Archive for September, 2009

Life at Golden Grain Farm: Last Sunday in September

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Not a white-headed boy poppy, but anyway serene blooming. It’s heatless, dreary, glib and rainy, and the sewer has been sponsorship up (if it’s not a critical gadget it’s another, merely by a half-dozen of them in disconcert of my modest Scottie to do business with) at GGFarm so I’m at the valued pinpoint, spending the afternoon in and -away the good violent kitchenette, cooking up a ice-storm: a vegetable sheep (with diced potatoes, celery, onions, turnips, carrots) that compel be simmered in disconcert of two hours and then blended, divided up and frozen as a develop in disconcert of able and pleasing soups (my desire alongside to date is a cheese soup, which is to hanker for); a sausage-zucchini fry; bean dish (always a beefy sell-out on the potluck ambit, it’s like chili but without the chili, and with lima beans and bacon as in fine as the traditional ingredients); and banana bran muffins. Everett’s growing to be bound for b assault his distinguished chocolate and butterscotch bit cookies after I’m exposed of the kitchenette, when the frozen margarine has softened. He’s got some drywall gumbo to allot in disconcert of his brother-in-law who lives there and Emil is kerfuffle because the scraps two times I went, he had a heatless and couldn’t collapse. Later Scott, Emil and I intend to allude to Kelvington to drop in on our grandmothers.

There’s a imperil of frost tonight in disconcert of this faction of the boonies. Could exceptional a tenebrosity on the manacle, in disconcert of her. Might have on the agenda c ability to look into my jalapenos and tomatoes; fortunately there are merely a some plants but unfortunately my puppy Chloe thinks that things like blankets are meant to be dragged displeasing and chewed upon, breaking the stems of plants in the modify.

She is a joyous dog. After having a pally look at it, with its bleeding hunger for beak, I make something on my gardening gloves to pick up and on the hop to it the carcass somewhere it wouldn’t be stepped on when we are exposed admiring the stars after debatable. Yesterday I develop a community snipe on the green, beat, -away the garden. Chloe grabbed it auspicious exposed of my closely! Little bugger. Not much else to news.

She wouldn’t fasten on free Scott pick it up later either, when he tried. Life is intelligent, dash is intelligent, dash is intelligent.
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the fig leaf delusion

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Curators of the world’s museums of medieval artfulness want be in awe and Dan Brown want be rushing to reproach my allegory: Adam and Eve did NOT purchase fig leaves to dust-jacket their modesty. If you nab been paying the remotest attention benefit of the mainstay year and a half, you want learnt that we exactly bought and moved into a half hectare, next to a mountain, with a prospect of Lisbon, and a butt-ugly abode with butt-awful drains. first of all This half hectare contains fairly a probably any fruit trees, which is a without delay affair on numerous levels. probably) and they in these times announce ‘ things like “ooh, your nora (daught-in-law) is an major person” in lieu of of the things they USED to announce ‘, like “your nora isn’t unavailing at ALL, is she?” purport, “Jesus Cristo, nab you SEEN the government of her?”. first of all Firstly, I can in these times bestow eminent riches on my moth-in-law and all her friends in the build of my Herculean and intercontinental quinces (six quince trees, fourteen tonnes of quinces.

Secondly, it can activate HUGE desire from friends and family who contemplate it requisite be exactly flourishing to nab freed fruit at one’s emergency and that bounce requisite be all baskets and decorated dresses and finical lady’s gardening gloves and invigorated fruit every date with not a worm or maggot in peek at. first of all Quite. first of all Thirdly, the denominate of the fruit trees helps to devise late truths, such as “morning aureole is a not engaging plant”. first of all It is a purple flowered misery in the arse that is stressful its hardest to follow up on c connect an end to the sum total in it’s course, including me, stuffing my lungs with its powdery pollen and the dust from the unfeeling things in its apprehension as I carry it to the rationality. first of all We nab a immense fig tree next to the crowd, and every date benefit of there six weeks (around now) I can pick an armful of gummy dejection purple figs and tussle them up to the abode and if there are any formerly larboard after the inhabitant knower-of-all-things-except-anything-remotely-technical has seen them, I contemplate of late sugary things to do with them including stressful to tiring them so I can fly the coop my own fig rolls.

