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Well, maybe not that exactly.  I have taken up soap making, or soap pouring I suppose is more accurate.  The variety of soap blocks that you can buy for the purpose of refiguring it into something of your own design is huge.  It's called melt and pour, so here I go with the pouring again ... wink wink.
My initial ventures have been using molds, but now I'm wanting to do just blocks.  Of course that requires buying more supplies... so for now it's molds.  Anyway, Essential Oils are added...
more soap... )
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Among other quirky little qualities is this slice of Brownsville.
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I've been absent, and thankfully [livejournal.com profile] mrua7 has been holding down the fort at [livejournal.com profile] section7mfu and handling the Crossover Challenge on [livejournal.com profile] uncle_du_jour

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Big Thunderstorms over the past few days have been washing away dirt on the cars, pummeling plants like my peonies into the ground and striking out in scary ways in people's yards.  One woman said a lightening strike plowed a ditch in her yard.  She had just been outside with her dogs when it started and she got inside just in the nick of time.
I managed to gather a bouquet of my peonies, am hopeful that the two big bushes at the top of my steps will have the energy to perk up and not just hang onto the grass.
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All day long, up to 13 inches but that can always change.  And here I thought we might get by without a big winter storm.  Ha! Silly me.This is the view from my front door.  That is the outline of my snow covered car.
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This is a link to some photos from around the county...
Edmonson County, KY
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We have snow.  I can't see outside because the windows caught the freezing rain and now they're just a blurry white.  My only option for feeling warm and cozy turned out to be a fresh batch of biscuits.  Add some honey and butter... A necessary culinary skill in the South is a good scratch biscuit, and by golly I made some today.  Feeling proud of myself.
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Here in this part of Kentucky, perhaps all of the state, Memorial Day is marked by decorations in the numerous cemeteries and community observances in front of the county courthouse.  This morning I will attend one of those ceremonies, one that my aunt has literally been living to attend.  Her son, my cousin Larry, will be honored as a native son whose life was forfeited in Vietnam.
Not only are the military and veterans honored on this day, but the memories of all loved ones who have gone on ahead into whatever eternity is.  I grew up in Southern California, and the culture of funerals and cemeteries swathed in floral displays does not exist there as it does here.  Small communities gather around each member in a way that the larger, disjointed populations of cities and suburbs cannot duplicate.  Large displays of support or condolence may exist, but it is not the same as one experiences in rural America.
Perhaps my favorite memorial to the past is the twin peonies that grace the top of the steps leading up to the yard and house.  My grandmother, Mammaw to me, planted them after moving into this house.  That makes these bushes about 100 years old, as is the house.  Every year they faithfully bloom, and then too soon the flowers are gone and the bushes must be trimmed back to remain simply greenery until the next spring.  It is an enduring, living legacy to the woman who first called this house home.
Happy Memorial Day to everyone.  I hope your day creates memories that will endure.
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At our library there is a rotating display of work of local artists.  I'm the month of May.  You can see it here.
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It snowed all night and every once in a while there was some ice mixed into it.  It's still snowing, the roads aren't clear and all of the schools and some businesses (the ones with sensible people in charge) are closed.  The brick parsonage across the street looks good in white accessories, but most of our little white houses are just fading into the snowscape.
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Up the back part of the property is the infamous drive.  The car is not parked there this time.
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My car has been stuck on the wrong side of a snowy drive that is steeper than this picture conveys, for over a week.  It just spins its wheels while the dashboard reads Low Traction.  Yeah, very low.  I need rain, or high temps or both.  What I don't need is more freezing of anything.  And no, kitty litter won't do the job.
Spring, where art thou?
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This is a promo for a very big event that occurs every May in Louisville, KY.  This is the year I'd like to put it on my calendar.

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Asthma is a wicked thing, and I'm ready to be done with it.  This last episode was stretched out over a period of time that began before Christmas, subdued and then raised its ugly head again when I visited my brother over the weekend.  Weather, allergies... it was a perfect melding of all the bad stuff.
home again... )
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[livejournal.com profile] bluemeanybeany posted that she can't find good Halloween haunts, so I'm going to let her borrow spooky Enchanted Forest character at the top of my drive.  Bwaahahahaha
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I attend a little church in my very small town, one that my family here has attended for over 100 years; 125 years to be almost exact.  Once a year one of the other founding families hosts a service/event at their farm.  It is not longer a working farm but is operating as a cooperative member of a campaign to restore native wildflowers and grasses to this region.
The evening event is part church, part family reunion: church family and real family.  The two are almost synonymous around here.  The owner of this farm is a cousin of my father's ... second or third.  So that means he's also my cousin, something his 90 year old sister enthused over when she was here visiting a month or so ago.  She and her two sisters travel every summer, all of them in their late 80's and early 90's.  They drive themselves and argue and laugh and entertain when they arrive here.  Everyone comes back to Brownsville.  It is, I am certain, the center of the Universe.
The colors of Fall have not yet fully arrived, the scenery was still worth a few pictures.  After the hayride and the food we sat around a campfire and had church.  It was uniquely Brownsville for me, another reason why I love it here.
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Just another example of the beautiful scenery in this state. He certainly looks like one of the good guys.
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One of my cousins came through town over the weekend, and lunch with him and his brother was a nice diversion from the everyday.  I am the youngest of all the cousins in what is a very small family by most standards.  We are all, in our own ways, slightly eccentric and vastly opinionated.  These two are eggheads most definitely, and in spite of their different choices in many things, they each have retained ( a birthright I seem to have not inherited) the ability to recite history, dates and names and everything else you need for an impromptu classroom.
Yesterday we covered quite a lot, encountered different opinions on some things and resolution on others.  It was a nice day.

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How much of a cliche is it to ask 'Where did the time go?'?  A double question mark on top of my incredulity.

It's been raining for three days, something that adds to my inability to grasp the time of year we're in.  I must admit that I'm loving the cool, drizzly days and expect lots of growth in the garden as a result.  I have a big pot full of lettuce trying to overcome the inundation of water, and hopefully the little seedlings will keep going; they came up so fast I'm still amazed at seeing my little rows of green.

life in b'ville... )

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