I awoke one morning this winter with a vivid dream still in my head of a fabulous formal garden in the pasture outside our house on the farm. Don’t get me wrong — the pasture is beautiful, but it’s full of native grasses and, to be honest, some weeds and thistles. It will never be…
The nearest town to our farm of any size is Tahlequah, which is about twenty miles away, and when we make a run into town, we take one way, or sometimes the other way, too often without exploring the dirt roads and blacktops that create the maze in between. They are out of the…
On cold winter evenings the old farmhouse can be comfortably heated using just the old woodstove, and there are usually enough windfalls around the farm to keep a season’s supply of oak, hickory, sycamore and black walnut. The stove does well until about three in the morning, when a chill blankets the room and…
For 29 years there was a great little storefront restaurant in Tulsa called Halim and Mimi’s that offered probably the best Lebanese cuisine in Tulsa. Halim worked the cash register, wrote my name on my order without asking for it, put ice in styrofoam cups, and clipped the ticket to the wheel that rotated back…
[one_fourth] [/one_fourth] [one_fourth] [/one_fourth] [one_fourth] [/one_fourth] [one_fourth_last] [/one_fourth_last] Announcing the First Annual Lost City Knits NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool! Yes, March Madness hits Lost City, too, but here it should be called March MadKnits. Anyone who is interested in yarn is welcome to enter, because we’re going to pony up winner’s choice…
[one_third]We’ve been hard at work setting up a new website for Lost City Knits, and it’s time for a public debut! Look around, tell us what you like and don’t like. There will be more yarns added before long, but quite a bit is uploaded already. We’re excited, and when you catch us when…
