- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Wass Island Preserve is a 1,579-acre Nature Conservancy jewel, a place of spectacular botanical interest, and Jonesport is situated on a postcard-pretty harbor. Tourism is not serious business in those parts - boat building and fishing are - and there are no signs telling how to get to Great Wass. But I know.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a number of coastal trails in downeast Maine, all of them interesting.
- Maine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters and dreamers who disappeared or turned to drink or succumbed to melancholia or slow mortal diseases. The women, on the other hand, lived a long time and were full of spit and vinegar until the end.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greer is Missouri's second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor.
- Farming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
All chain saws are formidable and dangerous.
- Firewood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gets cold here in the Ozarks in the winter. There are often warm winter days, but there are also weeks when the temperature never climbs above freezing.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an early riser.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My crickets found me.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.
- Intellectuals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020