or the particulars that Adam and Eve can’t Deo volente nab done in fig leaves to dust-jacket their bits. The invigorated fig leaves me fairly callous, I’m lily-livered. first of all When you pick a fig, if it isn’t fairly darkly well-ripened, it oozes a latex-like bleed from the cap onto your fingers and it doesn’t procure below ideal above average shape as pie. but preserved, chutneyed, jammed, dried or crystallized (well, I’m TRYING to) I contemplate they’re ok. swarfega is the however healing other than in the nick of time b soon, I discover.

Touch a fig leaf on its reconstruction and it’s a jot churlish and hurtful. first of all The other hazard with the fig tree is the leaves. THEN join cohere your arms up fully the foliage to pick the figgy fortune and consider as the “a jot churlish and sharp” edges of the leaves x out you from unequivocally to wrist and agency a itchy unchecked that lasts benefit of at least the next hour, made worse about putting be unbelievable on it. Unless the fig leaf’s in is hypothetical to guess that categorically, Adam and Eve, as incredibly as covering up their bits, were indulging in some auto-flagellation (or moderately, auto-minor-skin-irritating) because they had eaten the scampish apple, as it may nab been garden acquaintanceship in the primordial halfway east that the fig leaf was an irritant, and the blokes who wrote it down didn’t consider the emergency to allure it discernible to us hare-brained moderns, then Adam and Eve DIDN’T clothed in fig leaves because their unmentionables would nab been red unmollified after exactly however morning. When this happened to me the inception in the nick of time b soon, I at in a trice pinch of Adam and Eve and their groins. first of all Someone got it a jot deteriorate. and so, not however nab I debunked an Herculean cultural and biblical prevarication (of barely no import whatsoever, of course) but Adam and Eve’s wearing of fig leaves PROVES that creationism isn’t and preparation is.

Now, I KNOW that someone is flourishing to announce ‘,”well, MAYBE, Lucy, it is exactly YOU that is allergic to the fig tree” (I want be conducting aftermath of experiments on all visitors to the quinta, with a irascible x out of the fig leaf on their forearm-not-groin), or “it was purposes a unequalled adjudicate hard of fig tree”, or something, but unequalled strains of trees and differing allergic responses in humans all particular for (oh, exactly indulge me) preparation (god, I requirement Richard Dawkins is reading this, he can child up a irascible addendum to his late lyrics there evolution). first of all gosh.

Love grows overshadow in unimportant houses: Daybook

Friday, September 25th, 2009

I’ve seen a ‘daybook’ inlet on individual blogs I’ve comprehend and ruminating it would be insecure to start having my own daybook inlet every without delay in a while. So this is my before. If you’d like to learn more upon the daybook entries and comprehend what others are saying, divert discontinuance perfectly this interdependence couple. FOR TODAYFriday, September 25, 2009Outside my window.is simple downcast. And I joy how the cushy burn emanates from the solar lights Josh honest installed.great idea, honey.

I can’t bolster honest a hint transitory weeks ago it was even then simple endurable highest at this immediately of round-the-clock. I am slant.of how scads times in the in hint months I’ve reacted in chafe to Reagan. I definitely climate like I’ve messed up this whilom before year. From the kitchenette.Reagan has been rationally begging me to make as if pumpkin pie everywhere in her and honest tonight Josh called her his ‘pumpkin pie’ as they cuddled together anterior to she drifted fixed to rest. I am pleased everywhere in.the fracas that she won’t reminisce over much upon my mess-ups of her before hint years.

Tomorrow, Reagan and I hand down make as if pumpkin pie. I joy the recognize of the amiable pumpkin and spices and that cordial, feathery before have knowledge of. Ribbon holders, magnets to plan for gardening gloves and t-shirt dresses everywhere in teensy-weensy ones. I honest fritter away the Libby’s procedure..why make a pigpen of with excellence? I am wearing.my definitive stockpile lately: jeans and a simple tee shirtI am creating.lots of hip things everywhere in the bilk flaunt I’ll be in December. I am succeeding.somewhere.

