tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4720669245892767302024-03-04T23:39:08.276-08:00Books and GardensAs long as you have a garden and a library you have everything you needSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12830177691014290662noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-472066924589276730.post-11944771304752845262017-05-16T09:26:00.000-07:002017-05-16T09:26:11.886-07:00Off AgainThank you for all your kind wishes. Some of you mentioned my sense of humor. I was a nurse many moons ago, our sense of humor is often the only thing we have left at the end of a shift. It gives us the strength to show up for the next shift come what may. I'm glad I have it as my fall back position because it is very handy right now.<br>
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I have got weepy and guess when it was.<br>
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The blogger is sick with a cold. The first one in years. Weakling that I am, I am repeating a post on a special time in my gardening life.<br>
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<tr><td>COME into the garden, Maud,</td><td><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td>For the black bat, night, has flown,</td><td><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Come into the garden, Maud,</td><td><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td>I am here at the gate alone;</td><td><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="4"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td>And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,</td><td align="RIGHT" valign="TOP"><i> </i></td></tr>
<tr><td>And the musk of the rose is blown.<br>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">I am by nature an explorer and curiosity is the instigator. My course takes me to bookstores, reading rooms, museums, old houses, libraries, down the rabbit hole of the internet and up the stairs to the attic. I'm reinventing my blog to take you with me.</span></span></span>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12830177691014290662noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-472066924589276730.post-66342085657787694662017-01-01T20:15:00.000-08:002017-01-01T20:15:03.955-08:00Happy SCS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't written anything in an age because I haven't anything to say, without repeating myself anyway. So time for a change methinks. If I have time, if I have the energy, the motivation.....</div>
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