tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487708481563824272024-03-18T03:01:42.436-04:00* Lime In The CoconutLiving in the tropics...well subtropics.Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.comBlogger650125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-38889520203139972322017-03-18T21:12:00.001-04:002017-03-19T16:38:29.910-04:00The story of a kitchen before and after...and where the chickens come home to roost.<div style="text-align: center;">
I had the fun and <span style="font-size: x-large;">enviable</span> opportunity to witness </div>
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as I chronicled a kitchen remodel that is certainly<span style="font-size: x-large;"> not</span> cookie cutter.</div>
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The process took months, and I was fortunate to be able to photograph some before during and after.</div>
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<i>Before... in all of its hard working glory....</i></div>
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<i>To <span style="font-size: x-large;">this</span> (same view).Ta daaaaa</i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>...</i></span><i>still hardworking yet even more glorious!</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Join me</span>...kick off your shoes and step into Jann and Tom's quintessential home. </div>
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<i>Before and after.</i></div>
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Theirs is an <span style="font-size: x-large;">authentic</span> home</div>
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Hidden in a corner of Old Vero Beach.</div>
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Their property is expansive and tropical and old Florida.</div>
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Car tires crunching on the gravel driveway, you slow down. Your blood pressure lowers perceptively</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Old Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Animals</span> are important to them....</div>
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These are the type of folks you want to know.</div>
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Itinerant cat rescuers...</div>
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chicken <span style="font-size: x-large;">whisperers</span></div>
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Gardener and chef extraordinaire.</div>
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Her kitchen...</div>
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while a <span style="font-size: x-large;">cooks kitchen</span>, and most original to their 1950's Florida home</div>
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was <span style="font-size: x-large;">ready</span> for a re-do</div>
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Those appliances....<i>melted my heart....melted. puddles ensued.</i></div>
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I love a functional kitchen...with the tools on display that show the artistry of the cook.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">But</span> as Jann herself noted, some of the appliances had became a bit <span style="font-size: x-large;">temperamental</span> </div>
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through the years.</div>
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Classic for the times....</div>
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it was a kitchen opened by a single swing door </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">with a</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">peeking window, loved that too</span></div>
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to an efficient and working butlers pantry</div>
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And then... Yes, <span style="font-size: x-large;">THEN...</span> with a door to the family room</div>
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The outstanding cook was <span style="font-size: large;">three layers removed</span> from the guests.</div>
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...and more than cooking</div>
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Jann <span style="font-size: x-large;">entertains</span></div>
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Many. Often.</div>
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see <a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-making-of-tropical-wedding.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-wedding-whisperer.html" target="_blank">here </a> :)</div>
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<i>swing door to Butler pantry next to a work horse of a fridge/freezer that they kept</i></div>
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The Butler pantry (below during the reno)</div>
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was stocked with a charming butlers bell...<span style="font-size: xx-small;">a call the butler sound...that YES. I loved. Too.</span></div>
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and a locking liquor cabinet....whose code was a <span style="font-size: x-large;">secret</span> through the decades</div>
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....until Jann found a handwritten <span style="font-size: x-large;">code.</span></div>
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<i>okay, I made that up....but they </i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>did</i></span><i> find a note from 40 years ago</i></div>
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A 1950's how to keep the teens....and the help... out of the booze.</div>
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Her den b<i>efore</i>...</div>
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Archie in the corner....Every bulldog in this family has been named Archie...</div>
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they are little orbs of muscle under fluff</div>
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Original choices for the floor tile were cement....almost Cuban in vibe</div>
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<i>This was a process....remember.</i></div>
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There was talk of an island enrobed in blue paint...</div>
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There were plans...and more plans</div>
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This was a <span style="font-size: x-large;">big</span> project...</div>
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This process was facilitated with the <span style="font-size: x-large;">prowess</span> of her right hand man</div>
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interior designer Jesse Nartker</div>
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<i>It is a blast to watch the push and pull of a respectful designer/friend/client relationship.</i></div>
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<i>...and theirs is pure genius!</i></div>
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It was Jesse who<i> </i>encouraged Jann to consider antiqued mirror as a backsplash</div>
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and the matchless brass lining strip that integrated with all of the other brass.</div>
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I literally <span style="font-size: x-large;">gasped</span> when I saw it in person.</div>
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There may have been a few euphonious swear words involved.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yep....that ^^ was a real chicken out on the bird bath as I shot photos</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">who has that?!?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">and do these gals ever produce luscious eggs!!~</span></i></div>
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Walking into the kitchen, you would never know that it wasn't always there.</div>
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The floors a simple matte tan and black porcelain 12 inch tile.</div>
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that <span style="font-size: x-large;">neither</span> demand attention of a fad...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">nor</span> fade away.</div>
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The island. Almost 6 feet wide and over 10 feet long is covered</div>
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in a Carrera stone. And a favorite part of it is the <span style="font-size: x-large;">happy accident</span> of a vein of gold</div>