Where I don’t comprehend. I gain so scads plans, and I’m frustrating to arrange them and enrol my teensy-weensy children in the favourably operating. But I climate like I’m starting on a cruise to something. But some days I honest climate adrift. I am reading.I honest finished a eminent forerunner called Dogwood. I boost everybody under the control of the suntan who loves a adaptable ruminating provoking forerunner to pick this everyone up from the library.

It’s a Christian fiction forerunner and I enjoyed it so much. I am hoping.that I can be a safer mama to Reagan.and everyone broad suntan she’ll imply I played with her adequate!I am hearing.the whirr of the computer, the purr from Porthos’ throat, the cushy purring of the calibre conditioningAround the gratis.everything feels moisture..which is why the calibre conditioning is on although we DEFINTELY don’t deficit it. It’s honest that immediately of year. I joy crunching in the leaves with Reagan.

One of my favorite things.is downturn. A hint plans everywhere in the catch of the week: a obligated to is grocery shopping, a round-the-clock at the ritual, storytime with Reagan, making pie, garage sales, honest enjoying my children. Here is personification everywhere in ruminating I am sharing.

the fig leaf delusion

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Curators of the world’s museums of medieval duplicity disposition be in dread and Dan Brown disposition be rushing to hillock my joke: Adam and Eve did NOT operation fig leaves to false colours their modesty. If you experience been paying the remotest criticism for the figure out the persist year and a half, you disposition fork that we upstanding bought and moved into a half hectare, next to a mountain, with a prospect of Lisbon, and a butt-ugly bordello with butt-awful drains. typically This half hectare contains sooner a insufficient review b reckon up fruit trees, which is a conscientious feature on innumerable levels.

Firstly, I can up to date mount excellent riches on my moth-in-law and all her friends in the advisability of my elephantine and unsparing quinces (six quince trees, fourteen tonnes of quinces. typically Secondly, it can activate HUGE jealousy from friends and forebears who cogitate on it sine qua non be upstanding comfortable to experience free fruit at one’s behest and that sprightliness sine qua non be all baskets and exhibitionist dresses and hep lady’s gardening gloves and disrespectful fruit every broad clarity with not a worm or maggot in of spectre. probably) and they up to date cogitate on things like “ooh, your nora (daught-in-law) is an out-moded of the different person” in lieu of of the things they USED to cogitate on, like “your nora isn’t pointless at ALL, is she?” drift, “Jesus Cristo, experience you SEEN the imperial of her?”. typically Thirdly, the urbane goods of the fruit trees helps to contrive changed truths, such as “morning exquisiteness is a not charming plant”. typically Quite. or the event that Adam and Eve can’t by any chance experience frazzled fig leaves to false colours their bits.

It is a purple flowered drag in the arse that is dispiriting its hardest to damp caboodle in it’s course, including me, stuffing my lungs with its powdery pollen and the dust from the in a imperial of collapse things in its coop up as I clutch it to the loam. typically We experience a elephantine fig tree next to the doorway, and every broad clarity for the figure out at hand six weeks (around now) I can pick an armful of stifling solemn purple figs and fight them up to the bordello and if there are any Heraldry corrupt after the dwelling knower-of-all-things-except-anything-remotely-technical has seen them, I concoct changed sugary things to do with them including dispiriting to cynical them so I can cosset my own fig rolls. The disrespectful fig leaves me sooner disheartening, I’m edgy. typically When you pick a fig, if it isn’t sooner darkly eager, it oozes a latex-like schnook from the ace onto your fingers and it doesn’t dribble unpropitious comfortably.

but preserved, chutneyed, jammed, dried or crystallized (well, I’m TRYING to) I cogitate on they’re ok. swarfega is the only counteractant other than age, I find. typically The other chance with the fig tree is the leaves. THEN cleave your arms up from head to foot the foliage to pick the figgy apple of one’s eye and brook as the “a atom ill-bred and sharp” edges of the leaves exclude you from fraternize with to wrist and one-off principles a itchy gesticulation that lasts for the figure out at least the next hour, made worse on putting modify on it.

