One of Recliner Man’s favorite desert plants is the Ocotillo. It’s rugged and wild. A real man’s man kind of plant. For most of the year it just looks like a bunch of dead sticks stuck into the ground. Dead sticks with lots of thorns.

After the rainy season the dead sticks suddenly burst to life […]

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I just added a polling plugin to the blog and I really need your help to test it out. Please take a moment to vote and if you run into any problems will you please send me an email and let me know about them? Pretty please? Thanks!

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A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it. He tried, […]

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Congratulation Deb S! Send me an email (chiaswaps at hotmail.com) with your mailing address and I’ll get your prize sent to you.
I’ll hold the prize until the end of the month. I have no way of contacting Deb S. If I don’t hear from her by the end of the month I will draw again […]

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Today is the last day to enter the PAPER CONTEST
I’ve got 14 names to toss in the bag. Anyone else care to comment?

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I just found out that there will be THREE, yes three, FREE Make & Takes at Mystic Paper this Saturday! Can it get any better? The fun is from noon till 3pm. You don’t want to miss this one. It’s special enough to get anything FREE these days but THREE!!!!! WOW!
I’m excited… could you tell? […]

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