slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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Hot. hot… hot hot hot. HOT. And humid. When it gets this hot here, it ain’t like out West. Here you suffer before you DIE of MISERY. When I was 13, I went out to southern California and spent a week with my aunt in July. It was just as hot as here, but it…
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Well, the cherry picking is still on for Sunday. We’re just going to make it a shorter event. It will be just as hot, because I can’t schedule it for early in the morning or after five, but we’ll plan to get there around 3:30 for about an hour of picking, pay up, and hopefully…
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Pulled out spring peas. Planted field peas beside turnips. Planted Toscanelli beans where sugar snap were (on other side of turnips) Threw some field peas in a flower bed where field peas that were spilled grew last year very well. Planted Choppee okra around Green Zebra and two remaining mystery maters near the pear tree.…
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Whew! It’s almost too hot to drink coffee this morning. Hot and muggy. This house has aluminum siding and I think that it makes it into a solar oven. It’s supposed to get near 90 today and the next few days, and it’s humid. Still, I hope that we can put off turning on the…
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Sort of, anyway. I took most of Squirt and Mama Kitty’s fur to Susanne, who is adding it to a batch of pulp for our papermaking day June 14. She is going to show me how to make the paper and then let me go at it on my own all day. I’ve made the…
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I received this article through the Slow Food DC email list, which is a terrific source of information about food and ag issues. The source is North Coast Journal, and while it seems to highlight Barack’s chili recipe, first it gives a very clear and concise summary of Obama’s plans and opinions about national food…
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The latest progress on “mindful presence” – this was started in Lisa Engelbreicht’s Fabric Art Collage class at Art and Soul at Hampton. I liked the right angles and the balance, but something about it still bothered me. So I began clipping corners, and then I decided to start swapping corners. I like the result…
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It rained last night, so I thought that it would be a good time to get some Back Forty shots. Unfortunately, it brought out the mosquitoes en masse. Scratch, scratch. This is the “gooseneck” garlic that my mother’s cousin Harry gave me. It’s a heirloom from my great-grandmother’s garden. It has twisted and turned several…
slowly she turned 