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The last day of the count was crazy. Early in the morning Blue jays landed in the tree tops screaming insults. The birds became a bit disconcerted. When the raucous crows arrived, the birds disappeared into the brush and branches. Talking loudly, the crows pranced underneath the feeders before deciding it was not worth the effort and left. The other birds relaxed and resumed eating. An hour later in strolled the ginger tabby. The feline had either been dropped off by an uncaring person weeks before or belongs to one of my negligent neighbors. Cats should be kept indoors. Cats decimate bird populations. We have had cats for years. One stray became an indoor cat sooner than he preferred after eating a Ruby-crowned Kinglet on the front porch. I have dragged so many beautiful dead cats off of roads over the years and wondered “what were their owners thinking?” Did they actually believe their cat had 9 lives and could survive poisons, wild animals, trucks, dogs, coyotes, hawks, cars, bobcats and bullets?

The guard clapped his massive hands, moved up in his chair, and gave the only answer the moment allowed.

Corsi’s March 5th, 2018, story was an attempt to defend Roger Stone, the now-indicted former Trump adviser, against allegations that he had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans to release thousands of emails stolen from the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Last week, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, stoked the controversy around Stone’s ties to WikiLeaks after Cohen testified that Stone told Trump in the summer of 2016 that he had spoken to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about an upcoming dump of thousands of hacked emails. (Stone and Wikileaks denied Cohen’s claim.)

HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH, by Armstrong Landscapes and Hana Leonard The nursery rhyme is brought to life in a small garden combining traditional plants and planting with modern landscaping materials. This Showcase Garden takes inspiration from the origin of the rhyme, where female prisoners walked around the ‘mulberry bush’ with their children.

This led to an outbreak of what is known as “’stove-piping,’ i.e. officials using the press to ‘confirm’ information the officials themselves fed the reporter,” Taibbi said.

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When I was a kid living in southern New Hampshire, my family home was on the site of an abandoned farmstead consisting of massive stone foundations of quarried granite where dwellings once stood. Stone walls snaked throughout the forest. As I explored the deep woods of tall oaks and maples, I wondered about who had built these walls, and why. What stories did these walls contain?

When I stopped writing at last, I had not for many years used the terms novel or short story in connection with my writing. Several other words I likewise avoided: create, creative, imagine, imaginary, and, above all, imagination. Long before I stopped writing, I had come to understand that I had never created any character or imagined any plot. My preferred way of summing up my deficiencies was to say simply that I had no imagination.

In fact, revelations by the Times and The Washington Post about contacts between Russian agents and Trump’s campaign advisers in 2016 helped prompt the inquiry that the special counsel took over in May 2017. The two newspapers shared a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the issue that year.

The cable news networks, particularly CNN and MSNBC, have added hundreds of hours of discussion about the topic, too.

No matter a home’s style or size, water fountains can help transform outdoor spaces into places of respite — even for a quick break from weeding or other outdoor chores.