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There are apple orchards all over the place up there, Mau. Mary Baldwin even has an Apple Day spontaneous holiday every October. Surely you could find one tree!

Thanks, Mau. Several of her plays are based on Shakespearean plays, like modern takes. She got started this way because she'd heard about a grant for this sort of thing a few years back. Not sure if that grant still exists. And some of them are based on Biblical stories. But the novel she wrote was ...

Well, May Day is also St Walpurgis' feast day in Germany and other German speaking areas (Catholic ones). She was famous for fighting witchcraft, and somehow the common folk associated the eve of her saint's day with witches, and they would light bonfires to ward off the evil spirits. Sort of like H...

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Well, it was my great-grandfather, my father's grandfather, who lived in his son's (my grandfather's) house in his old age. And my mother's grandfather was also a Confederate veteran, though he was murdered? Committed suicide? Died accidentally of a gunshot wound? when her father was two. I'm pretty...

Lol. Well, if I did, I suppose some of my pumpkins might survive their blossoming.

Deer just don't come onto our street, though they do venture into some parts of town.

I'm pretty sure that I would celebrate Walpurgisnacht in preference to Halloween if I lived in Australia. It's a fall holiday down there, and the Halloween spirit is autumnal.

Deer don't enter our yard, but other critters do. Some of them (Squirrels? Rabbits? Possums? Raccoons?) always eat any squash or pumpkin blossoms in the night.

Oh, I have Walpurgisnacht on my radar! Not that I do anything about it, but I do make a mental note.

Well, as I've said, my maternal grandfather was born in 1875, and that's pretty mind-blowing for me, too, even though I know I'm older than you. But in the South, we still think about Reconstruction (at least, those of us with deep roots do), and that means my grandfather was born before it ended. T...

Good luck with your gardening, Mau! I have a few tomato seedlings I need to plant this week. I have some beefsteak and some cherry tomatoes.

Wow, she started a lemon tree from seed? Like, from a grocery store lemon? I wonder if they stay true to type. What a neat gift, though!

My experience with summer projects is that you really have to take the bull by the horns, plan them out, use the days. Because summer gets by so fast!

I didn't even know all my grandparents. Both my grandfathers died before I was born. But I did know my grandmothers. My own mother had only one living grandparent, her mother's mother, and that woman died when Mama was three.

My daughter has one novel she wrote in high school and early college, then completely revised after college. So far she has not sought to publish it. But most of her writing is plays (theater major), and publication for that means mounting the plays. She's gone so far as to have a table reading for ...