Corgyncombe Farmers' Market!

Nanny Nettie-Kin Loads Her Wagon and Readies for the Market!

Nanny Nettie-Kin readies her wagon for the Corgyncombe Farmers' Market.

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Nanny Nettie-Kin and her wagon have arrived for the Corgyncombe Farmers' Market.
Hitty Delight, the most recent Hitty to come to Corgyncombe, accompanies Nanny.
What a lovely autumnal glow and wonderful day for the Corgyncombe Farmers' Market!

Corgyncombe Acorn Squash

Corgyncombe Broccoli

Corgyncombe carrots being readied for canning.

Corgyncombe cabbage and beans.

Corgyncombe Pumpkins

Corgyncombe cabbage

Hitty Delight helps Nanny Nettie-Kin unload the wagon.

Nanny Nettie-Kin's display at the
Corgyncombe Farmers' Market.

A jug of Corgyncombe maple syrup is up atop the display.

Corgyncombe Potatoes and Tomatoes

Corgyncombe onions

A lovely Autumnal display on our way to ancestral lands in Vermont.

"My Summer in a Garden" by Charles Dudley Warner is interesting and humorous to read during the weeks of vegetable gardening season. A quote from the book: "There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds; and it also, when it is stirred up, goes into the man who stirs it. The hot sun on his back as he bends to his shovel or hoe, or contemplatively rakes the warm and fragrant loam, is better than much medicine." On the book is a Corgyncombe potato blossom.

Lovely Hitty Delight carries the basket of buttons used by the dolls as currency.
I oft' times carry a basket instead of a purse myself.
Tasha Tudor had the children use buttons to buy goods for their dolls and animals and Sparrow Post to deliver mail. The currency for the dolls at Corgyncombe is buttons, as well!

Corgyncombe Vegetables

Corgyncombe canned carrots.

Corgyncombe Butt'ry

The large golden dollhouse,
Pumpkin House,
an old New England House.

Nanny Nettie-Kin and the Little Dolls of Pumpkin House
bringing the harvest in to the hall of their Old New England House.
Many hands make light work.

And Tillie Tinkham, the seamstress mouse for the dolls at Corgyncombe, comes and little paws help, too.

 

The squash are stored in the hall of Pumpkin House,
which also serves as Nanny Nettie-Kin's Herbary.
Hitty had rushed upstairs with her favorite Pumpkin and hid it under the bed to later make a "Pumpkin Moonshine". Tasha Tudor wrote and illustrated the book "Pumpkin Moonshine" about a little girl who found a special pumpkin to make a pumpkin moonshine.

I acquired the sandstone sink in Connecticut where my ancestors, the Stanclift family, dwelt. In the above photograph I have a colander full of washed carrots from the Corgyncombe Vegetable Garden.

Gravestone carving was a tradition in the Stanclift family. The stone of the gravestones and the Corgyncombe Butt'ry sink are the same reddish brown sandstone. The sink, which was from a very old house in the area the Stanclifts lived, could well have been made by one of the Stanclifts.

Our Stanclift family came from Yorkshire, England in the 1680s.

Nanny Nettie-Kin has had an abundance of squash at her Pumpkin House gardens and decides to make gourd soup.
Above, she is chopping the squash.

The dolls at Corgyncombe and I have many things in common including a love of yellowware, baskets, gardening, and many old fashioned favorite things and old ways.

 Nanny Nettie-Kin cooking her gourd soup on her old cast iron stove, which is called the "Ark".

Nanny Nettie-Kin puts the gourd soup through a sieve.

Nanny Nettie-Kin serves gourd soup.
She went out in her herb garden and found the smallest leaves of sage to put atop the soup.
All the Hittys at Pumpkin House find it to be most delicious!

Some of the photographs and some of the writings on this post are from previous Corgyncombe Courant posts that can be found here on the Corgyncombe Courant and from our web site and our previous postings elsewhere on the internet.

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Tillie's Frocks and Fashions at Teatime!

Winter Teatime Conversations!

