Month: April 2019

Buy This Card & Empower Lives

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Down Home Ranch is a nonprofit working farm community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities located in Elgin, Texas. The ranchers and their extended community are ever present at Elgin’s many annual festivals, monthly Sip, Shop & Stroll events. Locals look forward to their tomatoes, lettuce, jellies, potted plants, eggs, and cards (like the one above), at the Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market.

In addition to their greenhouse operations and plant sales, Down Home Ranch supports an Etsy shop which sells cards featuring original art by ranchers, embroidered tea towels, and engraved travel tumblers. All proceeds support their mission: Empowering the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through social, educational, residential and vocational opportunities. I visited DHR a few years ago, you can read my post about the experience here.

Shop Down Home Ranch Etsy shop here

Find out more about Down Home Ranch at downhomeranch.org


Game of Scones… Who Will Take the Throne?

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Potluck Tableware: Game of Scones spreader $16.50

I have no idea, but you can pretend you’re in the running… just cue the opening credits, jam, and clotted cream. 

Full disclosure, I am letting a few episodes stack up so I can binge on them next week. I’ve managed to avoid many spoilers, which is so hard, but I did catch this lyric video of Florence + The Machine’s version of “Jenny of Oldstones” which you may remember from Season 7. Yeah, I know. Nerd.

Watch it hear (see what I did there)

I find my vintage silver-plated vintage pieces online and in thrift stores, so I never know what I will find… hence the name Potluck Tableware.

Like the series, these spreaders are back for a final season.

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The Best Thing I Saw All Week

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Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the universe says, “oh yeah, what about this?”

I for one am so happy to now know I live in a world where industrial musicals are a thing. How have I never heard of these before? If this is new to you too, I cannot recommend this documentary enough. It is one part nostalgia (Letterman!) and one part sweet tribute. It reminded my husband a little of Ry Cooder bringing the aged far flung Cuban musicians together in “The Buena Vista Social Club”… just more mid-western.

My favorite documentaries are always the ones that are not the movie you sat down to watch, but something much more.

Bathtubs Over Broadway is available for streaming on Amazon Prime.