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It ties in the brass pulls and lighting so beautifully</div>
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The sink...<span style="font-size: xx-small;">or should I say sinks</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>are industrial behemoths</div>
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compared to what she was using before</div>
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<i> And....Before</i></div>
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The efficiency of all of the <span style="font-size: x-large;">drawers</span> is another fave of mine.....and hers.</div>
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come take a tour of some true drawer crack....</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Am *I* the only one that loves to peek in a well organized drawer???</span></div>
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and was here...in the Butlers pantry...</div>
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The den/casual dining area was also redone adding a beautiful fireplace</div>
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<i>During picture...as they were breaking the butler pantry and den wall down</i></div>
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<b>PattyVaughn</b> local artist and painter did the painting and faux painting on the woodwork:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">While</span> there have been changes in the refugee camps I worked at </div>
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this past fall....</div>
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the camps were without adequate heat....babies without warm clothes or shoes</div>
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apartments and hotels....they, perhaps, need our support <span style="font-size: x-large;">even more.</span></div>
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While on the face of it they may have running water, and a real toilet<br />
most of these families are under supported</div>
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they still need food, diapers, prenatal care....some one to tend, care, listen</div>
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The NGO's I work with are running faster and further....</div>
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to meet these fellow humans needs wherever they may be.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can help them <a href="http://nurtureprojectinternational.org/" target="_blank">HERE</a></span><br />
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::Thank You to those that continue to support this phenomenal, all volunteer humanitarian effort::</div>
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In Greece and even other corners of this big world</div>
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But Mostly I think of the <span style="font-size: x-large;">chocolate eyed souls</span> that I was somehow</div>
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<i>Today there was heartache for countless of the refugees. They each need two interviews to even start the long process for asylum...many found that the first will not be granted for another 6 months. The majority have been in this situation, and worse, for a year already. </i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i> There were tears. There was the hopelessness of the unknown. Their tears have become my tears.</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i> More months ( years) in the camps. More babies born. I, trying to help be part of the solution, pass out condoms like candy. Discuss birth control at</i><span class="text_exposed_hide"><i>...</i></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><i> a seemingly feverish pace. The women tell me they don't want any more babies in these conditions. 22 year olds are on their 5th. I have met more than I care to remember that have 9. But the big families seem to be separated. A quiet conversation with a resilient and beautiful mother told of the recent sniper shooting/killing of her 16 year old son...who was just buying bread... And a death defying trek across the sea with the rest of their family to try and reach safety. They left just three hours before their home and town was decimated. They left with only the clothes on their back.</i></span><br />
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<i> A little chocolate eyed girl, who followed me around today.... Played with my doll. She hugged her, sang to her, undressed her and dutifully mimicked washing her clothes and hanging them each to dry. Then she curled up on the ground safely cradling her baby.</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i> My hope is that her childhood is not spent in the camps, in these bleak circumstances for too much longer.</i><br />
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Through the years</div>
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The next year she ramped it up a tad</div>
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Kicking up her heels. <i>all three of them.</i></div>
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The next year it was a bit longer</div>
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time worn. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">wait. That's me</span></div>
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The <span style="font-size: x-large;">bright orange</span> chesterfield that I brought home for a song</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">and</span> she needed to move to the family room. </div>
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<i>And Orange wasn't gonna cut it.</i></div>
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I recieved a quote of over <span style="font-size: x-large;">$1000 clams</span> to change Orange to brown.</div>
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<i>nope.</i></div>
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restore....and re-color leather.</div>
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Enter: <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.rubnrestore.com/" target="_blank">Rub N Restore</a></span></div>
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Created by a mother daughter team in California...</div>
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the site is full of hopeful testimonials and pictures...even videos.</div>
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after a phone call with the owner</div>
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I decided to plunk down the 39 bucks and try it out...</div>
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The hardest part was picking the dye color...</div>
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Even got <span style="font-size: x-large;">MY</span> 87 year old Mamacita in on the game</div>
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<i>yes. Grandma B is cool.</i></div>
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I wanted to allow some of the orange to show through...as wear</div>
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It was stunningly easy.</div>
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Easy Peasey easy.</div>
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From Persimmon Orange</div>
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I return from Greece and the refugee camps...different. And while I know I helped individual babies...individual mothers. The big picture is soo bleak for these resilient souls. With spotty internet, I did journal along the way on my facebook page. This is simply one of those entries.</div>
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Thank those of you that supported my efforts...Ongoing support is still needed and there is a link at the end of my post.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">September 16th, Kahlachori Greece</span></i></div>
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<i>I've been to and worked at three of the refugee camps surrounding Thessaloniki Greece. Each is Different from the other. Some are predominantly Kurdish. Others more Arab and Iraqi. Yet...each camp, inside, has the acrid smell of rotting garbage and raw sewage. </i></div>
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<i>I worry that I may be getting used to this mishandled crush of humans and poor poor infrastructure. Something seen and done regularly ( and we do work every day. Dawn till dusk) can quietly become "normal". </i></div>
