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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">I looked at the seeds under a microscope, they are beautiful, diverse, flattish seeds with a minute, white-ish hilum in a deep marginal notc</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;">h. They are like small speckled pebbles or a bird's egg, yellowish brown, leathery brown, grey, blackish, with dark irregular spots. They are slightly shiny, with a texture similar to tiny pitted leather, hard. Slow, mindful, meditative scarification paid off... I soaked them overnight in kelp-ish water. In my experience Astragalus suffers from damping off if not careful, tender care, gentle water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was the driest summer yet.</span></div>
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I took apart two old pillow cases and a purse to make this "new" swing bag. I have never created such a structured purse before, and I am very happy with the results. I didn't follow a pattern, I dreamt it up one day. Not that it is oh so original, but it felt good to think up the construction method myself.</div>
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The fabric is from vintage Indian pieces patched together. The previous purse was just too baggy for me and I rarely used it. </div>
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I LOVE the fabric and thought I would create a more updated look with a vintage feel.</div>
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My two girlfriends cheered me on via Skype </div>
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from distant shores and here it is....</div>
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I used a deep red liner with a magnetic closure, new for me. I also added a pocket for my glasses, one for my keys, cell phone, and a small skinny one for my pens. </div>
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The high tunnel has been planted for the winter garden. My son and I did some soil tests before we planted and recorded our data. Once we harvest we will test again. We found some old French doors at a salvage place for $5 each and the old wooden trimmed sliding glass, double-paned door for free at the dump. We don't lose too much light on that side of the tunnel. This is a view of the western exposure. The rolled up side is south facing.</div>
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Looking west from the eastern door. In the fore ground, center row you can see the Tatsoi, next the Chinese Cabbage, parsley, leeks, and finally our onion sets.</div>
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The Chinese Cabbage, or Wong Bok, is doing great. Everything has been getting thinned and replanted. We have had a pretty warm November.</div>
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He likes to come up with ideas to test, a scientist in the making!</div>
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Salad greens, Claytonia, Parsley, Easter Egg Radish... I have also planted Bok Choy, Bull's Blood Beets, Feldsalat or Mache, Mustard Greens, Daikon Radish, tons of varieties of spinach, Choy Pac, and transplanted Kale and Chard from the garden. I still have Celeriac growing too.</div>
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So much has happened, so much has changed.</div>
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We built it to extend our growing season here in zone 5A, </div>
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We toured as many local hoop houses as we could find in our quest to learn, </div>
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Eliot Coleman's books were our major inspiration...</div>
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The first year was filled with lessons. </div>
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I planted the house full of tomatoes, various peppers, summer squash, tomatillo's, watermelon, cantaloupe, and pickling cucumbers.</div>
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We pickled so many cucumbers. The tomatoes over grew everything, and we are still getting hot and sweet peppers in October, not to mention the best watermelons I have had since I was kid. They just don't grow these melons for market anymore. </div>
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What a delight.</div>
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This summer was hot, humid, and rainy... </div>
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Most of our best food came from the house. I think if it hadn't been for our hoop house I would have been extremely disappointed with a lot of our food production this year. The heavy spring rains caused moldy strawberries, lots of summer rain led to bouts of late blight on the tomatoes and potatoes in the field... </div>
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We have had a few hard frosts already. All of the remaining Brassica are doing great in the field. In the hoop house, all is well. The cantaloupe and cucumbers are wilted but the peppers and tomatoes are doing fine, and still producing.</div>
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Early on in the season we tied up all of the vining plants. It worked out great. Next year I will prune back the tomatoes and grow fewer of them! I am still making my roasted tomato sauce now... I have been making it for over 4 weeks. I didn't get many tomatoes in the field at all this year and it seemed to take them so long to ripen. My window sill is full of green field tomatoes. </div>
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My sister-in-law turned me on to a great recipe. </div>
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I roast sliced, whole tomatoes (skin, seeds, and all) with garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper in a 425 degree oven for about 35 minutes. I drain some of the water from the tomatoes and let them cool. Freeze them flat, put them into a freezer bag, and store them in a stack in the freezer. I add other ingredients like basil or peppers too. </div>
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Very delicious and always so yummy in January.</div>
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A simple little thing like having an amount equivalent to $1 day taken out of your credit card account can help turn another woman and her family's life around. </div>
