Thin Slices of Joy
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Thanks Serenity for the info on gardening. I have been really into plants this past year, and still now. It's pretty easy to keep them growing. Makes me happy.
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threetree - I live on an urban island so there aren't any forests nearby. We do have nice green spaces. I've also read that seeing images of nature are beneficial. When I have trouble sleeping I listen to nature sounds. I prefer ocean and rain sounds.
SarahMaude - Glad to hear your chemo is almost done. Your new plant sounds lovely. Your quilting is beautiful.
Jazzy - Love your vacation pics! I love the ocean.
Minus - Hi!
oldladyblue - What do you grow? I'm not a natural at gardening. I'm choosing plants that are likely to survive me and letting go of those that won't.
My husband is moving offices and would like some plants. I have to choose which plants are likely to survive him now! It's a subset of the plants for me. 🙂
We watched the latest Bond movie. I enjoyed it. Craig is my favourite Bond, and I love that the movie is influenced by Lazenby's Bond.
Love that they used this song from it. Louis Armstrong's “All the Time in the World". I read it was his last recording before he died. 😔
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Serenity - WONDERFUL song. I don't remember ever hearing it - or at least not listening to the words. Melancholy since of course the older we get, the more we understand we to NOT have all the time. It's been particularly hard from my BFF who was with her husband from the time she was 16 until he died way too early at 70. Hope this link comes through. It's the news conference about his last concert.
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Cyndi,
Absolutely gorgeous block! I love the colorful fabrics. My long arm arrives tomorrow and I’m so excited! I have two toppers just waiting for me to finish some practice with the rulers. One is the hand pieced Jen Kingwell mystery quilt from a year or two ago. The other is an EPP I designed for a dear friend. It’s a very simple two color lap quilt that transitions from all grey hexies to all orange hexies in a random pattern. I’ll be adding an embroidered frog and bear for her and her husband’s endearments for each other.
I’m scheduled for #6 Taxol this Friday. I envy you approaching the end of your chemo. Do you know how many radiation treatments you will receive?
Fingers crossed for you last chemo!
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Minus - The video won’t play here in Canada. 👎
Catherine - You’re almost halfway done! I had a little neuropathy start at #9, but it didn’t last. I iced and added vitamin B12.
Tracy Chapman and BB King - The Thrill is Gone (though Chapman looked thrilled). 😎
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Thimble Islands
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Jazzy - I googled the islands & read about their history. Fascinating.
Serenity - sorry, I can't get it to come up again either. Was a good 'news' show about Armstrong's last performance.
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Hi Serenity, Funny you ask about what I like to grow, well, so far mostly it's been anything on sale at yard sales or on craigslist: i.e. very cheap. That way if I killed it I wouldn't feel too bad. I have gotten better at looking stuff up on google to see what light/water requirements are and more and more plants survived over the years. Now I get compliments on my yard from passers-by. About 2016, I started paying attention to my dry dead yard due to a radio show I accidentally found by Mark Govan that was on every Sunday AM. It was a call-in question and answer show. I got intrigued and used to go outside and plant or trim or dig something during the radio show while listening. He's passed away now, sudden heart attack, so I think of him when I garden.
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My "thin slice of joy" for today...a calico cat named "Monkey" who knows that it is time for me to stop working and pay attention to her!
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Final slice of joy from my time back east. Sunrise on the Sound
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Been loving your pictures. Thanks Jazzy.
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Jazzy - Very nice photo. Funny, I'm on the west coast and it looks like a sunset to me. Whenever I see pictures of the east coast beaches, I get disoriented because all of the time and directions are "opposite". Don't know if I'd ever get used to it if I moved there, since I'm such a west coast "lifer". Either way, these are thin slices of joy for sure!
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oldladyblue - I don't like to spend too much on plants either given my history, but you have made great progress! Maybe it's time for a little splurge?👍
Catherine - Pets are so wonderful. I've been cuddling my dog while binging a show.
Jazzy - Agree with the others that your pictures are great. Thank you for sharing!
Sort of a new find. I’ve been listening to Chamorro and his collaborators and protégés.
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Serenity - VERY nice sounds.
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Oh serenity, nice picture and nice quote! I felt sort of "melty" when I saw them. Good feeling.
Yep, you are so right, time for a garden splurge.
