I’m a Rockin’ Girl Blogger! Velvet said so!

 Thank you, Velvet! Although I can’t say I know what a ‘rockin’ girl blogger’ is – I’m mighty proud to be one. Especially since I can count on one hand, the number of awards I’ve received as an adult. Let’s see….there was one for square dancing, and that one for “Nice Matters” and ….well, I [...]

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Brrrrr. Its time to tuck the tomatoes in at night.

It’s getting very chilly here at night. The average frost date in Spokane is October 10th, although there has been frost as early as September 7th, and as late as the end of November. Here on our hill, our temperatures are always 7 to 10 degrees cooler. It cools off faster up here at night, frost and [...]

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Home from Coulee.

We’re home from our Coulee Corridor trip. We had a great time. My sister, Caryl, went with us, and my sister, Jean, came down from Twisp to stay with us. Four adults made for a pretty full motor home. As kids, we were used to being packed one on top of the other, so we do [...]

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Hello, from California

After leaving the Gila Bend area, we spent five days in an Arizona state park, on the Colorado River. It was beautiful. The above picture is our view through the front window of the motor home.  Below is looking across the river – at California.

I hated to leave the Sonoran desert. The cacti are starting to [...]

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Rocks?

 We’re only about 150 miles into our trip North, heading back home. We are still in the desert we love – just staying for a few days in a different area.
We’ve taken some drives – past little towns that no longer exist except for some foundations and stone fences. We’ve been checking out some other [...]

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oops, I’m not going there…

No, no, no – am going right here instead! (which is: jackiesgarden.wordpress.com)! You are in the right place – don’t go! So sorry about all the confusion with my move(s).  Thanks.

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Here I am!

Quilly-Sister, Brooke, and Cindra decided the move to wordpress was more advantageous than the return to blogspot – so here I am. Thank you so much for your patience while I settle in my new blog home! (Are you still with me?)
We left the RV park this morning and are still traveling in the desert. [...]

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I’m outta here!

Good-bye beautiful desert. We will be leaving the desert and moving on come Wednesday morning. I am swamped with battening down hatches right now – so this will be my last post for a little while.
And good-bye TYPEPAD. When I return to blog – I will be back at my garden – check [...]

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I am from…

George Ella Lyons is an Appalachian author and poet.She has written many children’s books. Her poem, WHERE I’M FROM follows:
Where I’m Fromby George Ella Lyons
I am from clothespins,from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.I am from the dirt under the black porch.(Black, glisteningit tasted like beets.)I am from the forsythia bush,the Dutch elmwhose long gone limbs I rememberas [...]

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Spring never gets ’sprung’ here.

Arizona doesn’t ’spring ahead’ to day light savings time – being a state that declares the last thing they need is another hour of daylight. The whole thing about daylight savings time doesn’t make sense to me any longer, it isn’t needed now – but that is very low on my ‘rant’ list. And my [...]

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