HIGH BUTTON SHOE
January 15, 2006
I often barely make it thru to
mid January with any sanity, stuck in deep snow banks as I most often am.
I have told you repeatedly of my dislike of winter. As we have had little
to no snow since the first of the year, I have been in very good humor and
now think we only have about 2-1/2 months left of winter. Several of these
January days we have had no snow at all on the ground, save where it was
pushed up in banks. While I LOVE it like this, Mother Nature generally
repays us with this respite in winter snow, by bringing it to us in April
and even sometimes May, which of course, nobody likes. But for the time, I
am really liking the bare ground. Thursday I was even able to do some lawn
work, raking up 7 piles of leaves that never got carted off to the garden
before the snow came. I must say it is MUCH easier to rake up piles of
leaves when they have been flatted down to only an inch high and are soggy
wet from 2 months of snow on them.
The wild turkey herds are
enjoying bare ground too. The big toms and some jakes were here for a
couple hours the other day. I took time to sit on the porch after feeding
them to watch them, as they were just off the pavers, about 5 yards from
me. This group is an old group, and I know several of them.
One afternoon, the day we had
sun, which we haven't had in almost 3 weeks!!! the temperature shot up to
50 degrees, the ground was bare and dry, me and my coffee cup sat on the
back deck in the sunshine, barefooted, in my t shirt and jeans and just
enjoyed looking at the hay fields and the old forest of trees behind us.
Then decided I best get doing something productive instead of wasting the
day sitting on the porch. I brought several things over from the shop and
took some pictures out on the porch in natural light which in my case,
anyway, produces better pictures. I catch myself thinking I am so smart
with those cameras, only to find I still haven't figured out the flash
good for some shots. Yesterday I spent more than an hour and took upwards
of 50 pictures trying to capture the color of grass. We harvested and
cured our Crow & Easter Grass last summer, (lest you think I have gone
totally bonkers, this grass is for your Easter baskets and bowls..) and I
wanted to give you a new updated picture of it. How hard could that be?
Un-huh. I got some great pictures, but not good color. I don't suppose
you would buy grass if part of it looked green and the other half looked
red? What's with that, anyway? I suppose I could always write in the
description, this grass really is green, inspite of the fact that it looks
red. However, we did do a new picture..and I will continue to work on the
color and flashes as now this has got me determined to get it right.
There's that old nemesis word of mine, determined. IF I would just stop
being determined to do things, I would be SO much better off.
Determination, so far, in my 'non'resolution
to clean one thing I ordinarily would not consider a daily chore, has been
a faithful resolve. Not that it hasn't been met with some difficulties.
Deciding one day when making the bed, that the mattress cover pad that is
sewn like little pillows trapping air and whatever was in there to make it
"poofy", that goes over the 2 inch foam cover... had been on there for a
year, and while not dirty to the naked eye, surely must need washing. So I
took the whole bedding apart, read the instructions (yes, I actually did!)
and put it in the washing machine, adjusted the settings, washed it and
put it in the dryer with the correct setting. Dried it forever, as it said
it may take some time. Well. IF I nailed it to the bedroom wall and
stuck one of the edge pieces that is supposed to fit over the mattress to
hold it in place, through
the bedroom window and
attached it to the lawn mover and drove to the woods, it might stretch
back to regular size to fit the bed again. As it is, the bed borders
about 8 inches beyond the foam pad on all sides now AND the bed when made,
now looks like Ron's entire sock drawer is waded up and thrown under the
sheets. I have lumps and bumps everywhere. No, the bed, not me. AND, while
the bed was high enough before, now when I want to get in it, I
practically have to start a run down the hall, navigate a sharp right
turn into the bedroom door, still keeping up my speed, and make a flying
leap up onto the bed. Which when I do this, makes Ron's body jump up off
the bed, like being propelled off a teeter totter. The bed is literally up
to my waist. Guess next time I think about washing this pad, I will just
throw it away and buy a new one, instead.
I have, however, kept the
refrigerator clean since I wrote last.
After at least a minimum of 4
new wrinkles, I deciphered out how to do my ebay template. With MAJOR
help from Beulah and Brian. Knowing it was probably some minor glitch
that was holding up my Endeavour, it was. Most things work smoother, when
you know what you are doing. So I have begun my ebay career. Not with
resounding results yet, but you have to start somewhere. My ebay ID is
comptonhouse. My intention is to put something on each week. That would be
a week when I haven't been trying to capture the color of grass for WAY
too much time. I love the template.
With the time spent making new
things and the photography this week, we have several new things up on the
website. Several new items in the newest items on the home page just under
the pictures, and then several in the new items icon you click on and can
look in subcategories.
They are scattered in those
categories. Check them out! The newest listings for crow soup are in that
icon. Also on crow soup this time, are the strawberries and Coleman the
Crow. For Coleman, if you want a closer view, email me and I will send you
some closer shots. I have several new things in the works too that you
will be seeing in the next few weeks. And just to make myself crazy, I
plan to work on more witches shoes. Of course, now I have forgotten which
side of the interfacing gets placed next to the muslin, so I will probably
have to peel that off either the ironing board cover, the iron, or the
pressing cloth. When I figure that out this time, I think I better MARK
the interfacing with sides.
www.crowsoup.com
will be released sometime today, as it always does on the 15th of the
month. We can be found at
http://www.crowsoup.com/Market586.php .
You can see those things now on the website under ranting raven/crow soup
icon and in those red new items click on. I will be adding new things to
the website and ebay as I finish them. If I stop washing bedding and
trying to capture green grass, I should be getting some great new things
done.
Thanks for asking to be a part
of the farm.
in fond regard, Clotilda
ebay ID comptonhouse