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Imagine living in a war torn country, caring for your children, trying to run a household while the infrastructure is in ruins, and all you dream about is changing the course of your life.... where do you turn? Women for Women International creates a vehicle for you to directly affect the life of an individual, one distinct woman, your sister. You can literally reach across the planet and give her a hand, a shoulder to lean on, a heart that cares for her, and change the course of her life. It feels impossible to leave your home and go to Bosnia & Herzegovin, Sudan, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Kosovo, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but you can, you can help by enabling other strong women around the world to help them by funding their work in these remote countries where women need us more than ever. It costs as much as one dinner out in a restaurant.... the equivalent of one dinner and you could change the course of an entire family's life! We have the power.</div>
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I often find myself feeling overwhelmed with my responsibilities at home and my work, and then I think what it must be like to live in a country that has been destroyed by war. It can take generations to overcome the trauma and financial loss. My mother was raised in Munich during the war and even now at 72 years old she is still haunted by the memories of war, hunger, loss, death, destruction, and fear.</div>
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We can help change that future for other women right now, without leaving our homes. You can sponsor a sister in war torn countries through Women to Women. When you do they send you a packet with her picture, her story, her background, and pictures of her children. You write to each other, share your stories from across the world. It is very personal and I have to say that it feels so good to be a part of her story. When she "graduates" from the year long program Women for Women International sends you the update of her journey. They make it such an easy thing to do, and yet it is such a huge thing to share! Go to their website...</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51 , 51 , 51); font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Our sponsorship program supports women survivors of war and conflicts as they progress through a one-year program that helps them rebuild their lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51 , 51 , 51); font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">After an initial enrollment fee of $30, we ask sponsors to make monthly, tax-deductible donations of $27. The money your sponsored sister receives provides her with a stipend that she can use as she chooses; to pay for basic necessities such as food and shelter, cover school fees or invest in income-generating activities.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51 , 51 , 51); font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">The remainder of your sponsorship donations supports the tools and resources a sister receives as she progresses through the program, such as job-skills trainers, equipment and other vital staff members.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-83803303246762419832011-03-29T17:21:00.005-04:002017-02-15T23:03:57.359-05:00A New Life Emerging.... Yes!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGkZMDRDZcwIB_8imotUS4LL7nuV06uLVr55UYsrjLrMwmKNOvjFrGU2g3mLRxRZUoDMOtPQYhE3VZwCyblFrfx6LhkPD7DFru24xnui0z_cuQeBfAmv4rZk1vMAni84qhyphenhypheneAXujs6x0/s1600/IMG_0459.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589617172802598882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGkZMDRDZcwIB_8imotUS4LL7nuV06uLVr55UYsrjLrMwmKNOvjFrGU2g3mLRxRZUoDMOtPQYhE3VZwCyblFrfx6LhkPD7DFru24xnui0z_cuQeBfAmv4rZk1vMAni84qhyphenhypheneAXujs6x0/s640/IMG_0459.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="480" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";">We are still locked in the grips of a very cold March. Icy, little mud, not too much sunshine, and cold nights. The cold nights are good for maple sugaring but the cold days aren't helping the sap flow. Lots of people are having a good year though. My neighbor put these old school sap buckets on our trees. Yummy, sweet sap. I find it so amazing, the gifts given by these majestic trees. Drawing from the earth, sharing her sweetness. I love the sound of the sap dripping in the buckets, tip, tip, tip... I can hear it across the field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My lovely, patient, obliging, ever ready student loves, loves, loves to read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As part of our Waldorf inspired homeschool journey he is reading through all of the volumes of The Library of Pioneering and Woodcraft by Ernest Thompson Seton. We just started Botany and he is so excited and teachable. </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">4. The Great Central Fire.</span></em></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Didot;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Represented
in our law, and in our ceremonies. Only the re-creation of the sacred fire has
power to thrill us and strike chords of primitive remembrance. When people
gather around a fire they shed all modern artifice and return to the essence of
self, revealing the naked soul. Since time immemorial, humanity has seen in
this blessed fire the means and emblem of light, warmth, protection,
friendliness, and council. When people have met together in peace and shared
the warmth of the welcoming fire, it forges a lasting bond of union overcoming
wide divergence in attitudes and perspectives. This fire is the symbol at the
center of Woodcraft. We shall not fail to use its magic powers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">8. An heroic ideal.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Didot;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;">Woodcraft
offers an heroic ideal, an image of a mature human being, physically strong,
mentally alert, spiritually attuned, dedicated to community service. Anxious to
learn, willing to teach, inspired by vision. Prepared to share with others, with
courage, intelligence, power and wisdom. Cognizant of the past, unafraid of the
future, profoundly aware that action is only possible in the present moment.
