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Muscadine in Virginia winter hardy maybe.
Comments (3)I was freaking out and emailed you scott. You calmed my nerve a bit. Thanks I got the fall purchase from Ison Nursury and the spring purchase from bottoms nursery. The ones from Bottom nursery were thicker with 3x the roots. Both were great and helpful....See MoreI Give Up, maybe
Comments (6)Oh, Jan! I'll bet you anything that chick used to work in the back of the One-Shoe-Store!!!! Lemmie at her---I'll punch her in the nose for being so mean to you!! You know---I used to go into the Nextel store here in town for help with the business phone I was given to use---those girls in there were always so mean to me---rude as can be!---And would NEVER help me! Well, I went into Radio Shack next door because the phone place had left town. The little girl in Radio Shack has always been so sweet and on the ball---she tried to fix the phone, but it lapsed again and I thanked her for trying to help. I told her it looked like I was out of luck---since the phone store was closed down, but then again maybe not, since they never helped me, anyhow. She said, "You know how word gets around in a small town---there's a good reason they had to close up and leave, and those two girls were the cause of it!" ---and laughed her head off! Maybe they were trained by the same professionals as the girl who waited on YOU! ;)...See MoreNot a pest..well maybe to some..
Comments (2)Very interesting...I remember when I was a kid and going outside and hearing the loud noise from the Cicada made me think of being invaded by aliens. A short search on the net and found out that there are 13 states expected to hear the song of the "XIV brood": Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Massachuets, Maryland, NCarolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and W Virginia. Brass I'm too far south in Georgia (I figure)....See MoreOnce is not enough...or maybe it is!
Comments (66)Lauramarie, ahhh yes, the Ligurian coast. I enjoyed Extra Virgin but for some reason never reread it. Another one for the reread pile! I've liked several of Paul Gallico's books, though I don't think I ever read the one you mention. Annie Hawes' book reminds me of a category I left out in my list above: Travel memoirs and the related I-Bought-a-House-in-a-Foreign-Country books a la Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. I read a whole bunch of those several times, until I think I must have burnt-out on them. I never bought a house outside the USA, but I've rented a few delightful ones and many dumps. And, oh! the landlords. Lydia, I suspect that's right: the magazines had to cut out the lit so they could make room for more beauty tips, advice columns, fashion spreads, interior decorating displays, and other pretty pictures. Give the reader what she wants... Actually I don't know if all the magazines did that, since I haven't bought those sorts of general magazines in several decades. I think the UK publications held out longer than US ones -- some of them may still print stories and poems...I don't know. I was introduced by the magazines to a lot of writers who later became well known. I recall a Judith Viorst story from the early 1970s called "The Tenth Good Thing About Barney" and the Redbook novel for August 1973 was Richard Bradford's So Far from Heaven (a condensation, of course). I liked the Bradford one so much that I sought out the complete version and have reread it several times. Sylvia Plath got her start in magazines, too, although that was a little before my time. I've never heard of the Everywoman's magazine your grandmother collected, but I know that those 'little' magazines could contain gems. Yes, I suppose they were tame, but watch out! The characters may not be hopping in and out of bed with each other, etc., but they might smoke cigarettes! :-b Lydia, the dustjacket on my copy of Before the Sun Goes Down says it won the $20,000 Doubleday Prize and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $125,000 Annual Novel Award for 1945. Evidently, it was quite popular in the 1940s and '50s because even small-town libraries usually had a copy. I didn't read it until the early 1960s, although I had heard my mother and grandmother often refer to it. I suppose it became one of those family favorites that all the readers know what the other readers are talking about when they quote from it at apropos times. It's rather old-fashioned in the storytelling style, so I'm not surprised that modern readers might not like it -- it's too straightforward. Oh, and what it's about: The setting is a small town in Pennsylvania, the year is 1880. The main character is the town's doctor. The story is his interaction with the townspeople, most of them having been his patients, and he attended the births of nearly all the children in the previous twenty years. It's an evocation of another time, of course, but there's change in the......See MoreTiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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