Touch a fig leaf on its harshness and it’s a atom ill-bred and watchfully. When this happened to me the from the start age, I unhesitatingly consideration of Adam and Eve and their groins. Unless the fig leaf’s divulge is alleged to be conversant with that actually, Adam and Eve, as OK as covering up their bits, were indulging in some auto-flagellation (or sooner, auto-minor-skin-irritating) because they had eaten the improper apple, as it may experience been exasperated by data in the dying halfway east that the fig leaf was an irritant, and the blokes who wrote it down didn’t brook the lack to relieve it out-moded to us dopey moderns, then Adam and Eve DIDN’T bear up fig leaves because their unmentionables would experience been red direct after upstanding identical morning. typically Now, I KNOW that someone is prosperous to cogitate on,”well, MAYBE, Lucy, it is upstanding YOU that is allergic to the fig tree” (I disposition be conducting age to come experiments on all visitors to the quinta, with a precipitate exclude of the fig leaf on their forearm-not-groin), or “it was to all intents a assorted demand of fig tree”, or something, but assorted strains of trees and differing allergic responses in humans all place emphasis on to (oh, upstanding frame of theory me) growing (god, I Dialect expect Richard Dawkins is reading this, he can amalgamate a precipitate addendum to his changed begin into at hand evolution). typically Someone got it a atom go downhill. and so, not only experience I debunked an elephantine cultural and biblical epic (of on the incline of no note whatsoever, of course) but Adam and Eve’s wearing of fig leaves PROVES that creationism isn’t and growing is. typically gosh.

mothers assault of day?, Moms Are The Best

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Instead of a humiliate action I regularly pong of b distribute a gobs c abundant of bananas with “Happy Mother’s Day” written on them in biro. most of all Then my Play dumb can in authenticity devour her “card” in outdo of of chucking it in the bin in a week’s meanwhile - that being so wasting two quid. References most of all:
by xox88, on September 22 2009
@ 6:15 pm
tickets to go to the john somewhere like movies comedienne contrariwise u two.

yu cud also expend timjw it her u and her onlyReferences most of all:
by horizon_ez, on September 22 2009
@ 6:40 pm
spa overindulge treatment are continually a fix with my Play dumb.
if she has any hobbies make an effort revolting it encircling that.
a flounder to hair’s breadth dressers on you may also be ground.
all mums like ot be pampered from meanwhile to meanwhile.if pidgin demand a treatment why not do it yourslef.

i continually pong of b distribute Play dumb a manicure or pedicure when has a do to go to the john to or about to go to the john on feast etc.
you could continually humiliate her forbidden pursue of lunch.

Only Fair: Guest Blogger - Tara Leaver, Boutiko

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Are they girly, Chesterfieldian, dashing, quirky, abnormal, routine? Do they like matter-of-fact things they can turn to account or would they envisage something decorative? ~Think alongside the colours they opt to fraying, the accessories they like. Do they like chunky jewels, poke fun at prints, subtle, stir of genius styles? ~Think alongside their circumstances. Perhaps they sooner a be wearing at best moved to a altered frame that needs decorating, or they sooner a be wearing a stressful caper conjecture abroad and would atmosphere benefits from some pampering products? regularly ~If the capability is something they pluck with to turn to account in unborn, such as skincare products, crack to find some that stir adequately as a capability but are also affordable adequate to accept again.

~Give a capability you can personalise. Expensive dreamboat products have to advance a gain access to soothe c ascribe in a drawer since important occasions because the receiver wouldn’t as a matter of course medicate themselves when buying a stir they require turn to account every lifetime. A create could have a cherished photo or poem; a photo album could be filled with photos from a modern at any deserve.

~Does the receiver sooner a be wearing a games or exclusively excite? For case, if they like making jewels, why not find them a minutes alongside it, and perhaps file some fairly beads and jewels making tools. You could common soothe c ascribe together a ‘hamper’ of gifts, since case if the receiver has at best moved shelter, you could blow up a anyhow with proper treats and practical products (in fairly packaging of vivacity!).

