slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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My mother won the People’s Choice Award for her painting in The Great Getaway Art Show in Lumberton, NC last week. Her painting was part of the Garden Club Council display where local garden clubs were randomly assigned one of eight paintings to design a complementing arrangement. We thought that was the only contest she…
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Pablocito chose this very moment to bite me in the back of the head. Will ya look at the fangs on that guy? No harm done, just part of the dominance games. I was nipping him on the back of the neck earlier. But this is supposed to be a Back Forty Update, right? I…
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Whee, this was better than Disney World. Seriously. Chad Alice led us through finishing prefelted needle-punched merino wool batts, then we clamped fun metal and Lexan and wood stuff to folded pieces and dyed them, and took them off, and reclamped, and dyed them, and took them off, and reclamped, and dyed them. All in…
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First I’ll do a coffee pot post to sweep out the brain junk, then I’ll post about my wonderful two day workshop with Chad Alice Hagen. I discovered where this fine feral feller likes to hang out and started leaving him a little cat food on my walks by these bushes on my way to…
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This was one wild week. It ended on a very positive note, so I’ll start with that. Elizabeth Lanier organized a new weavers’ guild, the Handweavers and Spinners Guild of Rockingham County, which is about 20-30 minutes north of here. (Rockingham is also the county seat of Richmond County – just to make it clear…
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Before I move on with my day, let me post about this ongoing art project that began in September, 2013. Here’s what I wrote about it to send to India Flint for this project. Our family farm sits upon the site of a Native American village and mound site from around 900 years ago. In…
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British encampment at Guilford Courthouse Battle reenactment I have the house to myself today while my husband goes target shooting with his friends. Ten or so years ago we would have been at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park doing the reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, one of the last battles of the American…
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Every now and then I feel the need to drink coffee and type whatever comes to mind until the feeling goes away. That’s a coffee pot post. I took a break from the visual journal posts. Partly because I kept forgetting to put the battery back in my camera but I realized that I needed…
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Thank God this week/month is over. I heard earlier this month that Mercury was in retrograde. I didn’t know what it meant then. I do now. I’m looking forward to the weekend, and I’m very grateful to the people who supported me this week. Yesterday I walked past one of my former classmates trying to…
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I am attempting to germinate indigo seeds in my office. Two pots are actually planted with woad seeds. I planted them about two weeks ago and just found out that they take about a month to germinate. I am going to be quite ticked if they don’t germinate and I waste four weeks on watching…
slowly she turned 