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<i><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> Here these beautiful bright eyed children, these often college educated women create moments of normalcy in the makeshift shelters they call home. Through grit, resilience and often, the help of each other... They wait for the day their country stitches itself back together. I desperately want to change this for them. It hurts how much I want to.</span></i></div>
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our tropical temps <span style="font-size: xx-small;">read hellishly hot</span> and head to cool and<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>crisp (ish)<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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I met my daughter</div>
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at<a href="https://www.squamlakes.org/programs/conservation-programs" target="_blank"> Squam Lake Association</a></div>
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<i>remember the movie</i></div>
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<i>THIS is the golden pond where it was filmed.</i></div>
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<i>yep.</i></div>
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maybe my most <span style="font-size: x-large;">treasured</span> part of the trip</div>
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Joan, Dan and the girls</div>
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family. I loved them!</div>
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The light in their house was <span style="font-size: x-large;">stunning</span> to wake up to</div>
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made it so happy and light and full of welcome.</div>
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Their true love and respect for their antique beauty</div>
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<i>more than once Joan mentioned just being the caretaker</i></div>
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<i>original barn beams....with milagro love.</i></div>
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the next day, they introduced me to some <span style="font-size: x-large;">well loved</span></div>
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that<span style="font-size: x-large;"> dot </span> New Hampshire . I loved the tour!</div>
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Their <span style="font-size: x-large;">girls.</span></div>
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<i>oh those black shiny happy beautiful girls</i></div>
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Ella, Louise and Magnolia...</div>
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I fell in love. Hook Line and Sinker.</div>
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They followed me <span style="font-size: x-large;">everywhere</span></div>
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pointing out their favorite</div>
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gorgeous White Mountains...<a href="http://dogslednh.com/" target="_blank">Muddy Paws</a></div>
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I just need to talk a few others around here into it :)</div>
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Shout out to a few<a href="https://www.airbnb.com/?af=43888734&c=brdsearch_d_engus_na_na_p2_txt&dclid=COKX9dWj9s4CFYsghwodfEgGbw" target="_blank"> AirBnB's</a> that we loved . It was my first experience using them</div>
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this one in <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/5926211?guests=1&s=dGCWlnE5&sug=50" target="_blank">Laconia</a></div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-65304297789800828832016-08-08T17:50:00.001-04:002016-08-08T23:23:31.841-04:00Championing for the small town....A home tour.<div style="text-align: center;">
...We live in a truly beautiful small town</div>
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in some ways it is a <span style="font-size: x-large;">nostalgic</span> throw back of 60 years</div>
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to the days gone by</div>
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Black and white striped awning shops <span style="font-size: x-large;">dot</span> our ocean drive</div>
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Some of these shops have been open</div>
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and selling beachwear for <span style="font-size: x-large;">over 60 years</span></div>
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<i>... a long and beautiful time</i></div>
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<i>in this era of Malls and Big Box stores...</i></div>
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This <span style="font-size: x-large;">eclectic</span> town</div>
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with a neighborhood vibe</div>
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is also dusted with <span style="font-size: x-large;">world class</span> art museums and galleries</div>
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award winning restaurants</div>
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and fabulous hotels and Inns.</div>
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<i>We are lucky. We know this</i></div>
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This type of small town, Like many, need <span style="font-size: x-large;">champions</span></div>
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to keep it alive. </div>
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They need the believers...who work to</div>
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keep it <span style="font-size: x-large;">breathing and thriving</span>...</div>
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<i>yet maintaining it's simple and beautiful roots.</i></div>
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These small towns need people to shop in the quaint local shops</div>
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and eat in these amazing restaurants, and buy the stunning art.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Enter</span> one such champion in our small town....</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Cindy O'Dare </span></b></div>
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Cindy has been <span style="font-size: x-large;">singing</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">and dancing</span> the praises of this little town for decades</div>
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she has saved several older <a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2014/07/cottage-loveda-vero-home-tour.html" target="_blank">cottages</a></div>
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breathing life and soul into them...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Currently she loves </span><span style="font-size: large;">and calls this</span> classic, almost modest, Central Beach house <span style="font-size: x-large;">home</span></div>
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The cement and stucco house....Is a classic to this area.</div>
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The property is <span style="font-size: x-large;">hugged</span> by the</div>
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century old <span style="font-size: x-small;">and wise</span></div>
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Live Oak and Banyan trees.</div>
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I love that in this area these trees are protected as historical. They cannot be removed</div>
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<i>nor should they.</i></div>
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It is pristine and <span style="font-size: x-large;">happy house...</span> with it's new metal roof</div>
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and fresh paint,,,,and blooming <span style="font-size: x-large;">welcome</span> pots.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Inside </span>it smiles in </div>
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color.....and art....and wild and wonderful wallpaper</div>
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<i>this is not a shy wallflower donned in safe beige.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">uh uh</span></div>
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Much like it's owner....it is infused with a <span style="font-size: x-large;">vibrant</span> and <span style="font-size: x-large;">generous</span> personality.</div>
