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Monday, September 26, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Good bye Brass
Krylon’s Looking Glass spray paint, which dries into a mirror-like finish. First, spray the body of your plain glass with clean water. While the surface is wet, spray it thoroughly with Looking Glass spray paint. The water will prevent the paint from completely adhering to the surface – exactly what’s required to achieve the characteristically blotchy look of genuine mercury glass. Let the paint dry overnight, and repeat the process to the darkness of your liking.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Ol' Blue
This 51 Chevy Pick Up is located at an entrance to a local garden center. I love how they let the potato vine grow surrounding the truck and into its interior.
My first car was a 51' Chevy Pickup, I have given it to my son and it is currently torn apart down to the frame as he is restoring it.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
As Always, Self Serve. Joe Trusted Everyone.
Weise Nursery and Produce Stand
5801 Highway N Cottleville, MO 63304
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| This produce sign alerts us of the current harvest on busy Hwy N--the long gravel lane is a remnant of what was in the not-so-distance-past primarily farmland; turning onto the country lane of Wiese Nursery I slow my car to a respectable crawl, the sound of crunching gravel beneath my wheels slows time a tad, and I relax some. |
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| Finally, my craving for a fresh-off-the-vine summer tomato is realized! I snip fresh flat leaf parsley, sage and chives, filling the supplied quart-sized plastic bag 1/2 way for $1.00. I help myself to some corn, red onions, zucchini, tomato's and potato's, weigh and calculate the total due, and make my own change. |
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| I love this country-stand way of shopping, and think Joe's way of retailing is refreshing; as the note says below his picture, memorializing his faith in humanity, "As always, self-serve, Joe trusted everyone. :)" Even though Joe is gone, I know I would have liked him. Next time you come across a handmade sign for farm fresh vegetables, do yourself a favor and get some country retail therapy of your own. |
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Summer in Snapshots (week 6)
Linky Party at The Stafish Blog, Amber hosts the weekly summer in snapshots party.
She also has beautiful custom jewelry you can buy on Etsy.
Week 6:
My book this week is the audio of The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry.
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Every gift has a price . . . every piece of lace has a secret.
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. Now the disappearance of two women is bringing Towner back home to Salem—and is bringing to light the shocking truth about the death of her twin sister.
Wednesday: The hot spell continues, the heat is taking its toll on my hosta's and hydrangeas. This bird bath is from my Nana's yard, it has a crack on the side so I applied a mosaic to it a few years ago. Some of my edge pieces have popped off, but overall it is holding up.
Thursday: Went to Woofies for a wiener run at lunch. I've never seen so many police and U.S. Marshall's frequenting an eating establishment; they were driving through, carrying out and dining in. The owner has a sense of humor too, note the "we serve a rightous wiener" below the picture of Congressman Wiener. Ha!
Friday: It's continues to be hot and Bessie agrees. You can friend Bessie, The Mid Rivers Mall Drive cow on Facebook. The owners of Bessie change her outfit and props for the seasons and holidays, kind of like the yard geese people had in the 90s, on a much larger scale. Mooove over yard geese, Bessie is in the house (yard).
Saturday: On the hunt for a summer fresh tomato I visited Wiese Nursery for the first time, you pay by the honor system here. Isn't that nice? No hidden camera's, no one to check your receipt at the door...why these people TRUST you. I'll be back.
Sunday: A visit to the dog park and Gidget. The dogs had such cabin fever from being stuck inside in the airconditioning, so I took them to a nearby dog park that has a pond. Our Malamute discovered he likes to swim!
After I brought the smelly happy dogs home, gave them a shampoo and dried them, I was ready for some down time. I don't remember the movie--though I'm sure I watched it as a kid. Sandra Dee plays the ever wholesome Gidget, it is worth watching just to see how times have changed since its 1959 debut. Don't judge me, but now I realize that Sandra Dee was an actual person Rizzo was singing about:
Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, lousy with virginity
Won't go to bed till I'm legally wed, I can't, I'm Sandra Dee
Watch it, hey, I'm Doris Day, I was not brought up that way
Won't come across, even Rock
Hudson lost his heart to Doris Day
I don't drink or swear, I won't rat my hair,
I get ill from one cigarette
Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers.
Would you pull that crap with Annette?
As for you, Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do
You got your crust, I'm no object of lust,
I'm just plain Sandra Dee Elvis,
Elvis, let me be, keep that pelvis far from me
Just keep your cool, now you're starting to drool
Hey, fungu, I'm Sandra Dee
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| I watched Gidget (1959) |
Tuesday: My guys did the cooking, here they are chatting it up while they watch over the brats and burgers. Did you notice how healthy my meal was compared to theirs.
Week 6. Check.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Linking up with http://www.tootsietime.com/
A quiet week in the garden, the heat wave has taken its toll on my plants. the hosta's are sun scorched--but give the oak trees a few more years and they will have relief from the summer sun. The hydrangeas are drooping today, and our grass is brown from the unrelenting heat. I don't know what I hate worst, the economy or this drawn out heat. I think it's the economy for the most part, but this heat is a close second.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Hot Cow?
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| Holy Cow Batman, it's HOT! |
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| The "weather cow" sits atop a hill alongside Mid Rivers Mall Drive in St. Peters, Missouri. |
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| The road curves here, and you just might miss her if you're not looking. |
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| You would have to be driving pretty darn fast though. |
You can friend Bessie on Facebook, just look for:
The Cow on Mid Rivers Mall Drive!:).
