OK, I promised you more “wild art.” How’s this? I drew this to be the cover of my book. Beaucoup Arlo & Janis, but I chickened out. I didn’t want to have to listen to all the juvenile giggling and hooting which I knew would ensue (No, not you!) or to that annoying tut-tutting about children reading the comics. I told you: I chickened out. Instead, I went with a more staid version of a Rodin theme which I thought turned out well enough.
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208 responses to “Modely Crew”
Happy trails, Jerry…….
Heh. stirred up some silliness here, I have. Anyway, I had a great morning and I hope everybody else did, too.
I believe most of the regulars here are pretty truthful about our lives – and it never hurts to have a venue to “journal” our thoughts and concerns. My FB page is only for people I really know, some better than others, so I’ll never have hundreds of “friends.” This is the first forum (and most likely will be the only) that I have ever read regularly and commented on occasionally; I think we are drawn to it by our enjoyment of A&J, and thus feel that we must have more in common than that. I believe that has turned out to be true, because we do feel like a little village and we care about each other. Maybe too, we have empathy for each other’s problems and suffering because a lot of us here are 50+ in years, and we have each had our own trials and tribulations that give us insight to others. I know that I would not have been much (knowledgable and compassionate) help to others when I was in my 20’s because I had not yet lived long enough nor had I been through enough sobering experiences. So, villagers, I know many of you and your loved ones are going through health difficulties and I will continue to keep you in my prayers!
Like Granny
Debbe, I wish the Village lived close enough, I would supply green beans for all who wished. I know JJ and Ghost like green beans too. I am going out to dig around the potatoes and see if we have some for dinner tonight.
I am looking forward to spring and intend to start with the trellis’ full of English peas and sugar snaps. If they hold out, I may have to put in an annex for the green beans!
Creamed new potatoes and green peas are usually made with a béchamel sauce/white sauce done with butter, flour, a little salt and pepper and cream or whole milk, then the cooked potatoes and green peas stirred back in. Corn starch works well too but with the flour you stir into the butter like a roux. With corn starch you melt butter and add the corn starch to the cream/milk and then stir into the butter.
Paula Deen has nothing on me except a few millions and a face lift!
Love, Jackie
I’m jealous. Not only did Meg get a nifty Arlo carved Jack-o-Lantern, but Arlo seems to have found the fastest package-sending service in the universe – same day shipping! On a weekend, no less! And imagine Janis’s surprise when she sees what Arlo did on social media.
Halloween is last day to traditionally plant garlic. Vampire prevention day? I need to get some in ground.
Debbe, thanks, one of my favorites by Harrison. Here’s something for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcz2LvzgyQo
Granny Carol….thank you and bless you…………………..
Put in my Seger’s version greatest hts////some l
damn red lines…
against the wind…………………I found myself seeking shelter against the wind………………
And Jackie, I admire your garden from afar. I also admire your energy for taking care of it! I like to garden too, but my efforts are on a very small scale. For the first time in my life, I am attempting a fall vegetable garden. The only things I’ve been able to salvage from the deer and bunnies and bugs are a few cabbage plants and carrots. I planted some peas (plants but no peas yet) but I am most excited about my Kentucky Wonder string beans. I actually have some tiny little fellows hanging from the vines, but I fear the frosts will come before I can harvest. Even so, it is a pleasure to see them growing!
Mark.thaks….
Harrison and Simon
http://youtu.be/gGZLELC9RCs
Hello all. No news, just a comment to say I’m still kickin’.
Granny, aren’t you in North Carolina near Lanier? Are you zone 7 or 8? I was shocked to find out that Delaware was in same zone as I am here in Oklahoma.
I got my Oklahoma Extension Service bulletins on what you could grow in a fall garden and pole green beans and bush beans have been remarkable. Almost no bug bites and I did not put chemicals on anything. I took the last possible dates to plant from their charts or you can take first killing frost dates and back out the time to maturity off the seed pkg.
We let a few morning glories stay among the beans and they have been so beautiful!
I had a lot of help with gardening lady, so I hope she comes back and doesn’t trip out too badly. She used a lot of drugs in her past and we aren’t sure she has totally gotten clean?
My friends say I run a no kill shelter for animals and people!
