slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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My mother, Willye Kate Parham, passed away on June 15, 2014. She was 90 years young. I haven’t known how to post it but I’ve written about her so much here that I thought I should announce it. She left us quickly and peacefully in the hospital at Chapel Hill after a procedure the night…
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The title is a quote from Calvin and Hobbes. It fits for me right now! I have entered the kind of good stress that is making me ecstatic and at the same time a bit breathless and wobbly. After spending the last ten months or so moaning about needing another fix for my travel/art retreat…
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Moving forward on getting the new bathroom put in by getting contractors (and such) to give us estimates this week. Praying that the estimates will be reasonable. Praying that the whole process won’t end in the job not being finished and/or me being talked into spending my savings on something else to do with the…
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An aphorism: “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill A naturally dyed print on cement by nature: Woven words: First peppers: Surprise! I think that I remember tossing some unidentified seeds here. Cucumbers? Will separate and transplant elsewhere.
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I’ve been known to say that I can only do two of these three creative pursuits at a time: art, cooking, and gardening. I may have to correct that because lately I seem to be down to one at a time. I reached my goals with my gardening. Yay for setting attainable goals! My passion…
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The paths are mulched, the seeds are planted, and the seedlings have been transplanted for the summer. I put wire frames and ag-cover fabric over my beds this year. I am determined to win the battle after losing miserably to the critters last year. Now that the mosquitoes are out, I’ll only be out there…
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Wow – this may be the craziest spam comment I’ve ever gotten: “I looked inside portable vaporizer and I was in a perfectly and there is no disturbance due to the future king. I adore, but, like wind, during the upward motion. You can follow any responses to the Earth’s magnetic field, we were talking…
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Sandy and I spent a couple of days at Lake Waccamaw at my cousin’s house last week. It was a busy week despite being on vacation. We spent one day reading and playing in the water and the next day we went to Wilmington briefly and I did some eco-printing inside because of the rain…
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I enjoyed my gardening yesterday and this morning in the Back Forty and the front shade garden, after being on an emotional roller coaster ride earlier in the week (see below the photos if interested). Bees are busy on the blueberry bush. After weeding out the violets and digging up the dead rosemary bush I…
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Here are photos from our Nat Greene Trail Hike yesterday evening. It begins/ends at Lake Brandt Marina parking lot. Parts of it are hilly. Sandy and I went with a member of the Triad Hiking Explorers meet-up group and her rat terrier, Daisy Duke. We were exhausted afterward which proves that we need more of…
slowly she turned 