Thought I'd post a 7 year old picture of one of the happiest days of my life. That's me on the standup paddleboard in my hat in the Bahamas. A friend, more of an acquaintance really, had chartered a catamaran for 5 days and invited me to fly down there spur of the moment and stay for free since one of her friends wasn't coming to fill the cabin. It was a total splurge to spend so much money on a plane ticket, but the trip was the most memorable. I use this as my screensaver to remind me daily of my good fortune.
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Jazzy - I'm not sure if you check the dinner thread, so I thought I'd post here. I love my New Mexico magazine that brings me MANY slices of joy every month. Have you been to Mesa Provisions yet? He uses all local foods so the menu keeps changing, but apparently he retains a few things like the green chile & sharp cheddar biscuit with red chile butter. Ripe tomatoes are the July staple. I'd love to taste his Burrata Cheese Toast. mesaprovisions.com
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oldladyblue - I love the Bahamas! I went with a university friend and her parents on their 39’ sailboat for 6 weeks. It was long ago, but still one of the best trips I’ve ever had. I speared one fish the whole time. Good thing I was with them or I would’ve starved. Great picture!
Minus - Those sound so delicious.
Gorgeous Leonard Cohen live performance of Who By Fire ❤️
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Oh Serenity, 6 weeks on a sailboat! Sounds wonderful. I once caught a fish, it was like 6 inches long. I'm not a good fisherwoman for sure.
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We were fortunate to join friends sailing in the Caribbean for a month in 1975. They had just crossed the Atlantic in their 50 ft custom made sail boat. We met them in Barbados & sailed up to Antigua - anchoring at every island along the way. My favorite time was the "morning watch". At 4am there is nothing moving as far as you can see - until the sun starts to rise... Still the trip of a lifetime.
And starting the morning with Cohen is sublime.
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I don't think I was ever awake at 4 am. Almost everyday we went free diving, and at night, exhausted, I was rocked to sleep. There were days we didn't set foot on land. Glad not to have been attacked by barracuda or that one blacktip shark. No caffeine or hot shower for 6 weeks. I loved it all.
While at the hospital the other day waiting to make my next appointment I heard a quiet guitar. There was someone in the waiting room playing "Sailing". It was very soothing. Hadn’t heard it in a long time.
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Wow, that song and video was so inspirational for me! Gotta make more time for my art. It's always in last place in the fight for my time. Maybe I'll spend that $400 on ceramics classes at the college in the fall again. Been a few years now since I did the whole semester.
Seven years ago, one night on the catamaran, I slept outside on the "net" in the front of the boat stretched between the 2 bases of the boat, just feet off of the water, under the stars. It was so lovely. You both just reminded me of that night with your own memories.
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Love the Christopher Cross. No Serenity - I've always been a night person. I never wanted to get up before 10am, although of course I had to for years to do to work. But somehow the peace & the silence & the dark & the waves were just magic at the hour at that time. Never before or since.
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oldladyblue - Take the class! Sleeping just above the water must have been wonderful. I don't think my friend's dad would have liked us sleeping on the deck unless we wore our vests and were tied down. 😁
Minus - I've always been a night owl, too. The quiet of the boat on the open sea was peaceful. Nothing like it since.
Kristin Chenoweth and Ariana Grande - "You Don't Own Me" ❤️❤️❤️
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Slice of joy - sunflower picking today
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Jazzy - I made the error of thinking the delicious, easy recipe you posted was on the dinner thread. But it was here. What to call it....Shrimp Toss Pot? Anyway, I made it for dinner tonight and added fresh mushrooms. It was enough for two good sized meals and I ate every single bit. I'll probably be sorry later tonight, but it was delicious. Saute mushrooms, garlic & shrimp, add broth & artichoke hearts, simmer. Served over linguine. I think next time I'll toss in some sour cream. WOAH!!!
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Jazzy - Gorgeous flowers!
Minus - That sounds so good. I'm doing a Whole 30 with my husband. I've been having my “Sunday" coffee on all the other days unless I'm fasting. Need to break that habit. Having cinnamon coffee instead.
My chocolate orchid is growing a new spike!
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Song from a Secret Garden ❤️🎶
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Serenity - you always find the most moving music. I just read about Shetland Pony and was in tears anyway. This is a lovely tribute to her memory.
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I learned about ShetlandPony last night when nkb posted on SP’s thread. I thought of her when I heard it today. Hope she had many sunny days looking over her garden.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVH4e5ec0Vg
