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From Planting Along The Verge
from Tulle’s Receipts Nineteenth Century Plantation Plain Style Southern Cooking and Living
“without close neighbors to offer frequent advice, whether requested or not, the lady of each house kept a written record of helpful hints she learned from experience, read in newspapers, or learned from relatives or her infrequent visitors.   Some of the hints are quite clever though impractical by today’s standards because of expense: few people these days are able to afford to put black walnut shelves in kitchen cabinets to keep ants away.  Other hints do not particularly apply to our era of advanced technology.  Today one can buy a small, inexpensive night light to plug into a socket, in lieu of knowing how to make a candle burn all night.”
 in this era of advanced technology one can find this
to finish this scarf to perfection.
the method worked so well i used it on a scarf i knit last year that i have always been disappointed in because of the curling issue. 
thank you Salihan!
From Planting Along The Verge
from Tulle’s Receipts Nineteenth Century Plantation Plain Style Southern Cooking and Living
“without close neighbors to offer frequent advice, whether requested or not, the lady of each house kept a written record of helpful hints she learned from experience, read in newspapers, or learned from relatives or her infrequent visitors.   Some of the hints are quite clever though impractical by today’s standards because of expense: few people these days are able to afford to put black walnut shelves in kitchen cabinets to keep ants away.  Other hints do not particularly apply to our era of advanced technology.  Today one can buy a small, inexpensive night light to plug into a socket, in lieu of knowing how to make a candle burn all night.”
 in this era of advanced technology one can find this
to finish this scarf to perfection.
the method worked so well i used it on a scarf i knit last year that i have always been disappointed in because of the curling issue. 
thank you Salihan!
From Planting Along The Verge
i got this shot at the ranch yesterday morning. it was foggy and dreamy and there was a whole field of these little webs.  this morning it was sunny and too warm for lu so we didn’t make it out to the field of webs.  we met a boy and his doberman wearing a bright blue scarf who was so smitten with lu i believe he might have followed us all the way home if we hadn’t run him off.
 
 
From Planting Along The Verge
i got this shot at the ranch yesterday morning. it was foggy and dreamy and there was a whole field of these little webs.  this morning it was sunny and too warm for lu so we didn’t make it out to the field of webs.  we met a boy and his doberman wearing a bright blue scarf who was so smitten with lu i believe he might have followed us all the way home if we hadn’t run him off.
 
 
From Planting Along The Verge
saturday and i’ve got glue on my fingers.
that’s a good day.
i bought eye make-up today and tried it on as soon as i got home. it looks like someone spilled gray glitter on my eyelids.  
i think i can use it to paint with. 
 
From Planting Along The Verge
saturday and i’ve got glue on my fingers.
that’s a good day.
i bought eye make-up today and tried it on as soon as i got home. it looks like someone spilled gray glitter on my eyelids.  
i think i can use it to paint with. 
 
From Planting Along The Verge
on our way home yesterday i stopped in Harmony, population 18. it’s 8 miles down the road from us but i hadn’t stopped in years.  someone bought the town a few years back and almost all the shopkeepers left shortly after.  it wasn’t his plan for a slaughterhouse that drove everyone away but apparently he was difficult to get along with.  the pottery studio is still there and so is the glass studio but the post office open in 1910, closed down two years ago.  there is a chapel still in use.  a beautiful little spot.  
i think this door way was the back of the Harmony Pasta Factory.
an appropriate image for me today. 
i don’t know whether to knock softly or pound on it with closed fists.  do i even want to go through? is my reluctance cowardice, inertia or fear? all of the above?
 something i heard on Alan Watt’s podcast the other day keeps ringing a bell.
“the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”  
 
From Planting Along The Verge
on our way home yesterday i stopped in Harmony, population 18. it’s 8 miles down the road from us but i hadn’t stopped in years.  someone bought the town a few years back and almost all the shopkeepers left shortly after.  it wasn’t his plan for a slaughterhouse that drove everyone away but apparently he was difficult to get along with.  the pottery studio is still there and so is the glass studio but the post office open in 1910, closed down two years ago.  there is a chapel still in use.  a beautiful little spot.  
i think this door way was the back of the Harmony Pasta Factory.
an appropriate image for me today. 
i don’t know whether to knock softly or pound on it with closed fists.  do i even want to go through? is my reluctance cowardice, inertia or fear? all of the above?
 something i heard on Alan Watt’s podcast the other day keeps ringing a bell.
“the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”  
 
i didn’t expect to feel bright or bon vivant on my little getaway today but i went anyway. lu was game! 

From Planting Along The Verge

  

we only went down to Santa Barbara walked a little and looked at the shadows.

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stopped in at the Los Olivos market for a sandwich and drove back.  
if there weren’t a devilishly dashing dishwasher waiting for his dinner i may not have come back at all.






thank you all for your kind sentiments.  
i’m going to take it with me when i go.

i didn’t expect to feel bright or bon vivant on my little getaway today but i went anyway. lu was game! 

From Planting Along The Verge

  

we only went down to Santa Barbara walked a little and looked at the shadows.

From Planting Along The Verge


stopped in at the Los Olivos market for a sandwich and drove back.  
if there weren’t a devilishly dashing dishwasher waiting for his dinner i may not have come back at all.






thank you all for your kind sentiments.  
i’m going to take it with me when i go.

From Planting Along The Verge
small stitching of em when she was 11 or so
yesterday was lunch with friend day.
our usual place is closed for a couple of weeks as are a couple of other places in town.  it’s that time of year. 
the food was just as good but there was no talking story with the owner.  instead there was an old school mate of my daughter’s all grown up lunching with an older couple at the table next to ours.  poised and beautiful and talking about her first semester at school and how she’s enjoying her break spending time with her family.
it never ceases to amaze me how many blows my heart can take.


From Planting Along The Verge
small stitching of em when she was 11 or so
yesterday was lunch with friend day.
our usual place is closed for a couple of weeks as are a couple of other places in town.  it’s that time of year. 
the food was just as good but there was no talking story with the owner.  instead there was an old school mate of my daughter’s all grown up lunching with an older couple at the table next to ours.  poised and beautiful and talking about her first semester at school and how she’s enjoying her break spending time with her family.
it never ceases to amaze me how many blows my heart can take.