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Babs and Willie at Interlochen. And a poppy.

June 8, 2009

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So just now I open my email and there’s a letter from Babs.  This is not a surprise.  There’s a letter from Babs every Sunday.  However, this particular email is full of more questions than answers, more je ne sais quois than true, dat.  So I copy it to you without interpretive additions.  Make of it […]

We’re gonna be in movies

June 7, 2009

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I have discovered a new toy buried in my software.  I believe Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I can join other luminaries of the film industry residing in Antrim County.  We, like Michael Moore, are hard at work on our new movie.  Working title: Morning Walk.  There will be suspense.  There will be an unexpected […]

Eastport Market has cheapest gas in Antrim County

June 6, 2009

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Bet you never thought you’d see THAT headline, but travelers are saying it’s so, and for the moment it appears to be. That cheapest price as of noon today was 2.899 for regular. [Update: By 3 pm it was up to 2.959, but that was still lower than most places.] So go fill up. You […]

Fresh, local food is coming in

June 6, 2009

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Although it has been “unseasonably cool” there’s asparagus at King’s and Bolt’s, and over at Providence Farm Andrea and Ryan Romeyn are getting ready for the first CSA pickups of the year.  Andrea writes: Even with our cool spring, the gardens look wonderful . . . . We are starting . . .  the week of June […]

Caught goosefooted at the end of a lingering spring

June 5, 2009

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I am still behind on research and writing, but I thought I’d take a minute to show you the goosefoot maple that grows in Eden Shores. It is a shrubby sort of tree, distinguished by its goosefoot shaped leaves and the vertically striped bark of the saplings.  I think the blossoms are quite pretty, even […]

Letters from Katherine: Old Barns

June 3, 2009

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Katherine writes: Old barns make me happy. Being an owner of an old barn myself, when I see them in a state of disrepair I feel for the people who own them. It’s expensive to keep them up and I wonder if there’s not a program to help owners of old barns? Old barns have […]

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