Tillie Tinkham, the seamstress mouse at Corgyncombe, is ironing the pinafore that she made for Hitty, after finishing the hem.

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At "Tillie Tinkham's Frocks and Fashions"

with Millinery and Tea Room at 863 Park Avenue,

Hitty tries on the pinny.

Tillie, balancing on her rose tuffet, asks Hitty "Would you like some tea?"
Hitty says she would love some!

Whilst having tea, Tillie asks Hitty if she had heard that the Corgyncombe Groundhog had been seen on March 11th sunning herself on a log and moving about in quite an active fashion. Prior to that, she had only been seen on February 22nd when she came out in the sunshine, saw her shadow and acted very stunned by the bright light! Since March 11th, she hasn't been seen at all and it isn't surprising with very cold weather!

Tillie asks Hitty if she would like another cup of tea.

Hitty pours herself another cup and Tillie speaks of the long, hard, cold and blustery winter. She thinks that winter is probably not o'er yet! Tillie remembers hearing, from her cousins on the Tinkham side,  about the Linn tractor snowplow roaring through The Hollow with Diane's Grandfather Shepard on board!

Diane's Grandfather Shepard was a Tinkham descendant himself.

The Tinkhams came from Rhode Island to settle in The Hollow.

The winter of 1939 in The Hollow.

Tillie says, "Alas, spring can be a long time coming at Corgyncombe, and even when you think it has arrived, you might be surprised by a snowstorm in May!

In other happenings at "Tillie Tinkham's Frocks and Fashions"

with Millinery and Tea Room at 863 Park Avenue,

Tillie is making a green vest for Sweet Hitty Sue.

Sweet Hitty Sue tries the vest on so that Tillie can see if any adjustments need to be made.

What a perfect colour for St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all our Dear Readers!

My (Diane's) own great great grandmother Bridget Mulhall emigrated from Ireland in the mid-1800s.

Tonight at supper we will have some Corgyncombe potatoes and give thought to Bridget and our Irish ancestors.

Tillie Tinkham's Sewing Circle Emblem!

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Return of the Red-Wing Blackbird, Potatoes and Green

Walking the Rows, Again and Again...

March 13, 2013 marked the day the Red-Winged Blackbird returned to Corgyncombe! The joyous o-ka-lee, o-ka-lee could be heard in the old maple trees along Corgi Creek! On my old Derbyshire writing slope I have written out Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote:

"The blackbirds make the maples ring
With social cheer and jubilee;
The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The old fashioned Rose Geranium, which is usually in a cool room upstairs, has been brought down to enjoy whilst taking tea. The Rose Geranium has a delightful fragrance!

In the book "A Basket of Herbs", illustrated by Tasha Tudor, it is mentioned that Rose Geranium leaves are used for potpourri, tussie mussies, teas, cakes, cookies, and jellies.

The old teapot is decorated with hand painted leaves that bear a resemblance to old fashioned Rose Geranium leaves.

An old collectible Red-Winged Blackbird card rests upon the slope.

In the goat pasture Red-Winged Blackbird nests are hidden amongst the green.

The journal on the writing slope is covered with a reproduction of old wallpaper.

The 2012 gardening season brought about a couple of months of drought. The potatoes were slow but still green.

One day whilst weeding in the garden I glanced at the potatoes and where they were fine the day before, now one row was almost devoid of green leaves, chewed down to the stems!

Immediately I commenced removing the culprit, the Colorado Potato Beetle larvae. In the photograph above, the larva can be seen munching away at a nice green leaf. Many times a day I spent walking the rows, looking for and removing the pests. My vigilance paid off as eventually there were fewer and fewer until they were no more and an abundant potato crop was harvested!

This makes one give thought to the Irish Potato Famine that started about 1845 and lasted several years. The famine was caused by potato blight that ruined their potato harvest that they depended on. My own great great grandmother Bridget emigrated from Ireland in the mid-1800s.

Some Corgyncombe potatoes in baskets.

The potato... most favored here at Corgyncombe!

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