I have a favorite piece of art on my deck that is very clever and original. It's an old table knife with forks and spoons hung from it like a mobile. It is attached to the eaves of my house facing the deck, and it provides a sweet and subtle sound as the wind gently moves it. Since we spend a lot of time eating on our deck in Adirondack chairs, it's an appropriate decoration.
I am amazed at the number of local artisans available in our country area. I have an arbor fashioned from copper pipe welded together, a wood pergola separating my front yard from the pasture, many wooden garden supports, birdhouses, chairs, tables, and handmade wreaths hung from gates and fences. I even have a small quilt top made to look like the US flag affixed to the fence in the summertime. It all goes together well.
This weekend, I'm on the lookout for more supports for my burgeoning garden vegetables. I'll go to the antique mall in Monroe to see what they have, and pause for a while to have lunch at the bakery there, and meander my way home the 'back way' through old Snohomish and then home to Maltby. It's the Slow Life, and it's the life for me.
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