slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Back Forty
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Hey, I haven’t gotten my laptop up and running yet, so I am lunch blogging from another computer. Just ate an organic peanut butter and local green apple slice sandwich. I’ve been considering going on the Paleo diet, but I just can’t handle the thought of no peanut butter, cereal, or milk. If eating those…
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With a high temperature forecast of 104 today (and that is before the heat index is added), maybe I should be drinking iced coffee. Right now the temperature in the Back Forty is a reasonable 78, so I decided to take a few photos. With all my traveling I did not get a whole lot…
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It barely qualifies as Saturday morning, since I slept late then went to the Greensboro Farmers’ Curb Market, but I do have coffee. That market just keeps getting better. Susanne has set up a booth where she sells her books, marbled papers, and handmade papers, many made with materials from the other vendors’ farms or…
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There is a light rain outside that I’m happy about, because it will keep me inside where I need to knock out the taxes. We need money to bolster the Irish economy in May! This was my last really heavy duty work week for a while. Now it will be a more normal load, as…
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Well, this week has been different. Theo got better but on Sunday Lucy started hacking and I assumed that she had a hairball that she was choking back down. Then she stopped eating and drinking and hid, mostly under the bed where I could hear her gag all night. By Tuesday, I was very concerned…
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Whew! This week was a rough one. Last Saturday started out so lovely, and ended with leaving a cook-out abruptly to visit an urgent care clinic. I had a bad urinary tract/kidney infection that apparently had been “cooking” for some time. This one affected my kidney so I had painful cramps in my kidney and…
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Wow, was this ever a long week! But it has been a wonderful week, in its own way. I debated whether to mention this, but I don’t think Sandy would mind. We hit a rough patch, and last week I really thought it was over. But we managed to talk honestly and thoroughly to each…
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The first harvest was carrots, and they have been eaten. These are mostly baby leeks, probably with a few green garlic bulbs in there. I’m going to chop them up, make cock-a-leekie soup and freeze some of it for stock. They had taken over some prime garden real estate and had to go. I did…
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I am on my second little pot of coffee. I feel the need for extra caffeine today – my energy level has been low all week. The Back Forty has been calling me and I have done as much as I can, which isn’t much. The weather is beautiful this weekend. I pulled up English…
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Really, I’m just putting off having to change out of my jammies and leave the house. This week was the first week of classes. It was frustrating at times, but I probably made too much of the aggravations due to sleep deprivation. Last night was tough again due to itchy insect bites and a lingering…
slowly she turned 