Bob goes to Germany. Camille goes to the zoo. We start harvesting our crop of ginger and turmeric. Meanwhile Mom and Dad settle into their new routine with brother Michael, and Nolan gets one month older. BOB’s NEW JOB Bob has taken on the heady world of auditing, requiring massive amounts of complicated […]
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Camille and Judy are at it again. When they went zooing last year they soaked in the North American exhibits and have returned to gape at the African animals on the other side of the highly-rated North Carolina Zoo – October 18, 2018 PLAYING AROUND Once inside the gate, we indulged in a
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A three trip month, one for work, one for family, and one for fun. A spooky sight in the garden, end-of-season harvests, and fall planting. A birthday party with music and a birthday on the beach. And a black eye. THE HONEYSUCKLE FENCE Just for fun, this is how our front fence line
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A lovely, even-paced month in which we put up a new street sign, got wet at the farmers market, began leveling the Spot garden, enjoyed a walk at Jordan Lake Dam, busied ourselves in the kitchen, and kept an eye on Shelley’s livestock. A SIGN Bob thought we should replace our splintered, wooden
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Pickles, peach picking, pillow shopping, pan pepper frying, and a perfect 24th wedding anniversary. This month was all about the simple pleasures of home grown, home cooked food. LOCAL FOOD = RESILIENCE Not just trendy, beyond cool, getting your food from the back yard or next door is one way we can assert
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Celebrating Camille’s birthday and the camaraderie of family and friends in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with a couple of side trips down memory lane, meeting new friends, and savoring good times at Mary Beth and Brandon’s wedding with the old Oilseed Community gang BANG Big bang for the buck, these gladiolus and hydrangea
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Peonies a-poppin\’ and roses, too. A music festival and a birthday party, a car wreck, a trip to the coast, and a newly-paved road into work. PEONIES AND ROSES Nearly ten years of home ownership and our perennials are growing stronger every year. More photos with explanatory prose at: Peonies and Roses
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Perennial magic brought to us by warm weather and plentiful rain – May 2-12, 2018 FRESH ENOUGH TO SLAP Our first Fragrant Cloud of the season, captured in pixels by Tami. And Festiva Maxima, a peony showing gratitude for its new home beside its brothers and sisters. In 2010 we bought five peony
Music and friends at Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance – Saturday, May 5, 2018 WE COME FOR THE MUSIC Rising Appalachia is one of fifty bands that performed at this year’s spring music festival. If you have not heard their music, you are in for a treat! AND
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Peonies popping, construction at home and work signalling a new era, torching the old pampas grass to make way for new growth, stocking the freezer with six months of Sunday cutlets, horses, flowers, frogs, mulch, and lunch out on the town. April was seething with optimism; a perfect example of spring! R.I.P. TAMI TANK
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