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It sings happy.</div>
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<i>Join me for a fun tour....</i></div>
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You are welcomed by a GIANT <span style="font-size: x-large;">thought provoking</span></div>
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canvas by Cindy's late Brother in Law <a href="http://www.theowujcik.com/theo" target="_blank">Theo Wujcik</a></div>
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actually... much of the prominent art pays <span style="font-size: x-large;">homage</span> to family and friends.</div>
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The Van Gogh table was done by her artist mother....paintings by her Artist father also don her walls.</div>
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The kitchen is the color of sunshine</div>
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I <span style="font-size: x-large;">love</span> the vintage table cloth</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">AND...</span> the ' can't help but make you <span style="font-size: x-large;">smile' </span>wallpaper...</div>
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on the other side of the kitchen.</div>
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<i>The kitchen is always the hang out room...why not cozy it up?</i></div>
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C'mon...you are smiling, right?</div>
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It's curl up your legs, cozy...and nest-like. And <span style="font-size: x-large;">all</span> Cindy.</div>
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She almost exclusively shops at local consignment, thrift and boutique shops</div>
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<i>girl after my own heart</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Maybe</span> my favorite part of her abode is the Orchid lined sunroom/porch</div>
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right off of the kitchen</div>
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It is a portal to her tropical backyard</div>
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<i> This Table....be still my heart</i></div>
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Just past this table is a <span style="font-size: x-large;">carefully</span> tended butterfly garden </div>
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currently not in full bloom...but welcoming birds and butterflies all the same</div>
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...and past that... an abundant grassy and majestic oak</div>
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Back inside....the bedrooms and a hallway are infused,</div>
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each, with their own wallpapered personality</div>
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and they <span style="font-size: x-large;">play together</span> albeit unorthodox....beautifully....<i>who knew?</i></div>
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Cindy knew.</div>
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The bathroom is a <span style="font-size: x-large;">beauty</span> in marble subway tile and a basketweave floor that I loved...</div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-76685508718687700902016-07-17T15:48:00.000-04:002016-07-18T17:18:54.264-04:00Listen up, my beautiful blog friends.....<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #525e6e; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is a very strong need</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">with refugees, mainly Syrian... In refugee camps.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">well....there is a need for ALL sorts of support.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">but helping with lactation and birth is my skill set</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">often EVERYONE they know,</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to escape persecution and death.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is in these emergent and disastrous situations </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">where babies who are artificially fed...given formula...</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as compared to babies that are breastfed.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The conditions are dirty and unhygienic...disease flourishes in these conditions</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as you help me do this work.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to give these mothers a voice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">and also hunting family members down...or finding family members who are still in Syria.</span></div>
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So will be very discreet . But you can look for updates here</div>
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and perhaps on Instagram, and definately on my <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/linda-roberts-597763" target="_blank">fundraising page</a>.</div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-52491115788801070212016-07-04T13:34:00.002-04:002016-07-04T13:34:52.929-04:00Who knew....<div style="text-align: center;">
That a <span style="font-size: x-large;">sweet</span> little girl</div>
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by the name of</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PEARL</span></div>
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who can't see or hear</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">not that that EVER stopped her</span></div>
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could take such</div>
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In finding our most favorite things </div>
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and annihilating them</div>
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:: <i>My favorite boiled wool slippers</i>::</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Well</span>...In these parts May IS summah.</div>
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The <i>Plumeria</i> are happily pluming....</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">oh the scent...I think my most favorite.</span></div>
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The <i>Palms</i> are fruiting...</div>
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The <i>Frangipani</i> are....frangying</div>
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of this beautiful world.</div>
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<i>Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This</span> dog</div>
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with the constellation of three freckles on her nose</div>
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is <span style="font-size: x-large;">smart</span> as a whip</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">spunky</span>... with a little side of wild</div>
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stealth...<span style="font-size: xx-small;">like a shark</span></div>
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Deaf and Blind.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Threading beads without a Knot on the end</span></div>
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is the best</div>
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description of living with her.</div>
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constantly moving things....and finding places</div>
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where she doesn't belong</div>
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The other morning I was getting ready for work</div>
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an <span style="font-size: x-large;">Alfred Hitchcock</span> shadow was moving across the room</div>
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entering the kitchen</div>
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I found the light swinging</div>
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and <span style="font-size: x-large;">this....</span></div>
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Not cool</div>
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Helen Pearl Keller </div>
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<i>Not cool.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In</span> this world of fast and faster</div>
