the farm update
HighButtonShoe
..what did I say about the
weather forecaster saying a few weeks ago that we were pretty well done
with snow????????? I wonder if he has been tarred and feathered and
ridden out of town yet? He was in error big time! We
were hit again last weekend with blizzard conditions and bad winds, minus
0 temperatures and who knows what the wind chill was. So we have been
digging out again. The banks alongside the roads, (when they ARE plowed...
and this is said with a frown..) are mounting up to where it is hard to
see around them. This morning, as I had to get out to mail boxes, the
paved road going to town was a two track where you could see the road, and
the rest you rather guessed where you were on the road and gauged that
also by oncoming traffic. NOT the road conditions I favor. Our country
road when plowed is slicked right down to a icy challenge to drive on.
When not, it is snow filled. I know I will regret this thought, but I am
almost looking forward to spring and the inevitable mud! Feel free to
remind me of that, when I am mired in mud for the 1-1/2 miles to a paved
road. My poor white beautiful truck hasn't had a bath in a while and with
the salt they pour onto our roadways (NOT our county of course, they are
incompetents and don't do anything...but hide from us I think..) is surely
taking a toll on the truck. It seems I never can find a good season to get
the truck detailed. But I think that should be a good plan for late this
spring. After that mud I previously mentioned dries up some. And before we
have dust that chokes you out. Ah, country living.
I unshackled myself from the
harvest table this morning and away from the mounds of paperwork of income
tax. Having it already, I take my hours and hours of work into the
accountant and they put it in the form the IRS requires, charge me HUGE
fee, and it is done. I cannot tell you how frustrating income tax time is
to me. Even when I think I made great strides in my preparation in the
entire previous year in chronicling all the required paperwork, I usually
come to the conclusion (late of course), that I should have done a few
things differently. Differently, in that I could find it easier. This is
my year, (worse than most)of not being able to find anything anyway. I
finally bought a small hand held pencil sharpener. It was either that or
take my handful of pencils to Beulah's to sharpen them all in my old
cupboard mounted pencil sharpener. And I had it on my grocery list to buy
another staple remover. I had seen the other one about 2-3 months ago and
put it in a good place. Un-huh. Not to be seen since. BUT I decided this
morning on one last search of the boxes in the basement and I found it!
Ha. There is hope afterall. Fleeting most of the time, but still now
apparently some hope.
So, my day has been
spent loading the truck with newspaper recycling. Loading boxes with
orders to ship, in the truck. Checking the income tax folder over for the
umpteenth time to take to the accountant. What could I possibly have
forgotten? Something I am sure. My grocery list..yes, the dreaded grocery
chore. A trip to UPS, trip to the post office, trip to the bank, trip
into Home Depot, got the truck gassed up ($2.95), and that of course,
means that with a now full tank, gas prices will go down. I have a theory,
the gas station specifically waits for me to drive in. It's like they have
some radar that identifies my truck and when they see it, and I fill up,
before I leave town they drop the price. OR, if I wait until I am leaving
town, onto their practice mentioned, they then raise it $.15 per gallon. I
never seem to get the lower price full tank advantage. It has become a
obsessive challenge with me. And I never win.
But the harvest table is
cleared off, except for an orderly stack of paperfiles that need to be
filed away. But I think I have tested my brain far enough in the past
several days and will let that sit there for another day to file away.
Have I mentioned lately, like winter...I hate income tax? Probably. It
does sound familiarly like something I mutter often.
I am writing today, to
tell you that we are newly listed on another new site with some antiques.
A website I have always loved invited a few of us to join her and I did.
www.the1800house.com has some group
guests. That's me! And a few others. I have listed some of my Tilda
Collection items there. Karen always has great farm finds herself and now
we have joined her. Check it out when you get a chance.
I probably won't write again
Friday on the 15th... but our new things come out on the 15th on
www.theprimitivegathering.com
also. Deena is increasing her list of exhibitors, and she has a great list
of vendors. So check that too. Also, please remember Deena in your
prayers and thoughts, as she continues her battle with cancer. She was
finally able to begin chemo last Friday. But she has an uphill battle, and
any prayer on her behalf is always welcomed with gratitude.
PrimitiveGathering showcases
new items on both the 1st and the 15th of the month.
I would also invite any
artists who do shabby chic or a country primitive look to check out
www.lemonpoppyseeds.com where we are
currently hosted for extreme primitives. DJ is starting up two new host
sites, for those two categories. It is reasonable priced and is getting a
lot of attention. They also have something in the works for pattern
makers. I think all this information is located on the poppyseeds place,
but if you can't find it, let me know and I will give you the links. Tell
Dj, Tilda sent you!
And as always, be sure
to look in occasionally for good friends, Bittersweet Susan and Miss
Elspeth, for great primitive works...
www.pineberrylane.com
Okay, I still have groceries
to put away, and if you can believe it, my gorgeous old wood kitchen floor
is 1/2 covered to my knees (yes, that deep!) with the most lovely colored
antique grass to be bagged! My coffee is done, so I will pour me a big
mug, and work on bagging that gorgeous hue'd grass into bags. And wait for
the big surprise of Ron to find that he can wade thru the dining room and
find an almost empty table. Some days the simplest things make me smile.
An empty table is definitely one today!
Thanks for asking to be a part
of the farm!
Should you decide not..
request it and you will be removed.
in fond regard,
Tilda,
freed from the table.
badly in need of a hair
coloring,
stuck with snow banks and my
red wool hat..