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Jun 14 2017
05:57 pm
By: R. Neal
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We have a nice bunch of volunteer sunflowers growing where the bird feeders were over the winter. Free goldfinch feeders!
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- Tennessee Receives Federal Disaster Assistance for Memorial Day Weekend Storms (Tennessee)
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Is that Trump's Wall in the
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