Posted in food on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Sunday morning, when good Christians of the world are in church, but good women are in the kitchen, spreading the word of the Pancake.
Hmmm. Pancakes are very, very good, and this morning’s batch was very, very charmed–every one came out perfect, even the usually troublesome first. I love pancakes and I love making them for [...]
Posted in food on September 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It is still plenty warm and sunny outside, but summer is winding down. Certain items that were ubiquitous at the Farmer’s Market the first time I went, a month ago, are gone. The pumpkins and squash are in. Any weekend now, I am going to go there for the last time this year. It is [...]
Posted in knit, knitting, memes on September 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So, who’s up for a steaming hot cup of socks?
The second of this pair had been hanging on my needles for what seems like weeks–at least two weeks I know. They needed about eight rows and the bind-off. And I just couldn’t get around to it… between evenings when I’m barely home at all, evenings [...]
Posted in collections, transferware on September 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Oh frabjous day, calloo! Callay!
I am now the proud owner of a set of Burleigh jam pots, to match my mixing bowls. I just adore Burleigh for serving pieces. It is earthenware and not china, so it is heavy and soft and chips easily, which makes it bad for everyday dinnerware–but just great for sitting [...]
Posted in collections on September 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
At work, I am the single sister in a sea of brothers–the Ginny Weasley–the Hermione. Last Friday at lunch one of them actually, after telling a dirty joke, paused and said–”oh. You’re a girl.” If I had more wit I’d have replied, “well spotted.”
Boys will be boys, and boys have their toys. They talk about [...]
Posted in food, life on September 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I hosted a dinner party tonight. In spite of some social obstaces (like, one of my projected guests is eating through a straw for the next month, so lasagna was out), I declare it a success. It had all of the essential elements in place: good food, good wine, good flowers, good company, and laughing [...]
Posted in life on September 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Never and never, my girl riding far and near
In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,
Fear or believe that the wolf in a sheepwhite hood
Loping and bleating roughly and blithely shall leap,
[...]
Posted in quilt, quilting on September 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am two months post-move, and I have finally gotten my groove back. I have been avoiding my sewing room because it is a wreck (actually, to use Alicia’s anti-euphemism, my sewing room blew chunks) and will stay that way apparently until December 3, which is the new shipping date for the shelves that will [...]
Posted in house on September 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
To those of you who rather like my study: good news, more pictures of it!
To those of you who are tired of it: good news, this is the last of it for a while!
Last weekend I picked up the large pictures from the framers, and hung them. As far as I am concerned, my study [...]
Posted in life on September 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
You, dear reader, have a right to expect pretty photographs in a blog, if that is what the blog has accustomed you to seeing.
So there is one. It is old, but it is pretty, and I still enjoy looking at it myself. I have tried and tried, this evening, to take some new pretty pictures [...]
Posted in life on September 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In the dojo, we call this “all kitted out.”
Posted in food on September 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Saturday, and life is happening. Inside, life is sometimes a little Wuthering Heights-ish, but on the surface it is as lovely and heartwarming as ever. Life can get me down, but it can’t take my heirloom tomatoes away from me. Does that make sense?
Mmm, it makes sense. I went to the Farmer’s Market with one [...]
Posted in food on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A forward-dated entry, originally written & photographed May 23
Things are getting pretty intensely bucolic, here, as I try to make the most of my last days of freedom, and still get work done. Yesterday I hit on the idea of having a picnic in my own side yard. The boys next door are gone for [...]
Posted in life on September 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I surrender and the rest of you win. It is, after all, the time to start thinking of Autumn. Yesterday, as I was asserting myself in my newly-dug garden, I felt it in the air. Last night, I slept under both my pretty quilt AND my pretty afghan. And this morning, I need a [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on September 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Tonight I have two things ahead of me.
Potential
And Promise.
If you don’t like the look of the soil… don’t tell me. If you don’t like the look of the plants… don’t tell me. I have more than enough doubts of my own. Starting a garden from scratch like this is like starting life from scratch–or, a [...]
Posted in house on September 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Writing and photographing in summer has spoiled me, these past few months. When every day is bright and sunny, every day is good for picture-taking. Blogs all over are beginning to herald the coming of Autumn, which is my favorite season, and perhaps because it is my favorite I am very cynical about these celebrations, [...]
Posted in collections, transferware on September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“When I go to see any great house, I inquire for the china-closet, and next for the picture gallery”
–Charles Lamb, Old China
Indeed, Chuck, we are kindred spirits. Paintings are fine things, but the domestic accoutrements of a great house are its real glories. Transferware china combines the best of both worlds: china with pictures on [...]
Posted in quilt, quilting on September 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been playing phone and e-mail tag with every gardener in the phone book for six weeks now. Yesterday I got the email I had been dreading–my gigantic order from Blue Stone Perennials has shipped, and I have no garden beds to put them into.
Fortunately, Fate intervened. I finally have a gardener, as of ten [...]
Posted in house, quilt, quilting on September 4, 2007 | 9 Comments »
My parents were here this weekend, for the Inaugural Visit. It went well, though my dad spent most of the time in the crawlspace. He likes doing stuff like that, it seems.
My mother brought me the In The Pink quilt. I am now torn between it and the Faded Memories one that I have had [...]
Posted in house on September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ahhhhh, the parents are gone, and I am left in my solitary. I can cogitate on the changes to my house (curtain rods are now up, for example, and I have some new quilts) such as the finished tile floor.
As you can see, it’s beautiful. I was freaking out before and during the job, but [...]
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