slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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These rugs that we bought during our June vacation from Wild Spirit Gallery in Pagosa Springs, Colorado will go on our walls, not the floor: Weaver: Marina Gonzalez Design: “Diez Pajaros” Dyes: colorfast analine Weft: wool Weaver: Ricardo Gutierrez Design: “Pasillo de la Mesa” Dyes: colorfast Lanaset Weft: wool
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We’re enjoying a cool weekend, finally! Unusually cool for August 1, in fact. Yesterday Sandy and I tackled cleaning up the stack of shrub and tree prunings from the last time it was cool enough to work in the yard. I began yanking out ornamental grapevine and honeysuckle and English ivy and wild yam vines…
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Wow, at 10:20 a.m. the heat index here is already at 105 degrees. It will definitely be an indoor weekend for us. Sandy is not supposed to go out for long in temps above 85 and I’ve never been able to take the heat. One of many reasons I’d like to move to northwest North…
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A quick lunchtime post to say that I am in better spirits, despite the fact that my wonderful friend Masoud Awartani died yesterday. He and his family have many dear friends and he will be sorely missed in our community. He had been in bad health for three years, but in the end it was…
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Just to let you know that I’m still around…a very short post. A very frustrated and depressed post, but I’m trying. Last night was a bad one with my hands. A lot of numbness, and that disrupts my sleep. Plus, I’ve started getting these frequent muscle twitches in my neck – not painful, but disconcerting.…
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So hot that the rear view mirror glue melted and I found it dangling from the ceiling in the “new” car yesterday afternoon. It was too hot to touch. I should have expected something like this since my check cleared and the title arrived in the mail yesterday! I’ll go to the chiropractor this afternoon,…
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…
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Sandy and I enjoyed roaming around downtown for First Friday. I had decided not to set up a table at the Indie Market for July and August. Of course, if I had had a crystal ball to tell me that the weather would be cooler than May and June’s events, I might have done well…
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Blog went down for a few days. I did a software upgrade and so far it’s stable. It’s not up to the latest upgrade (there was a problem with that) so it might happen again. I plan to get it up to snuff at some point this summer, and I might even work on changing…
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We greatly underestimated the beautiful uniqueness and fun of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, but it is probably a good thing. If we had stopped there on the way to Mesa Verde as we originally planned, we might not have made it across the state. As it happened, now we know of a really…
slowly she turned 