{"id":5338,"date":"2010-12-05T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2010-12-05T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:56:08","slug":"get-to-the-farm-hurry-you-only-have-10-more-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/get-to-the-farm-hurry-you-only-have-10-more-days\/","title":{"rendered":"get to the farm! hurry, you only have 10 more days!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

my friend janice and i visited the farm!<\/a> yesterday morning.\u00a0 it was the christmas open house, and i found even more great stuff there, PLUS FUDGE.\u00a0 could there be a more perfect morning?\u00a0 i think not.<\/p>\n

this time i brought my camera to get better pictures than the day i went with just my phone.<\/p>\n

the fabulous chickens who are always happy to see me:<\/p>\n

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here’s me, but unfortunately the sweet kitty, whose name is SPOT, wasn’t anywhere to be seen.<\/p>\n

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the horses – are they clydesdales?\u00a0 they looked like it.<\/p>\n

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janice under the gazebo.<\/p>\n

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i love this work area when you first go into the shop – there are so many things hanging from the ceiling, plus all the stuff they’re working on is heaped everywhere.\u00a0 really cool.<\/p>\n

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across from this is a big candle display.\u00a0 they have several different kinds of candles, and these are good ones.<\/p>\n

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that’s the other huge room, with the table full of goodies. gee, why didn’t i buy that cool joy platter?\u00a0 BECAUSE YOU DON’T NEED ONE MORE CHRISTMAS THING, THAT’S WHY.<\/p>\n

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the punch, the cinnamon-covered pretzels, the eggnog cake, and THE FUDGE.\u00a0 the only thing bad about the sugary sweet deliciousness of the fudge is that amy and mom went to the farm later in the day and THE FUDGE WAS ALL GONE.\u00a0 amy was very disappointed.\u00a0 maybe if i hadn’t been such a pig and eaten so much fudge in the AM, there would have been some left for my poor little deprived sister.\u00a0 next year she’ll have to go in the morning, with me.<\/p>\n

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here’s my friend kynda!\u00a0 i don’t know why this angle makes us look like midgets.\u00a0 is it the perspective, or just the camera?\u00a0 after i was raving about the farm when i went there for the very first time, kynda wrote to me, happy that i liked it – KYNDA WORKS AT THE FARM!!!\u00a0 kynda is my friend who did the beautiful flowers for my wedding, and she has an amazing garden of her own and makes lovely flower arrangements all the time and blogs about it – the link to her site is over there on the right, “canada garden,” in case you haven’t ever seen it.<\/p>\n

the thing is, after she wrote to me, i had a vague memory of reading about her going to “the farm,” and i always wondered what the place was; i assumed it must belong to a relative or something.\u00a0 i had no idea it was THE FARM.\u00a0 and it only took me four or five years to finally get there.<\/p>\n

kynda also wanted a photo of us, and she whipped out her camera – it’s big with a big fancy lens and i know that must help her take such dazzling photos of her flowers.\u00a0 i would like a fancy camera with a great lens, but on the other hand, i like to be able to stick my camera in my pocket or purse without it dragging down my shoulder.\u00a0 kynda, one of the most talented and modest people i know, acted like her camera was no big deal.\u00a0 super fancy.<\/p>\n

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kynda again, with a view towards the back of the shop.\u00a0 it makes me want to hang stuff from the ceiling, which is where i’d have to hang things if i wanted to hang anything else because our walls are beyond filled with stuff.<\/p>\n

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here are all the lovely hop ladies.\u00a0 gail, the owner, is the one in the back on the right.<\/p>\n

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this pottery is tucked into a little open closet, and i should have taken a wider picture so you could see what i mean.<\/p>\n

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some of the wonderful herbs and spices for sale.<\/p>\n

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throughout the shop are bunches of dried flowers for sale.\u00a0 i had a horrible time trying to pick two of them, and i got them home and was excited to put them in a cute vase i have hanging on my wall, and I BROKE THE VASE.\u00a0 i have been breaking things more and more lately, and i’m lucky that my brother david is good at patching them up.\u00a0 a couple weeks ago i broke a fancy gold-rimmed plate that kevin got when working for gov. edgar, and david fixed it so it looks almost like new.<\/p>\n

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more herbs!\u00a0 even though i bought quite a few the last time i was there, i couldn’t resist buying a couple more.<\/p>\n

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next to the herbs, one of the many cute little trees.\u00a0 i wish i’d taken a picture of the tree that janice bought; it had feathery green branches and janice carried it around with her in the shop, adding ornaments to it as she went.\u00a0 janice, who is normally very safety-conscious, was so excited about the tree and the ornaments that she left her purse sitting somewhere in the shop, and we had to race around trying to find it.\u00a0 she finally did.\u00a0 whew.<\/p>\n

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if you do make it out to the farm in the next couple weeks, you won’t find this beautiful wreath, because i bought it.\u00a0 i DID NOT NEED ANOTHER WREATH.\u00a0 dad left three of them here when they moved out, and i gave one to amy and jim, but still had two hanging on the front porch.\u00a0 but luckily there were THREE nails poking out of the siding for hanging stuff, so this wreath is right outside the door.\u00a0 i don’t think kevin has even noticed it yet.\u00a0 if i had room i’d hang it inside so i could look at it all the time.<\/p>\n

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i already bought a couple of silver candle holders, but i love this whole display.<\/p>\n

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here’s a panorama of the shop when you first walk in.<\/p>\n

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when i got home i was inspired to finally start decorating.\u00a0 i dragged several tubs of decorations into the living room, but then i sat down on the couch for a while and decided i was too tired to do any decorating.\u00a0 plus, winnie curled up next to me and i petted him, then he put his paw over my hand.\u00a0 whenever i moved it to type, he would get annoyed and meow at me, so i finally gave in and just sat there with him.<\/p>\n

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DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT MOVING YOUR HAND AGAIN! is what he’s saying.<\/p>\n

ok then, you can’t go to the farm today because it’s closed.\u00a0 you could go tuesday, when there won’t be many people because it’s tuesday.\u00a0 there won’t be any fudge, but it would still be well worth your while.\u00a0 if you don’t make it out till the 18th, I’LL BE THERE!\u00a0 not that i need any more christmas decorations whatsoever, but if they’re on sale…<\/p>\n

ok then, try to stay warm.\u00a0 only four months till spring…<\/p>\n

mrs. december grace hughes.<\/p>\n

p.s. i am putting a link to THE FARM’S BLOG over there on the right, if you want to see it for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

my friend janice and i visited the farm! yesterday morning.\u00a0 it was the christmas open house, and i found even more great stuff there, PLUS FUDGE.\u00a0 could there be a more perfect morning?\u00a0 i think not. this time i brought my camera to get better pictures than the day i went with just my phone. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,35],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-farm","tag-winnie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-1o6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}