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Brian Bilbrey

22 July 2022

More garden surprises, but first, our front walk botanical garden: Right now, all the fun is happening at the end of the walk, where lilies and black-eyed susans are in full bloom, the lilies especially right now: Over at the far corner of the front yard, by the road, there are masses of saponaria: Meantime, Marcia has been busily doing preservation work against a bushel of pickling cucumbers - this is the result of two days of work, more to come, I'm told...

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Brian Bilbrey

26 June 2020

So, Summer arrived this week, and we can tell. Just for context, Sunday night a week ago, it dropped into the low 40's (F) overnight, cold enough that the pellet stove fired itself up. Seriously. Yesterday and today, however, we touched 90F, which made it pretty warm. Between the sun/heat, and weekend boaters, we did not go out this weekend on the boat, but we did make it out on last Monday (Juneteenth observed Federal holiday) and I took most of the day off on Thursday and we got out again. So, all in, three fishing days out of the…

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Brian Bilbrey

13 June 2022

A few pictures to illustrate the good bits... Our yard through spring so far has been a cornucopia of flowers, here's some more of them... So, yeah, plenty of pleasant surprises from the yard that Lorraine gifted to us when she sold us the house. Have a great week...

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Brian Bilbrey

5 June 2022

Last night we had a good line of thunderstorms roll through. In several different directions, folks had rain plus the light/sound show. But we got hail, too... Here's the front walk as that phase of the storm was winding down: Not a huge deal, but we only had two small tomato plants in the ground … now we're down to two "3/4 scale" smaller tomato plants. We'll see if they survive. Most of Georgia's days follow a specific pattern: Here's one of the instances of resting in the house, chasing sunbeams Today was special, though. The morning walk up to…

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