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Greetings from the Porch, This week has been a whirl. I’ve been grading final essays and spending every spare minute getting my garden ready to be planted....
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Greetings from the Porch, This week we took a field trip to the Hurry Hill Maple Farm Museum, a museum inspired by the Newbery-Award-winning book Miracles on...
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Greetings from the Porch, The redbud trees are in full bloom. What more can be said about such glorious trees? In this week’s Water Dipper I recommend pieces...
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Greetings from the Porch, I’m building several raised beds for our garden, and while it’s a lot of work this first year, I’m hoping this work will establish...
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Greetings from the Porch, The daffodils are in peak glory around here, and many other plants are beginning to bud. So despite the fits and starts, spring's...
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Greetings from the Porch, We’ve announced the date (Sept. 24) and location (Grove City College) and keynote (Chris Arnade) for our fall conference. We’ll...
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Greetings from the Porch, We had a bitter cold stretch this week that, I fear, killed all the blossoms on our peach tree. So I can relate to what Matt Miller...
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Greetings from the Porch, I pulled the taps from the maple trees and ended up with about a gallon and a half of syrup. Not bad for a very amateur operation....
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Greetings from the Porch, Despite some wrinkles obtaining paper, the new issue of Local Culture hit the mail this week and should be arriving in subscriber...
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Greetings from the Porch, We have fresh snow this morning, but our yard and the surrounding woods have been filled by recent arrivals. This week I watched a...
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Greetings from the Porch, An update on my maple syrup adventures: my jerry-rigged evaporator setup is inefficient and slow, but the results are delicious. In...
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Greetings from the Porch, We tapped a few maples this week, and the warm weather is making the sap run quickly. Cold sap straight from the tree is quite the...
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Greetings from the Porch, I drove through a torrential rainstorm this week to attend a conference. Sitting around a table with thoughtful people and talking...
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Greetings from the Porch, It's been a busy week at FPR, so without further ado, here's what new: In this week's Water Dipper I recommend pieces on...
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Greetings from the Porch, We did something a bit unusual for FPR this week: we published three different review essays responding to one book. But Ross...
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Greetings from the Porch, It's been bitterly cold here with several mornings below negative 10 degrees. But the squirrels dig through the snow after their...
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Greetings from the Porch, It's been a busy week on the Porch; in case you missed it, we released the cover of the spring issue of Local Culture. It's going...
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Greetings from the Porch, We're on tap for a big snowstorm starting tonight. It should be a good weekend to sit by the fire, drink some tea, and read a book....
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Greetings from the Porch, While we were back in the Northwest for Christmas, Seattle got a nice snowfall. It was a treat to go cross-country skiing with my...
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Greetings from the Porch, Happy New Year–and merry eighth day of Christmas. We’ve had a lot of snow this week in the Pacific Northwest, so it’s been an...