes in the landscape.  Sometimes the landscape does the deciding.  In my case, the situation is a little bit of both.  The wooden perimeter fence that bounds my backyard is decrepit and needs replacing.  It was handsome once, but that was fifteen years ago.  Weather and normal aging have done … Read more

I Hate Ivy

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The experts agree; Napoleon never uttered that famous palindrome, “Able was I ere I saw Elba”.  It isn’t a palindrome in French, and even in exile, Napoleon probably never admitted that a comeback wasn’t waiting somewhere in the wings.  Since any claim to Napoleonic authorship has now been discredited, I will feel free to alter … Read more