Sale!

Announcing my first ever 

Seconds Sale 

Sunday 24 May  from 9am-3pm

90 Bruceville Rd

High Falls, NY

845-687-4517

I am cleaning house, litterally... I am also having a Yard Sale same time and place. 

Happy Mother's Day

I entered a contest and now subscribe to a few blogs. One of them had a posting of lists of 6... this should be the link. Well, last Saturdays topic was 6 ways you are like or unlike your mother...

Here are mine;

1. I am irreverent and find humor in most things, like she did.

2. I write letters (as in correspondence) with the same quirky      style and infrequency.

3. I question authority and am a Feminist (though I call it Humanist).

4. I love my daughter.

5. I love life.

6. Unlike my mother I am still here (she passed away many years ago).

I believe these things to be true from what I have gathered through the years of comments from my relatives. 

This was not supposed to be such a downer! My mother was a lot of fun! Even I remember that! And I hope to carry on that legacy of "Joie de Vivre!" 

 I hope all mothers everywhere had a wonderful weekend. It is important work worthy of lots of celebration! 

Getting it all together...

Busy with sorting through my life (it's been an up and down hill thing). So sorry I haven't posted lately. There are some small vases in the works and some BEAUTIFUL new glazes! I was foolishly excited about them and rushed them out the door without pictures, but there is more where they came from. I finally have a few glazes that  don't play all the dirty tricks that my old ones did (crazing, bubbling chipping and messing with my stains) so I feel much more confident about sending my work home with other people.  Yeah! Must get back to it... more later.

 really.

A Little Too Much Nature

Yesterday was BEAUTIFUL! Really, one of those days that reminds you why you suffer through the winter and heating bills and outrageous NY State taxes. Spring. Spring is the reward for it all. But... we got home (H and I) yesterday afternoon to find a bat flying around the living room. All well and good, we just left the doors open and went out side. He must have found his way out  since he's not here now. Out side we weeded and swung and generally had a good time :) Upon re entry to our humble abode I noticed... yes they are here already, mosquitoes, in the house! (I hate that, add that to the winter and taxes...) But they are still slow and not as blood thirsty as later in the season so we carry on... A tickling on my thigh during dinner which I assume is an ant (we were weeding) so I shake my self about and think nothing of it... Until later when I go to investigate what I assume is the first mosquito bite of the season and... a tick! The first tick bite of the season, ah mother nature. Spring has sprung!  ( It's still worth it all to be here this time of year! :)

A Cute Picture

Harriett is mad for my camera...

This is a self portrait, with jelly on her lip. 

(I love the look of concentration, and we really didn't plan the finger-in-the-lens thing)

Hi, can't talk now...

Beacause it's spring! Finally, I think it's really hear, I think I can safely put away the winter coats without fear of the wrath of Jack Frost... We'll see. 

So today I...

Today I sorted through my freezers. We have two, the one in the fridge and a small chest freezer in the basement. 

I have always been a food saver/storer, even the beautiful Los Angeles sun shine couldn't keep me from stocking up on frozen peas in September. 

I was raised to clean my plate, regardless of how full I am and "waste not want not". However, I was never taught the domestic arts of cooking, planning, organizing and so forth. (yes, I'm sure some one tried)

I found some great resources on about.com (Ooops! This link is not working, sorry) for determining how much and what one might want to have on hand. The information is posted by the Later Day Saints who feel you should have a years worth of essentials on hand. (they make no mention of pet food etc. please don't forget your pets!) I found this a good starting place and went on to more gardening oriented information, root cellering cold frames and so forth. My motives aren't quite the same as the LDS community, I am more interrested in being able to "put by" as it were, but they have really thought things through, check it out. 

Which brings me back to my freezer. I was pleased to find the oldest item was only 3! (years that is) Maybe it will still be OK in a soup, I can't throw it out!  

So, one organizing project knocked of the list in less time than it took to write about it! Yeah for me!