tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50722199183145415082024-03-13T05:11:11.240-04:00That Old HouseCass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.comBlogger872125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-40533987552691368262019-09-18T17:23:00.000-04:002019-09-19T10:09:27.713-04:00Anyone Still Out There?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Hello!</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I cannot believe that it's nearly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">3 years -- years! -- since</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I last published a blog post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wow. I am the very definition of lazy. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The last time I wrote a blog post on this date of September 18 was in 2013. It was about psychedelic forsythia leaves in the autumn, old doorknobs and rim locks in our old house, and our two dear dogs, Gilda (L) and Dylan DiPoochy (R).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Sadly, only Dylan is still with us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our beautiful Gilda left us two summers ago. Dylan is now 10 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Time flies when you're having fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And you know what else you do when you're having fun? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You paint your front door pink. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Because what looks friendlier than a pink front door?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I mean, who would not want to buy a 187-year old house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">with a pink front door? Hmm?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Yes, friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>That Old House</b> is for sale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It seems odd to even write that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we fell in love with and bought this house in 2008, we were 55 years old, and retirement wasn't on our radar yet, and we never thought, "Gee, all these stairs," or "Gee, our kids will be scattered," "Gee, so many rooms to clean!" or "Gee, how will we pay these New Jersey taxes on a fixed income?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But now? We're both 67.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yes, time does indeed fly when you're not looking!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Howard is ready to retire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He is tired of the commute into New York City.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>(Even though there is good public transportation.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tell your friends who might want a wonderful old house on good bus and train lines!)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And I realized, as I went looking for pictures of the house, or pictures of parties or events here, or information on pretty much anything else about our home, as I was reminiscing ... I could find anything I wanted on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This poor old blog that I neglected for years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But now, I am going to chronicle the selling of </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">That Old House</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">, the process, the downsizing, the choices of new location, new dwelling</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'll have these newer posts to look back on, when Howard and I are retired and living in a Sears refrigerator box under a bridge somewhere. Come visit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">P.S. Have you retired yet?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All best wishes, </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cass</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-74933048209283656892016-12-12T11:51:00.001-05:002016-12-12T11:51:40.943-05:00O (Kinda Large) Tannenbaum<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>If there is one very good reason for owning a long mini-van, it is this:</b></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"> no roof-tying insanity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Nowadays, we buy a fresh tree from a garden center around the corner from <b>That Old House</b>. No more venturing into the vast Jersey wilderness to hack down our own specimen, followed by a hair-raising trip home on Route 80, with me convinced we'd cause a multi-car pileup when our tree went flying off the roof. The year the tree farm guy tied a giant tree on <i>with dental floss </i>was the last straw. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">No, now... we don heavy gloves (why is it always so cold on a tree lot?) and hunt the local lot. Here's this year's </span><strike style="color: #274e13; font-size: xx-large;">victim</strike><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"> lucky candidate, fresh out of the van and wrestled into the stand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Which means ... all of our trees are UP, faux and fresh. Some are partly finished, others awaiting their balls and bling. The house is a tip, with still-to-be-deployed decorations and wreaths and garlands and ribbons running amuck, everywhere, but ... there's time. And as always, what gets done, gets done ... and what doesn't, doesn't.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuzzy phone picture, Sunday evening.<br />Howard decides to do the lights another time.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">I would attempt to put the lights on the sunroom tree, but I don't want to get scratched shoving strands of lights into the tree's innards; I hate pain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>Howard is a boy, so he gets to do the hard ouchy stuff. </i>:-)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Monday morning, Tree!</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">(The picture is crooked, not the tree. That's my story.)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i><b>My Dad believed that the more painful, scratchy, and fierce a tree's needles, the better it would last for the whole season.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i><b>Howard has adopted this belief, and has the scars to prove it.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">and ready for its bling. </span></div>
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<i style="color: #990000; font-size: xx-large;">How do you choose a tree?</i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><i>Or take it out of a box?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Just a dozen days till Christmas Eve!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Visit <a href="http://thegraphicsfairy.com/" target="_blank">The Graphics Fairy</a> for a mind-boggling collection of vintage art. Thank you, Karen!</i></span></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-57150206987986605772016-12-09T18:13:00.000-05:002016-12-09T18:14:18.016-05:00Thanksgiving, and the Roses That Won't Die<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>I am a dunce.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Once again, I forgot to take pictures on Thanksgiving Day. <i>Why</i> do I do this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I got one nice picture of a guest, relaxing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">getting ready for the tanning bed:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Remember my annual TBDBT List? ("To Be Done Before Thanksgiving" List.) This year, I took little Post-It notes, and stuck the "To Do" items on the freezer door, and when that item was actually "To Done," its note got moved to the refrigerator door, on the right. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Day before Thanksgiving, with most of<br />the TBDBT notes on the "Done!" side. 😉</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Howard, bless him, got competitive about moving those little bits of paper. He wanted to move </span><i style="font-size: xx-large;">more of them. