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Game CLXXXVIII heading towards the solstice

9 years ago

Yoyobon posted the last entry of the previous thread:
SWOON: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them by Betsy Prioleau

Casanova in Bohemia - Andrei Codrescu

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veer
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Scissors Paper Stone - Elizabeth Day
phyllis__mn
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Running With Scissors.....Augusten Burroughs
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Dem-Pa, I love your pics. I can't wait to see flowers again. Some of my camellias are blooming, so it isn't like I don't have color in the yard, I am just too ready for spring. I know it will arrive here sooner than a lot of other places, I am just not a winter person. After about a month I am ready for spring again. I started about 40 different varieties in ziplock baggies yesterday. Now the waiting begins. I have checked the two wintersow jugs I have already started, but there is no sign of life yet. I have been collecting jugs and bottles of all shapes and sizes. I have a question though, when you cut windows in the jugs, do you let them sit open all winter? I haven't ever done that and wonder with my temperatures fluxuating ( sp) as much as they do if the windows would help. It will be 52 here tonight, but 30 tomorrow night....
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