We have three dogs and a big yard.  Yup, doggy poop is a big problem around here.  We are really trying to get our yard into shape this year and two doggy things we are going to have to figure out is how to deal with the doggy doo and how to get them to [...]

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Actually, I want to be a garden girl.  I go on this wild adventure each year wanting to plant stuff and at the end of it I’ve spent a couple hundered dollars and have nothing but rotting or shriveled leaves to show for it.  So, this year I am probably going to try and work [...]

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It would be cool to have a co-op grocery store and/or cafe in St. Charles.  I think they tend towards wanting “up scale” around here – but maybe there is some kind of happy compromise?  I know Safeway and Giant aren’t going anywhere.  Whatchagonnado?
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GLUT FOOD CO-OP
Natural Foods for People, Not for Profit
Since 1969
See reviews of [...]

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Last night for dinner I made salmon patties and hoppin’ John.

Salmon patties are an affordable way to get salmon into your diet on a regular basis.  Make sure you switch it up sometimes with fresh or frozen salmon too though.  I get frozen salmon from BJ’s Club.  Why frozen?  Well, it’s wild Alaska sockeye salmon [...]

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First Friday in Leonardtown is here!
Next big event is March 6 STARTING AT 5pm.
Visit uptown and downtown to rediscover the many treasures of Historic/New Leonardtown!
Participating Businesses & staying open late:
Art In Wire, Arizona Pizza Company, Brewing Grounds, Cafe des Artistes, CSM, Do-Dah Deli, Fenwick Street Used Books & Music, Good Earth Natural Foods, Heron’s Way [...]

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Here’s a little post to help both TSA and me concentrate on bringing spring back as fast as possible! 

By DEAN FOSDICK, For The Associated Press
(AP) – Bulbs are nature’s answer to all those impatient gardeners trying to get a running start on spring. Plant them now, as temperatures cool but before the ground freezes hard, and [...]

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Eyesores lower property values, rile neighbors
By JASON BABCOCK, Staff writer

Most children are told to keep a clean room. But what happens when people grow up, acquire property and let it fall into shambles?
What happens to the neighbor who won’t cut his grass, the one with two dozen cars in the yard? What happens to the [...]

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At least there’s one city in Maryland worth living in. 
Money’s list of America’s best small cities

#
City
Population

1
Plymouth, MN
70,100

2
Fort Collins, CO
129,400

3
Naperville, IL
142,900

4
Irvine, CA
193,900

5
Franklin Township, NJ
59,100

6
Norman, OK
102,800

7
Round Rock, TX
92,300

8
Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
158,800

9
Overland Park, KS
166,700

10
Fishers, IN
61,800

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It’s that time of year to garden. 
Check out the mother of all poison ivy rashes HERE (I can’t even believe that’s a poison ivy rash, it’s awful).
 The photo HERE is more like the type of poison ivy rash I get.
More poison ivy info at http://www.poison-ivy.org/
Some info from that site:
Poison Ivy and CO2!
According to the Wall [...]

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I want to plant flowers and plants in my front yard in a flowerbed.  I have a wilted non-green thumb, so I need help.
Any suggestions?
Planting Conditions
* Heavy sun most of the day.
*Up against the house, right in front of the wall/windows
I would like them to be different heights, but not too tall.
I don’t want to [...]

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How-to Monday: Pricing

Associated Press photo
One of the many challenges in a housing slump: How do you figure out what’s a fair price when the market keeps changing?
Pat Hiban of the Pat Hiban Real Estate Group (with Keller Williams Select Realtors in Ellicott City, and try getting all that out in one breath) says his recommendation to sellers is [...]

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TWD and I have been talking recipes the past few days.  Last night she pulled out a WWII era cookbook she has and scanned this in to send to me so we could post it here on the cafe.
It sort of ties in with our “recycling” theme for the day too since it is Recycle [...]

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I DVR’d Radiant City  off of Sundance and watched it Friday – it was very interesting.
Charles County Commissioners – if you are reading this blog entry, I recommend you watch that movie.
I’m not being flip, I just think that it’s a good movie for anybody in the position to control development to watch.

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I like daylillies.  I have noticed many in bloom recently and only recently learned of their name.  I’ve seen them mostly in yellows and oranges.  I don’t care for the bright orange, but I enjoy the yellow and the yellow with reddish orange in them.
I would like simple plants I can plop in the ground, [...]

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Anybody know where I can buy indigenous plants locally.  There was a man listed in the directories as Richard Falcone, who was in Waldorf – but no address and his number is disconnected – as a person who was  provider of indigenous plants.  Everything else is kind of far away.
Anybody know anybody local?

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