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The new year is almost "old news" now. Parties have ceased and supper has resumed in routine to ordinary food in ordinary dishes.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2020 @ 9:10 am
By: Michele Rhem
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A lot happened on Saturday at the rabbitpatch. First of all, there was not a single branch left on the territory, by the time the sun set.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 5:13 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It has been a while, since I had a day without some sort of obligation or some place to be.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 1:43 am
By: Michele Rhem
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"Everything is coming up roses' at the rabbitpatch!
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It is Friday again and it seems it was just Friday, a few days ago! Here we are in the "short rows" of winter, already. I notice that seasons, now seem but a few weeks, and the years zip pass, too.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 @ 7:59 am
By: Michele Rhem
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A cold wind blew and now suddenly, it is winter.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Michele Rhem
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So far, today is an ordinary day . . . of course, it is only mid morning. It has been weeks since, a day went along as it usually does, without an agenda-or a single plan.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The first day of December has dawned, quietly and subtly.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 1:25 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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For just a little while, fluffy flakes fell, til a few inches had accumulated. People either love or hate snow, in the south. I love it.
Published: Thursday, December 13th, 2018 @ 7:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It did not matter one iota, that the time changed. Somehow, I managed to awaken at my usual hour
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 2:46 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I spent this weekend at the rabbit patch, in Farm Life, amongst the old trees, the young woods and the abandoned little pasture. It has been a long while since I was here on a weekend.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2018 @ 3:50 am
By: Michele Rhem
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At long last, its' beginning to feel a lot like autumn. The mornings are chilly and call for a light sweater.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2018 @ 9:55 am
By: Michele Rhem
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It is early, as I write this. Not yet, is it time for the early service to commence.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 5:36 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I attended the early service, today, - the last Saturday in January. The morning was cold and still, but a mockingbird sang, anyway.
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2018 @ 6:40 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It started snowing in the late evening, yesterday. Today, when light came to the rabbit patch, the territory looked like a post card from a place like "New England" or my friend "Fayes' Iowa".
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 5:50 am
By: Michele Rhem
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There has been no need to build a fire as of lately, at the " rabbit patch". Instead, the window, by the morning table, is raised.
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It was snowing at the early service, this morning. It did not last long, and only could be considered a dusting, but the chance to watch it fall, was not short on beauty.
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 1:41 am
By: Michele Rhem
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The early service, in the rabbit patch territory, was a cold and still one, today. I went out to collect pine cones and thought the sound of the door shutting, would shatter the world.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 @ 1:31 am
By: Michele Rhem
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While November, has a fair share of "silver days", there are golden ones too.
Published: Thursday, November 30th, 2017 @ 7:16 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It is early Saturday morning at the rabbit patch. Coffee is brewing and I have made a small fire in the little fireplace by the morning table.
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 @ 12:45 am
By: Michele Rhem
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It is a quiet afternoon at the rabbit patch-an unfamiliar kind of quiet. There was no "Sunday Dinner" as daddy did not feel well this morning.
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2017 @ 5:57 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It is morning and the sun is proclaiming it brightly. I love weekend mornings for they are born without haste. I do not consult the clock on days like Saturday.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 9:53 am
By: Michele Rhem
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These are the kind of days that made October famous. From the early hours til dusk, it has just been lovely. Typically, October is a flashy month, by all accounts.
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2017 @ 6:45 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It is early evening on Friday the thirteenth, at the rabbit patch.
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 1:29 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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I left Elizabeth City around three on Sunday. It was a bright and cooler day than Saturday had been.
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 7:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The morning started off beautifully. The sunrise at the " early service" was as usual, stunning.
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 3:59 am
By: Michele Rhem
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It seems a lot longer than four days, since I watched Lyla play by the pink ocean water in the shine of a silver moon.
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 @ 10:25 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Schools are closed today due to a tropical storm. I got up early anyway. It was raining at daybreak, as it is now.
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 7:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I get home at a very reasonable hour. I drive through the countryside, past fields, now gilded in gold- and quiet pastures. I come home to a jolly "welcome wagon".
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2017 @ 8:59 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I am still so very glad to be back at the "morning table" writing in the diary . . . but it is long past morning as I write this.
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 9:15 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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At last, I am back at the "morning table" writing an account of life on the rabbit patch.
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Schools are closed today, due to stormy weather. The rabbit patch is wet and puddles stand all about the territory.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 @ 3:05 am
By: Michele Rhem
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May is known as "the sweetest month" and so far, there is no denying that. This is the longest spring, that I remember in a long while.
Published: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 @ 11:28 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I have been watching the snow fall since rising. It is all but stopped now.
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2017 @ 10:12 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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