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04/20/2003 Archived Entry: "Odds and Ends"

ODDS AND ENDS

The birds are busy. A robin has chosen our Amur Maple by the front door as her choice location for a nest. There are a bazillion other trees in our yard that would be better for her, but today she is not to be distracted from her motherly instincts as she works feverishly building an abode for her children. Then she will abandon her nest and sleep on the hard ground or hung from a tree. I don’t know why they don’t just hang around their nests and make a real home out of them, adding little nest annexes and towers, decks and perches. Maybe even start a worm farm. They could settle in that way. Seems logical to me.

My friend, Anne from County Durham England who visited here after I visited her, just wrote and told me the heather in the moors is about to bloom. Seeing heather in bloom is enough for me to traipse back over there. I was there a year ago and loved County Durham and Northumberland. That’s a most beautiful rural countryside …like you just imagine England should be. The moors are a lot like the prairies of Lincoln County. I just would like to see the heather when it is in bloom. I missed it last year but could easily visualize how beautiful it must be along side the yellow flowering gorse.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow and Tuesday to play catch up around here. I’ll miss dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s at the Indy, but not TOO much. Actually, it’s the people I’ll miss seeing on a regular basis, but I can still pop in and see what they are up to. Life marches on.

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I'll miss seeing you at the I/R. You are, to me, as much a part of the newspaper, as you are an icon of Ellsworth County. You amaze me at the energy you pour into promoting Ellsworth County and Kansas in general. We should be so fortunate to have more people like you, Peg.

Posted by Deneen Shively @ 04/23/2003 03:49 PM CST