Able to use this moment to the best advantage, equipped to listen, communicate
and actively respond as needed.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> </span></span><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;">By presenting an heroic ideal Woodcraft gives
each individual the inspiration to set and then strive towards personal goals.
Woodcraft is dedicated to exploring knowledge, increasing tolerance through
understanding, and improving global environmental conditions.</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Didot;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-77201887110461821382011-01-29T16:17:00.006-05:002011-01-29T17:45:58.187-05:00To A Life Fully Lived. Cheers!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifb28d-U6PHDr5h4Cvgq-dZT1Vq3pfEI0VonFUdZC6P_XT67DucmuQKSmse2P2Z3Zha60EsNv0l2RSK0spXnenGtj7woBWeJop3Ey_VjOoq_3RMzddQcwatBZwP3ISEjYeov1FE5N7AEE/s1600/IMG_5516_2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifb28d-U6PHDr5h4Cvgq-dZT1Vq3pfEI0VonFUdZC6P_XT67DucmuQKSmse2P2Z3Zha60EsNv0l2RSK0spXnenGtj7woBWeJop3Ey_VjOoq_3RMzddQcwatBZwP3ISEjYeov1FE5N7AEE/s400/IMG_5516_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567723753310860546" /></a><br /><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I lost my neighbor and dear friend early this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was an inspiration and a joy to everyone that knew him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He always chose to walk on the sunny side of the street, smile at the day, breathe in each night and wave a hearty hello.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was born in Connecticut on May 25, 1914.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So many things were happening then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The newness of a modern world just emerging, and with it good and bad, right and wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And he embodied what was the best of his era, an era that is slipping by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was a man that loved the beauty of nature, devoted himself to his country, adored his wife and children, played the harmonica with all of his heart, put his back into his work and leaned into to his music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He loved his parents, his story, his life, and his neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A tear of sorrow runs down my smudged and tired cheek as I type this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Up all night last night hoping beyond hope to see the sparkle of his eyes just once more…</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">….but alas, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">in just a flicker of moment, he has become a memory.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">That is how it happens, how life unfolds. Moments become memories and that is the beauty of living in the now, we can witness the force while it unfurls.</p></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAFMGWmWNUrXRL3d3dlCyJEjnw4R0Ea23Jk_z2ABmpw35h0Jg1__3Trwk1UGH3GRXAYlRjPfJxB5wFtOgXWZa2bUah-SMGTi7s5SY3h5VwAeXwMsOaFZNiLEsoDbpk-XfdV6csA-VuaE/s1600/IMG_5511.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAFMGWmWNUrXRL3d3dlCyJEjnw4R0Ea23Jk_z2ABmpw35h0Jg1__3Trwk1UGH3GRXAYlRjPfJxB5wFtOgXWZa2bUah-SMGTi7s5SY3h5VwAeXwMsOaFZNiLEsoDbpk-XfdV6csA-VuaE/s400/IMG_5511.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567723753095381778" /></a><br /></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The tears I cry today are for myself; for my selfishness, for my missing him in this moment…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>different from the heartbreaking pain I still sob for my father who died almost a year ago next month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think the difference is that I now know, in all honesty, that I sob for a life not lived by my father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The sadness of not following his heart, not being true to his truth, the realization of a life unfulfilled.</p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5a8tf059lGSV3zR3DtqfZvxg1TEYDSlyIOPmbAEN8OLfNe7C3-FSSnV9hyfr32Bn8hujaUfnJyJi_gNRsvw9TJKLRfidPyKl6tPcn87D0UdBW-SKLD0qqbB4SJqAuT8Ta5KPKXGsyKyo/s1600/Jeff+Oct+66.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5a8tf059lGSV3zR3DtqfZvxg1TEYDSlyIOPmbAEN8OLfNe7C3-FSSnV9hyfr32Bn8hujaUfnJyJi_gNRsvw9TJKLRfidPyKl6tPcn87D0UdBW-SKLD0qqbB4SJqAuT8Ta5KPKXGsyKyo/s400/Jeff+Oct+66.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567723746488978610" /></a><br /></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">How can we find the courage to put aside all the should haves, could haves, supposed to's, to find our life force?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To live our path?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As children we declare we are going to be writers, doctors, artists, farmers and somehow we’ve lost our way…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The answers our culture commands us to believe are empty promises of success and gain, when truly, if we listened to the answers in our hearts we would know that it lies in the promises we made to ourselves when we were young, when we were hopeful, when we were unburdened with gain… </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The art of living is in the letting go to that promise made in a child’s heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>We can’t blindly go along believing the stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have to be brave and strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have to turn against the answers that are given and instead follow our own truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Find the passion, look into that heart of the child you left behind and ask yourself what songs do I want to sing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What pictures can I paint?