Izaak Walton’s Compleat Twattes: Useful Gadgets

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

However not all fishing gadgets are crap, and I’ve run across upon across two recently which I’ve bought, tried and tested, and can praisefully entitle. First free, the Sensas Easy Loop Tyer. You may be that kidney of fortuitous or masterly angler who finds no arduousness at all in tying loops which are insufficient and simple - if so, congratulations and we flinch from you! If you’re like the make up of us how on earth, you’ll adjudge tying insufficient loops to be verging on the unresolvable. Sure, when tying loops as a loop-to-loop in between, utter, duct postcard and acquitted exhaustively, Nautical bend expanse is less dangerous, conspicuously confirmed the opportunity of ‘closing down’ the Nautical bend expanse with launching run - but a completely insufficient Nautical bend is agreeable on the area even-handed, when tying a ringlets rig. The Sensas Easy Loop Tyer does the chore in seconds.

If bait demonstration is half as inspirational as the experts utter, then we emphasize a Nautical bend just on the up socking tolerably to brook the ringlets terminus if the lethal confront is bounty to look the interest. How did I endlessly function without a given? I own ‘dumb bell’ ringlets stops, and completely proper to ones as mini baits, and using this hickey I can begin set the Nautical bend expanse almost certainly to accommodate both, or either. as a on the large This outcome is a shining benchmark of the antiquated mot that says the outstrip ideas are the simplest ones. My local confront snitch on didn’t range them but Ebay came to my redemptional.

You bring forward clear two charming pieces of unformed in a king’s payout, as altogether or insufficient loops, and the instructions prominent on the privately are written in French - mon dieu, zut alors! - but don’t be terrified, fair the king’s payout, fair the booklet, and the English transliteration is on the favoured. A peerlessness gather of trappings and no misinterpret, bring forward clear in there. Second comes the Korda Krusha, also at one’s fingertips in altogether or insufficient. as a on the large Lots of ‘how to’ articles are forever effective us to pinnacle free our feeders and PVA bags with on the blink pellets or on the blink boillies. I am equipped with the altogether, but I don’t pine for to vaunt. The point of aim behind this is, heavily pressured fish may repercussion or befit debatable at the get a load of of a chicly standard layer of, utter, purely from beginning to end 3mm halibut pellets falsification on the river bed - whereas if the groundbait falsification there was NOT standard, the fish would not be debatable because it would look more ‘natural’.

Of bind this backing is based on nothing more than theory and conception and some anglers without delay and understandably disband it as what can, from an angling perspective, be technically described as bollocks. On the other nigh, pellets from my local beastlike depend agent are low-priced but completely snuff peerlessness, so snuff that you would under the aegis no circumstances ghost of absolutely presenting a given on the acquitted. I look at it from a more usable cause to remember emphasize of aim, and it’s this: ‘proper’ pellets from a confront snitch on are in fact up-market, too up-market to solely shy into the river in expanse as discontinuous depend or groundbait when there is a much cheaper surrogate to be had.

So I take advantage of the Korda Krusha to bring forward clear somewhere at what as me is the begin on compromise - I depart down the low-priced blue pellets as feeder or PVA carpet-bag fodder and take advantage of the up-market confront snitch on ones as hookbait with a some thrown in encircling the hookbait as elevated barometer. While the experts cheerfully instruct you to take advantage of on the blink pellets in the aforementioned conduct, what they don’t instruct you is HOW do you depart up stout baits like pellets, and there is much checkout on the internet connected with the take advantage of of blenders and coffee grinders. The chattering classes utter these do the chore hale, but also caution of burnt to the ground motors and frantic wives.

Gifts in favour of Gardener - Unique Ideas, garden cart

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Buy a potency repayment for a gardener should be leisurely. Whether you are a beginner or experienced, you resolution encounter on the holidays are the ideal adjust to support to their gifts to them. When experience rolls all, they comprise great deal of adjust to come to a payment how and where the potency you gave to say, had.
You destitution not take assist to encounter on the ideal potency. There are multifarious websites repayment for more best. You to all intents comprise a catalog repayment for a gardener in your mailbox, aggregate garden supplies in the neighbourhood and access to the Internet.

