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  • Saturday morning coffee pot post

    I guess this is what happens if you make it to your fifth year of blogging – you start feeling like you’ve said everything before. That’s the way I feel about the subject of food, pretty much. But, since I’ve run off most of my readers and most of my hits come from Google searches,…

  • Lots more rain today – a real gully washer this morning on my walk to work. Got soaked! Amazing number of green beans on the dozen little bushes I planted. I only gave them a glance when I left for the weekend and when I came back they were getting too big. Of course, with…

  • Haircut, etc.

    I got a short hair cut. Boy do I feel better. Now I’m thinking about coloring it. I bought some henna and JQ offered to help me color it at the lake this weekend. When I was at Leon’s Beauty School, I had barely enough to donate to Locks of Love this time, and the…

  • Last night we had 4.5 inches of rain in the space of a few hours. I have never seen that much water in the Back Forty. There were streams of water running down the pathways and when the storm finally lessened there was a lot of standing water. This morning I found that most of…

  • Yesterday was a wonderful day, all day long. I restrained myself at the Farmers’ Market – bought a whole hen which took most of my money, milk, popcorn cornmeal, and strawberries. I’ll put the hen in the slow cooker today. The mulberries that grow along the creek there are huge, sweet, and extra delicious. I…

  • Saturday morning coffee pot post

    My god, I’ve used this title so many times now that my blogging software auto-fills it. It’s sunny, 72 degrees with a light breeze at 8:26 a.m. in Greensboro, North Carolina. The moon is new. I have high hopes for this day. Since I spent our real anniversary watching my great-nephew play with a new…

  • Doom, despair, and agony on me

    Deep dark depression, excessive misery If it warn’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all Doom, despair, and agony on me! My luck is not really so bad but these are dark times around me. I’m having a tough time coping and I don’t blog much when I’m not feeling good. I feel…

  • Belated Mother’s Day card

    I honestly didn’t forget Mother’s Day. I just thought that it was next Sunday. I didn’t see last week’s Sunday paper, I don’t watch TV (at least, not on the television set), I don’t pay any attention to ads, and I’ve been so spacy that if anyone has talked about it in front of me…

  • Art & Soul 2009 part deux

    Made in Traci Bunkers’ “Revival: Restoration to a Visual Life; An Awakening” class at Art & Soul, Hampton, Virginia, May 3, 2009. This recycled book cover is filled with all kinds of groovy papers and stuff, including a pamphlet from the 1956 Pennsylvania Dutch Festival in Pottstown, PA, music from a 1923 gospel book, and…

  • Art & Soul 2009

    This is the book that I made in Chrissie Hines’ “Longstitch Variations” class at Art & Soul in Hampton, Virginia on Monday. The cover is made from Scrabble boards that were joined with Tyvek and then painted, stamped, and stenciled. The inside is bound with nice cardstock, which I proceeded to muck up with my…