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| twigs |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 2:17:00 PM
Dear Farm Friends,
I have to tell you all about the wonderful Farm Girls Gathering at Cabin Creek Farm (Frannie’s) this past week. If you missed it then golly you should have been there, anytime with Frannie is always a hoot but when lots gather together its even more fun.
Lynn Ann Davis and Becky from The Picket Fence in Ohio meandered down to my place in the hills of Ky, Thursday. We had a wonderful time again together and I took them to Traderbakers in LaGrange and we bought the store out I believe. Becky has a thing for chairs and I would have sworn they were gonna look like the Clampits with chairs tied to the top of their car, hee hee stopped by my dear friend Lea’s store Knock on Wood and we had a wonderful time there and boy does she have the most amazing treasures. She also redid part of her store like an old Log Cabin and OH MY GOSH…..her work is amazing.
Thursday night I told the gals that going to Frannie’s was just a scam to get them down to my store to help me decorate and clean it up. So I put them to work. I believe Lynn Ann finally believes me when I say I have the messiest work room in the world. She did admit she had never in her life seen so much stuff. I believe she called me a supply junkie, ha ha
Thursday Fay from Mercantile Gatherings came to go with us, btw: she is doing fantastic. She looks so good and her heart is ticking away. And we took William over to the Amish to babysit him while we got on the road to Cabin Creek Farm. It stormed the whole way down to Frannie’s and when we finally met up with the Cabin Creek Queen, she had several Farm Girls with her and we had a wonderful time eating at the country club and then tiquin’ in Greensburg. Met Patti from Missouri, Ivy from Tennessee, Kathy from Ky, Ashley from Indiana, and then dear friends Kathy (Sugar Bucket) and Pamela (Beehind Thymes) came and gathered with us.
Oh I tell you, as always we had the best fun with Frannie, oh the cabin is overflowing with wonderful treasures. Every time I go I see more goodies. We ate wonderful fixins, and had wonderful girlie chats and hilarious laughters in the middle of the night. Ms. Frannie is one hoot I tell ya, Becky is paranoid of everything and out in the middle of the hills tucked in cabin, at about 3:00am in the morning Frannie decides she is going to scare Becky and gets a spool of thread and puts it in a metal pan, tucks the pan under Becky’s bed, and then has the string over on her bed….Frannie tugs at the string and Becky swears she hears a mouse or rat….she jumps up on the bed, then topples over onto frannie’s bed and Frannie is laughing so hard she PEED THE BED. The commotion and laughter is what gathering is all about.
Oh the stories we can tell, and share and pass down to our youngens…......now as always what goes on at a gathering stays at teh gathering, hee hee....some secrets we just can not repeat..
We toured-shopped Greensburg, Glendale, Campbellsville, and went to Sugar Bucket kathys one night for she is building the most amazing log cabin store on her land by her house.
Frannie is magical I declare I have never in all my life met such a wonderful spirit……honey hunk hank is gone to climb mount everest and ever day frannie has spiritual flags that she hangs on a clothes line. She made up cards that say different strengths and blessings to bless him with every day, and she goes out to the tree and ties a ribbon flag of blessing and does a little dance in the yard and prays blessings to honey hunk hank. She had us all out twirling in the yard praying blessings to hank…oh what magical memories….
Anyhow, just thought I would share with you all that we have had a wonderful wonderful time. And if you ever get asked to go to Cabin Creek Farm, you must go, drive across country, or fly on a plane, do whatever you can to get there for it is magical.
Now im soo exhausted from NO SLEEP………and I have a store to clean up and finish for my open house is FRIDAY…..yikes.
Twigs
www.twigsnsprigs.com
May you be surrounded by the things of olde that make you feel like a treasure! |
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - May 16 2006 : 9:45:52 PM
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 4:48:34 PM
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I loved hearing about your trip. Does Frannie garden? What is she growing right now? Does she can her veggies?
