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Sweating the Big Stuff - Repurposing Brown Furniture Can Help the Environment

Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Aug 13, 2019
4 min

Sweating the Big Stuff - Repurposing Brown Furniture Can Help the Environment

Repurposing brown furniture is good for the environment. Try this tactic to convince your kids to take your furniture.

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Jul 29, 2019
7 min

Baby Boomers Do Vegas

My travel experiences have been varied and broad but never included Las Vegas. That has been on purpose. After all, my biased opinion o...

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Jun 6, 2019
3 min

D is for D-Day and Dad

My father was a letter writer. He had a big bold distinctive handwriting like I have never seen anywhere before. While stationed in Engl...

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

May 8, 2019
2 min

Butterflies and Bobbi

The second generation of monarchs began emerging from the safety of their chrysalises on my screened porch. Included are the progeny of ...

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Mar 27, 2019
4 min

Pelicans of Amelia Island

This began as a Brown Pelican post, but I couldn’t write about Brown Pelicans without comparing them to their relatives, American White ...

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Limericks - Honoring St. Patrick's Day with White Pelicans and a Rooster

Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Mar 10, 2019
1 min

Limericks - Honoring St. Patrick's Day with White Pelicans and a Rooster

Edward Lear is credited with inventing the limerick. He wasn't Irish but from England. For a host of reasons, most completely irrelev...

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Mar 3, 2019
3 min

Processing Memories

The easiest way to shred cabbage is with the food processor. Preparing to attack a stunning head of cabbage, with my new Cuisinart, and m...

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Feb 25, 2019
3 min

Monarch Madness

I discovered monarch caterpillars on the milkweed plants blooming in my garden in late January. Although my home is in Florida, I realiz...

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Katherine Dudley Hoehn

Feb 13, 2019
2 min

The Postcard Connection

In her 90’s, Mom was fading and craving connections with her children and grandchildren. When her first grandchild became a father, she w...

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