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Pickerel frog sighting! 27 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
Silence Dogood here. This past weekend, I went to a retreat in the Catskills. Supposedly, the place where the retreat is held, with a huge lake set among beautiful forests, is crawling with porcupines...
You know you don’t get out much when… 21 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Silence Dogood here. Our friend Ben and I recently returned from a trip to our native Nashville and to Bardstown, KY (in the heart of bourbon country). Naturally, we’d taken OFB’s larger and more road...
Now we are two. 18 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
Our friend Ben and Silence Dogood were thrilled yesterday to see that two frogs have now colonized our half-barrel deck water garden. And not just any two frogs, but two different species: a leopard f...
What makes great bourbon. 18 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
What do great caves and great bourbon have in common? Give up? It’s limestone-filtered water. Our friend Ben and Silence Dogood just got back from a road trip from Pennsylvania through Maryland, Wes...
In bourbon country. 16 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
Our friend Ben and Silence Dogood just returned from a trip from scenic PA to our hometown, Nashville. We decided to return via Kentucky rather than our usual route, through the beautiful Shenandoah V...
Live like it really matters. 9 Aug 2013 | 05:53 am
Silence Dogood here. I understand that there was once a soap opera called “One Life to Live.” Well, we all know what soap operas are, yesterday’s forebears of today’s reality TV shows. If you truly re...
A gardener’s nails. 8 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
Silence Dogood here. The other day, I was standing in line and noticed my cashier’s long, glued-on, elaborately ornamented nails. I hoped she didn’t notice mine. I’m a gardener, and during gardening ...
The most popular pizza. 8 Aug 2013 | 04:08 am
Silence Dogood here. When I last opened my e-mail, I saw an ad for Domino’s pizza, featuring, of course, a photo of a pizza. You could see plenty of veggies on the pizza—green peppers, mushrooms—as we...
Quick, delicious summer supper. 5 Aug 2013 | 03:58 pm
Silence Dogood here. With all the fresh, delicious produce in stores, farmers’ markets, and our gardens now, I’ll bet you sometimes find yourself with a few “odd veggies out” that just didn’t make it ...
A nice way to wake up. 4 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
Silence Dogood here. If, like me, our hero and blog mentor Benjamin Franklin’s maxim “Early to bed, early to rise” doesn’t exactly resonate with you, every little thing you can do to make getting out ...
