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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY 2021 Let’s remember the

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY 2021 Let’s remember the BRAVE people who stood up for what is right like ABRAHAM LINCOLN who was a close friend of Madison Conyers Johnson, owner of BOTHERUM. It’s easy to be a sheep and follow the others, but it takes GUTS to lead the pack. 👏💪🇺🇸 #mlk #martinlutherkingday #holiday #abrahamlincoln #botherum #leader #fightforwhatisright #unitedstatesofamerica #usa🇺🇸 #usa #kitchen #preservation #kentucky

I LIKE PRETTY THINGS IN MY KITCHEN... #pretty #fri

I LIKE PRETTY THINGS IN MY KITCHEN... #pretty #friends #love #happy #kitchen #winter #orange #botherum #lilycarloftis #gettrudefisher #labradorretriever #joncarloftisfinegardens

CASTLE&KEY Now folks, proof is in the puddin’...

CASTLE&KEY Now folks, proof is in the puddin’... yesterday coming back from our gorgeous project in Louisville, stopped for a meeting @castleandkey to talk about the plan of attack for the gardens we built 6 years ago. Have to say, when a place is breathtaking in the dead of winter, that tells you something...when we design a garden, it will knock your socks off no matter what the time of year! Make a plan to visit soon and go out and support local by purchasing their AMAZING GIN, VODKA and new RYE! As I told one of my all time favorite people Will Arvin yesterday, “You can’t oversell this place...even if you’ve seen photos, it will blow you away!” #bourbon #bourbontrail #bourboncapitaloftheworld #kentucky #gin #vodka #rye #garden #gardens #gardensofinstagram #restoration #preservation #joncarloftisfinegardens

TRANSFORMATION THURSDAY It’s always good to face

TRANSFORMATION THURSDAY It’s always good to face your fears... Our family had a GREEN AMAZON PARROT for 38 years and she was similar to my dogs, Bertha Venation and Miss Lily Carloftis... they may give you the stink eye but if you touch me, you will get bitten. Unfortunately, when my grandmother died who owned it, Polly chose my older brother Buzz as his one person. I was just a very young child when that damn parrot lured me in and then bit off the end of my finger. And this was my driving finger in New York City!😂🤡 Then when my beautiful client @juliannemoore got her African Gray Parrot, she put him on my shoulder in her courtyard we helped build and I was shaking (wish I could find that photo and still have a few more boxes to look through) but finally got my courage back. 😩 This little amazing hallway is where I first bartended here in college and fell in love with BOTHERUM, so decided to get birds about 4 years ago and put them here. Finches, Parakeets that I inherited when a neighbor moved and a Cockatiel are the first things I hear every morning abs it’s delightful. Hope I’m not turning into that crazy person (but everyone has an excuse with 2020!) Look at this sunny hallway that @longwoodantiquewoods expertly restored. Do y’all agree about the importance of SUNSHINE in your home? I MUST have it, another reason for liking Greek Revival. 🇺🇸 #sunshine #transformation #birds #parrot #finch #cockatiel #cheerful #botherum #architecture #preservation #home

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY The CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MU

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY The CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC was started in 1924 in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia and is considered the number 2 of top US music programs next to the Juilliard in NYC. But, like Berea College, tuition is free and has always encouraged music prodigies no matter what background or gender. 💪🇺🇸 When a donor gave $$$ to build a new building down the street that would allow students to live, practice and attend school (some students had to travel through danger just to get there everyday) they asked me to create a garden on the new large terrace in 2011. I asked @georgegatewood @longwoodantiquewoods to build the HERB/VEGETABLE planters. Only NATIVE PLANTS to Delaware Valley were to be used and that opened my eyes up to a whole new world, since my Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue ladies only wanted beautiful flowers so they could entertain on their terraces. (This doesn’t make them any less of a person because at least they were making the world pretty AND allowing me to spoil my beautiful MOMMA with anything she wanted, just like DADDY did before he died in 1990💪💙) When I went to buy a Magnolia macrophylla, they said it had to be certified seed grown, not taken from the forest. I bought all 3 and paid a lot for them, then asked Brother Buzz to walk behind our family home on the Rockcastle River and take a pic of the hundreds growing wild so I could show the nursery owners 😂😂😂🇺🇸 “Miss Campbell Soup” heiress had to meet me first to get her blessing before getting the job. Of course, thanks to MOMMA and DADDY, my strong Kentucky manners won her over from the moment she walked in and I stood up and took my hat off in reverence... @curtisinstitute @campbells #manners #carloftisstyle #kentucky #ilovemyjob #garden #urbangarden #curtisinstituteofmusic #philadelphia #joncarloftisfinegardens

GRANNY MYRTLE RHODES KARLOFTIS could whip any man

GRANNY MYRTLE RHODES KARLOFTIS could whip any man in the state of Kentucky, I’ve been told. When DADDY was about 6, she came home and caught Uncle Floyd’s father (can’t even remember those shitty people’s names)whipping Daddy with a belt. (Daddy named his favorite girl, Koula Floyd Carloftis, in his honor 🥰) and Daddy said she heated something up in the wood stove like food or dough, quietly and calmly, and then when it was piping HOT, she threw it on his face, grabbed her two boys and pocketbook, and waded across a flooding creek with them on her shoulders. He never showed his face again because she would have shot it off. She ended up being a self made millionaire in Pineville when women didn’t even have jobs. He said when she drove by in her yellow Chrysler with red plaid interior, caught him smoking cigarettes on the corner, she stopped the car and shoved that cigarette down his throat in front of his friends. They ran like mice. She owned the Hub Grill, fanciest restaurant in the truck-state AND owned the TAVERN where she sold quarter hot dogs and beer to the coal miners. She was her own bouncer and ended up buying the Senator’s house where Daddy was raised. Shiiiiiiiiit. #power #womenempowerment #carloftisstyle #businesswoman #kentuckystrong #kentuckyproud #bellcounty #pinevillekentucky #rhodes #karloftis #greek #carloftis #hubgrill #thetavern

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