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Posted at 10:28 AM in Gobble Gobble | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
I really, really started to hate the word ECONOMY sometime around mid-March. It made me feel all first-trimester kind-of sick every time someone even mentioned it. But recently,I've begun to look at that word-- and what it means to our family-- in a different light. A values re-clarification sort of light. And you know what? It seems to be helping. Part of my re-framing this summer has been to make an effort to get back to the basics-- to use the beauty of our surroundings and the plenty of activities to be found nearby as a way to fill our days with richness....all for free (except Noah and sailing. that one's about bank-breaking, but that's okay).
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We've had so much rain lately that you'd think on the one sunny day we had last week, we would have hit the beach with lightening speed. You'd think.
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Posted at 08:52 AM in Breeding Grounds | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
This is a picture of our library.
Go through the left-hand door, up some stairs, turn right, up some more stairs, and turn left through the old wooden doors and you've found the Harbor Springs Public Library. Or is it private? I'm not sure, but it's small and quaint and crammed full of books and the librarian scares me. Which is what librarians are supposed to do, right?
In fact I would have some pictures of the inside of the library, but the last time we were there, Jimmie got yelled at for sliding his feet across the carpeting in an effort to build up static electricity to shock his sister. He handled the admonishment quite well; I was embarrassed beyond belief.
Also, we have a couple of books overdue.
It has a cozy seating area that kind of looks like this:
but imagine more eclectic seating, windows that look out onto Main Street and books, lots and lots of books. And the smell of fudge, because there's a fudge shop right below the library.
I don't know about you, but fudge and books really might be heaven.
When I go back to my home town, from time-to-time we'll stop at the library. It's a beautiful facility, not at all the library I remember downtown, next to the fire station. The one where I knew exactly where to find all the Edgar Eager books. The one where you wrote your name on the inside cover right next to where the librarian stamped the due date. When I go to the new library I can still find my name in the old books. It's a kind of magic all to itself.
I love exploring libraries and realizing all of the information and stories and thoughts that are out there to be explored. Last visit to the local library we scored this book:
Anna and I are working on one the projects from this book and will be posting it soon, I promise. It involves sponges.
Checking out books involves giving the librarian your name. She hand-stamps the books and you're good to go. I love that.
There's been talk about a new library. One with computers and lots of books and access to much more than this library has to offer. I'd like to say that I would prefer the old over the new, but that probably wouldn't be true. I'll like a new library. I love technology. Any place filled with books is my kind of place. But I won't give up the old, either.
I think there's always room for both.
...alison...
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It is raining today. Again.
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I know, I know, some feminists will shudder when I say that right now, this
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Posted at 08:32 AM in Gobble Gobble | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)
This is the point in the season when actually making it to the grocery store becomes a household joke. Apart from our weekly CSA share, we do a lot of foraging of the fridge when it comes to dinner. Because hanging out here is way more fun that meal planning.
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Posted at 01:59 PM in What a Hoot | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)
I spend a lot of time thinking about chairs. You probably spend a lot of time thinking about important things, like your carbon footprint or Darfur, or books you can read to your daughter to counterbalance the princess movement, or what in the world to make for dinner with the bag of zucchini, tomatos, raspberries and turnips you bought this week at the farmers' market. (After all, one has to convince one's husband that living up to the bar Barbara Kingsolver set in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is not just green but tasty and economical, too.)
Sometimes I think about those things, too. Honest.
But I also, often, think about chairs.
Sometimes I am paid to think about chairs, and those times, I am very Happy.
Here is a secret. If you love chairs, try Ebay. You can get things like this
that are knock-offs of knock-offs. Shhhh.
You can't even tell the difference, can you? These are, Scout's honor, two of the most comfortable and beautiful chairs you will ever sit in or on. Even the knock-offs. And incidentally, the womb chair, aptly enough, is the ultimate nursing chair.
Realistically, where I live, in a small if hip town in southern Indiana, chair-searching is a far cry from the high end residential design I did in Chicago back in the day. (You know the day: the one where I wore business casual and rode the L to a loft office in River North. Sigh.)
Now, I mostly find chairs for clients from my local favorite, Elements, or Crate and Barrel, which is always a good bet and has great fabric, or Room and Board. But I keep ripping pages out of magazines.
And taping pictures up by my desk.
(Oh, Kate, that chair would be gorgeous in Lizzie's room.)
[insert picture: eames-rar-rocker]
And I'm pretty sure my carbon footprint would decrease drastically if I could just sit around all day in one of these beauties.
Posted at 12:38 PM in Nest | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
I was supposed to post yesterday.
Posted at 11:29 AM in Breeding Grounds | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
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So it hasn't exactly been summer around here lately. I'm not complaining, really, because the not-summer action that has left us donning wool socks and fleece during the day and dragging out the winter duvet at night, has also given me plenty to giggle about with the little ones.
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Let me begin by admitting that I am a peace-loving, tree-hugging, homespun granola mom. I'm the kind of mom who swore she would never, ever, ever let a "violent" toy of any kind anywhere near her house. In fact, I probably preached it to every other mother who let their child run around with cap guns or G.I. Joes. And those mom's will probably call me laughing and saying "na na na" if they read this post. Or, more accurately, if they see this photo:
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Posted at 10:18 AM in Fly the Coop | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Alison wrote a really good post yesterday. And its a good thing too, because me? I've got a whole lot of nothin' today. Well, nothing, combined with asparagus and mushrooms.
Posted at 12:19 PM in Gobble Gobble | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
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