Who ever thought joining a social networking website would bring out a profound change in your life? Back near the beginning of June, I joined the social networking website Plurk. It seems that a lot of knitters that I know are over there also. In using the service and talking with all the lovely knitters there, Miss Violet posted about a thing she was starting called the “Plurkette Farmgirl Hencircle.” I was intrigued and went to the site to look. After reading what she’d posted on the site and following the links to Mary Janes Farm I joined up. (I also went out and ordered the books and went to the store and got some plants to plant a container garden - see one photo above).

So…Our first project is to post a bit about ourselves. I am a late 30’s mother of three. I grew up in a large-ish city in Texas, but my grandparents lived in a smaller town nearby and I spent a lot of time there. My grandmother taught me to crochet and to hand sew and other things from a pretty young age. I used to watch her cook all the wonderful home cooked country meals. (See previous hotwater cornbread recipe). My grandfather had a pecan orchard and I remember helping him harvest pecans and getting rid of infestations of web worms (ewww). I once chased a chicken around their yard that had escaped from a neighbor’s house. I realized when I read the things on MJF that I was missing those things. The things that I remember from my grandmother’s house and from my childhood. I have found my inner farmgirl. I have been to the farmers market. I’ve made a homemade pinkeep

and from scratch zucchini bread. I wear an APRON for deity’s sake!! (and have fabric and pattern to make another one) As I type this, I have a piece of freehand embroidery on a dishtowel on my lap.

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN MISSING!!

I’ve been helping MissV get the website in order and will be writing a few columns over there hopefully. (I have a cookbook review planned.) I can’t wait to see what all we come up with and do. I will still be knitting and weaving and all that other stuff, but expect to see more from me of a different crafty nature.

(btw…Fiona apologizes that she didn’t post this Friday. She and I both were not feeling well)