The NaNoWriMo experience was eye-opening for me. I took a lot away from this. The first thing I learned about writing is that it takes a long time to write a thousand words. Some days, I would spend the morning commute thinking about what I wanted to include in a particular chapter. I might act out particular scenes in my...
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For the last couple of years, several of my Twitter friends have participated in National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. Basically, it makes a goal of writing a 55,000 word novel during the month of November. I almost signed up last year since I had a neat story idea. I decided to give it a try this year. I...
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The garden has been very good to us over the summer, but the season is over now. There were still some tiny tomatoes, but they won’t grow all the way. Chrissy tore out the remaining plants and we’ll be covering the raised plant beds for the winter soon. We plan on building at least two more raised plant bed boxes next...
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The first vegetable that our raised plant beds produced was a small zucchini. It was only about six inches long, but we didn’t really know how big zucchini were supposed to get. This was our first season using the plant boxes, so we were happy just to have something to show for it. Chrissy chopped it up and put it in...
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It’s that time of year again! Chrissy has gone back to school to sort out her classroom. When teachers leave for summer break, they have to clear out their entire classroom and put everything away so that the floors are completely clear. The trouble with that is they have to put everything back where it was before when...
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We have a tomato factory. Chrissy started out with three tomato plants in the raised plant beds. These have grown over the sides of the plant beds and are producing more tomatoes that we thought possible. We’re starting to wonder what to do with all of these tomatoes. Chrissy got a recipe for making salsa (with extra...
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The vegetable garden is doing better than we had ever hoped. It must be the genetically superior super-soil that we used. The tomatoes are small and green yet, the zucchini are growing well and there are even bell peppers popping out. Chrissy is very proud! It won’t be long before we can actually harvest some...
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Chrissy’s vegetable garden is growing fairly well. The tomato plants are getting really big and the zuchini are actually producing already. It’s the tiniest of little zuchinis growing so far, but that’s amazing considering that we have never gotten anything to grow before. We had practically given up on...
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