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Test Number THREE!
Let me know if you get this! I miss you all – this is horrible. So, comment if you have this delivered to your inbox so I know my posts are going out again. WordPress is playing Hide and Seek with my posts. Hopefully they are working on fixing the problem and also reinstating all…
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Testing Testing 123, No-ones Getting Back to Me.
Having Major technical Difficulties with WordPress today. And, of course they have not answered my appeals for help. So I am posting this to see if you all receive this one. This mornings post was sent but not received as I have not heard back from anyone and there are always almost a thousand of…
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Toads Do Not Become Princes you Know
But I have seen a lot of princes become toads. This toad was calmly waking across the bottom step of the verandah before seeing us and hopping (literally) back into the bed of leaves. He is an American toad (Anaxyrus americanus). Very common. And so delightful. He may even have been hibernating there. (I leave…
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Do You See What I see? The First Spring Chick!
I know that spring has arrived with I hear the chirp of a new chick. There is the wild fanfare of morning birds and the grass is greening up, buds popping on the trees. But a wee chick is a great big exclamation mark on the arrival of spring. I wonder what you see that…
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Do you know what This Bird Is?
As the trees grow in our wilding areas so too do the bird populations. We are in Illinois, just about 100 miles South of Chicago and many of our birds fly South for the winter. And now they are coming back. And this tiny brown and white speckly bird, about 4 inches long I think…
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Is there a difference between Blogs and Social Media?
Is a blog better than Social Media or is there even a difference? Maybe a blog IS Social Media. Personally I think our blogs are much more than Instagram or Facebook (or Twitter and TikTok). Did you know that 77% of internet users read blogs and they prefer blogs that are written and managed by…
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