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ssshh... don't tell him I may have Tom Sawyer'd him into whitewashing a fence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And now it's December. And it's cold. And we've already had three light snowfalls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I have decided this means an easy winter ahead; we'll get all the snow done with early. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Don't argue with me. <i><b>Believe.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Knockout Roses are holding on to the bitter, bitter, bitterly cold end of the season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">I took these shots today. December 9th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">These roses have been iced, snowed, and out in 25-degree weather overnight. I think we need to start building cars out of whatever these roses are made of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my geraniums was almost as tough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Just a few days ago....in snow. Still hanging on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I had considered wintering it over in the house, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">or bare root in the cellar. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm sorry I didn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And now I remember why I took a break from blogging. It's hard! I'm out of practice, slow, and dull. But I will leave you for today, with pictures of our pups, Dylan and Gilda. He's now 7, and she is 13, and still a flirty redhead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And another Thanksgiving picture, of my gluten-free, sugar-free pumpkin cheesecake. It was delicious, even cracked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Cracked? It fit right into the family.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now I need to go feed the dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm being <i>stared</i> at.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Duty calls. <i><b><span style="color: red;">-- Cass</span></b></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-2100457462294411112016-11-17T13:52:00.000-05:002016-11-17T13:52:47.544-05:00The Return of the Blogger<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Blame it on physics. </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You know ... that inertia thing. "Objects in motion," etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I've been an object NOT in motion ... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">an object at rest, at least when it came to blogging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And inertia kept me there. Like a blogging shut-in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hiding, snuggled in amongst the comfy cushions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yes, like that.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>But then,</b> checking my email this morning, there, right there at the top of my computer monitor, was a little link: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"That Old House,"</b> it read ... and it called my name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And for the first time since April 2015, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to answer that siren call. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let me just go get some hot coffee.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I promise the inertia won't trap me in the kitchen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm back. And </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'm entering into the spirit of the season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanksgiving Day is one week from today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One week, people. <i>One week!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>So, yes, it is time to reveal the time-honored</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year's version of the <b>T.B.D.B.T. List</b> is modest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No high-flying, high-falutin' goals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simple. After all, 'tis a gift, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Buy food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) Cook same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) Not poison anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) Be grateful for all of above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There ya go. What's on your TBDBT List this year?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oops! I forgot #5... Find Howard's turkey shirt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>It just isn't Thanksgiving without the Cracker Barrel Turkey Shirt.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's all, Folks. How are y'all?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you are well, happy, healthy, and being good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow, a furniture dilemma to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With me, it's almost always about the furniture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or, the china. Or, the vintage linens. Or....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All the best ... <i><b>Cass</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thanks to Karen, The <a href="http://thegraphicsfairy.com/" target="_blank">Graphics Fairy</a>, for the vintage images.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Her website is a treasure trove!</span></div>
Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-8720765093316482662015-04-01T16:24:00.002-04:002015-04-01T16:29:47.078-04:00April's Little Prank<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">There I was, on the 1st of last month, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">celebrating the coming of Spring</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">and innocently anticipating March</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">skipping away like a gamboling lamb.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, remember that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But Mother Nature being, as I always say, a merry prankster,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she gave us<i> this,</i> at <b>That Old House,</b> on the last day of March:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes. Snow. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Snow</i>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of inches, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and it's still mostly here on this beautifully sunny first day of April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is not a good April Fool's prank.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Even our own lamb is not gamboling; does he look happy?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No, he does not. <i>He looks cold.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This snow thing has gotten old. Really old. Even older than me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">that</i><span style="font-size: large;">, my friends, is </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">old.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is good news. Today is a boldly brilliant day with deep blue skies and just a few wisps of cloud. It warmed up, and the snow is almost all melted. Yes, good news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not so good news is the appearance of this guy, below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Largest of the rodents known as ground squirrels, he pretty much exists </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">to ruin gardens and eat ALL of the tomatoes, squash and eggplants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i>All of them</i>. A</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> very wicked part of me (that I try and hide most of the time)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">is hoping that this guy takes it into his head to go play in traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Happy April, my friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">I wish you a Spring that will start firing on all cylinders very soon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">and an end to cold and ice and snow. Winter -- vamoose!