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I came upon a corner</div>
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that whispered <span style="font-size: x-large;">calm</span> and <span style="font-size: x-large;">quiet</span></div>
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<i>the peace of an era gone by...</i><br />
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Take a deep breath of <span style="font-size: x-large;">warm</span> salty air...</div>
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and join me on a tour of artist</div>
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<a href="http://www.julielounibos.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Julie Lounibos' </span></a></div>
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retreat of a home and art studio.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hers</span> is a house sturdily built in the 1800's <span style="font-size: xx-small;">old old for Florida</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">survivor</span> of many unforgiving hurricanes</div>
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was even <span style="font-size: x-large;">moved</span> across the street in the 1920's</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I love a good survivor story</span></div>
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flanked by the <span style="font-size: x-large;">Indian River</span> to the east</div>
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and hugged by enormous century old live oaks </div>
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and<span style="font-size: x-large;"> twisting</span> singing palms</div>
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<i>the salty home as depicted plein air by artist Lori McNamara</i></div>
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A <span style="font-size: x-large;">sweet</span> 'guest house" cottage next door</div>
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was Julie's previous home</div>
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and currently lived in, and loved, by her artist mother...</div>
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It also houses a metal roof clad garage</div>
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Julie grew up in this small village</div>
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her art <span style="font-size: x-large;">born</span> between the railroad tracks and this river</div>
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It is the <span style="font-size: x-large;">soul </span>of so many of her paintings.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Inside,</span> the handcrafted screen kitchen door creaks and slaps loudly</div>
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as it closes behind you</div>
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I particularly love theses pantry doors</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">original </span>to the house, glass and all.</div>
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The kitchen <span style="font-size: xx-small;">once porch</span> is <span style="font-size: x-large;">bright</span>...and cozy...and authentic</div>
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with homegrown herbs and tomatoes</div>
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ripening on the sill.</div>
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adjoining the kitchen</div>
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The livingroom is big and breezy</div>
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cloaked in windows, art, books, collections....and cats.</div>
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<i>what more would one need?</i></div>
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<i>Sheba</i></div>
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A third generation artist, her art is <span style="font-size: x-large;">steeped</span> in her surroundings</div>
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I love the painting of her Granny...<br />
probably in this <span style="font-size: x-large;">same</span> river</div>
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in the blue first floor bedroom</div>
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and sleepy cats...</div>
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<i>Willie</i></div>
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with those beautiful Dade county pine floors</div>
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and original hardware</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Art</span> and <span style="font-size: x-large;">heart </span>and <span style="font-size: x-large;">home</span>....</div>
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In a historical little village</div>
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<i>Down by the river.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My</span> blood pressure dropped 20 points.</div>
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Visit other Artist's at Home :<br />
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-artist-at-home-series-keep-evil.html" target="_blank">Lou Mullan</a><br />
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2015/03/silent-poetrya-tour-of-artists-home.html" style="color: #dd66bb;" target="_blank">Renee Guerin</a></div>
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2015/05/bohemian-blue-florida-cracker-house-tour.html" style="color: #88bb21; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dale McGee</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is <span style="font-size: x-large;">always</span> a fun privilege </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">getting a </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">peek </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">into the </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">home</span></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> of an artist </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> this<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">refuge</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> that feeds their work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">where experiments with color and mishaps are concurrent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">where life and art intermingle.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some are a study of chaos, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">but in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">all</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">of them... the artists are</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">inspired </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">to beautifully create. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">upon</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> stepping up to her <i>'keep the evil spirits away blue'</i> cottage</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a particularly striking shade</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">you are met by a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">totem</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> of gathered faces</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">created, in part, by those of us at one of her parties</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">given a handful of clay...we created faces as we talked....ate...drank.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">Inside her abode is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">kaleidoscope </span>of color</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">with art </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22.4px;">mostly hers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> on the walls</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">jewel colored glass languidly dangling in front of kitchen windows</span></span></div>
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Everything is a canvas...as depicted by the <span style="font-size: x-large;">back</span> of the vintage</div>
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dining room hutch. </div>
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Now hidden. But the entire back is alight with<span style="font-size: x-large;"> this</span> painting</div>
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grapefruit groves at sunrise</div>
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looking closely...one can see the swirls of color behind the Asian relic</div>
