Vintage

I have a love affair with vintage. I believe I have a mistaken belief that life was simplier in decades past. These days seems so input-heavy to me - and I live in a very rural place! But I'm quite "plugged-in" and I don't know, I dream of being a farm wife some days.

With my Waring blender:

 

In an old house with creaky wooden floors on about 100 acres... with my dogs, cats, horses and of course, JC.

Making fruit smoothies in the morning with this blender, and margaritas in the evenings while we sit out on the front porch and watch the summer thunderstorm in the distance.

 

I know it is a pipe dream but let me dream it, ok?

BTW, this blender works perfectly and I found it at our local thrift store along with three cashmere sweaters on a day when I must have made it in before our local collectables people... normally these finds are snapped up long before I mosey in. Lucky day.

It is summer, hot and heavy in the afternoons. Mornings are still fresh and I've got to stop staying up so late and start getting up earlier in the mornings to ride. Seems like you just get in the house after the sun goes down, grab some dinner and before you know it the clock is striking 11 pm or later. Too late for getting up as early as I need to be up to beat the heat in the valley.

Summer's just here but it will fly by. I'll be loading the dogs up and heading to the resort tomorrow evening - driving around the horn and staying in Fresberg for the night then finishing the drive early on Saturday. A good solid week plus up there will do me good. I fret about leaving the tomato plants and the "pond" and the peonies that are just coming up but only the hardiest survive around here - plus we have our caretaker from next door. Gotta let it go.

Summer only lasts so long.

Comments

[Shari French]

love the simple "on/off" button...wish other things worked the same way....

[Bill Richardson]

I'm pretty sure the farm wives I grew up around weren't making smoothies in the mornings, and margaritas in the evenings ;)