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UNEXPECTED SUNDAY SHENANIGANS With my dear friends

UNEXPECTED SUNDAY SHENANIGANS With my dear friends GEORGIE @georgegatewood @longwoodantiquewoods REMARKABY BEAUTIFUL LADY @hgh85 and little GATEWOOD yesterday. Sundays are my days to just work in the garden, make lists and plans for the week ahead, and every once in a while, have close friends over for a little swim and throw some stuff together in the kitchen. Ain’t life grand? What are y’all’s Sundays like? #sunday #sundayfunday #friends #love #funtimes #cooking #laughing #singing #dancing #botherum

HAPPY FATHERS DAY to my DADDY… born in 1915, rai

HAPPY FATHERS DAY to my DADDY… born in 1915, raised along with his beloved younger brother, Uncle Floyd, by a single mother, Myrtle Rhodes. When women didn’t even have jobs, she became a BOSS, owned the most popular, white linen tablecloths, restaurant in the southeast of Kentucky, named the Hub Grill from 1927-49. Across the street she owned the Tavern and sold 25 cent hotdogs and beer to the coal miners, was her own bouncer, completing her monopoly in Pineville. A self-made millionaire, she bought the senator’s house on Virginia and Kentucky Avenue which is still a beauty today. She taught him to respect women and was determined for him to marry a nice girl while she was on her grand deathbed in the living room. He was 33 and Momma was 19, prettiest girl ever from Clay County. The Barnstable Twins great grandmother was her pastry chef and had her pick Momma up in Manchester in a yellow Chrysler with red plaid interior. Momma saw him and thought, “Well, that’s the best looking man I’ve ever seen!” Daddy sassed his mother that day, and Momma said granny Myrtle picked up a metal/marble Art Deco, ashtray (we still have it) and knocked him out. He had a huge scar on his forehead and should have known not to do that, even when she was on her deathbed. He worshiped Momma, waited on her hand and foot, gave her STACKS of cash to buy her literally hundreds of St. John Knits and her favorite Ferragamo shoes. She NEVER knew how to make coffee until he died. She NEVER poured her own cup and refill until after he died. Everything he did was with, as he called it, Carloftis Style. When he would get out of his white Cadillac (started buying them in 1957) people thought he was a movie star. He would say to me, “Boy, don’t be like everybody else, stand out, work hard and be the BEST at whatever you do… you got mine and your Momma’s blood, so there’s no way you can go wrong!” 💪💙🙏🇺🇸👑 #carloftisstyle #daddy #fathersday #family #rhodes #mullins #teach #easternkentucky #kentucky #strong #powerful #love #respect #memories

MY COLOR THEORY… Everyone has colors they are at

The BEST day with the GARDEN CLUB of LEXINGTON yes

The BEST day with the GARDEN CLUB of LEXINGTON yesterday… Made plans before the pandemic for a JCFG Curated Garden Tour and it finally came to fruition. Started out at the Idle Hour Country Club, first stop at the magnificent @parkerplacelexington where we even toured the sumptuous interiors @birkmaninteriors then walked to Jonathan and Abby Webb’s (forgot to take pics 😩) then to @apiaryfinecatering and then to my home BOTHERUM for a box lunch @selmascatering 🥰 I don’t know about y’all but after the past year EVERYTHING is so ENJOYABLE, BRIGHT, GORGEOUS and FUN. Nothing, not even a late bus or the garbage truck knocking down a telephone line making me stuck, could put a damper on everyone’s enthusiasm. As @mmdowell1 and I discussed (who, BTW, made the whole planning/trip a pure pleasure) we all needed a reset, and the little things that used to annoy us… just don’t mean nothing in the whole scheme of things. Do y’all agree? #gardenclubofamerica #funday #garden #gardentour #gardens #gardendesign #gardenclub #fellowship #lexingtonky #kentucky #friends #carloftisstyle

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TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY When Bluegrass Care Navigat

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY When Bluegrass Care Navigators outgrew their offices, they chose to renovate the old IBM HQ on Harrodsburg Road. Big, dark and pretty darn ugly is how most people would have described it…And that’s if they were being nice! Liz Fowler and her board chose @denhamblythe and brilliant architect Galina Stumbur to transform that place into something REALLY special. Thankfully, they asked us to design the landscape/parking lot and I must say, it’s turning into one of my FAVORITE gardens of all times. The way @tdmckinley_ graded the walkways, after we had laid them out (real PRO-fessional like, with a garden hose… guess what? Don’t make fun, I have to see it in real life and not just on paper and it turns out better than anyone else can do!💪🇺🇸🕺) I mean, we took a hole and created not only a visual garden from inside that looks great everyday of the year, but the paths somehow make the space so interesting and you never bored. I’m there every Sunday when nobody is there, with my girl-rillas grieving over my Momma, crying like baby for a few minutes, sometimes more, then the garden makes me better. It is a HEALING GARDEN in every way. It feels good, cheerful with the colors we chose and the GOODNESS that @bgcarenav does on a daily basis with hospice, shines from inside that building to the world. Now, what do you think about THIS Before and After? Honestly, give us whatever you throw us, and dammit we can do it the way it should be done and feels like an extension of the structure. 😇 #heroesworkhere #healing #healinggarden #garden #hospice #transformationtuesday #transformation #ilovemyjob #colortheory #lexington #kentucky

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