slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: critters
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I’ve needed to go to the lake since mid June. It’s the place I am drawn to when my heart needs healing. Usually I need a few days by myself, but Sandy knows to give me my space when we are there. With Diego’s short life prognosis and Pablocito suddenly being the only mammal at…
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Here I sit at the computer, with Pablocito in the chair next to me that I put there for Diego to use months ago. Otherwise he would have annoyed the hell out of me. Pablocito is very good at annoying the hell out of me as well, but he has been behaving much better in…
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Diego left this world about three weeks ago. Diego and Pablocito came to us as fosters suddenly after we visited PetSmart just before they closed on August 20, 2013. They had just been brought in from the animal shelter and never even made it to the cage in the adoption room. We brought them both…
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I really don’t know why I can’t get myself to catch up on my blog posting. The thing is that I love to look back on my travel posts, and I frequently refer to my search and category functions when I don’t remember a date or a name. You would think that with all the…
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I have made a little bit of progress on my tapestry, “Rascal and Sissy Share the Sunbeam,” this past week. There’s more than one reason why I named my studio “Slow Turn Studio,” but a big one is that I tend to choose media that take a long time, and even if they don’t, I…
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The first week of retirement is a wrap now. It feels very weird, but I’m doing okay. When I think too much about it I get a strange sick feeling, so I immediately switch my brain off that topic and move to something else. On New Year’s Day I joined a couple of friends and…
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I feel so spoiled when I watch what much of the rest of the world is going through. We’re forecast to get some of that high heat this week but in this part of central North Carolina the heat is mainly tolerable. Now, that’s from someone who lives and works in air conditioning, but when…
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Actually, the coffee pot is empty now. I spent part of the morning sleeping late after staying up WAY TOO LATE looking at social media, and part of it reading “The Last Straw” by Bryant Holsenbeck on the front porch. My neighbor, Mike, came over and is excited about the possibility of transforming some of…
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Our class created a huge diversity of animals, including some that came into new existence. Some photos are not great – I had planned to take better ones but time got away from me and there was a crowd at our display and the end-of-week show-and-tell. I’ll go around the room in my memory –…
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Hello friends! I am back from a rejuvenating six days (including travel) at John C. Campbell Folk School, where I finally snagged a spot in a class I’ve wanted to take for a long, long time – “Wrapping Wild: Making Animals Out of Recycled Materials,” taught by the amazing Bryant Holsenbeck. First, the photos of…
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