GardenGrrl's WunderBlog

Brett Farve

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:27:00 GMT

I'm an all-inclusive football fan. I root for my local team. I root for my friends teams. And always, I root for my favorite quarterbacks. The Manning Brothers, who can resist those guys. Donovan McNabb and his mom. Having lots of teams and individual players to cheer for makes the season so much more fun.But Brett Farve, (be still my heart), is an icon. When I lived in Minnesota I cheered for the Vikings, but like many Vikings fans in our rivalry with Green Bay, I ...
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Farmer Branch Rose Garden

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:39:00 GMT

Early this spring I posted photos of the new rose garden in Farmers Branch , Texas. Now it is autumn and Texas roses are in the peak of second bloom. I was amazed at how well they are all doing because most of the garden is for trial roses. Besides being very beautiful, this garden is unique to any other rose garden. This is the National EarthKind Rose trial garden in the United States. It has all 100 varieties of the EarthKind cultivers. They are being bred to be d...
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Whooping Cough is Still Around.

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:52:00 GMT

Driving in the car early Sunday mornings I am held hostage by the option of listening to the public information shows that radios are forced to air once a week or silence.This morning the subject of Whooping Cough aka Pertussis caught my ear. Did you know that your childhood vaccination for it wears off. According to this doctor, 600,000 people in the United States contract Whooping Cough every year. Most of these are teenagers and adults.Whooping Cough can cause br...
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Sci-Fi Convention & Filk Singers

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:29:00 GMT

What a fun weekend it's been. I'm a big fan of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section of the bookstore. My spouse owns every video tape and DVD of Star Trek, yet I have never been to a Sci-Fi convention. Mostly because I thought I'm just not hardcore enough, wouldn't know what to say to people and don't own a space uniform or Vulcan ears.Well, I heard about Fen Con in Dallas that caters mostly to Sci-Fi literature. They were having a bunch of authors as guests and I was hop...
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7 inches, still raining

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:15:00 GMT

The Big news in Texas is RAIN!Here in North Texas it has been a bit dry, but over in the Hill Country it has been parched for waaaay too long. Am really glad to see rain there.Currently in our little corner of Lewisville we have collected five and one half inches in the rain gauge since Friday. It's been raining off and on all night so there is a bit more. My journalistic integrity stops at wet hair right before bed so I am not going to run outside and see what is ...
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