Divinebunbun's Rugged Rural Missouri

Divinebunbun lives in a log cabin on 100 acres in the rocky Ozark foothills. Her porch is a box seat on nature and the seasons. This is her journal of chores and mysteries, natural history photos, and observations.

Saturday, December 12, 2020

After 13 Years, I Clean

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Nutty with quarantine I cleaned a shelf I'd covered with newspaper back in 2007. Hadn't cleaned it since. It's a closet for cann...

Friday, December 4, 2020

The War On Shrubs

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Armed with the lopper I cut through thickets of invasive bush honeysuckle , starting with the path to the creek (wanted to take a friend the...

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Keep Going

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Was walking in a park savoring a beautiful weekday afternoon. Afternoons are a world I'm still exploring, closed to me for the 30 years ...

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Pan Dowdy

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My pots and pans hang above the stove and this is so convenient I forget that they are on display although rather the worse for years of wea...

Saturday, October 31, 2020

The Picture of Happiness

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I pined for a Nikon camera, nothing fancy or weighty, just a point-and-shoot with a few bells and whistles, and around 2004 finally bought a...

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Down the Road a Piece: A New Bridge

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Since 2001 a thousand times on walks I crossed that crumbling concrete asphalt-topped Doc Sargent Road bridge across the creek, maybe 15 fee...

Friday, October 23, 2020

Bread Snobbishness Is on the Rise

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We couldn't go out to buy bread so we made our bread: the whole nation. Of course I've always done it; my bread-making machines, one...

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Divinebunbun: A professional writer and editor, I love rural living, fresh vegetables, stargazing, May and June, cooking and hosting, and birdwatching.

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