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Linking to Outdoor Wednesday today, at Susan's <i><b>A Southern Daydreamer</b></i> blog. <a href="http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: red;">Click here!</span></i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be well -- <i><b><span style="color: red;">Cass</span></b></i></span></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-73977118317942159642015-03-01T10:22:00.000-05:002015-03-01T10:55:22.340-05:00Marching Toward Spring, In Snow Boots<br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Welcome, March.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The month that will bring us the first day of Spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In keeping with the Old Wives' Tales, March 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the Northeast USA is indeed coming in, roaring like a Lion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More snow today, piling onto the accumulated snow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that's been whiting us out all Winter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not sad to see this February pass into memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It had its moments. Valentine's Day, for instance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The regular visits of our Cardinal pair to our window bird feeder</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Isn't Mr. C. adorable? </span></div>
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He leaves the feeder each time, and flies up to the driveway,</div>
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handsome Cardinal he sees in that mirror. Yes, it's a bird thing.</div>
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The term "bird brain" suddenly makes perfect sense.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">February had its beautiful, quiet moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our yard received its PhD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Piled Higher and Deeper.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out on the East End of Long Island, the family beach house</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One after another after another. A rough winter for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still, there is a frozen beauty that is quite spectacular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The snow gave our two dogs chances to look adorable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gilda, our Redhead, loves awful weather, the rougher the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She eats snow, rolls in it, wears it, lies down in it ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she only comes back in the house if lured with a tasty cookie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her coat has grown so thick and weatherproof this winter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that she's beginning to resemble a small one of these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for Dylan, he is missing his romps in the yard, but is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All in all, February held 2 family birthdays for us, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">some other revelry.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">However, I bid it goodbye, gleefully, </span><span style="font-size: large;">with a smile and a jaunty wave.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Spring <i>will</i> come.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't really want to know what will be revealed </span><span style="font-size: large;">when all the snow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in our yard is finally melted from those areas we have not been able to get to.</span></div>
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If you, too, have dogs you understand.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I am looking forward to March</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">skipping away </span><span style="font-size: large;">like a </span><span style="font-size: large;">sweet little Lamb. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Goodbye, Old Man Winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't let the screen door hit you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the (euphemistic term here) on the way out.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">What have you, my blogging friends, been doing to get through this Winter?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">19 days, ladies and gents. 19 days. Spring!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First one in the northern USA to spot a blooming crocus, wins. </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>-- Cass</b></i></span></div>
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<i>And special thanks to Karen, the <b><a href="http://thegraphicsfairy.com/" target="_blank">Graphics Fairy</a>,</b> for the vintage images!</i></div>
Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-50519734715045614972015-01-17T03:51:00.000-05:002015-01-17T04:12:05.559-05:00The Slow Climb Back To Normal, And An Old Oak Table in Distress<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I know. I know. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Normal? Seriously?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, we're talking as close to normal as</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>That Old House</b> ever gets.</span></div>
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<i>Oh come on, confess. How normal is your house?</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>So, the big fresh Christmas tree in the Conservatory came down,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>the fallen needles got vacuumed up, </b></i><i><b>the chandelier was re-hung,</b></i></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Notice anything odd?</span> </u></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The center leg looks like it's been on an all-night bender</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and can't stand up straight. Because it can't. Not for long.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It also goes AWOL and falls off, if given the chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a grand old oak table that was in my Great Aunt Margaret's</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brooklyn home. Long, long ago. It has countless leaves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and can stretch out to about 6 miles long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here it is, in January 2010, in the Sunroom with the old wall color,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">old carpeting, and our dear old dog Dion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We used to be able to carefully stretch it out to accommodate </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at least several of those leaves, but now? Everything falls apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We managed this past </span><span style="font-size: large;">Thanksgiving to put in some leaves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but it was touch-and-go, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and our guests never knew </span><span style="font-size: large;">how close</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they came </span><span style="font-size: large;">to wearing their gravy in their laps. <i>I hope</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moving the table into the kitchen for Christmas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Parts fell off. Legs. Screws (below). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Random bits of dry old wood exploded out of its innards.</span></div>