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What can I let go of to be free?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How much do I really need to carry on this journey? If it could fit into a trunk what would I take?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>And, where would my heart lead me? If we ignore that promise, we lose ourselves. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">So, on this day I can smile for Henry, not sob in pain as I do for my father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I can rejoice in Henry’s choice to live his life fully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>His choice to be brave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>His choice to define his journey on his own terms.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He was true to his heart even within the confines of his responsibilities, his routine, his station in life. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He defined his life, his art of living, not for gain but in peace.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">So here is to Life Fully Lived... </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">may it be the path we chose to follow.</p> <!--EndFragment--> <div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-37100890477275725222010-11-01T17:31:00.007-04:002017-02-15T23:07:37.907-05:00Evening Chores<div style="text-align: center;">
I just love evening chores, especially now when it is cold and all of my peeps are confined and without grass. When the back door slams shut and I walk out singing and they hear me. The turkeys are the closest and they start squabbling, the chickens hear them and start cackling, the ducks sing their song and the geese honk loudly. </div>
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They eagerly wait for me, ears or eyes up, and smiling their little animal smiles... Dinner.</div>
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Bunny often hops towards me, nose wiggling, hoping for a carrot or piece of apple and some kale. All of the fresh summer/autumn goodies are almost gone. It was 30 degrees F last night.</div>
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Those little turkeys aren't so little anymore. We kept two. She is so curious and always hoping for kale or broccoli leaves...</div>
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And the girls? They know when it is time to go to the barn. They hear the buckets and hear me sing and come to the gate hoping for food.</div>
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Our Aracaunas are our newest and youngest flock. No eggs yet, but lots of pretty feathers and happy personalities. </div>
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The original flock. They head in on their own around 4:00 these days. The sun is setting so much earlier now. They go in to eat and get ready to roost.</div>
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Our three ducks. As the evening draws in and I walk out they turn and run to their house, eager, hungry and cold.</div>
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And finally, my two wonderful geese, Toulouse and Flory. They still think I am their mom so they go pretty easily as I herd them far across the yard back to their little house next to the turkeys. They honk, but go willingly.</div>
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Yes, I love this time of the day. </div>
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I never regret my chores. I really enjoy seeing all of my friends, singing to them, feeding them, and tucking them in for the night. It makes my heart feel so full, so right with the world when they are warm, well fed and content. I have done my job as their protector and partner. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have started to put the garden to bed. First a heavy layer of already composted manure mix and then leaves, lots of lovely leaves... Since we were gone for almost two weeks we are way behind and winter feels like it has arrived today... cold, dark and rainy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love to put ginger in our green drink and since we are trying to grow everything that is in our green drink I thought I would try my hand at ginger too. I planted the root in late July and it is taking off. The leaves are very soft and smell like ginger. It is such a wonderful plant to grow in the house. I plan on planting lots more and once our greenhouse is up there will be plenty of green drink to go around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">no wonder I am attracted to this book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See the sprouts? Just put the root into good soil, lots of sun and a bit of water. I picked a very plump, buddy looking root. I have the pot in a pan of rocks and water too, for humidity. It seems to be working, and the smell, lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My girlfriend gave me this recipe for a raw green drink that is a meal... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A bit of garlic, a bit of ginger, a few apple pieces, a carrot, a bit of celery, any greens and lots of them, a splash of apple juice, a dash of cayenne pepper blended in a good blender, strained and voile' dinner, with some almonds for crunch on the side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I am off to clean my studio. I hope you have a happy Halloween! Boo!</span></div>
