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August 2009

Katie comes home!

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One of the true delights of life is when the daughter that you raised comes back home for a visit as a young adult. She cooks, she chats, she likes to do everything I like and more, she tells me about her adventures and best of all she’s my blood and my legacy and what I’ll leave behind when I’m gone. Her summer job in Brevard, NC where she works during the school year is managing the camp’s organic garden. She brought home bounty from the garden! Is there anything better then fresh heirloom tomatoes, okra, fresh basil and peaches? We made breakfast, lunch and dinner at home every day because there couldn’t possibly be anything better at any of the local restaurants. Adding to the fresh fruits and veggies were shrimp from the shrimp boats of Lazeretto Creek that were swimming in the marsh and ocean a day earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We rode our beach bikes daily, especially at dusk which is our favorite time of the day. The beach bikes have seen better days but they get us around and no one would ever consider stealing them. We went to the beach to sit in the tidal pools of the south end of the island and spent one magical afternoon off Suzanne’s dock floating on big inner tubes tied to the docks and watching the tide float out of the tidal creek. Each evening we’d see what reality tv shows were on and were so delighted when Sex and the City- The movie was on HBO! Katie has left to go back to her real life and work and I already miss her!

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Lights, Camera , Action- Our Church is ready for her close up!

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The big day is here! Our church has been rebuilt again and is beautiful and ready for her days of being a movie star. She is freshly painted, plants and flowers planted everywhere, the church pews are in place and the cameras all set up. The 125 extras will be showing up, the movie stars are back in town and the day is beautiful. Sunny and clear. Pictures to follow !

 

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The Teen Choice Awards & our favorite Tybee Teen!

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The Teen Choice Awards is being shown right now on FOX. The people that bring us American Idol have this awards show which teens and tweens support in huge numbers. Don’t think this is a frivolous awards show. This is the first step in kids lives to show them the power of their vote and they can make a difference in the world. It may start with voting for the Jonas Brothers as their favorite group, but also puts them squarely on the path of voting when they turn 18 and can really change the world!

And speaking of teens- our favorite teenager and summer time local girl next door is the main attraction of the show! She’s all over the show singing, performing and just adding her star power! Here’s the bio they have on the awards website. This will just exhaust most people, but not our Miley! Read carefully and you’ll see that as soon as she finishes shooting here on Tybee Island, she’ll be off on her new tour which includes not only the USA but London.

“Miley Cyrus is a multi-platinum recording artist and the youngest recording artist ever to have four No. 1 albums in less than three years. She stars in the hit cable series “Hannah Montana,” currently in its third season, and recently appeared in “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” which topped the box office its opening weekend. She is the author of “Miles to Go,” the best-selling story of her record-setting successes in TV, music and film and her rise to global fame from her small-town Tennessee roots. In addition, Cyrus and designer Max Azria of apparel house BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP, Inc. have teamed up to create Miley Cyrus & Max Azria, a new apparel line launching this August that will be sold exclusively in Walmart stores. Cyrus is currently filming “The Last Song,” written by Nicholas Sparks, and is set to embark on a 45-city North American tour this September.”

http://www.teenchoiceawards.com/

Daughter Katie is here visiting for a few days and she made an incredible dinner- Shrimp Cakes on a bed of Organic Greens, a great bottle of Chardonnay and our home made Peach Cobbler in the oven for dessert…. I’ll be sharing some more of her great food she’s been spoiling me with all week. Now back to watch those teens!

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Julie and Julia- The movie, the book and the blog

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I went to see this charming and very endearing movie over the weekend. http://www.julieandjulia.com/ and the blog http://www.juliepowell.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

I loved the movie for many reasons, but one of the reasons why was Meryl Streep playing Julia Child. She is happy perfection. Every single time she walked on the screen you just smiled because you loved her. I also loved the movie because the unlikely love story between Julia and Paul Child was told. He just adored her. He was 10 years older then she was and they worked together for a long time. During one scene of the movie, a guest at the dinner party asked how they met. He explained how they’d been working together for years and finally during a dinner, he realized that she was the one and always had been “the one”. You could hear every middle aged mermaid in the audience sigh out loud. .. Middle age love is a truly joy to watch!
I also loved the movie because it was about a blogger who discovered the wonders of blogging and sharing parts of her life’s adventures and the people that follow her. I still am not quite sure why I love blogging so much, I’ve never considered myself a writer or any ambitions to write a book, magazine article or column, but there is something about being able to sit down at my laptop and share our island and goings on that is just a great time for me. There was one part of the movie when Julie receives her very first comment on her blog. I knew just how she felt! Thrilled that someone was reading what she was writing every day!!!
I recommend the movie, I recommend reading both books the movie was based on , I recommend following Julie Powel’s Blog and most of all I recommend you purchase Julia Child’s Masterpiece Cook book. I have an idea floating around in my mind about which cook book I’d like to prepare every single recipe in the book…. Julia’s book is too much, but there’s another Southern Writer who’s brand new book comes out next week who’s also written a cook book. Other then Mary Kay Andrews- he’s my favorite Southern writer and I’ve often thought I’d like to prepare every recipe in the book… this movie may be my inspiration. I’ll let everyone know if I decide to proceed- best of all, there’s far fewer recipe’s then Julia’s 500 plus !

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WOW! Such amazing creativity!

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You all are just incredible! Besides all the posts here with names for the coffee blend, my mermaid cottages Facebook page has over 50 suggestions for names! I love all the GREAT suggestions! I’m going to spend some time this weekend going thru all the suggestions, narrow it down to the top 10 ( or maybe 25 because so many are that wonderful) post them on my blog and mermaid cottages Facebook page and try and come up with the winning name. Regarding the label- I love my mermaid logo so much, she’s who I want to use for the label.

Here’s the story about how I found her. When I first began , I knew I wanted to use the words mermaids and cottages because both sounded so happy and beachy to me. The challenge was to find a mermaid that was too “cutesy” but still was very clearly a mermaid. When you Google the word “mermaid” thousands and thousands of choices come up. Literally. I started to scroll thru the choices each day for a couple of hours hoping the right one would be there. I came across a poster created in the 1955 with a version of a mermaid and I knew this was the one. Not only was this my birth year but the mermaid was big and bold. My amazing graphic designer, Louise Coleman and website designer, Beth Thrasher www.thrasherdesign.com came up with just the right color , fonts and re do of the mermaid to make her an original. This is the long story about why I’m going to use my mermaid logo for the coffee container .

Thanks everyone for the wonderful suggestions! I’ll be back with the choices soon!

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