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Vicki Lane Mysteries: After the Election
Alas, the hateful Amendment One to the North Carolina Constitution passed, defining marriage as between one man and one woman, and denyin...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Apparitionist
The Apparitionist- National Ghost Story Competition To embrace and honor the heritage of storytelling in Western North Carolina, Tryon...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Kittehs' Resolution
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2018/11/getting-ready.html?showComment=1542381346855
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Getting Ready . . .
Rain, rain, and more rain. Perfect weather for getting a jump start on Thanksgiving cooking. We are having our feast on Wednesday as Cl...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-mixed-bag.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Mixed Bag
Old mule-drawn hay rakes and a mowing machine--out to pasture. Many years ago, John and our mules Pete and Molly actually used these. Turkey...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/03/sepia-saturday-salt-of-earth.html?showComment=1267891011653
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Sepia Saturday -- Salt of the Earth
Kind of timeless, this first picture. When do you think? 1901? 1925? 1933? Nope - 1974. The year after we bought the upper part of t...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2021/02/second-shot.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Second Shot!
And oh! the relief! Not that we'll be doing anything differently for fourteen days. But I find myself thinking about maybe a haircut. . . ...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-magical-time.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Magical Time
The star magnolia, forsythia, and flowering quince kno...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2023/05/not-bit-political.html?showComment=1683895347813
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Not a Bit Political
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/07/things-i-dont-believe.html?showComment=1752498242039
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Things I Don't Believe
That Facebook "cares about me and my memories" . . . That The Washington Post " misses" ...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2015/12/its-that-time-again.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: It's That Time Again
Our first snow fell yesterday afternoon so, in accordance with the old tradition that says to walk barefoot in the first snow for good h...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Another Milliner
Last week, when I wrote about the hatbox and my memories of Revere McCleod , I was reminded that my own great-grandmother Alice was a mil...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/11/number-six.html?showComment=1290511878558
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Number Six!
My page proofs for book number six arrived! It appears They've decided to call the series The Full Circle Farm Mysteries. I don't know...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2022/07/now-those-are-some-horny-cattle.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Now Those Are Some Horny Cattle
Spotted in a pasture near Josie's pre-school. I'm guessing they're Ankole -Watusi or some iteration thereof. Pretty amazing. I have to won...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2015/06/silent-sunday.html?showComment=1434322767156
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Silent Sunday
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Few of My Favorite Things
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Auricular Hour Time Change!!
THIS JUST IN! DUE TO A CONFLICT WITH AN IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEETING (RE THE PROPOSED CEMENT PLANT IN MARSHALL), TOMORROW'S AURICULAR HOUR ...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/12/plauing-with-picasa.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Playng with Picasa
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Tuscan Chicken
This is a really easy and tasty way to cook chicken thighs (or 'second-joints,' as they were called when I was growing up, along with 'white...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/04/dog-politics_18.html?showComment=1366291182069
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Dog Politics
Gabrielle Giffords says the same thing as Willa but more eloquently (and politely) HERE .
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2023/04/josie-and-fashion-and-some-other-stuff.html?showComment=1682341795760
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Josie and Fashion (and Some Other Stuff)
I spent Sunday afternoon with Meema because Mama had to go to work and Daddy and Grumpy were busy giving the cows worm medicine. I brought u...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/03/reflections.html?showComment=1333222631766
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Reflections . . .
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/03/messages-from-first-day-of-spring.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Messages from the First Day of Spring
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/04/rabbit-rabbit.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Rabbit, Rabbit
Where wild violets come from . . .
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2022/03/kittehs-have-something-to-say.html?showComment=1646741910538
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Kittehs Have Something to Say
Remember me? I'm Angeline, the pretty one. I've decided this new dog is no threat so I'm reclaiming my spot on the bed. Since I've been spen...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2021/12/its-dogs-world.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: It's a Dog's World
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/12/out-and-about.html?showComment=1293048843641
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Out and About
Tuesday was gray and drizzly but I took my camera along on my trip to town. I'm happy to report that the white goose down by the river s...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-may-be-winner.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: YOU May Be A WINNER!!!