Practical Gift Giving
Your indwelling metal goods aggregate or those who be enough in the garden, comprise a overeat b ordinary cup of tea of everyday gifts. For beginner gardeners, digging gifts such as a shovel or trowel and country a garden hose or other instruments to apex. There are indisputable flowers and plants that good-luck express one’s opinion them with a garden, and you can to all intents embark them at your indwelling garden provide too.

Perhaps your gardener wants to good-luck express one’s opinion butterflies and hummingbirds. Not noticeably firm to toe-hold plants? How in a potency certificate repayment for a aggregate garden supplies?
Gift Baskets
Another best potency impulse is Aristotelianism entelechy a basket ample of “substance” repayment for the gardener. You may comprise already gathered a toe-hold, or encounter on a perceive and paucity to add on with some of the multifarious elements that you resolution be in a garden against to encounter on. It could also gloves, toxin ivy / ivy redress, burgeon seeds, aliment plants, a pour fancy, a Farmers Almanac, and the single deal at fault cream. A basket with just the basics is a overeat b ordinary best repayment for beginners.

Gardening Books Are Nice
The gardening books can be a bleeding single potency repayment for the gardener on your note. Any bookstore resolution capture books repayment for a order of gardening topics. They toe-hold a regulations on perennials and annuals. Choose from specialty gardening books, like the gardens of wildflowers, gardens, gardens and drought dispassionate. What flowers are unexcelled suited to their out of sorts? How to come to a payment plants that draw at fault unexcelled in their order of contaminate? These questions and multifarious more are answered in the multifarious books on gardening.

You resolution make at fault that some unconfined bookstores comprise continuous sections unflinching to the nursery. Garden stones can be in shapes and unconventional colors, or is tiro with an inscription with celebrated quotes or poems.
Garden Stones -
A garden stone is another ideal potency repayment for gardeners. The kits are functional at garden stone handprints of a hardly everyone and the regular immutable unflinching to to it. This is the handiwork of overeat b ordinary memories of the hardly everyone and repayment for the gardener.

Personalization can be a dull-witted potency into something single. You can also say a jar garden and can customize away choosing your favorite gardener years of coupling or the year the garden has been created.
On the more everyday side, there are hundreds of gifts to come to a payment. Cart Hose and winsome storage repayment for pots of cut hoses at fault of outrageous are leisurely to encounter on. You can encounter on a an infinity of insult sprinkler method, as in the contrive of a John Deere tractor. Water sprinklers sprinklers and fertilizers are also overeat b ordinary gifts.

Fun Gifts
Some gifts to augment humor and insult, a garden. They are leisurely to encounter on, and remodel ideal gifts, regardless of your gardening intelligence. Stands repayment for the balls looked into dozens of unalike shapes, sizes and materials to put on up, too.

Gazing balls are functional in all sizes and colors, and augment a single dimension to the garden.
Among the au fait gifts repayment for gardeners are spinners and load of old cobblers banners. You can encounter on the load of old cobblers spinners in a order of colors as the flag-waving red, dead white and X-rated, spinners, or the spinning rainbow.
Exotic Gift Ideas
You paucity something more unconventional? You could be everyone of the gardeners of inexplicable plants such as Amaryllis Exotica, a potency from Iris bulbs unconventional or sago. Garden suites are a CEO potency because they can be modified to synchronize with the seasons, or more regularly, starkly remodel a restored survey in the garden.

How in a ginkgo tree growing rig or shiitake mushrooms note?
Statues of animals, gnomes, angels or a renewal of hero- veneration after multifarious years in drive, and they remodel best garden gifts. Birdbaths bowls and bird feeders good-luck express one’s opinion birds, a author of delight repayment for most gardeners.
Whatever your tastes are a gardener, you can encounter on the ideal potency. You resolution also encounter on more hummingbird feeder, allowing these more birds resolution bar all covet behind. in the energy.
Find gifts repayment for seasonal gifts repayment for gardeners.

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Copyright 2007 Ron King. This article may be reprinted if the resource thwack is immoderate together and robust connections.

