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Preparing for a Pretty Spring

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I have a boat load of subjects to blog about, a 40 acre fire just 2 miles over, my mother-in-law having pneumonia, yep, a boat load. ; ) I will instead blog today about the pleasant time I spent with my granddaughter making a pretty hanging basket. Today we started out with new potting soil.  I was able to buy Miracle Grow Potting soil for under 5 dollars...I used it. I had a beautiful black iron hanging basket.  The granddaughter loves petunias and the grandson loves how they smell.  It was a given, annual petunias with alyssum would fit the bill.  Of course when you give a 3 year old a watering can you are never sure how it will turn out. All finished and fertilized and blessed to grow.  The splash of red in the background is a groove of Redbud trees. We will let you know how it turns out.

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Sharing a Slice of Life: Sports

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Texasblu gave us the prompt at Sharing a Slice of Life to write about Sports. This is hard for me.  I played on a soft ball team when I was in grade school for summer time activites.  Outfield...I was terrible at catching the ball.  It was my freshman year of College before I actually learned to swim.  I guess you would say I wasn't sports oriented. I did play for the marching band and we did half time at every football game from Jr High through High School.  When I graduated, I actually felt a little at loss because, the sport didn't have an appeal to me other than as a band activity. I don't know why I was never really a sports fan, because my mother and grandmother were avid sports fans. I can remember my grandmother had a television schedule.  It went something like: Tuesday, bowling leagues, Saturday Baseball or Football or Basketball which ever season.  She had terrible degenerative arthritis and had a hard time walking.  It had started when she was in her teens