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Sunday Letter: 01.29.23

January 29, 2023 By Talya Tate Boerner 24 Comments

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

It has been a week, y’all.

We returned Monday from a weekend trip to Austin just in time for a whopper of a snowfall. The official measurement for Fayetteville was 8.95″. (By the way, I took the bright snowy picture above from my kitchen window at 1:30 a.m.! And we had hours of snowfall after that.)

For real, it was like the heavy snowfalls of my childhood, the wondrous type with fat drifting flakes that accumulated quickly and sent us sledding across fields and making entire snow families in the front yard.

Yes, as much fun as Austin held for us, I was glad we made it home in time for such a magical S N O W.

How to Repot an Orchid

January 19, 2021 By Talya Tate Boerner 4 Comments

Today I want to show you how to repot an orchid. It pains me to imagine how many orchids I’ve killed through the years. When I was a busy banker, I truly thought orchids only bloomed once. After that, they were done.

Um, no. Like every living thing—a schnauzer puppy, a milkweed seedling, a carpet of lichen—if you learn what orchids like and treat them with a little TLC, not only will they re-bloom beautifully, but they will grow larger and thrive.

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Sunday Letter: 01.17.2021

January 17, 2021 By Talya Tate Boerner 11 Comments

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

After a cold week of snow, brooding clouds, dark skies with only a sliver of moon, a little sunshine (I think), and lots of wind stirring up dry leaves that hitchhike into the kitchen via two schnauzers who are in and out, in and out, we greet another Sunday morning.

Whew.

I was glad to see 2020 end, but honestly, I’ll be glad to have January behind us too. Seeing all the troops in Washington DC is surreal. The current state of our nation is surreal. I pray for calmer days ahead.

Food. Farm. Garden. Life.