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We made a stab at fixing it, but it was at best a Band-Aid on a compound fracture.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The working mechanisms for an old table like this,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with their many moving parts, are elaborate, intricate, delicate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">clever, and completely ingenious. Trouble is, me and Howard?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Clever</i> and <i>ingenious</i> do not describe our woodworking skills.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conservatory, Oct 2010, new carpeting, new paint. Old table - still working.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now we need to decide, Howard and I, how to fix </span><span style="font-size: large;">a much-loved table</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that has served my family, </span><span style="font-size: large;">in one house or another, </span><span style="font-size: large;">for a century.</span></div>
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I've called a couple of furniture restorers; so far, no one's returned my call.</div>
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I suspect<i> no one</i> wants to tackle this table!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the table is usable, without any leaves; we</span><span style="font-size: large;"> don't mind </span><span style="font-size: large;">the bit</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of wiggle, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and we're careful </span><span style="font-size: large;">not to stress the dear old thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, I realized it needed a quick centerpiece,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and had a pinecone wreath ready to help out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The snowman looks silly, but he asked for a chance at stardom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought the glass with the silver balls would work. </span><span style="font-size: large;">But -- no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one, below, looks ... well, it looks awful. Dreadful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's <i>a bad thing</i> to mix growing greens with plastic ones.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The winner of the world's Saddest Philodendron Award.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally. Below. Good enough, and doesn't make me cringe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">A lantern, left over from a wedding at a country club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did not steal it. Really. No, <i>really. </i>Probably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, the gold blob inside is an LED battery powered candle, <i>of realistic wax</i>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that, just like <i>a real candle</i>, melted into goo in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now that's what I call realism! :-)</span></div>
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Equally real -- the difficulty of getting melted wax out of the darned lantern.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, done. Wrote this piece Friday, then got distracted, and am <i>finally</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">posting in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Yawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy weekend!<i><b><span style="color: red;"> -- Cass</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh dear.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">One end of the Sunroom </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">is looking </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">mighty bare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in mid-December</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a big Canaan Fir moved in </span><span style="font-size: large;">to spend Christmas with us.</span><br />
<i>Meaning the round oak table and the chandelier had to move out!</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tree took on lights and ornaments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And stayed with us throughout the 12 days of Christmas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the beginning of the season of Epiphany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All good things must come to an end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Sigh ....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does everyone hate to take down The Christmas Tree?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Well, <i>luckily at <b>That Old House</b></i>,</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">there are a few others to take its place!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our Dining Room ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a small artificial tree decorated with demitasse cups & saucers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(An idea I <strike>stole</strike> borrowed from Mary at <a href="http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i>Little Red House</i></a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I aim toward dismantling the fresh Sunroom tree</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">shortly after January 6th, Epiphany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But our artificial trees? I like to let them linger a bit.</span><br />
<i>One year, they lingered till Groundhog Day, but we won't go that far this year. Probably.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Mrs. Gilda-the-Red likes to make napping nests</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the tree skirts. Who am I to spoil her fun?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two more <i>faux trees</i> glam up the Parlor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few years ago, our artist daughter Anne decreed they be</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anne lives in Washington DC now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but we've </span><span style="font-size: large;">kept her pale and pretty color scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And speaking of kids ... both Anne and Alida have</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and they are hung on a tree in the study/family room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of these years, "the girls" will take their ornaments to their</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">own homes, but in the meantime ... they bling up our holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Howard and I didn't <i>quite</i> finish putting the Sunroom </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll get there. We'll be back to normal soon.</span></div>
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<i>(My gosh, that empty sunroom looks awful, and awfully <b>cold</b>!)</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u>Happy 2015, my friends.</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May this shiny new year bring you joy and blessings<i> galore!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>-- Cass</b></i></span></div>
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<br />Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-24111599248499571002014-12-05T19:09:00.000-05:002014-12-06T12:24:21.213-05:00It's Haulin' Out The Holly Time<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Nineteen days until Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Eeeeeekkk!!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How is this possible, when just a few weeks ago, </span><span style="font-size: large;">we were still</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">harvesting tomatoes from our diehard and shriveled vines?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">November, right after Halloween:</span> </div>
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<i>(I suspect our tomato plants actually benefit from our benign neglect</i></div>
