Monthly Archives: October 2009

Halloween is just another missed deadline

By Marta Gouger | Published: October 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
I didn’t inherit a lot of qualities from my mother. She was tall (I’m 5 nothing), she had willpower (quit smoking, cut down on caffeine and lost weight) and she could sew without a pattern. I don’t smoke but am guilty of drinking caffeine and overeating. And I especially cannot sew with a pattern. Have trouble even [...]
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Being bugged by lady bugs

By Marta Gouger | Published: October 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
Regular readers of this blog know how much I whine about bugs and other creatures. I really can’t tolerate anything but my fat cat in the house. My brother Mark tried to bring a pet ferret one Christmas. I’m afraid I wasn’t very hospitable that day, but that’s another story. This week when I started seeing [...]
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RSS feed URL changing

By Marta Gouger | Published: October 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
Dear Pocono Wedding Talk reader and RSS subscribers, We’re in the process of upgrading the software behind our blogs, in large part to add some new features and capabilities you’ll be experiencing soon. As part of this process, we’ve changed the location of our RSS feeds. To receive continuous updates when we update this blog, please update your feed readers [...]
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Strange fall, but you can still decorate a pumpkin

By Marta Gouger | Published: October 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Last week  I  braced myself for the end. We had predictions, no forecasts actually, of frost. It was a sure thing. We cut everything with a hint of color and brought it inside.   Here’s the weird thing. The temperatures dropped but the plants still lived. They weren’t as robust as they had been when the temperatures were [...]
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Saying goodbye for the season

By Marta Gouger | Published: October 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
It’s been a great season but my hopes died at 3:30 this morning when I got a text alert for  a frost advisory.  We had two months of brilliant dahlia blooms, and we escaped a light frost on Monday.  I guess it’s time for the flowers need to rest. Tonight we have a frost advisory. We [...]
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Why wrap when you can bag?

By Marta Gouger | Published: October 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
My husband asked me when people started being so lazy about wrapping presents. He’s referring, of course to the phenomenon of gift bags. You know, people used to find a box, find beautiful wrapping paper and then make a wonderful bow for the top. My mother was one of those. She had the knack for cutting the [...]
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