- Last week when an extremely large auction was over, many items were left to be thrown in the trash. There are times when someone bids on a box of items and only wants one thing in the box. They take the one item and leave the rest. Coworker Julie and I were invited by the clean-up man, Steve, to take anything we would like. I took a set of Homer Laughlin white dishes, Hudson pattern. There are some pieces missing, but it's basically a service for twelve including dinner plates, salad plates, berry bowls and butter pat dishes. Interestingly enough, just the day before I had thought it would be nice to have some plain white dishes that would mix well with my blue transferware. One man's trash was certainly this girl's treasure! I love crackly, old, faded dishes! ha. And what could be better than free?
- I picked up a few other items left for the trash, like 8 blue mason jars (which I collect) a vintage tray with birds painted on it in gold leaf, several baskets and a silver-plate carafe holder which was missing it's carafe. I have plans for the carafe holder which I'll share later.
- It's hot. It's humid. It's unbearable, really. I'm so thankful for A/C. The Mister should be thankful too, since I'm terribly cranky when I'm hot. :)
- The boys have had a super start to the school year! They do love school, which makes me happy. The only glitch seems to be Alex throwing up his medications each morning. Not sure what is causing that, but it sure is causing some stress right before they walk out the door. Not stress for Alex, mind you, but stress between The Mister and me. Whether he is doing it on purpose or not, if he should given more pills or not, and if we should yell at him or not. Sigh. I'm not saying which of those points are mine or his. lol....
- Spencer has lost 6 pounds in the first two weeks of his cheese-free diet! He still looks longingly in the refrigerator each night. But he doesn't fuss, so I think he's doing quite well! I can tell his face is thinner already!
- Marmalade got stuck in the raccoon trap last night. He was ok, just a little scared. We used marshmallows as bait instead of any meat, thinking that the kittens wouldn't be interested. But curiosity did kill the cat, you know. ha. Or trapped the cat, in this instance.
- I made THESE blondies today. Oh yum. :) No photo as not to upset my dear friend, Pat. lol.
Hope your weekend is going well!
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