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<i>of them, and become </i><i>tougher and more productive out of sheer cussedness.)</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Weird, eh? Weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Mother Nature is a wicked practical joker.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The day before Thanksgiving, this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...which piled up to 6 or 7 inches before it ended</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday morning, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and it stuck around for 5 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now the tomato vines look like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Prison Yard</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">looked like this, not all that long ago:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And today it looks like this, like some abandoned industrial site:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's time, my friends. It is time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I think one of the strongest arguments for decking</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>it is so freaking dark in winter!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take heart. In just a few more weeks we begin the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">long slow climb back to the Summer Solstice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Well, as Auntie Mame sang:</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Haul out the holly</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Put up the tree before my spirit falls again</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Fill up the stocking</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>For we need a little Christmas</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Right this very minute</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Candles in the window</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Carols at the spinet</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yes, we need a little Christmas</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Right this very minute</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>We need a little Christmas now</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The chandelier gets poinsettias.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">And there will be a Christmas tree in every room.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Well, every occupied room!</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">What are your plans for Christmas decorating?</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Less than past years? More?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><b>And do you change styles year to year, or keep with</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">I'm so nosey! </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>-- Cass</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PS Howard already has lights on our side fence. Show off.</span><br />
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-58424612087493049792014-12-03T19:13:00.002-05:002014-12-03T19:13:45.984-05:00Thanksgiving Day -- The Good, The Bad, the Stupid, and The Ugly<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">One week ago, I was slaving over a hot stove,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">getting some cooking done before Thanksgiving.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>And expecting 20 people to gather at the table.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, the snow struck. And it also <em>stuck.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6 or 7 inches of the dang stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's the <strong><span style="color: red;">Bad</span></strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our numbers dwindled to 15, as our five Virginians</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wisely decided to skip this trip up the coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <strong><span style="color: red;">Good</span></strong> is that the food all got cooked, even both turkeys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Including <em>this little one</em>, cooked on Wednesday, </span><span style="font-size: large;">unstuffed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so it isn't tainted by the wheat (gluten) in the bread stuffing.</span></div>
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Sorry, there's just no way to make a hunk of cooked bird look pretty.</div>
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Especially when you have done what you swore you would never do, and</div>
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roasted it in one of those stupid aluminum pans. Which you'll never do again.</div>
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<em>Wiggle wiggle wiggle! Not strong enough for 14 pounds of poultry!</em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that is the <strong><span style="color: red;">Stupid</span></strong>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for the <strong><span style="color: red;">Ugly</span></strong>. . . </span></div>
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What is the holiday season without a few ugly holiday sweaters?</div>
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Dylan DiPoochy was wrangled into a reindeer sweater by my daughter Anne.</div>
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It was not a hit with Dylan, although we thought he looked pretty cute.</div>
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It lasted about 15 minutes, and he was back to comfy nekkid.</div>
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I don't have the heart to tell him that I have little Sherpa-lined jackets for him and Gilda.</div>
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(Gilda doesn't really care if we put clothes on her.</div>
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Do you think she'd look fetching in the ugly reindeer sweater?)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh. One more <strong><span style="color: red;">Bad</span></strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did not get a new picture of Howard </span><span style="font-size: large;">in his heirloom Turkey Shirt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I forgot this last year, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also took no pictures on Thanksgiving Day.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">So many <strong><span style="color: red;">Bads</span></strong>!</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And one last <strong><span style="color: red;">Bad</span></strong>. Or is it more one last <strong><span style="color: red;">Stupid</span></strong>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember <a href="http://cass-thatoldhouse.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-christmas-tree-for-thanksgiving.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: red;">my master plan</span></em></a> to have our guests put the little</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That probably would have gone better if I'd actually <em>put the</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>ornaments out where people could find them</em>, and if I'd actually</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>asked </em>them to trim the little tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Oops.</em> My <strong><span style="color: red;">Bad</span>. </strong>My <span style="color: red;"><strong>Stupid</strong></span><span style="color: black;">, too</span>!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">But to wind up with some more of the <span style="color: red;">Good</span>,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">there are people I want to thank. Without them, I'd be sunk.</span></strong></div>
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Husband Howard and Daughter Anne pitched in tirelessly on Wednesday and Thursday.</div>
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Sister-in-law Phyllis and Mother-in-law Irene washed and dried</div>
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pots and pans and wineglasses and serving dishes ... and <em>more!</em></div>
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Phyllis also brought cranberry pie, and our niece-in-law Deb brought cookies and brownies.</div>
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Irene (Howard's Mom) baked dozens of tiny pecan rolls and mini-muffins. An annual tradition.</div>
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Sister Peggy and her hubby Bill brought champagne and shrimp.</div>
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Nieces Grace and Mary bailed us out by picking up ice on their way.</div>
