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This blog has a lot of topics, lots of photos and illustrations, and will be mediated to avoid spam. My main areas of discussion are the natural world in my part of Texas, situation on a creek with woods nearby. I am an organic gardener and have an MA in English and almost finished an MA in Environmental Ethics, so subjects related to those areas creep in as well.
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A Woman of Many Parts

English - Organic Gardening, Nature Writing, Cooking
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A Woman of Many Parts · 1M ago

The Unkindest Cutworm of All

By Maggie Dwyer permalink This year I have learned about cutworms. The hard way. I don’t recall ever seeing them in my garden before. When seedlings were lopped off it was usually snails doing the damage to my bean sprouts. This year I saw the gray-black greasy muscular caterpillars when I wor...
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A Woman of Many Parts · 9M ago

Rain

permalink August 13, 2011 Not the tropical Sadie Thompson sort of rain, keeping people indoors and insane day after soggy day, but the welcome surprise of gentle showers in the prairie after months of high temperatures and drought. Indeed, our dry beautiful days were making us a little crazy. This m...
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A Woman of Many Parts · 9M ago

The Anti-Social Life of Paper

permalink August 6, 2011 Several years ago a Malcolm Gladwell piece in The New Yorker reviewed a book to do with how we use and store printed paper documents, and what struck me most profoundly is how we stack and store paper. Like a squirrel burying nuts and returning for them later, we seem to [.....
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A Woman of Many Parts · 10M ago

Bug Bopper

permalink The life cycles of insects in the garden are most obvious when they impact me. I see the lace bugs as adults walking on my eggplant leaves and I find (and eradicate) the sticky eggs or the cluster of young before they do any more damage. I finally intercepted the bugs tacked together butt ...
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A Woman of Many Parts · 11M ago

Little Rocks Make the Big Rocks Work

June 1, 2011 By Maggie Dwyer permalink Several years ago I decided to take a proactive approach to the speeders who laid rubber on the curve around the front of my house – youthful (and not so youthful – I saw you, with your middle-aged lead-feet!) drivers habitually charged past my hous...
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A Woman of Many Parts · 1Y ago

One man’s trash is this woman’s compost

May 8, 2011 permalink An Open Letter to my neighbors in the Edgecliff Village area: If you haven’t given any consideration to the nutrients that are in your lawn clippings, preferring to bag them and send them to the landfill, I have a request. I do value them, but some of you are making rathe...
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A Woman of Many Parts · 1Y ago

Dogs love stinky stuff – compost stories

This process was an experiment to keep my dogs out of the kitchen scraps in the compost pile.
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A Woman of Many Parts · 1Y ago

Airport Love, Actually

March 11, 2011 By Maggie Dwyer — permalink My son Dylan is a freshman at the University of Arizona in Tucson and is flying back to Texas to spend Spring break here. He has only returned home one other time this year, during the long holiday break between semesters. I think I saw him four [...]
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A Woman of Many Parts · 1Y ago

Getting Back to the Blog

Permalink When I set up this blog, I was planning to focus my thoughts in one place where interested readers could follow along. In its natural state, ADD seems to be a feature of the Internet Age; inquiring minds are easily led to the next fascinating story, and are lulled into posting remarks ever...
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A Woman of Many Parts · 1Y ago

What’s the Buzz?

permalink July 24, 2010 Every year the population of insects and weeds in the yard varies. One year it’ll be more thistles than usual, or more leaf-footed bugs. Another year it will be creeping Charley mint in the turf , and occasionally we have an unwelcome population bloom like last fall whe...
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