Friday, January 6, 2012

Martha Washington Table In The Garden

Martha Washington never knew how many would appear at her dinner table.  Extra tables, boards placed on sawhorses, were often set-up in the garden.  With a cloth of course.
 Yesterday, working in the Ancient Orchard we needed a table.
 Quickly, the guys had our Martha Washington table set-up.  It had been nearby in the potager.
 We were siting fruit trees.
We did use the hammer, keeping invoice sheets from blowing away.
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Obvious, more than 1 Martha Washington table is needed in her garden.
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G*d is smiling, these are FUN needs.
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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Pics taken yesterday.  Notice my basket in the top pics?  34 years old.  English white willow.  Came from Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas during their Christmas Fortnight event.  Sales lady didn't want to sell it, it was holding ornaments.  La-ti-da, acquired my target.  Yes, the lady got huffy.  Very huffy.    

2 comments:

  1. Here is Thoreau writing about apples, their history, cultivation and the native varieties, in the Atlantic for November 1862. A Tantalus ...

    "Early apples begin to be ripe about the first of August; but I think that none of them are so good to eat as some to smell. One is worth more to scent your hand-kerchief with than any perfume which they sell in the shops. The fragrance of some fruits is not to be forgotten, along with that of flowers. Some gnarly apple which I pick up in the road reminds me by its fragrance of all the wealth of Pomona, -- carrying me forward to those days when they will be collected in golden and ruddy heaps in the orchards and about the cider-mills.

    A week or two later, as you are going, by orchards or gardens, especially in the evenings, you pass through a little region possessed by the fragrance of ripe apples, and thus enjoy them without price, and without robbing anybody...."
    http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/1862nov/186211thoreau.htm

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  2. Great brick wall, and nice use of "disgarded items". Great table set-up, not to mention the basket find. (I wonder what you paid)

    Seems some at "Needless Markup" could benefit from the customer service at Nordstroms!

    Like hobbyist-run nurseries that put plants "not-for-sale" right near plants for-sale, without a fence or other barrier to keep people out. Otherwise, who would think it is not for sale?

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