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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: Gleaning in the Groves
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Saturday, March 2, 2013. Gleaning in the Groves. We’re anticipating the arrival of winter fronts bringing several days of cold weather and maybe freezes, so much time this week went to preparing again for “weather”. Forecasters tell us 3 cold fronts are coming this first week of March, and it is a worry to all of us. Oranges must be picked now or forgotten. We’d need to protect ourselves from these daggers al...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: This is My Brain on Writing
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Tuesday, February 19, 2013. This is My Brain on Writing. I’m a freelance writer. Perspective on this career is that my life that ebbs and flows with the availability of assignments. The reality of my occupation is that production never ceases. One of the offshoots of writing is that it energizes my brain. This would be quite an asset if my head would slow down as the workday wound down. When morning returns, I foll...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: February 2013
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Saturday, February 23, 2013. Reassessing Priorities in Life. I spent the last two days wrapped up in the cocoon of my hammock studying the seasons of life. We lost a friend this week, not to old age, but to malpractice. Ten years ago, an inattentive nurse delivered the wrong medication to an 18 year old boy recovering from brain surgery, and the child never moved more than a facial muscle again. And there always is.
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: Spider Lilies 'Neath My Window
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Spider Lilies 'Neath My Window. For some reason the blooming of the spider lilies always catch me by surprise. It’s CAN’T be this late in summer, I always grumble. But the calendar never lies. These spider lilies are special to me. Three lonely bulbs were tucked beneath the bedroom window when we arrived here so many years ago. A small moth traveling from a nearby bottlebrush veers too c...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: Trading Treasures
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Saturday, February 9, 2013. Years ago, I once offered to supply the eggs for a breakfast meeting my employer was sponsoring. You would have thought I’d killed the family dog. 8220;Absolutely not,” the locals scolded, “your yard eggs are too precious for that! This was during my first foray into rural Florida culture, and the exchange taught me a lesson that stayed with me ever since. Our timing was great. We love h...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: December 2013
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Thursday, December 26, 2013. Passage of Time and Bread Baking. Early winter has been warm in Florida this year, and I’m thankful for the lighter load of ranch chores that fine weather allows. While much of the country dealt with ice storms and power outages, we're lucky enough to still be growing green grass in the pastures this year. December’s not always this way, but I have to say I like it. The plan worked out ...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: A Requiem to Beethoven
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Wednesday, August 21, 2013. A Requiem to Beethoven. Our farm lost a hardworking friend today. Our rooster, Beethoven, went lame in one leg earlier this summer, and under the waning full moon of August he finally succumbed to old age. A rooster is the spice of life to those of us who keep chickens. Showy, full of personality, each bird is an individual to himself. Roosters can be mean ol’ critters. His crow came out...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: March 2013
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Monday, March 18, 2013. The Cycle of Life on a Ranch. It’s been a time of comings and goings on the ranch this week. Now deep in the middle of calving season, we’re watching and welcoming new life in our pastures. Each day and each evening, we travel out into our pastures and check on the progression of pregnancy of our cows and try to determine if any of the girls are in any danger. So I agreed to make the acquisi...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: The Cycle of Life on a Ranch
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Monday, March 18, 2013. The Cycle of Life on a Ranch. It’s been a time of comings and goings on the ranch this week. Now deep in the middle of calving season, we’re watching and welcoming new life in our pastures. Each day and each evening, we travel out into our pastures and check on the progression of pregnancy of our cows and try to determine if any of the girls are in any danger. So I agreed to make the acquisi...
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces: Pasture Cutting Season in Florida
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Love Those Wide Open Spaces. Chasing Creativity and Possibility beneath a Big Florida Sky. Thursday, August 15, 2013. Pasture Cutting Season in Florida. It’s August on the ranch and it’s time for mowing pastures. We’ve had a week of dry weather and the fields are ready. I’ll be slathering on my sunscreen and spending most of the next few weeks out of doors. Many people don’t like August in Florida. It’s certainly very hot and the humidity is off the scale. But I’ve always loved August. There's an endemic...