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cookie jars collected for decades line her kitchen...and to be fair...the wine and liquor bottles</div>
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were from another fun people gathering this weekend.</div>
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The bathroom <span style="font-size: x-large;">even</span> houses favorite art</div>
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and gatherings....</div>
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this of collected shells....with faces. </div>
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A seashell party</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">if </span>she had a spirit animal...It would probably be the <span style="font-size: x-large;">crow</span></div>
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prominent in her work</div>
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almost <span style="font-size: x-large;">human</span> in their expression</div>
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Art and books...<span style="font-size: x-large;">align</span> the new reading room</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">once her studio...in the process of moving</span></div>
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family heirloom <span style="font-size: x-large;">maps</span> of their old stomping grounds</div>
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in upstate NY awaiting their chance to fill the walls...</div>
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Her <span style="font-size: x-large;">studio</span> now in the updated garage</div>
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often filled with the children of her students...her grandchildren...</div>
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<i>the legacy continues</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Outside</span> Lou's home and studio is the beautiful and natural <span style="font-size: x-large;">tangle</span> of what is old Florida</div>
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fern pathways walking away from the provocative blue</div>
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The <span style="font-size: x-large;">mingling</span> of art and home...</div>
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Design has to work.</div>
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<i>...Thank You Lou.</i></div>
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visit other Local Artists and their <span style="font-size: x-large;">inspiring</span> homes I have visited:</div>
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com.br/2008/08/artists-color-infused-mid-century.html" target="_blank">Ginny Piech Street</a></div>
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/evolution-of-sandy-toes-beach.html" target="_blank">Julia Carter</a></div>
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2015/03/silent-poetrya-tour-of-artists-home.html" target="_blank">Renee Guerin</a></div>
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<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2015/05/bohemian-blue-florida-cracker-house-tour.html" target="_blank">Dale McGee</a></div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-82952335838690023212016-04-02T15:16:00.000-04:002016-04-02T15:50:02.015-04:00Diner whites....<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Love</span> me some white restaurant diner ware</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">diner...not dinner. Catch that?</span></div>
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particularly on a scuffed up worn out an inch from death</div>
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farm table</div>
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I'm not sure <span style="font-size: x-large;">why</span> I love them so...</div>
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Have been collecting them for eons</div>
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piece by funky piece</div>
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I <span style="font-size: x-large;">gravitate </span>toward an insignia...</div>
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or name on the ware...</div>
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like a <span style="font-size: x-large;">magpie to shiny things</span>.</div>
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Really doesn't matter what it is.</div>
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These little desert plates....found in a Goodwill for 29 cents a plate</div>
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were bought because we had a wonderful dog ,Rajah, at the time</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm not sure I wanna know what the insignia </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">really</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> is</span></div>
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When <span style="font-size: x-large;">we</span> serve desert...or birthday cake... in this casa...The <span style="font-size: x-large;">mountain</span> of misfit plates are taken off the shelf</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> because why take only the 8 you need when you can heave 12?</span>.... </div>
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and served...dripping with chocolate frosting...or the insignia smeared with cheesecake.</div>
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One is <span style="font-size: x-large;">lucky</span> if they get the Cuinard cruise one from 1973 </div>
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...or, perhaps, the Kentucky Horse Park plate when they have licked through to the bottom.</div>
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:: means a cruise...or big winnings are in your future ::</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Naturally.</span></i></div>
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<i>ok...maybe I'M the only one that plays that game...</i></div>
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cake holder.....</div>
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But it was made from <span style="font-size: x-large;">Syracuse China</span></div>
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Not so much because of a collector value</div>
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More because it is nostalgic....Having lived and gone to school there.</div>
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and so...on my thrifting jaunts</div>
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I turn over the stacks and racks of plates searching for Syracuse.</div>
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I have taken to calling Helen Pearl Keller</div>
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Ghost</div>
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I can't turn around for a second without her wafting, noislessly up. Smelling where I was</div>
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what I was doing.</div>
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carry on, Ghost.</div>
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carry on.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Today</span>, stumbling through our local craigslist, looking for something else.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I never do that.</span></div>
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I came across a stack of diner plates</div>
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from the US Army Medical Department.</div>
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<i>right?!</i></div>
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Hey. Maybe they can help out the wheezing farm table?!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Medic!</span></div>
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They hopped in my car...along with some dining cart mugs</div>
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from a <span style="font-size: x-large;">once was</span> restaurant in Seattle</div>
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fun stuff to play with on a rainy Saturday.</div>
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<i>try it.</i><br />
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<i>** I found a cool site that can help you with dating your diner ware piece <a href="http://www.restaurantwarecollectors.com/forums/misc.php?do=page&template=datecodes" target="_blank">here</a>...I had fun with it</i><br />
<i>The medical dept plates were from the 20-40's...some laughlin and syracuse china was OLD!</i><br />