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Summer in Snapshots (week 5)
I'm linking up again for Amber's
What a fun way to catch summer before it slips by.
Here is my week 5:
Wednesday: While my crock-pot was busy cooking dinner I took the spare time to do some reading; my current read is Elin Hildebrand's book, Silver Girl. The story revolves around the wife of a Madoff inspired ponzi scheme crook. It's a story about endings, midlife, misunderstandings, reconnecting, friendship, relationships, family and discovery of one's true self...growth. A great chic book! I settled under our blue patio umbrella, with a cool drink, and....wished this dock from Lake Champlain, Vermont was my view. Sigh.
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| My Great-Nephew Dylan's a Brain Cancer Survivor! |
Thursday: Is my day off during the summer, well at least for two more weeks, then I go back to 5 days a week. I took this picture of Dylan, he's the sweetest boy. Dylan is my great-nephew and he is a brain cancer survivor! His hair is finally growing back, and just in time for kindergarten this August. Dylan, his folks and baby brother just returned from Disney World in Orlando, the Make a Wish Foundation made it possible, a stretch limo transported the family to the airport and back home after the trip, they were given spending money, the hotel and Disney World-- all inclusive! They so needed and deserved this holiday. Thank you Make a Wish!
Love, love, love you dear Dylan!
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| Our son and his cigar |
Friday: Recently a humidor was shipped to the house and as my husband was pulling it from the box I asked him, “what do you need a humidor for, you don’t smoke cigars?!” and his reply, “yes I do.” I looked at this man, who I've known since Labor day 1977 -- that's when I was hired at the Clark Gas Oil Station and we worked our first shift together, I just knew immediately that "he was the one." I digress. We have been together ever since, high school sweethearts, married in 1982. It just took me by surprise... this new cigar thing of his.
After their father passed-away last August, dear hubby and our son, along with my hubby’s brothers have been meeting every Saturday’s at their father’s home. They eat breakfast at Cracker Barrel, work on the house, eat a late lunch along with a beer or two, and -- apparently -- smoke cigars. I'm not sure if I care for this cigar thing, but I love that they have drawn out this "closing life chapter," sharing childhood memories and reconnecting.
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| Moscow Mills, Missouri |
Saturday I took a drive. This first mosaic is the town of Moscow Mill's, Missouri. I've seen the exit sign, viewed the town's location the weatherman's radar map during bad weather, but I've never been there. The business district consist of a lumber store (not shown), a funeral parlor (left), and this bar (bottom right). There is a church down the street. I think the funeral home is statement in itself; I've never seen an old storefront turned into a funeral parlor. Is it me, or does this seem more fitting for a little cafe or ice cream shop?
And some scenic shots further down the rural hwy.
Sunday: I made a floral arrangement with the day-lily’s from my garden. I bought the yellow Coca-Cola crate at the antique shop in Moscow Mills on Saturday.
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Flickr group the Monthly Scavenger Hunt |
Monday I was busy adding photo’s to the Monthly Scavenger Hunt group in Flickr, in this group we are allowed to use current and our archival photo’s to match the listed items. Each month has a new list, here are the ones I added on Monday.
(1) Technicolour Chicken: This mural is painted on a garage door of an antique store I visited in Burlington Vermont. It was the best I could do for the “technicolour chicken” category.
(6) Unfinished: My front porch rocker project, this is rocker number 4. I am waiting for hubby to drill out the broken spindle and then reattach it. Might be better just to buy another one at a garage sale or Craigslist.
(17) Redhead: You saw this picture last week and Nathan fits this category for “redhead” perfectly.
(7) Chaotic: This is a picture I took several years ago in my glass blowing class. There is a lot of action in the shot and it does appear somewhat chaotic with the photographer in the background, someone assisting the glassblower with a paddle (to shape and stabilize the foot of the piece while the glassblower works the pedestal with the jack. The jack gets piping hot, as you would expect and is the only time a burned myself during the class when I tried to pick it up before it had cooled).
(12) Opposites: Two opposing political views, I took this shot during the Vice Presidential debate that was held at our campus, Washington University in St. Louis. Love that “Lincoln” was in the Obama camp.
(13) Faucet: I took this picture a few years ago on a tour of Old North St. Louis. I’m amazed that you could have such privacy in the city that you would not need curtains in your bathroom! The adjacent house is a 3-story brick and the facing wall has no windows.
(18) It’s a…what?: My daughter and I stopped at Alba's Ice Cream and Subs in Westfield, Ohio on our way to Cleveland. Being from St. Louis, we had no clue if a Musky was a made up thing or a fish of some sort. We asked the owner, Angelo Alba, exactly what is a Musky? His reply, a fish of course, and in fact there was a current fish tournament that weekend. Don't you love his take on a service bell?
Anyone can join, here is the link http://www.flickr.com/groups/monthlyhunt/ and my flickr ID is DiPics. Watch out though, the monthly scavenger hunt is known to be addicting!
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| The Lincoln Lawyer |
Tuesday: We watched The Lincoln Lawyer. Josh Lucas…remember him from Sweet Home Alabama? He is looking better than ever! Marisa Tomei – does this woman ever age? ;) And of course Matthew McConaughey in any movie is worth watching, in The Lincoln Lawyer you get to watch this boy ACT.
Week 5, check. This summer is going by way to fast.
:)
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