slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Back Forty
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Pulled out spring peas. Planted field peas beside turnips. Planted Toscanelli beans where sugar snap were (on other side of turnips) Threw some field peas in a flower bed where field peas that were spilled grew last year very well. Planted Choppee okra around Green Zebra and two remaining mystery maters near the pear tree.…
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It rained last night, so I thought that it would be a good time to get some Back Forty shots. Unfortunately, it brought out the mosquitoes en masse. Scratch, scratch. This is the “gooseneck” garlic that my mother’s cousin Harry gave me. It’s a heirloom from my great-grandmother’s garden. It has twisted and turned several…
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I was wrong about the white Nanking cherries. They are ripening and they are good! They’re a bit larger than the red Nanking cherries, and have a pink blush when ripe. And I also discovered that I was picking the red Nankings a bit too early. Last year the birds swooped in and finished them…
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And away we go! This is my sort of weekly post where I write whatever comes to mind until the coffee pot runs out. I just arranged my first ever ATC trade. Whoop! I’m trading this one for one that she has not posted yet, or this one, but ANY of her needlefelted ATCs would…
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Before: After: I’m sitting out on the deck, looking over the Back Forty, in my jammies, with a perfect cup of organic fair-trade coffee in front of me, the local Sunday paper beside me, the birds singing, a breeze blowing, Mama Kitty napping on the mat. I was in a bit of a snit last…
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Okay, I’m better. The only real reason I write about my headaches, other than simple life journaling, is so if I go to see a health practitioner I can remember better if there is a pattern. The last time a doctor asked me about cluster headaches I didn’t really understand what she was talking about.…
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Planted Amish Paste tomatoes behind garlic. Planted the rest of the mystery heirloom tomatoes and one Yellow Pear tomato around the white Nanking cherry tree. Ate sugar snap peas. Currently drinking a beer. Next: to the studio, to weave off that scarf.
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The garden doesn’t wait for you to have the time or inclination to deal with it. I’ll be sorry later if I don’t heed its call in spring. I know this from experience. I was feeling a little low today, because I have all these art ideas and new skills and paints and supplies to…
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The garden doesn’t wait for you to have the time or inclination to deal with it. I’ll be sorry later if I don’t heed its call in spring. I know this from experience. I was feeling a little low today, because I have all these art ideas and new skills and paints and supplies to…
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I tried to shift my morning blogging to the deck now that we’re having some nice weather on the weekend, but it’s not going to work. Not only has my wireless connection gotten really iffy, I can’t seem to sit so that I don’t get a glare. So I’m back in the Happy Room after…
slowly she turned 