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And I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting someone but my personal hard drive is running low on space.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On to Christmas, my friends! <em><strong><span style="color: red;">-- Cass</span></strong></em></span></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-61383192188025043932014-11-26T13:27:00.000-05:002014-12-03T14:13:13.010-05:00It's A Thanksgiving Kitchen<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">A kitchen, in a home where</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thanksgiving Dinner </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">will be </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">served,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">is a bustling place </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">on the day before the holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So it is today, at <b>That Old House.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our daughter Anne is home from Washington for the holiday</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and just put <i>the first turkey</i>, which stays gluten-free, into the oven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and now she's working on a gluten-free stuffing to accompany the bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It will begin to smell divine in here. <i>Soon.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, it is snowing. <i>A lot</i>. Weather folk say we'll get around</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8 inches of snow before it ends late, late tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Good. Grief.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've got our little infrared heater things heating up the sunroom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and making believe it's a woodstove. Yes, it's cheesy, but we love it.</span></div>
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(Thank you, Martha of <a href="http://www.lflinderhof.com/" target="_blank">Linderhof</a>, for inspiring us to add this to our sunroom.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And later today, Anne will help me fish the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanksgiving china </span><span style="font-size: large;">out of the breakfront . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most importantly, Howard has located his Turkey Shirt,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">shown here in a shot from Thanksgiving 2012:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We wish you delicious turkey, and tasty trimmings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>That Old House</b> is grateful to know <i>you!</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow, the Big Bird (no, not that one!)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm thinking ... half my plate for stuffing,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">everything else can jockey for space!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Later, gators! I'm going to check my lists again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to see what I am forgetting! <i><b><span style="color: red;">-- Cass</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At Christmas, we have a decorated tree </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">in pretty much</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Up until a couple of years ago, we put a small spiral tree there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and added pine cones to it, tucked in here and there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But then, I remembered this picture,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from Mary's <i><b><a href="http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Little Red House</span></a></b></i> blog:</span></div>
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Mary put a small tree in her dining room, and</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, out with the wee spiral tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And in with a small traditional tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That little tree is decorated with a lot of <span style="color: red;"><b>red</b></span>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and lots of birds, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and lots of <i>faux</i> fruits & pine cones,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and lots of little vintage demitasse cups, their saucers Crazy-glued on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Because who doesn't like a craft project at Christmas?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not a fresh tree; we put our big fresh tree </span><span style="font-size: large;">in the conservatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">where it is cool overnight and the fresh tree stays<i> fresh.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No, the dining room tree is proudly fake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you tell? <i>Oy</i>. I pretty much always forget</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to toss a tree skirt around its spindly ugly plastic bottom.</span></div>
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<i>Seriously, Cass, how hard is it to remember to do that?</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhoo, this year, on Thanksgiving Day, this tree will already be set up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the dining room, but it will be <i>nekkid as the day it was born.</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">There will be a nearby box, and maybe a basket or two,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">of little vintage coffee cups, flocked birds, </span></b><b><span style="color: red;">pinecones,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">red and gold and silver glass balls ... all the lovely things that belong on this tree.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are one of our guests on Thanksgiving Day, I hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you'll be inspired to grab a few ornaments and sling them </span><span style="font-size: large;">onto the tree.</span></div>
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<i>You will do this, or there may not be any hot gravy</i></div>
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<i>at your end of the table. It's good to be Queen.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then come back to visit the tree you decorated, at Christmastime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh. What happened to the little spiral tree? It has a new job;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it stands sentry on the landing of our front hall stairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just one week, my friends, till Thanksgiving!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are you cooking this year?<i><b><span style="color: red;"> -- Cass</span></b></i></span></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-22883960079231646572014-11-18T16:53:00.002-05:002014-11-18T17:05:29.227-05:00What DO You Do With A Wee Tiny Room?<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Most of the rooms at <b>That Old House </b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">have had</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">their </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">makeovers in </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">the six years since we moved in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>But a couple of them are still in their as-found state.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Including this one:</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My, my. Ain't that purty?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Especially that dingy old strawberry wallpaper, the shade at a rakish angle,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Cell</b>, as Annie has dubbed it, is the first of three</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each is about 12 feet long, and 7 feet wide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second of the 3 wee little rooms is our upstairs bathroom.</span><br />
