slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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All eyes on the East Coast are on Hurricane Irma, while Texas is still underwater and the West is on fire. Climate change deniers confuse and disgust me. I’m a person who depends on logic, and this kind of nonsense wouldn’t sit well with me even if it didn’t mean the destruction of our planet…
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I’m late to the party, as usual, but here are my photos from the Great Eclipse Day, where we had 93% totality in Greensboro, NC. I was ready with my hi-tech eclipse viewer, similar to the one I used in 1970. Unfortunately, this happened, which kind of confirms my suspicion that God is mad. So,…
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Well, it started to be a morning post, until I ran updates on this seldom used, old and slow as hell laptop. Now it’s afternoon, but I’m still polishing off the coffee pot, so all is good. These are what just picked field peas look like. Some people call them crowder or Southern peas. They…
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Hey, guess what I’ll be putting together this weekend after the remnants of Harvey pass through? https://www.superseeds.com/collections/greenhouses/products/walk-in-greenhouse Sandy and I are talking about converting our gazebo in the back to a greenhouse as well. But this little one should be the perfect size and weight to move over my blueberry bush in June. I used…
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It’s been so long since I posted I had to go back to July and figure out what I’ve already written about. Here is the end of August approaching swiftly and I wonder where the time went. I guess I’ll start where I left off. I’ve been living in my head a LOT in the…
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My “summer” is almost over, at least as far as work goes. I have a job that is most intense January-early May, calms down in summer, then starts ratcheting up in early August as the new semester begins with a new cohort of history graduate students. September quiets down a little, then October hits like…
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The front yard container garden has been producing tomatoes, despite its propensity to dry out every day and some blossom end rot. I should have remembered to put epsom salts in the holes when I planted these. The peppers are really unhappy. A few of the plants’ miseries have finally been put to an end,…
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When Susanne dropped me off at the Crystal Hotel in Portland on Sunday evening on her merry way south, I wanted to go out. I really did. But I was so tired, and it was so hot outside and the room was so cool and comfortable. So I let myself collapse on the bed with…
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Susanne Baker and I attended our third Focus on Book Arts at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon last week. It was recommended to us by my friend Judy Strom, who I met at Journalfest in Port Townsend, Washington in 2009 and we have met up at FOBA ever since. We love this retreat/conference for…
slowly she turned 