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-20409205889687392122016-03-19T15:32:00.000-04:002016-03-20T22:02:23.964-04:00The Wedding Whisperer.....<div align="center">
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When you live on a <span style="font-size: x-large;">tropical </span>oasis<br />
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a botanical garden, of sorts, <br />
housing chickens and <span style="font-size: x-large;">bulldogs</span> and rescued cats<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and</span> have a cool old house</div>
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full of local history<br />
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and surround yourself with <span style="font-size: x-large;">talented</span> folks<br />
<em>::cough::.Local designer Jesse Nartker and </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Savoir-Faire-Events/1665204920375319" target="_blank"><em>Savoir Faire</em></a><em> were bar none. impeccable. and creating, perfecting to the last minute. ::cough::</em></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">AND</span> put together the most beautiful weddings on said property</div>
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you might be a <span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>Wedding Whisperer</em></span></div>
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...Like Jann.<br />
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Being the proverbial wedding <span style="font-size: x-large;">crasher</span><br />
yep. done it here...<a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-making-of-tropical-wedding.html" target="_blank">before</a><br />
<em>Cuz who doesn't love watching weddings being set up, I ask?</em><br />
I couldn't resist a chance to <span style="font-size: x-large;">lurk</span> around behind a camera.<br />
Join me....at a brunch wedding...chicken and waffles is on the menu!<br />
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They were still setting up....Had plans for <span style="font-size: x-large;">more</span> beauty...and food...<br />
A<span style="font-size: x-large;"> huge</span> tent over their driveway<br />
again connecting to their garage is where the festivities will take place.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The garage</span> happens to have a caterer kitchen in it...<br />
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<em>Your's too? </em><br />
<em>Yeah...I thought so.</em><br />
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Including these cinnamon rolls made by neighbor LeeAnn</div>
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Love these little bottles of local <span style="font-size: x-large;">Natalies</span> orange juice<br />
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Natalie!<br />
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just hanging with the old hens</div>
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~The<em> best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt</em><br />
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we have been <span style="font-size: x-large;">particularly</span> busy</div>
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with a brand new</div>
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Meet <span style="font-size: x-large;">PEARL.</span></div>
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She found her way into our <span style="font-size: x-large;">hearts </span>and <span style="font-size: x-large;">home</span></div>
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when someone clued me into</div>
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a Great Dane that <span style="font-size: x-large;">needed</span> a home</div>
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<em>and probably would not find one. Ever.</em></div>
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You see, Pearl the Girl has some <span style="font-size: x-large;">very</span> special needs.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">She</span> hasn't noticed however.</div>
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She is all full of the whim and vinegar</div>
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that any 13 month old puppy has.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Smarter</span> than a whip... She opens all and any doors.</div>
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She has fallen into the pool....swam...and <span style="font-size: x-large;">pulled</span> herself out</div>
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She comes on a morning run <span style="font-size: xx-small;">on a</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">15 foot lead</span> with <span style="font-size: x-large;">Finnegan</span></div>
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and has learned to<span style="font-size: x-large;"> sit</span> and <span style="font-size: x-large;">lay down</span> to touch command</div>
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She is Happy. She is confident. She is exhausting</div>
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She is a teacher.</div>
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We had <span style="font-size: x-large;">no </span>Idea how she would react during our long trip home</div>
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She adopted us.</div>
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and trusted us.</div>
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Finnegan has been a most patient and kind teacher</div>
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she puppy bows...sits in his spot....eggs him on.</div>
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he yawns</div>
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accepts</div>
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and now we catch them walking in the yard</div>
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she has already mapped it out...and the house.</div>
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and lying down together</div>
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she has gotten up on the counter to get into the <span style="font-size: x-large;">cookie</span> jar</div>
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pulled the lid off said jar</div>
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and dropped it <span style="font-size: x-large;">smashing</span> onto the floor.</div>
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Been into the garbage enough times, that a locking garbage can was just purchased.</div>
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In that first week I was <span style="font-size: x-large;">compelled</span> to watch The Helen Keller movie The Miracle Worker.</div>
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while watching... she chewed buttons off the pillow and tried to climb onto the table.</div>
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<em>which she tends to be called more so than Pearl.</em></div>
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She is blind and deaf due to breeding...uninformed backyard breeders, or puppy mills trying to breed "designer Danes" and using two Merles causing a potential "lethal White".</div>
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She was bought from such a place....for $3000 dollars</div>
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...and before <span style="font-size: x-large;">we</span> rescued her</div>
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they had intentions of breeding her</div>
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to her brother. Hopefully getting the color they wanted...but to what result?!?</div>
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Both she and her brother ended up in a Great Dane Rescue down South when the owner developed cancer. Neither were spayed or neutered. She...luckily...had not gone into heat. </div>
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<em>She would have been euthanized in a regular shelter.</em></div>
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Here we are. Learning from, Living with and Loving our newest family member.</div>
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We wanted YOU to meet her too.</div>
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Our little addition to Peace on Earth.</div>
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Wishing you all a Merriest of Christmas, Happiest of Holidays</div>
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and to a new and beautiful 2016!</div>