I know you all must have had a great time. I want to hear more about Frannie as a Farmgirl
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hey gurlfrenz .. frannie here ... well, let's see .. farmgirl frannie ... i'd say i'm a 'gentlewoman farmer' now .. NO critters other than the wild ones in the woods ... and two loveable olde english sheepdogs. honey hunk and i travel a lot in this chapter of our book of life .. soooo .. don't want a lots of 'responsibilities' for animals on the farm. we'd come home to cannibalism i fear! we've done the horses, ponies (well .. ONE each for our daughters!) .. lots of olde english sheepdogs (kinda' raised them in the mountains of colorado .. cuz' the momma and poppa were in love and constantly having babies!) DID the chickens, and ducks and birds and fish and rabbits .. never did cows or sheep though .. they pooped more than i ever wanted to deal with. oh .. and we had a most loveable 'goat' named troll. i got him as a 'prop' for a PLAY (teahouse of the august moon) that our girls were in .. and we adored him so much .. we kept him!)
gardens .. mostly only grow the veggies we reeeeeeely love .. like tomatoes and squash and zucchinni .. lots of herbs .. we have GREAT farmer's markets near us .. so we support them .. and since we live surrounded by about 3,000 acres of forest .. we would be feeding the deer and other wildlife more than ourselves. i've canned and made jams and jellies and pickles, wines from our apple, plum, peach, cherry trees and grape and blueberry vines. but i just 'play' at it .. cuz' once again .. i love supporting our farmer families that need to do this for a living. flower gardens .. every year i have a big SUNFLOWER garden (my mos' favorite flower) .. do a cutting garden and wildflowers, and gourds and pumpkins, a lavendar garden .. and that sweet annie jus' does it's own thing!
i'm baking a lot more now than i ever have before .. and trying lots of new recipes (both down home southern and 'somewhat' gourmet) .. i collect cookbooks with a passion!
i'm VERY involved with our village community and belong to lots of organizations that i just love and i adore these kentucky friends! i also hostess several 'gatherings' a year for friends near and far .. and we all stay right here at cabin creek farm .. snuggly for sure .. but oh what fun. i adore our civil war era log cabins and honey hunk and i love to sit on our porches or snuggle in the hammock and take walks in the woods together.
don't think my 'typical' day is probably that of a farmgirl who has lots of farm critters or big gardens to tend .. but i imagine the rest of our lives are pretty similar.
for me .. i truly believe .. i have the best of all worlds at this time in my life here on our farm in kentucky.
ya'll come visit .. you heah?? xo
True Friends, Frannie |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Apr 25 2006 : 4:59:23 PM
A left behind hippy......oh that we could all be that.
Peace |
| twigs |
Posted - Apr 25 2006 : 08:04:43 AM
Patti,
oh hon you are soo right, frannie is just magical......ive never met a person on this earth like her....i think she is a left behind hippy, ha ha....
the jelly bean game was originally teh penny game, and boy she got me in trouble with that one time, hee hee.......i love that game though....it allows you to learn about folks and the things they have done in common or not with you......and shockers too
im so glad i got to meet you....now you must come again for you fit right in with us ky misfits, hee hee
twigs
May you be surrounded by the things of olde that make you feel like a treasure! |
| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Apr 25 2006 : 07:13:20 AM
sounds so wonderful. Im very happy you all had such a great time.
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 10:57:40 PM
Sounds lovely ladies! Glad you had such a wonderful time together! Thanks for sharing your stories (esp Frannie's trick with the pan & spool!), looking forward to pictures!
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
| happymama58 |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 5:57:52 PM
I'm going to post a more detailed account of the weekend on my blog (hopefully start tonight), but I thought I'd add a few things to Twigs' post. Please excuse me lack of the right words for some things -- I'm still pretty exhausted from the weekend and then packing & moving all day.
