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Pigs at Home.

May 3, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner 2 Comments

We have more pigs in our yard than people in our house. Unless you count the schnauzers as people, and we do, right? In that case, we need one more pig.

Pigs at Home

Lucy and Annabelle

Happy Saturday!

Grace Grits and Gardening

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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston Churchill

Seven Signs You Might Be From Arkansas

September 5, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 20 Comments

Since I’m headed to the great state of Arkansas today, I offer you this timely reminder of what makes us unique. In keeping with the spirit of the Write Tribe seven day blog challenge (prompt: the number seven), below are seven signs you might be from Arkansas if…

(in no particular order)

1. At the end of each week your family’s heaping mound of dirty laundry easily sorts into three piles—whites, darks and Razorback red. Proudly, the Razorback load is always the largest.

2. You give directions based on minutes with no regard to mileage. Jonesboro is about an hour from Osceola. 

3. Your momma taught you to never wear white after the opening day of dove season. Camouflage is acceptable any time of year.

4. You eat dinner for lunch and supper for dinner. Both include ranch dressing.

5. You become absolutely giddy at the smell of crop defoliant.

6. You have a cousin or uncle or brother or husband or child or all-of-the-above named Bubba. Or Bubba, Jr.

7. Calling the hogs makes you downright teary-eyed.

Woooo Pig Sooie!

talya

 
Musical Pairing:
 
Arkansas Fight! performed by the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas
 
This was written for the Write Tribe Festival of Words.  Prompt: the number Seven.
If you missed my prior ‘number seven’ posts, click on the links below!
Significant Number Seven
Seven Years Ago
Economic Collapse – Seven Years From Now…
Seven Shades of Yoga
(only two more to go)

Razorback Conversation…

October 30, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner 10 Comments

Walking along Spring Street on a beautiful fall morning, everyone scrambles to do yard work—weeding, raking (a lost cause…), even painting porch railings before winter settles into the mountains.
Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
From yard to yard, I overhear the same chat after chat between husbands, wives, yard workers, painters, partners, neighbors, each blending into the next. Same topic, each with a slightly different color or feel or tone. Bits of these conversations floated from porch to sidewalk where I pieced them together like a home-sewn quilt.

One cohesive narration about…

RAZORBACK FOOTBALL, or lack thereof…
the quarterback is ok I guess
terrible season
coach is awful
be glad when this season is over
we had such high hopes
haven’t even been to a game
and so on and so on
From house to house, I heard streaming Razorback commentary. 
Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Arkansas

As I walked by the last home before the curve toward Dairy Hollow, a man nodded hello to me as he hauled stones for his crumbling rock wall.

“You know, this morning your neighbors all the way back to the library are having one long conversation about the Razorbacks.”
“Guess we should all get together over coffee…” he laughed.
“It’s interesting. One street-long conversation about the Razorbacks.”
“Well, there’s only one topic worse than the Hogs.”
“What’s that?”

“Politics.”

talya
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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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