slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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My annual round-up for the year of the time warp. I didn’t post much this past year, and honestly, it will probably fall even more to the wayside this year. I realize that social media has become more of my journal. However, a lot of it is that I just can’t face much reality anymore.…
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I’m curled up on the sofa in the front room after a sleepless night, determined that I will be awake to sign for this scheduled Fed Ex delivery if it is required. If I have to get up early, it’s nearly guaranteed that I won’t fall asleep until 3 a.m. or so. When I was…
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what to do what to do what to do A little over a week since the beginning of the end of human history, I am emerging from a fog of fever and phlegm: the virus that hit both of us and numbed us both somewhat for over a week. Sandy less so; his coughing has…
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Now that I’ve finished my posts about our trip to Scotland, and I highly recommend that you scroll to the bottom of that linked page and begin at the beginning, I can get on with journaling my regular life here in North Carolina. A week after we returned from Scotland, I participated in a group…
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I wanted to sleep a little later, but I really didn’t need to. Pablocito convinced me of that with his loud meowing. He is a pain in the ass early in the morning and he is the most vocal kitty we have ever lived with. However, he has settled in to curling up beside me…
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Before I blog our trip to Scotland, let me take a few moments to process some of what has happened in North Carolina while I was gone. Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage to a huge area of one of my favorite places on Earth – the mountains of North Carolina. I have friends and family…
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In the morning, I went down to have breakfast and say goodbye to the members of our tour group. The news was on TV there and I was once again swept away with grief about what was happening to my friends in the path of Helene. One person who lingered at the table beside me…
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The night before, Sandy told me that his throat was very sore, so I dosed him with hot tea and lemon and honey. There were three people on our tour who had terrible coughs and said that they had been sick the week before. Sandy was not feeling up to getting out on this first…
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This was probably our rainiest day. For the most part, the weather was quite good, with highs in the high 50s. In the meantime, my sister was in Cornwall and they had terrible weather. We were lucky. I was sorry to leave Glenspean Lodge. Really, I would have loved to have spent the entire time…
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This seemed like a really full day – by the end of it everyone seemed ready to get back to the hotel. At the same time, a lot of us would have liked to have had a different itinerary with more time in Fort William and Glencoe and less time on other stops. If there’s…
slowly she turned 