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A view from my friend's window. She shared her home with us for ten days... ten lovely days.</div>
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Thank you to all of my San Diego family of friends for a lovely birthday and wonderful holiday I will never forget your beauty and generosity...</div>
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A self-portrait from four years ago when my little boy was only 6!</div>
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I had a big medical scare at the end of September. My life was once again clearly brought into focus. My love, my energy, my fear, my joie de vivre. Every breath is such a wonderful gift... It is all just a heart beat away, moment to moment. I definitely have MS, new lesions, but no loss of neurological function, this time, thankfully. The cancer is still stable, no new growth according to our expert Dr. Liebsch. The radiologist here thought differently but we trust our guy. Exhale, deep sigh, I have been sleeping through the night these last few days....</div>
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It is so funny how just last week I looked at my reflection in the mirror and felt so much compassion. Compassion for the girl that still had so much life that she wanted to lead. I am not clinging, I am not suffering but I am a mother of a young boy. </div>
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I wasn't terrified, I was sad. I was so capable of being present in my stress this time, watching it manifest itself in my body, feeling it arise and take hold of me. Because I was able to witness this amazing response to the news that IT might be back I was able to calm myself, comfort myself, embrace myself. I was very present in my thoughts, very connected to my body. I felt strong and accepting and then...</div>
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Dr. Liebsch called, he felt the radiologist was wrong about the cancer but I do have two new lesions. The thought of neurological demise and deterioration is not a happy thought but it so much easier to breathe through now that I have gone through this journey. I feel in control. My life is what I want to lead, not my fear. I am so busy living and being that I don't want to cling to the "what if's" any longer. Peace is my quest.</div>
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I awaken happy, grateful and thinking about my day's work, not the alternative, not now.</div>
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The garden after a light frost, October 3rd.</div>
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The fall colors were a bit muted and quick this year. We had an extremely dry summer. The plants suffered, the trees struggled...</div>
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Lots of good nutrients for the garden, I just have to rake them all up and put them in the garden soil. So if you see bags of raked leaves that people leave out on the curb for the trash man, pick them up, free food for your garden, no work for you!</div>
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A "Mammoth" Sunflower from Seed Savers. </div>
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Four big heads filled two large jars! Not all of them ripened in time, oh well, we have enough for eating and next year's seeds. The rest are for the birds and the mice.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-33910900963939789952010-10-02T21:04:00.004-04:002017-02-15T23:13:07.512-05:00The first hard frost....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTkjx-UlOT9qJMPVtcxHMZOkIoddpe3VSSck6jsiWQ32nQ2bflmZM6X0UTpvTLOgUUnJTx9z0isdkAauWu0kEWIKGIohcJmNaVsLX6Sm-Pt7Vq7BeEB-RBAoBpY5KFiLzvsEgLTFzwpw/s1600/DSCN3603.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="478" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523624339644963426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTkjx-UlOT9qJMPVtcxHMZOkIoddpe3VSSck6jsiWQ32nQ2bflmZM6X0UTpvTLOgUUnJTx9z0isdkAauWu0kEWIKGIohcJmNaVsLX6Sm-Pt7Vq7BeEB-RBAoBpY5KFiLzvsEgLTFzwpw/s640/DSCN3603.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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Autumn is here, the air is cold, the days are short, the coyotes are back. We have a large pack in the forest behind our house, we can hear them howling, like wolves, in the darkness. The chickens are all locked up, tight.</div>
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Tonight we are expecting our first hard frost of the season...</div>
