Saturday Stories - Pomegranates 08-26-17

 

When Diane and her sister Marie were living with their grandparents in Los Angeles during WWII they prowled the neighborhood with their school friends.  The street dead ended into Poppy Peak which seemed enormously tall to us.  There was a trail to the top through cactus and chapperel, but they were not permitted to climb it alone.  Once when they went with their uncle they saw tarantulas and there were rattlesnakes in the rocks.    Their grandparents house had an alley along the back where the one car garages were located.  They knew all the neighbors and their animals - dogs, cats, goats, chickens, rabbits.  One house had a pomegranate tree that hung over the back fence and the kids helped themselves to every pomegranate that grew on the alley side of the fence.  Sometimes they even reached under the fence and stole a few more.  The only things Diane can remember they did with them was to eat them out of hand or juice them in the jelly sieve their grandmother used when she canned.  After the war and the move back to Oregon the sisters traveled by train back to Los Angles to visit their grandparents.  For some reason they always visited in August and the pomegranates were always ripe.  One of Diane's neighbors has a pomegranate tree in their front yard and every year she helps herself to just one.  She feels like a seven year old again!

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Friday Feet 08-25-17

This foot is the hostess at the Farmhouse. She says the shoes are so comfortable she is going back to Target to buy some more.

 

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Ladies lunching out 08-23-17

My friend Carol has been talking about this restaurant since she went with friends a month or so ago.  So we matched up dates with our friend Teresa and gave it a try yesterday.  It is Farmhouse at Roger's Gardens in Corona del Mar.  I used to shop for plants at Roger's Gardens, an upscale nursery with fabulous plants and imaginative hanging baskets and multi-plant pots.  They also have patio furniture, a top rated gift shop, and just about anything a gardener would be seeking.  It isn't for penny-pinchers as it is located in the very elite area of Corona del Mar, almost adjacent to the VERY upscale Fashion Island.  Years ago, when I lived in Huntington Beach I did a lot of gardening and would frequent Rogers for unusual plants and unique planting ideas.  I will post some pictures later that I took yesterday of the flowers on display.

 

I thought I had taken pictures of our lunch plates but all I took was dessert.  Of course!  I had wonderful Icelandic cod with baby broccoli and farro and a lovely mild sauce.  Carol had the Grilled Hanger Steak with Heirloom Tomato Salad, and Teresa had a Gorgonzola & Granny Smith Apple & Chicken  Salad (w/candied pecans, dried cranberries, mixed lettuce and raspberry vinaigrette). Everything was delicious and beautifully presented.  Of course, we couldn't resist dessert. 

 

Flourless Chocolate Cake w/fruit, red wine sauce and whipped cream.

Peach Crisp w/brown sugar and oat topping, vanilla bean ice cream and caramel sauce.

Carol Bednar

Teresa Malinowski

On the right, Teresa and Carol choose our table for next time. 

 

It was a lovely day. 

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Wordless Wednesday 08-22-17

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Things you didn't know or don't need to know. 08-21-17

 On a strange, abnormal day, here is a strange, abnormal post. But the little pictures would not transfer, but the message is the same.   Enjoy!  Del

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"Stewardesses"

is the longest word typed with only the left hand

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And "lollipop" 
is the longest word typed with your right hand. 
 

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, 
but our nose and ears never stop growing. 
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The sentence:  "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. 
  

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The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' , and 'level'
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":  tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous 
  There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." 
  
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 
  
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

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A  goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 
  
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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

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A  shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 
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A snail can sleep for three years. 
  
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Almonds are a member of the peach family. 
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
(I know some  people like that also) 
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Babies are born without kneecaps.   They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 
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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 

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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 


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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
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The cruise  liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 
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The  microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a  chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 
(Good thing he  did that.) 
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. 

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There are more chickens than people in the world. 
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Winston  Churchill 
was born in a  ladies' room during a dance. 
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 
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Bonus!! All the  ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the  Elephants!! 
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Now you know (a  little) more than you did before!!
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Terry Grant Quilt from TCQC 08-20-17

This is one of the few pieces in TCQC that is, in a sense, framed.  It is mounted on a heavy nubby weave beige fabric on stretcher bars.  There is heavy card over the hole formed by the stretcher bars.  The quilt itself is not bound, so the batting shows as a white edge. 

 

There are about a dozen pieces of Terry's work in TCQC.  I do admire what she creates.  This piece hangs in my master bath so that I can enjoy it every day.   

 

"Yellow Bowl"  Terry Grant - Beaverton, OR  2014  10" x 10"

Recycled cotton fabrics, fusible, cotton thread, cotton batting.

  Machine appliqued and quilted.

Terry has used her distinctive black "sketching" to machine outline the bowl. 

This shows some of the shirting fabrics that Terry dyes and uses in her quilts.  Some of them come from the Talbot outlet in Carmel Valley, CA.  Others are from resale shops in the form of shirts and blouses. 

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