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It was a peaceful and thoughtful</div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-30639704497778725392015-11-28T20:11:00.003-05:002015-11-28T20:30:02.763-05:00Thankful...Oh.so.<div align="center">
It has been a <span style="font-size: x-large;">filling</span> week</div>
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in MANY ways.</div>
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The food and fruit on the trees</div>
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It was a dog friendly kinda <span style="font-size: large;">feast <span style="font-size: small;">celebrating with Grandma B.</span></span></div>
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<em>Welcome Lulu.</em></div>
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Wishing you a<span style="font-size: large;"> peaceful</span> and <span style="font-size: large;">beautiful</span></div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-26877226727388740612015-11-10T06:00:00.000-05:002015-11-10T06:00:01.075-05:00A house....<div align="center">
...<span style="font-size: x-large;">that</span> does not have one worn, comfy<br />
chair in it is <span style="font-size: x-large;">soulless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mary Sarton </span></div>
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A <span style="font-size: x-large;">quote</span> found on: Catherine's <a href="http://acountryfarmhouse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Coffee mug:</span> made by daughter...with love.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Chair</span>: recovered with an old Swiss army blanket and scrap material....Moi.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Wool Blanket:</span> Ireland. <span style="font-size: x-small;">oh how I love that place</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ottoman:</span> From the 1960's....had it all of my life!</div>
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Opened Book: New <span style="font-size: x-large;">fave</span> by Anna Spiro:<br />
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Fall seeps in <span style="font-size: large;">S L O W L Y</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Time</span> and not being able to use my old blogging platform (grrrr)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">But</span> I have some beautiful tropical cottage/</div>
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Linda@ Lime in the Coconuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04551293394719390382noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48770848156382427.post-57494244098997064252015-08-30T16:40:00.003-04:002015-08-30T16:40:33.056-04:00And so it begins.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em>That a way to honor</em></div>
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<em>a dog that you have </em><em>loved, and lost.....</em></div>
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With the help of <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bdrr.org/great-danes" target="_blank">Big Dog Ranch Rescue</a></span> </div>
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we have opened our<span style="font-size: x-large;"> hearts</span> and homes</div>
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to a <span style="font-size: x-large;">very</span> special guy</div>
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Meet <span style="font-size: x-large;">Finnegan</span></div>
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Finn seems to be his house name</div>
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He was brought into this world under</div>
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very dire and deplorable circumstances. He was malnourished and neglected....</div>
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as were the 66 other great danes that were rescued from a horrendous <a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video%20of%20rescue%20of%20danes%20in%20arcadia&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=FB66307346892B92B514FB66307346892B92B514" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">back yard breeding</span></a> situation.</div>
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And even though he probably had little or no human contact in his 3-4 years</div>
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He is a love. </div>
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Who hugged and smiled at us the moment we met.</div>
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support</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Rescuing</span> a dog saves two...</div>
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the one you rescued..</div>
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Think about saving a soul...or donating to the great work that the recues do.</div>
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Here's to you, Bo . I know you are smiling...and drooling.</div>
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So as this <span style="font-size: x-large;">summer</span> is sailing away at record pace</div>
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upon the challenge of a <a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-sugar-shack-home-tour.html" target="_blank">friend</a></div>
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I decided to grab the <span style="font-size: x-large;">peach by the pit</span>...</div>
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Said friend <span style="font-size: x-large;">benevolently</span> gifted us with a box of straight off the tree southern <span style="font-size: x-large;">freestone </span>peaches</div>
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even <span style="font-size: x-large;">succulent</span></div>
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Then, said friend, practically challenged....<span style="font-size: x-large;">dared </span>me to make a recipe that <span style="font-size: x-large;">she</span> makes</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Peaches and Crème Brulee</span></div>
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<em>challenge on!</em></div>
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who doesn't love the simplicity of that?</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">five</span> if you count the peaches</div>
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which were hollowed out</div>
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in preparation</div>
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for a decadent, albeit delish, </div>
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until it hits 180 degrees... and coats the back of a spoon.</div>
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Then filled in the hollowed out peaches....</div>
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sugar added</div>
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Mine was not as pretty as hers....</div>
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it was delectable....and you eat the bowl!</div>
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recipe adapted from <a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/peaches-cream-brle" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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<em>Get yee some peaches.</em></div>
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<em>of all the misunderstood sharks....</em></div>
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<em>who just wanted to cuddle.</em></div>
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My peaceful early morning walk was <span style="font-size: large;">interrupted</span> this morning</div>
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He was strong, albeit young.</div>
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with his razor sharp teeth and thrashing fighting body</div>
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I did <span style="font-size: large;">not</span> like watching this fight</div>
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yet I watched.</div>
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Not so quietly rooting for the shark</div>
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and admiring his strong and elegant beauty.</div>
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He was saved. And pulled back in his ocean</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">he, too, was saved</span></div>
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