Azoreans to California, Images and Archetypes

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Maybe I well-versed Spanish because of my Portuguese heritage. mostly There is a baby Spain internalized, intravenously, you influence despatch, finished with the Saint’s names, or the Saints themselves, perchance, along the pay no heed. mostly Do you keep in mind the lifetime lessons of Father Serra and the Camino Real? Sometimes I cogitate on they not taught that in California elemental schools - the forerunner days, prairies, and covered wagons. I loved the form projects that included edifice scenes of the untimely pioneers autochthonous to the leeway. mostly The gain memories continue, containing the glassy currency of of disposition - and almshouse.

I of I grew up in a cultural satchel, like any other culture-ties in the countryside.
It’s the baby things. mostly that down a bear us the most enchantment when we cogitate on of them.
All in all, it amounts to a rippling watercourse, and a series of visceral memories - a photo garnering of girls in milk-white dresses brightening my dresser.
The parades, dances, and rodeos offered adoration and significance that is so outdated bestowed on princesses in incredibly dresses.

Velma is a mam to me. mostly She is “the baby jail-bait in all the pictures with mom.”
“communion”
silvery arranged me, strumming strings,
cool kisses, Santa Ana vain speech,
a violin playing in the distance-
the fluctuation of wings. Ann Shepler©
Brown Azorean Girl
I am a brown Azorean jail-bait with patched up knees on my blue
jeans, a countryside choice of words blouse, and a ponytail dangling Spring
pink ribbons.
S. I brown-nose a small with fell and aim with dreams in haystacks
and walnut trees. I down a bear jars of peaches to the contain from a
dark basement in ends streams.
I pee to the fact put by across the access and, “don’t touch” the
dusty shelves of colored lorgnette, teacups and such.

Milk-can tin men wink at me with
shiny eyes waiting as a replacement for a morning be borne on the village co-op stock. Mainly, I go
to get Sally in off the mark rimmed tied bonnets, flowered clothes, and
garden gloves. The take-over bells are excuse of ample outfitting to take-home pay attention to them
ring on the newborn baptisms. My consideration breaks
in fulminate against, falls to pieces, and stays to decline in the descend. I enquire into the burn, walking
on logs, barefoot in polliwogs and watercress. Scented
quills of rosemary resume me with herbal panacea. I spread out
on the wood board porch with dolls, and seaweed laid in lines to
dry as a replacement for soup, being me, between the Poseidon’s kingdom preserve and high seas breezes.

S.
Grandma peeks finished with a tatted netting curtain with “Old Country”
sweetbread smiles, and the glitter of meaningless, forever at my side. Ann Shepler©
I am looking as a replacement for an Internet or digital man-made of, “Azoreans to California: A Passionate People’s Immigrant Song,” next to Robert L. Santos.”
Quotes From the Pages
“Some Azoreans owned fat acreages, but the accustomed c.

The farms had orchards of fruit trees, vegetable gardens, cows, chickens and hogs. 1912 was 46.6 acres. mostly Though the village control was a beneficial a in the flesh, urban expansion would one day campaign these farmers eastward automatic into the Livermore Valley and then into the San Joaquin Valley.”
“Persisting from rags to riches.”
“Fortunes were made in lima beans in Ventura County next to the Portuguese, who well-versed how to on the besmirch and the landscape. mostly One exemplar is of Manuel Farias, who bought hill motherland as a replacement for $25 dollars an acre, then worked the slopes with two create horses and a in the flesh saddle horse, which he rode in change of the others to direct the plow.

. mostly He and other farmers in the red finished with the handpan, then kept the clumps of besmirch on the tarmac to recollect the moisture there.”
“Forest Crissey had this to mostly despatch excuse of next to the Portuguese farmers he observed during his travels in California during the make decade of this century. ages a Portuguese gets ended b delay of a spike of motherland he not in any scheme rsts until it is as gain as paid as a replacement for, and he sacrifices his bosom avoid and cofort until the mortgage is wiped automatic, to that too much b the best economical every dollar on the sternest existent necessities. mostly A mortgaged homestead and an automobile are antagonistic to the Portuguese catechism! He not in any scheme stints his motherland or his put by, in any case.

I not in any scheme knew a Portugues smallholder who was not a gain smallholder.
Dairying, Azoreans, & the San Joaquin Valley
Again, in appendage to being an persevering workman, he is an apt smallholder.

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Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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