Mama and I snapped a gallon of beans off the pole ones, now she is out picking bush beans and turnip greens.
Just saw the funniest sign at local café, “I Smell Bacon.” That is name of the café, the sign said “Stay calm and eat bacon.”
Love, Jackie
Indy Mindy… 🙂 silently waiting……
Back at ya, David…..
Jackie, I’m not familiar with Lanier, but I am supposed to be in zone 8. I also planted my seeds at the last acceptable date – it was the first time I realized you could grow pole beans in the fall. I planted one pack and deer/bunnies got some of my early plants before they vined, but enough survived to make vines so that I am hopeful to get enough to cook, if the weather holds out.
I do not have a deer problem although they get as close as the end of the block but stay in the more wooded areas near the Corps property. I have been told human and dog hair deters them, along with soap hung among your plants!
Have used plastic light weight mesh wire to cover beds with to keep out burrowing animals and cats. I use raised beds so there are walls alongside every one. I have heard you can put up loosely covered plastic mesh around beans, etc. to keep out deer also.
Turnip greens are going like crazy out there. Late cucumbers didn’t do much but I think the heavy rains got stuff, causing bad mildew and rotting.
Debbe, I got enough new potatoes to feed everyone tonight with the green beans, mushrooms and steak. I pulled up some hills to make way for trying some REALLY late greens plantings. The last things are up but looking puny. I don’t think she fertilized anything. Mama was filling a 5 gallon garbage can with turnip greens. Maybe I can mail some? Like Arlo’s pumpkin.
Love, Jackie
OF was winding just as I tuned in. Next due 1821-1841 CDT.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
winding down!
It’s snowing at Yellowstone!
[Sorry I can’t easily find the source of this above.] ‘Under anti-trust laws, how can . . ..’ I remember learning about the Sherman Act in Stuyvesant HS. Over the last half century+, I’ve wondered why it is enforced so seldom. If events continue as I’m afraid they will, it will not be enforced at all.
Granny C: ‘. . . when I was in my 20?s because I had not yet lived long enough nor had I been through enough sobering experiences.’ I’m guessing you are up near my bracket [I turn 85 in 3 wks or so, and am only about 4 wks younger than a favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin. [Her maiden name is Kroeber; her dad was author of my massive anthro text at Cornell in mid-century.]
My life has been scarred [or blessed, if we are right] with relatively few personal sobering experiences [and one 58-year long most blessed one] but those + the planet’s news over the same decades should give any perceptive person pause. Also, some reading: ‘the least of these’, ‘the eye of a needle’, James 2:14-20.
One bumper sticker says ‘Those with the most toys win.’, another says ‘Don’t believe everything you think.’, another, ‘After the Rapture, can I have your car?’ Lots of material things and potential experiences that seemed to matter once don’t any more. Personal relations matter more.
At Sunday Adult Forum this morning, watched a video where a woman of the cloth pointed out: 1. the word rapture does not appear in scripture [I just checked in Strong’s; she’s right]. 2. The notion of the Rapture as presently used is not predicted in Revelation, but was invented by a 19th cent. [Brit.?] preacher.
Those 10 people are earning their live view of OF.
Only 7 were there when I returned. Did the other 3 leave as soon as it blew, or miss it entirely? Patience pays.
May I make a comment about our (I hope) departed troll? Since I qualify perhaps as a professional troll/spam watchman I have felt from the beginning that we were being played by one. They just bore and annoy the heck out of me. Irritating, not interesting.
I use my own name and I am real. Thousands of internet hits will tell you that. Why bother to be a fake?
Since the friend has suddenly shown up, the usual next step in a troll departure is the friend will come back on line and tell us a terrible sad story about how poor Susie killed herself or drove while drunk and crashed the sports car. Or something else dramatically guilt inducing. It was all our fault for causing this, then friend sends letter from Susie, etc.
Seen it, over and over. Not on my watch but on some forums I once belonged to that got sucked in and destroyed. I would write moderator, warn what was happening. No, it was real! B.S. “real” in whose minds? One troll I traced hit and did damage to 16 boating forums!
Boating forms for Lord’s sake!
Don’t feel bad for anyone but us who put up with this nonsense.
Love, Jackie