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Chocolate.... from 1911.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-32523143552019623202010-09-10T19:52:00.002-04:002017-02-15T23:20:33.218-05:00There is no where else than here...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1iCEZDSyMUtW6bFu1aAQ-rfAE4syoOwZF2KUqEsmtINQgzD7u5Q457Pgza9u0HplmJXF5t281omNQaqZixurI5en4e7z-aKDopXYKbGxokF80s2aOKt7aJu9YwIoA6mbbsnqOsV-Yp4s/s1600/DSCN3060.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="478" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515437988152448402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1iCEZDSyMUtW6bFu1aAQ-rfAE4syoOwZF2KUqEsmtINQgzD7u5Q457Pgza9u0HplmJXF5t281omNQaqZixurI5en4e7z-aKDopXYKbGxokF80s2aOKt7aJu9YwIoA6mbbsnqOsV-Yp4s/s640/DSCN3060.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-58717539245168256162010-08-24T20:50:00.004-04:002017-02-15T23:29:36.181-05:00On the fringe of insanity...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CQDdZjXpGu9N51k5bskA_PsRoaEHk6lU0AJdwlbQOeU88SHvGbbooThUuuwGjMQwtMVhQD7i5dJMNtFrWD_dq4M_ClmDwSySxSMOt0BXC_E_aJvSFrK1tL_o32Ps4pI-xvf8ND8hTCM/s1600/Ana+Birnbeck.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="410" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509147560399960034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CQDdZjXpGu9N51k5bskA_PsRoaEHk6lU0AJdwlbQOeU88SHvGbbooThUuuwGjMQwtMVhQD7i5dJMNtFrWD_dq4M_ClmDwSySxSMOt0BXC_E_aJvSFrK1tL_o32Ps4pI-xvf8ND8hTCM/s640/Ana+Birnbeck.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anna von Birnbeck Knodlseder and my great uncle Otto Knodlseder in Munich early in World War II. This is the only surviving picture of my Oma that we have. When ever my mother sees this photo she always whispers how her mother washed the clothes with her jewelry and nice dress. She had to scrub the clothes on the old pine table and hang them up to dry in their cramped court yard in the city, as did billions of other women all around the world, from the beginning of time. My mother studied, stared at, and cherished this photo. Munich had been bombed 75 times in the war and sadly my grandmother died alone on a stretcher in a crowded hospital corridor from lack of medicine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This picture has become part of our family legacy, a piece of the story, the saga of strong women, surviving, flourishing, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">living and dying... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">honored, loved and not forgotten.</span></div>
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Our first sunflower of the summer...</div>
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My neighbor Emily brought me some glads. Her father raised them and they are the same tubers from his garden. Emily is 78 years old, the glads are pretty amazing for being that old...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I had to blog about this amazing bean... I bought the seeds from Seed Savers, Fin de Bagnol. Wow. They were slow and tempermental to germinate in this summer's climate (hot, humid and then cold, rainy and then hot, humid) but once they got going, wow. The plants are a bush variety and produce so well. I have been picking them since mid-July. I pick them when they are tender and small. They get long and lean and fill the bush, they are so tasty! I highly recommend this bean. Boutique bean for sure... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beauty in motion! Two little bumblebees, a few seconds later we had three! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My son and I rescued a handsome fellow from a very busy street. He was just sitting in the middle of the road, pulled in and scared. We stopped to help him along and something told me to pick him up. It turns out he is a pretty good sized male </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is so beautifully colored. Males have a concave shell and longer claws. Wood turtles have shells that look very engraved and pyramidal. They don't usually get this big, they typically grow to 5-8 inches. They eat berries, tender vegetables, insects, grubs, worms and snails. Their shells aren't hinged so they can't pull their legs or tail in too far. You can count the scutes on a wood turtle to calculate its age, just like the rings of a tree. Our guy is 13 or 14 years old. The place that I found him is being rapidly developed so we decided to let him go on our farm. We have the perfect habitat, slow moving, sandy bottomed streams, woodland fields and only one or two cars a day, at most!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jane said that she has seen two in all of her years. Bob, our mountain man friend who spends weeks in the woods has never seen one his whole life....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are considered a friendly, nice turtle. Not feisty like a snapper... When Jane and I were flipping through some books we read in the Anna Botsford Comstock's book, "This is one of our most common turtles." She wrote her <i>Handbook of Nature Study</i> in 1911. In the E. Laurence Palmer, <i>Fieldbook of Natural History</i> written in 1949, it said that they are not as common as they once were and now, the NH Fish and Game considers the Wood turtle a species of special concern... </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-87025361263527995022010-06-19T22:45:00.003-04:002017-02-15T23:40:26.241-05:00Living the good life.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiPbbefNg0PvWo2U4zgbseF7u7_Lr5ub18aaKqq7PyQJruASM0L8sOGXnpfNIyYLPvRrCZEOULQriR1SK2Tm_cydgC8UZM1btQqkaXbjeegrISvwMQMdZmxVih3zk0fNRXGmh9PgIqrtY/s1600/DSCN3242.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="478" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484684417090749922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiPbbefNg0PvWo2U4zgbseF7u7_Lr5ub18aaKqq7PyQJruASM0L8sOGXnpfNIyYLPvRrCZEOULQriR1SK2Tm_cydgC8UZM1btQqkaXbjeegrISvwMQMdZmxVih3zk0fNRXGmh9PgIqrtY/s640/DSCN3242.