{"id":1417,"date":"2012-11-20T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:36:29","slug":"a-digression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"A Digression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a moment away from tales of our journey, and tales of my knitting on board, to share some great things I found online in the past couple of days.<\/p>\n

Prince Charles trying his hand at tapestry <\/a>at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne. \u00a0Really! \u00a0It’s not that scary! Actually, I’m sure he’s hamming it up for the press. \u00a0He is a wonderful supporter of the wool industry.<\/p>\n

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And this lovely image of a woman knitting….<\/p>\n

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Some highlights from the past week are all about food! \u00a0What better balm is there for terribly dreary weather? \u00a0We stayed on the docks in Savannah for a couple of nights and treated ourselves to some of the high spots of Savannah.<\/p>\n

I discovered the Tea Room<\/a> almost 20 years ago and have visited it each of the rare times I’ve been in Savannah since then. \u00a0In fact, I’ve been mail ordering their “Emperor’s Bride” loose tea for all those years. \u00a0This year I had “Red Fruits” black tea, and it is my new favorite. As you can see, there is a lot to choose from.<\/p>\n

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The store and the dining room is done with an “Arts and Crafts” theme that is really lovely! \u00a0I could live here…..<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>On another day, our friends from Brilliant<\/em> recommended we all have lunch together at Mrs. Wilkes’ Dining Room<\/a>. \u00a0What an experience!<\/em> \u00a0You line up on the street with about a thousand other hungry people, and you are admitted to the dining room a table’s worth at a time. \u00a0Most of the tables seat between 6 and 12 people, so you are seated with others when a table becomes available. \u00a0You don’t order food; there is no printed menu. \u00a0Food just arrives at the table in large serving dishes, and you help yourself to what appeals to you. \u00a0I have never seen so much food on a table! \u00a0It’s more than Thanksgiving! \u00a0I think some of these dishes must always be on the menu: \u00a0fried chicken, black eyed peas, Brunswick stew, barbecued pork, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, rutabaga, squash, green beans, candied sweet potatoes…..I’m sure I’m forgetting at least a dozen other dishes. \u00a0It was amazing. \u00a0The only thing you have a choice on is your drink, which can be sweetened or unsweetened iced tea, or water!<\/p>\n

This is the little alley-way that leads into the dining room. \u00a0When we arrived at 12 noon the line was already down the street.<\/p>\n

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And here’s a shot of the table!<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah….just looking at this photo shows several dishes I forgot to mention! \u00a0Baked bean, \u00a0cornbread, biscuits….. it was amazing!<\/p>\n

I’m not going to mention the three days it took us to get to St. Marys, Georgia. \u00a0The weather has just been so dreary that it’s best not to talk about it….best for me to just put it behind me. \u00a0I will say I had another day with some rather severe homesickness….<\/p>\n

St. Marys (and it is not St. Mary’s) is just over the border from Fernandina Beach, Florida. \u00a0I mean literally<\/em>. \u00a0I think the two towns would be connected if not for the border. \u00a0Well, maybe that is a slight exaggeration. \u00a0They do share the same harbor entrance that splits before you reach either town. \u00a0And that means that moments after we leave here we will be in Florida. \u00a0Wow!<\/em><\/p>\n

In the meantime, we intend to have a marvelous few days here, and it’s going quite well at the moment since today I awoke to sunny skies for the first time in about two weeks! \u00a0Every night leading up to Thanksgiving there is some kind of evening get together for sailors in this town, or morning coffee and treats at one of the local shops. \u00a0They have a tradition here of taking good care of sailors for Thanksgiving! \u00a0I don’t know how they do it, but each year they serve Thanksgiving dinner to about 200 sailors. \u00a0“They” supply the turkeys and the sailors supply all the side dishes and desserts.<\/p>\n

I’m off to shop for my contribution so I can bake tomorrow.<\/p>\n

….Oh! And last night I wore my Ann Jacket for the first time….sans sleeves, but still, I wore it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a moment away from tales of our journey, and tales of my knitting on board, to share some great things I found online in the past couple of days. Prince Charles trying his hand at tapestry at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne. \u00a0Really! \u00a0It’s not that scary! Actually, I’m sure he’s hamming it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}