A stroll through the garden this morning left me as satisfied as I can be. Mostly through Anne’s hard work, things are looking pretty good. The tomatoes are hanging fat and plentiful on the vines. The pepper plants are lush and covered with blossoms. We’ve been harvesting English peas for over a week now. Lightly [...]

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I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf. ‘Course I’ve turned over enough new leaves in my life to make a compost heap the size of New Jersey. But this particular new leaf might save my sanity. I’m giving up morning news, and replacing it with morning comedy.
When I first moved to Wythe County, I [...]

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Cinco de Mayo is a regional Mexican holiday that celebrates the victory of an outmanned, outgunned Mexican army over the invading French forces of Napolean III at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. At the time, the French army was the most powerful in the world, and had not been defeated in 50 [...]

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One of the things that I and other bloggers sometimes forget is that each blog post is a permanent individual record that can be accessed at any time, thanks to these nifty information gathering programs called spiders, sent out by the millions by the various search engines, (Wythenotes receives about one a minute; some sites [...]

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I’m declaring peak color day today for the trees on Chestnut Ridge. Some of the other areas in the county are either past peak color or a few days away. I’ve been toodling around the town and county the last few days collecting specimens. Herewith is my collection:

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It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. What words come to mind when you view this picture? Loneliness? Abandonment? Despair? What story does this picture tell?
How about these?

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“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
h.l. mencken
commonwealth of virginia
PETITION OF QUALIFIED
VOTERS
FOR REFERENDUM
We the qualified voters of Fort Chiswell Magisterial District of Wythe County, Virginia signed hereunder do hereby petition the circuit court [...]

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