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Shug turned two months old this week!
He did really great at his doctor appointment and measured almost 90th percentile in height! He’s so tall that he’s out of his 0-3 month clothes and the 3-6 month footed onesies he has are already almost the perfect length – it makes me wonder how many times he’s going to get to wear all those great 3-6 month clothes he has before he’s in the 6-9 month size! Wow!
He’s just *such* a pleasure – always a happy, peaceful little thing. Sooooo sweet.
It’s my turn to make Friday night family supper at our home tomorrow night, so I made my version of the vegetable coleslaw that’s in the Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. I always like to make cold salads like coleslaw and potato salad the day before they’re served, because they always seem to just taste better the next day. This is *so good*.
Ingredients (mine is slightly different from Ina’s -her recipe is here):
1/2 head white cabbage
1/2 head red cabbage
8 carrots
2 cups mayonnaise
1/3 cup Creole mustard
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
3 tsp celery seeds
salt and pepper
Directions:
What makes this slaw so great is that you cut everything lengthwise/horizontal so that when you process it in the Cuisinart (use the thick cutting blade), it makes nice long strips. Here’s how the carrots look when they’re in the processor tube:
Slice the carrots and the red and white cabbage in the Cuisinart:
Mix all together in a huge bowl (this recipe makes enough to serve about 8-10), then in a medium bowl whisk together all the other ingredients. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add most of the dressing to the large bowl and mix well, then see if you want to use all of it (depending on how big the cabbages are, you may or may not need all the dressing).
I put it in the refrigerator and serve it super-cold the next day.
Yum!
The first of ten Gee’s Bend quilt murals has been unveiled in Boykin.
The quilt designs that are going to be made into murals are the same ones that were used for the postal stamp collection.
This first mural, made for Lottie Mooney’s quilt, was designed by stained glass artist Tyree McCloud.
If anyone knows…where will the other nine murals be located? Will they all be in Boykin where the quilters are, or will they be displayed in different areas of the state, or…?
One of the local television stations had a spot this morning with William Christenberry, who is back home this week to take pictures of the Black Belt, just as he does every year.
He also mentioned his newest book, William Christenberry’s Black Belt, which came out in March.
The host asked him about how he considered himself and his work, and WC answered (thanks to my Tivo I got this!), “I think of myself as an artist. But – but – as time goes on, it’s been pointed out, as you have here, I have really documented, if possible, the passing of time. I said ‘it’s possible’ – I don’t know if it’s possible. But I go back to the same places year after year and I have not missed a year since 1968…”
One of the images in the book that they showed on television was a sketch he made of a gourd tree. He said, “the gourd tree tradition has always fascinated me, which was really a mosquito deterrent. Primarily. But aesthetically, ‘plastically’, as we call it in the visual arts, the relationship of the spherical – the sphere of the gourd, or the bottle, too – and the linearity of the tree limbs, they almost always appear to be winter trees. You don’t see any leaves on them. Aesthetically, that’s what it’s about.”
I’ve got some of his books but I may go ahead and get this one. There’s a project I want to do in Shug’s room that has to do with his image of the green barn – I may try to start that this weekend…hmmm…
Photos for the newspaper
Originally uploaded by zenorschnitzel.
My friend Jessie (above, with one of her new designs) – who is just…um…*so cool* sent Shug one of her new t-shirts (in baby size)!:
It’s silkscreened with images from the menu board of Dreamland in Mobile!
Jessie graduated from the School of Architecture at Auburn, so we have a mutual thing for the Rural Studio, and she now works at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (just look at everything they’re doing!).
Her t-shirt designs are here at her etsy shop, and there’s one that she did with Butch Anthony.
ANYway, I can’t wait to see Shug wearing her shirt once he gets just a bit bigger! Thanks Jessie!
Shug’s been smiling for about two weeks now…he’s even giggled a little bit!
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