Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Water over the dam

We've been having rain!  The lake is spilling over...

I've been thinking about my carbon footprint, which I can't photograph, so, after splashing in some puddles, I took this:

The persimmons are orange-ing up:

Here is the first to ripen. Yum!
Madam Spider, perhaps disguising herself as a persimmon?  She used to be yellowish.

Lately I've been working on the farmcloth, hoping to finish soon.  Here are some details...the edges are nearly all done, then I have to back it with flannel.  At first the denim was trying my patience, but now I take each stitch slowly and individually; not surprisingly, we're getting along better!





16 comments:

  1. love the way you created those points with the denim.

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  2. Hi Jude...thanks!! It did that on its own really and I just tidied it up. Seems like it might be useful on clothing somehow...

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  3. Hi Deanna...Jude called it the "denim curl" when I first posted about it. It was a big puzzle for me...so unexpected, but then I decided I liked it and would cooperate with this tendency it has...thanks!

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  4. Hi Suzanna - and I love your colour scheme as well as the frayed edges. Love Agnes too - my parents had a similar pup called Tufty!

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  5. Tufty is such a good name...it perfectly describes Agnes' hair. Right now she is itchy all the time, despite the treatments, so there are little tufts of hair flying about!

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  6. What a great border you made on the denim quilt. And are these fruits in your garden? They are my favourite fruits. I buy then at the supermarket, I have never seen them on a tree. Is it a tree or a shrub?

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  7. Sandra, they are from a tree in my yard. It produces so many that the limbs are very bent over. Our native soil is very fertile...it always astonishes me how much fruit results. This year some of the branches don't have as many persimmons as usual and there may be a root problem to look into...

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  8. suzanna...is the Off Duty Nurse the only
    one that you will have a card for? (nurse)

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  9. Hi Grace...so far, yes, but it's not hard to set up...was there one you'd like to see?...I haven't "finished" the other two cloths (meds and Nice Nurse) but the inner structure and image is ok.

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  10. hey suzanna! thank you for visiting my blog and offering congratulations! i am very excited about it!
    did you know that persimmon is used for dyeing in japan and korea? apparently its somewhat like indigo in that it needs to ferment but it makes the most incredible shade of pumpkin brown(persimmon brown actually!) i love them. and the farm cloth is really good. i too love the edges. the carbon foot print is a good thing to worry about. all of need to pay attention. i saw
    mark bittman speak last week on his new cookbook the food matters cook book, and he suggests we all cut meat consumption in half and cut out refined sugar for the good of the planet as well as ourselves.

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  11. Hi Nandas! Welcome! I've heard about the persimmon dyeing...there is a woman in Washington I think who sells it...I'd forgotten about it til now...it's a different kind of persimmon, but I'll write to her to see if she is still doing it. Thanks for getting me thinking of it. I'm trying to eat more sensibly too, but oh sometimes (a little earlier this evening) I can't help bringing home a chocolate bar. Sigh.

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  12. suzanna...i would like one of all the nurse
    cards when they are available. i know
    someone from my "other" life who would
    love them....other being when i worked at
    a hospital...

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  13. Grace, that makes me really happy! I'll get to work on it.

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  14. The denim just wanted to do this...it took me a while to stop trying to argue with it!

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