(Yes, I did go there ... <i>wee </i>room. Bathroom. I crack myself up.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last of the wee little rooms is Howard's walk-in closet.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I do not have pictures of that. Do <i>you</i> have closet pics?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I thought not....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Someday, this third wee little room will be our master bath.</span><br />
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Since this house was built before indoor plumbing, these wee tiny rooms probably</div>
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were nurseries, or hired man rooms, or even <i>box rooms,</i> for storage.</div>
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Or, maybe, they were simply ... teensy bedrooms.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Cell</b> is kind of <i>out-of-sight, out-of mind</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's at the top of the front stairs, to the right of </span><span style="font-size: large;">the little landing, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">up the one step that you can see just at the right edge in this picture:</span></div>
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Since we almost always use the back stairs, which are past that tiny mid-hall step,</div>
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and not the front stairs, we really don't see this little room very often.</div>
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It's turned into a sort of modern day <i>box room</i>, and that's a shame. <i>It has potential.</i></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>I needed some inspiration.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of weeks ago, I saw this picture, below, online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I loved it.</i> And it put me in mind of our own tiny wee room.</span></div>
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<i>I saved it, but forgot to label it with its source.</i></div>
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<i>I apologize. I'm quite twitchy about stealing intellectual property,</i></div>
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<i>whether that be words or pictures, recipes, whatever ... and I spent</i></div>
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<i>a lot of time today trying to track down this picture. No luck.</i></div>
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<i>If you know where it is from, please let me know so I can credit it properly.</i></div>
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<i>I thought it was from <u><a href="http://www.bhg.com/" target="_blank">Better Homes and Gardens</a></u>, but I cannot find it on their website.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">However, there is<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://houzz./">Houzz.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Houzz has thousands of pictures of, well, houses. (Houzzes?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside and out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Including bedrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even wee tiny bedrooms.</span></div>
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So I have been cruising Houzz, looking for inspiration for our own wee tiny room.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See anything you like?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This is a little <b>white</b> for my taste, and a tad claustrophobia-inducing.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I wonder... do you squinch in along the side,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>or walk onto the bed by climbing over the footboard?</i></span></div>
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<small><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/farmhouse/bedroom" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Farmhouse Bedroom</a> by <a href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/design-build/c/Quakertown--PA" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Quakertown Design-Build Firms</a> <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/flyer1/sullivan-building-and-design-group" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Sullivan Building & Design Group</a></small></div>
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<small><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/eclectic/bedroom" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Eclectic Bedroom</a> by <a href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/other-metro" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Other Metro Interior Designers & Decorators</a> <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/jandgdesign/j-g-deisgn" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">J+G Deisgn</a></small></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I have thought often of doing <b>The Cell</b> in toile -- </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>walls and</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>ceiling -- but as we'll probably be selling </i><i><b>That Old House</b></i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">when Howard retires, I'm not sure that's a wise choice.</span></i><br />
<i>But wouldn't it look grand? It would be like sleeping in a lovely hat box!</i></div>
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<small><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional/bedroom" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Traditional Bedroom</a> by <a href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/c/Chicago--IL" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Chicago Interior Designers & Decorators</a> <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/alessandrabranca/branca-inc" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Branca, Inc.</a></small></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A daybed is very tempting.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>But I hate to change the linens on them .... so awkward.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Admitted -- this one caught my eye because of the</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>But of course, that one lives with her in D.C. now.</i></span></div>
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<small><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/eclectic/bedroom" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Eclectic Bedroom</a> by <a href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/media-and-blogs/c/Brooklyn--NY" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Brooklyn Media & Bloggers</a> <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/fourthfloorwalkup/lauren-gries" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Lauren Gries</a></small></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>If I were a little girl, I'd so want this!</i></span><br />
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<small><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional/bedroom" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Traditional Bedroom</a> by <a href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/c/New-York--NY" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">New York Interior Designers & Decorators</a> <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/adrienneneff/adrienne-neff-design-services-llc" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Adrienne Neff Design Services LLC</a></small></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dark walls. I like it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This English room, at 2 meters by 4 meters, is just about</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>the same size as <b>The Cell. </b>A little smaller, actually.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Nice end wall treatment.</i></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/676216/Duck-Egg-and-Pink-Bedroom-contemporary-bedroom-manchester-uk"><img border="0" src="http://st.houzz.com/simgs/4e31618b0f60b1a0_8-8954/contemporary-bedroom.jpg" height="750" width="500" /></a></div>
