slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I’m all pleased with myself because I stayed up past 11:00 last night. Also because I was the one who suggested going downtown for First Friday. What does this mean? I must be getting over my physical and mental melaise of the last couple of months! I still slept over nine hours, but that’s okay.…
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Ah well, you can tell that this blog is not as important to me these days, since I let my 5th blogiversary blow right on by without even thinking about it. Part of it is what many bloggers say after writing a blog for this long – how many times do I want to write…
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Looking at the computer hurts my head. Typing on the computer hurts my hands. But weaving this random weave basket from the Virginia creeper vines in the Back Forty was a very pleasant activity yesterday! I’ll finish another that I started in a few minutes.
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Um, remember my little plan to go natural for menopause? I’m getting hammered by migraines every night, beginning with headaches every afternoon. Plus, my new laptop is all boogered up somehow – today we’ll have to back up the files and reset it to factory settings. I’m on Sandy’s PC while he sleeps late. I’m…
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Divided and replanted about three dozen garlic youngsters sprouted from some forgotten garlic from 2 years ago. I think that they are a kind of hardneck, so I’ll have scapes in May if that’s the case! If not, they are silverskin, which I like just fine. Found some parsley I’d forgotten about too. It was…
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We are all thrilled here in central North Carolina because the weekend’s highs are supposed to be in the 50s-60s. I’m going to get out into the Back Forty this weekend, do some cleanup left over from last year, and prepare some beds for spring planting. I have heavy wire hoops in place over a…
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Background finished. Maybe looking at this will jumpstart me to begin the applique on the cardoon flower, stalk, and stems, which is my next step. Then I’ll begin stitching the “thistle” part. Right now, I’m going home at night and reading about art and quilting and embroidery instead of doing it. But it’s all good.…
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This Saturday we woke up to snow on the ground. Again. Every frickin Friday for the past three weeks it’s been some kind of frozen weather. At least we don’t have three feet like our neighbors to the north. But everyone over the age of 12 seems to be pretty much sick of it around…
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Step 2 – stitched the outline of the design, stitched the layers down with random stitches, and whipped stitch around the edges.
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This time my place of work closed for the entire day and announced it before we all left for work. I woke up earlier than usual, though. Any other day I’d be lolling in bed, groaning about leaving my warm cocoon. We’re getting a slick coating of ice over this snow now. Bad winter weather…
slowly she turned 