HIGH BUTTON SHOE
December 2, 2005
I am trying in vain to find a happy spot to write from today. However, I am failing miserably, as yet another winter storm in upon us. I have told you before of my dislike of winter. Inspite of going to the chiropractor yesterday, a 45 minute drive one way, and driving in snow squalls with only one lane of the highway cleaned making the trip less than pleasant!, to get treatment for the snow shoveling I did last week the day after Thanksgiving that put my back out in the first place, I am back to shoveling today. Thanksgiving was a NOT holiday for most of us up here as the weather was in blizzard conditions and most people just plain stayed home. Our road didn't even get plowed until Friday night. So we could not have gotten out to any of the early black Friday sales if we had wanted to. WHICH, I didn't want to. Fighting crowds of people at 5AM for the maybe 10 items the store had that 150 people were after is not my idea of fun! Kohl's up here has advertised their entire store for a few weeks now at 50% off and up to 75% off! Makes me wonder WHAT their markup is in the first place to afford to give such deep discounts! Anyway, it started to rain Sunday HARD rain and continued on Monday. It took all the snow away. Yesterday it started again and today most of the north schools are closed due to snow amounts. We have about 15 inches in the road (and all over), which of course is not plowed. I shoveled a path to the shop as I am open today and tomorrow (foolishly, but I am advertised as open, so probably ought to be). I would think one would be somewhat desperate to be out today. So hopefully I did not undo the back treatment. I have had the red wool hat and the Arctic pack boots out and in use several times already. This may be a LONG winter.
I got new snow tires on both my truck and Ron's this week. So perhaps we can make it up the steep driveway, without several attempts, and in my case just leaving the truck in the snowbank where it would stop and refuse to go any further. I did make the driveway yesterday, but today would be a different story. The snow is well up over my boots and almost to my knees! These, I am beginning to realize already, will be the months I will not leave the house. Today the wood stove and the old ticking clock are the only sounds I hear. If I don't look out the windows at the mounting snow, I can almost forget it. I think I will make a pot of coffee and just sit!Ranting Raven came out yesterday. We can be found at http://www.rantingraven.com/Exhibit95.php . check it out!SALE.SALE.SALE....Also we are offering a couple specials to those of you on the mailing list from the website. In the folk art of the new items, the old wood trim frames (like with Grandpa Johann) regularly priced at $35, are sale priced at $25.00. Perfect for your old black and white photos of family! AND they looks great, in either country, primitive OR modern houses!! And the 1800's doll in the dolls icon are sale priced at $50. This is while supplies last.I was blessed this past week to find a new website. I found it off ebay, and have ordered some patterns that you will be seeing in finished state on our website soon. You know of my passion for crows, of course. I believe we are all connected to one another, in some unknown most of the time, fashion. The website is www.kentuckyprimitives.com and her ebay name is kentuckyprimitive. Her given name is Victoria Lynn. I came to know Victoria Lynn some time ago when I won a doll from her on ebay. An interesting doll to say the least and she came "with" history. Made, to help her deal with her mothers cancer and death, she found a time to let the doll go. I was the only one to bid on the "Molly" doll, a small handmade primitive doll with a soulful face, naked, and a Hope inscription sewn to her tummy. I never understood how I was the only bidder on this wonderful doll. She came to live with me. About a month later, my paypal addy was refunded the price of the doll and a small note was sent to me explaining that she was meant to be a gift. I kept her for some time and then had occasion this summer to give a gift to a new friend, I have never met, that was battling cancer herself. I had the perfect gift! So the Molly doll went via Pennsylvania, to North Carolina to live with Jen. I now, believe the Molly doll, was to be mine, only for a short time, so she could eventually live with Jen! She is truly a magnificent doll and surely she is blessed to touch so many lives. Anyway, check out Victoria Lynn's website. She will reduce you to tears and make you smile all at the same time. I am so blessed to have found her again! I have always believed that lives connect. Please check her out. You will be glad you did!BrunieMae (www.saltboxfarm.com) has had an exciting week. Chosen to have her home photographed and featured for a major national magazine in the Christmas issue for 2006, she has been working feverishly to get it all decorated for the Christmas season! I saw some of her photos this morning, and her home is truly decked out! We can all say we "knew her when.."Mine on the other hand, is barely clean, let alone decorated. I started decorating some last weekend. But the only room really done is the living room, and that is without the traditional tree. I simply don't have room for it. I did put a 3' grapevine tree in and decorated it with lights and some nasty old garland I had, that has caught my favor. I cleaned off the harvest table this week, of all the projects I was working on yet. Ron (the rascal) invited a friend to supper. OK, like WHERE are we going to eat??? Darn him. So I spent 2 hours taking all the stuff off the table and vacuuming up all the floor pieces of thread and fabric bits. I put it all in a big box in the utility room to deal with later. It is later. IF I plan to do any laundry, I have to deal first with the box! Then, the day of the cleaning I had to cook! So, interrupted in my decorating..I think I will just plain quit, instead. And the Christmas box of stuff will go back to the basement for another year, when my mood is better. I think my moniker of this December would safely be Clotilda Scrooge!Thanks, as always, for asking to be a part of the farm.In fond regard,Clotilda