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got our little baby broiler flock last Sunday early. We drove to Vermont to pick them up! Thirty-five little, fluffy babies. It is our second year, I know the routine. I give them love, very good food and lots of grass and bugs and they give us meat. It is the reality of our food. My husband and I decided last year, the night before the harvest that if we couldn't do this we HAD to be vegetarians... some one else is doing the harvesting somewhere and at least we know that our babies are raised humanely, with love, good food and no stress or pain. We rarely eat beef and we try to only eat fish that we have caught in a river or lake that we know... and I have to say that our chickens are the most delicious we have ever eaten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our mobile chicken coop, totally made with beg, borrowed and recycled material. Not too cute, yet. A little green paint and oh well, you know, I will make it cute! We are going to move it out behind the horses in the field. We are trying to be good grass farmers and have the pasture well divided. So to keep the field healthy, I bought an old scythe last winter and we plan to cut/save some grass for the geese the old fashioned way this summer. And for the chickens we use our electric webbing fence that just sticks into the ground so that we can protect our flock and they can move around freely! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever read <i>Small Farm Journal</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We want to wean ourselves off of corporate, industrial food. We try to eat like localvores, it helps being so close to Vermont and all of these farmers up here. It is like stepping back in time to live in New England, they are very proud of their farming, small town heritage. It is truly amazing and wonderful, especially for a flat lander like me. So every summer we are getting closer and closer to our goal of living simply and feeding ourselves for the entire year. We are hoping to build a root cellar in our basement this summer and green house out back... fingers crossed. So far we have a big chest freezer, a dehydrator and natural drying box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are two of our four baby turkeys, two Bronze Breasted and three White Breasted. We hope to start breading the bronze and Narragansett next year too. This is our first year raising turkeys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My darling holding one of our two lovely, sweet, kissable, huggable, Toulouse geese. He is holding Flory, Toulouse is in the pen. We got these two just as pets, no foie gras... they make great watch dogs and they are the cat's meow.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We hope they will keep our lovey goose company this winter...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And me, farmer girl, in clean clothes, such a rarity these days... you can't see the dirt on my hands, always have them in the earth these days! Life is good....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Do the best that you can in the place that you are, and be kind." Scott Nearing. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220200885111213555.post-10087546659521751772010-06-15T20:35:00.003-04:002017-02-15T23:42:36.229-05:00A bag for Hannah<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EOKQQ0KUqA6M-89f3UWllNLOWYlCT5cwlYslZWVyaru968ouYqRhiZROuTFRz1VeML7CWyEXRWE4vAIJ-GXMYZTaPWiaQW1mwantOsEtt89Nk-y0F9o65JicoxVf4Ge32lyrbnUp4LA/s1600/DSCN3206.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483165133276673522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EOKQQ0KUqA6M-89f3UWllNLOWYlCT5cwlYslZWVyaru968ouYqRhiZROuTFRz1VeML7CWyEXRWE4vAIJ-GXMYZTaPWiaQW1mwantOsEtt89Nk-y0F9o65JicoxVf4Ge32lyrbnUp4LA/s640/DSCN3206.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="478" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made a bag for my dear friend, Hannah, so that she can carry her work with her on her trip through life. I hoped it would be a bag Jane Austen might have liked. I wanted to add some of my old sewing notions that I had picked up over these many years. I had them hidden away, here and there, through out my sewing room and wanted to gift them to her so that she can share in their energy too. Just think, some women, some where in time, created something useful or beautiful with these tools. They had been hidden away in some one else's sewing room a long time ago and they continue to live now in Hannah's bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little knitting needles that I fixed up just for her. They were an old wooden pair without tops, so I added happy faces instead...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sewed lots of little pockets to carry all of the little treasures I had collected on my journey through life... old darning thread, darning tools, Victorian snaps and latches, a very sweet, old thimble, a bit of hemp line and some vintage clothes pins to hang dry her work out in the Colorado air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also made a little needle case and tucked in a few very old pins and needles just for the fun of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every girl needs a stash of fabric and some linen. A few fat quarters that I had hoarded away, some linen, I added some old buttons, beads, floss, old spools of thread, three new embroidery hoops, and voila, it became a bag for Hannah! Made with love just for her, my dear friend. I thought of her with every stitch. I smiled as I thought of her energy, her passion for life, her creativity, and her Joyful soul, that is the magic about making something by hand for someone else... the love that is woven into the work.</span></div>
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