I don't gamble. I don't buy lottery tickets. But several time a year, I invest a stamp and some time in jumping through the various hoops ...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2018/12/more-christmas-josie.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: More Christmas Josie
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/04/revelations-of-hot-spring-day.html?showComment=1271025873035
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Revelations of a Hot Spring Day
An opening tulip brims with morning light , Holding the day in its fragile bowl . The pear's gray branches burgeon green and white...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Revelations of a Hot Spring Day
An opening tulip brims with morning light , Holding the day in its fragile bowl . The pear's gray branches burgeon green and white...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/02/time-travel.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Time Travel
The view was dismal yesterday -- blowing snow, but not enough to be pretty, and broken branches from the big pre-Christmas unpleasantness....
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2017/05/miss-birdie-studies-on-memorial-day.html?showComment=1496054414505
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Miss Birdie Studies on Memorial Day
Why, Lizzie Beth, you like to give me a fright. I was just setting here thinking and didn't hear you pecking at the door. Come right on in...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2015/06/knee-jerk-responses-including-mine.html?showComment=1434717919928
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Knee Jerk Responses -- Including Mine
It's so predictable -- another horrific mass shooting by a deranged person with a gun and a white supremacy kink in his mind -- an...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: March Madness
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Webs
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: New Stuff for Josie
New markers! I wrote my name! Actually, I traced it. Meema wrote in in yellow and I traced it in blue, I did a good job with the S's but no...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/02/critique.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Critique
My workshop on writing popular fiction meets tonight and we begin the critiques of twenty pages from each of the first two victims - er, m...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-can-see-clearly-now.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: I Can See Clearly Now . ..
The flowering quince at the base of the birdfeeder had grown so tall that it was blocking my view of the garden beyond. So on Friday I att...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Retablo from a Friend
Is this sweet or what? A dear friend sent me this retablo she painted in memory of Willa. A halo, d0g biscuits, and rabbits ! And thos...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-little-walk.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Little Walk
Thursday was a beautiful sunny day -- just right for a little walk. The hellebores are blooming in their usual modest manner, looking dow...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: That Barefoot Walk
We awakened this morning to a serious first snow . . . and you know what Miss Birdie says . . . W alk barefoot in the first...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/05/blood-done-sign-my-name.html?showComment=1242299220000
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Blood Done Sign My Name
"... one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Lots of folks have praised Tim...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-most-proper-orgy.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Most Proper Orgy
I'm not sure when I began to read Barbara Pym -- over thirty years ago, I think, when, after a long period of obscurity, she was re-dis...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2019/03/josie-and-new-stuff.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Josie and the New Stuff
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/04/brides-book-sepia-saturday.html?showComment=1272116729983
Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Bride's Book ~ Sepia Saturday
My maternal grandparents were married on October 20, 1915 in Troy, Alabama. I've posted about them before -- when they were courting and p...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/03/coq-au-vin.html?showComment=1330944554557
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Coq Au Vin
This is what we had for supper Saturday night before Carolina trounced Duke. Coq au Vin is traditionally made with red wine -- and a fair a...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Morning
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: With Apologies to Dr. Seuss
The sun did not shine; It was too wet to play. So Willa sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. She sat there with Ali; they s...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Apparitionist
The Apparitionist- National Ghost Story Competition To embrace and honor the heritage of storytelling in Western North Carolina, Tryon...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Jersey Girls at the Buffet
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/03/you-tell-me.html?showComment=1362236844001
Vicki Lane Mysteries: You Tell Me
Early morning and late afternoon have the best light for photography -- those lovely slanting shadows. The writing class I'm teachin...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2022/09/cattle-and-skies.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Cattle. And Skies
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-is-it.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: What Is It?
At Wildacres I found this mysterious arrangement at the base of a tree in the parking lot. My first thought was of the Yunwi Tsu...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: It Rained Like One Thing
. . . as Miss Birdie might say. Hard rain for about a half an hour. 1.7 inches We were thrilled, even though our power and internet were kn...
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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2017/10/singin-runny-nose-sore-throat-coughin.html
Vicki Lane Mysteries: Singin' the Runny Nose, Sore Throat, Coughin' Blues
The cold that has been running through our family has taken up residence in my head. It's the first cold I've had in years and it fe...
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Vicki Lane Mysteries: Latin Trivia
Minutas cantorum, minutas balorum, Minutas carbonatum descendus pantorum. A little song, a little dance, A little seltzer down your pants. I...
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