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By Diane Sawdon   True confession time~~~~~my mind is a blank. I have no soapbox to stand upon, no ax to grind, no tooting of one’s own horn, no big complaints and no whining to be done. Can this be possible that I have nothing to say?? Never!   I have been working in the yard for most of the da...

By Diane SawdonDriving home from Fresno today, I tossed around all sorts of ideas for this Ramblings in the “fleshy tablets of my mind.” Great word image----one of my high school Spanish teachers used to say that all the time. How I remembered it, amazes me. I think, most of the time, he was refe...

By Diane Sawdon   The date of my birthday designates me as a Capricorn. My sign of the Zodiac is the (old) goat. Now, my friends who are Horoscope savvy, have told me that Capricorns are forever climbing mountains in their lives. I tend to agree and this past month I have been attempting to clim...

    Ramblings April 2010   By Diane Sawdon   The calendar tells me that the month is April, but Mother Nature is still holding on to Old Man Winter. It is 38 degrees outside as I sit here and type this missive. The calendar also states that today is Easter Sunday. I hope that all of you had some...

Ramblings................March 2010By Diane SawdonSometimes there are no words rolling around inside my head to make sense of life. The act is too massive, too punishing and too final for an explanation of any kind. The dictionary defines suicide as “the intentional taking of one’s own life.” It...

By Diane SawdonI, for one, am very glad the month of January has reduced itself to history. January lasted much too long. I know it was longer than the allotted thirty one days. The daylight hours were monotonous and tedious and the nights were seemingly endless. The month began with a birthday I...

Happy 2010!!  It is a new year and a new decade and my sincere wish is for health and happiness and growth and insight for everyone reading this----and for me, too.  Heaven knows, I need all the insight I can conjure up to get me through the days.   No, no, no!  There will not be any New Year’s ...

  December--The last month of the year has arrived all too quickly.  It is the culmination of the previous eleven months with days, hopefully, filled with the joys of this special time of year.   In retrospect, 2009 is a busy blur of emotions, happenings, up and downs and tears and trials.  But b...

  November----the “thankful month.” My brain is full of seasonal musings and short stories of thankfulness. I worked in the yard most of the morning----Mother Nature blesses us with a riot of color this time of year, but all of this color brings closure to another year of gardening and with it co...

By Diane SawdonDo you remember the song, "What A Difference A Day Makes?" That song title is proof positive that Mother Nature finally decided to send my favorite season of the year, Fall, to Nevada County. In a short twenty four hour span, the temperature dropped over thirty degrees. It was a jo...