One thing about Frannie that really stands out to me is the way she incorporates pleasure into everything. I arrived Friday around 11:00 to find Frannie waiting for me on the front porch. After a wonderful brunch of mixed fresh fruit and other goodies, we headed to town to start shopping. At our first stop, a large (gorgeous) building filled with the wares of various vendors, including Frannie, the owner greeted us as if we were old friends. Frannie hid a primitive (stuffed) reindeer in the shop somewhere, and whoever found it while shopping got to keep it. Ashley found it -- way to go Ashley! There were little games like this throughout the weekend. On one excursion, everyone was to find an object priced $3-5 that somehow met the theme of FarmGirl to swap. It was so much fun to forage through the various items to find the perfect item that would remind the recipient of the Farmgirls and our great weekend together.
In the evenings, when we sat around gabbing, the games continued. One of my favorites was when we sat around Frannie's big farm (kitchen) table, each of us with a pile of jelly beans in front of us. Going in a circle, each person shared one thing they had never done. Anyone in the group who had done that thing threw one jelly bean into the pot. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life as I did that evening.
It wasn't all chuckles and grins, though. We also shared with each other about things that were more serious in nature, and I enjoyed hearing the various viewpoints. I'm still pondering some of the things that came up in our chats, and I'm sure I will be for some time.
I've never done anything like this before -- gone off for the weekend with a group of people I'd never met before -- and I was a bit nervous. Within minutes, though, we were all chatting as if we'd known each other forever. What a wonderful, diverse group of women brought together by one fascinating woman.
I know some of you are wondering about Cabin Creek Farm -- it's even more than I imagined from the 2 magazine articles I'd read about it. I can't do it justice, so I'll post the pictures as soon as I can. I promise. I will tell you this -- if I weren't very much in love with my husband and if I wouldn't miss my kids horribly, I'd be begging Frannie to adopt me and let me live upstairs in the upper cabin!
The shopping was fantastic!! Beehind Thymes (Pamela's shop) is a treasure trove, and I definitely plan to return and spend more money there. An absolutely wonderful place! Kathy (Sugar Bucket) joined us for awhile and then on Saturday evening we drove over to her house (which is gorgeous) and poked around all the treasures in her huge garage (she's building her new log cabin shop, so until it's finished, her wares are in this humongous garage that is filled with great stuff). And when I say she's building a log cabin, I mean she's actually building it (with her dh)! This is one talented woman, I'm telling you. We had pizze with Kathy, her husband, and her son, and it amazed me how they sp graciously opened their home to all of us on the spur of the moment and made us feel right at home.
Well, that's all I can type just now. We need to take one last load of stuff to the storage unit and then we're done.
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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| twigs |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 5:34:36 PM
Frannie Garden? well uhhh, for food or flowers? hee hee, lets see, frannie has orchard trees but they dont produce good fruit, she has a garden area but only a scarecrow in it, last year she had a tomato section, does that qualify? hee hee........
she lost her sugar plant, cant find where she put it....
and oh her sweet annie field is now popping up everywhere on the farm.
i dont think frannie cans......... she might gather cans though, hee hee
twigs
twigs
May you be surrounded by the things of olde that make you feel like a treasure! |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 4:48:34 PM
I loved hearing about your trip. Does Frannie garden? What is she growing right now? Does she can her veggies?
I know you all must have had a great time. I want to hear more about Frannie as a Farmgirl.
Peace |
| twigs |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 4:01:34 PM
oh every time i spend with frannie is always loads of fun.......you cant be with frannie and not have a blast.
well i forgot my camera, but frannie, fay, and patti took a slew....so they will be posting im sure
twigs
May you be surrounded by the things of olde that make you feel like a treasure! |
| asnedecor |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 3:50:46 PM
Sounds like a load of fun. If pictures were taken you must post.
Anne
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Apr 24 2006 : 3:17:24 PM
ok this is the first we have really heard about the trip, waiting to hear lots more. Sounds like you had a great time, and I can see where you are probably ready for a good sleep!!
NANCY JO |
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