slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Visual journal
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A boy and his chainsaw A retro blog. Yesterday Sandy bought a small chainsaw and we worked in the back yard. The main accomplishment was transforming the 20 foot tall fig tree to a bush again. I raked the leaves out of the front garden and transplanted a couple of foxgloves and lenten roses, then…
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The weather turned warm today but we still have a lot of snow around in the shade. What is my husband doing to these cats!!! We try to give Pablocito a dose of his own medicine now and then. I have to say that his constant quest for dominance is really getting on my nerves,…
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Chuck and Greg took me to Fincastle’s Diner for lunch. They have a special Mardi Gras menu this time of year and the food is great. We all had fried crawfish tails and I had a oyster po-boy on Gambino’s bread that the owner has shipped up for this event every year. Can’t wait to…
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Sandy and I went out for my birthday, which is actually on the 17th. This was a really tasty porter, smooth and sweet. There was a beautiful full moon tonight, but I couldn’t get a good shot of it.
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This is the little valentine sachet I wove and stitched for my mother yesterday and today. Now it smells heavily of lavender in here, too much. I am surprised the scent is so strong because it came from a bunch of lavender I got 2.5 years ago from Matthews Farm Museum. I know I’ve missed…
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This is Ladybug Cupid, aka Shaquana Suggs. She says that every time you see a ladybug, your love life gets better, so she goes out and spreads the love on Valentine’s Day. Sandy and I saw her at Old Town Draught House at lunch. This is full snow day #2. It is 59 degrees outside!…
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The Back Forty this afternoon. We’re in the midst of the first full snow day of this storm. Five inches with a layer of ice first thing this morning, more snow coming down now at noon with several more inches expected. My husband is a help desk tech and is set up in the next…
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Today the big snowstorm began. We haven’t had a significant amount of winter weather in years, so everybody is very excited. I worry about my 90 year old mother, who is a three hour drive away. She is without power but has a woodstove and a pile of wood inside. She says that she is…
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A woven cloth square with a soy batik sample that I made in one of Melanie Testa’s classes long ago.
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It snowed today, but nothing stuck. It was just pretty. The crystal ball gazers say that we’ll get several inches on Wednesday and everybody is excited and checking the forecast every few minutes. We drive the Yankees crazy.
slowly she turned 