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<small><a href="http://www.houzz.com/photos/contemporary/bedroom" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Contemporary Bedroom</a> by <a href="http://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/south-east" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">South East Interior Designers & Decorators</a> <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/furnishedbyanna/furnished-by-anna" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">Furnished by Anna</a></small></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I'd love to visit this room, below, but not have to clean it.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Some rooms are meant for admiring.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>But ... I do love, love, love that bed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>That's a bed I can see in <b>The Cell. </b> Sometimes bold is<b> it.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First step: The Walls and Ceiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This explains why we have not done this room, and the one next</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to it, yet. <i>Wallpaper stripping. </i> Worse than root canal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we'll keep the eventual sale of this house in mind, as we make our choices. Because in 5 years or so, Howard will retire, and we'll decide that New Jersey is just too expensive, or too cold, or too far away from one or the other of our children ... and we'll move.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to go to some enchanted little place like this;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it looks <i>made </i>for grandchildren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>And convince all the neighborhood kids that I'm a witch. </i>:-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is it cold where you live? It's in the 20s F here. Crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just a week ago we were still growing tomatoes. Nuts.</span></div>
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It's the 243rd Inspire Me Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life. <b><u><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2014/11/243rd-inspire-me-tuesday.html" target="_blank">Click here!</a></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The Lazy Lady's Silver Polishing method.</i></b></span><br />
<i>It is cheap, non-toxic, and doesn't leave a funny chemical smell on your flatware. Promise.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Read it, and never dread silver polishing again.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f0f5eb; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;">boatload of old silverplated flatware. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I love the stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I hate to polish it.</span></div>
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With our daughter's wedding coming up in fewer than 5 weeks,</div>
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I want even my mismatched old silverware in its best bib and tucker for the occasion.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Leave <b>me</b> out in the air, and I <i><b>wrinkle</b>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Leave <b>silver</b> out in the air, and it <i><b>tarnishes</b>.</i></span></div>
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It just happens, y'know?</div>
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But at least <i>for the silver, </i>there are remedies.</div>
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Below, The Lazy Lady's Silver Polishing treatment has begun for some pieces,</div>
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while their tarnished relatives wait patiently alongside the hot tub.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Welcome to The Lazy Lady's Silver Polishing Club.</b></span></div>
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All you need to join are some bits of silver, plated or sterling.</div>
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Line them up like meek little lambs in a disposable aluminum pan.<br />
(You can also line a non-reactive pan with aluminum foil. I find the pan is easier. I'm all about easy.)</div>
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Membership in this Club is free, or pretty darned close to it,</div>
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because the only thing you need to buy is a big box of this stuff, which is cheap:</div>
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Generously sprinkle plain old baking soda over your waiting <strike>victims</strike> flatware.</div>
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And put the kettle on to boil.<br />
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Pour the boiling water over the baking-soda-covered flatware.</div>
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It will bubble up most gratifyingly, then settle down.</div>
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Walk away, put your feet up, have a cuppa, come back in a little while when it's not blistering hot.</div>
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Fish the flatware out of the aluminum pan, and rinse it in the sink.</div>
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Take an old, soft towel, and dry each piece, giving a quick light buffing to really bring out the shine.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>And you are done.</b></i></span></div>
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Your old tarnished flatware can join its gleaming relatives,<br />
where they will all admire one another's brilliance, like families do.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>And ...</i> we're back to November 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, my deadline now is not my daughter's wedding,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"><span style="font-size: large;">but Thankgiving, just 10 days away. Eeek! :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"><i>Question</i>: Do you begin Christmas prep before Thanksgiving?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">Just wondering .... </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Cass</b></i></span></span></span><br />
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-64676392597603620002014-11-15T09:53:00.000-05:002014-11-15T12:20:56.119-05:00Oh My Ears & Whiskers! The Turkey Cometh<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Not even two weeks until Thanksgiving!</span></div>
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Meaning, a relative of one of these guys is on its way to <b>That Old House.</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild turkey,wandering aimlessly near our house. Silly bugger - it's November. Flee!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Because eventually, all November roads lead to this:</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;"><i>This is motivating.</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Yes, this wakes up my hostessing DNA and gets all those</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>holy-monkeys-get-your-act-together genes percolating merrily.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because we won't just have <i>turkeys</i> here on Thanksgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll have <i>people</i>. Aged from 22 months to 88 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This year, I do not have a long, elaborate, impossible</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><b>Nope, this year, it's pretty pared down.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In no particular order, here it is:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Polish the old silver. The easy way.</i></span><br />
<i>(You don't know the easy way? I'll show you. Tomorrow.)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>so much</b> year to year), send Howard to shop (he likes this, or so he claims),</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Get the Thanksgiving china out of the breakfront.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Actually, that will be Annie's job when she gets home.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(I wish I had her home for days beforehand! She cooks.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Speaking of the dining room, I better include</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Ha ha! Gotcha!</span></b><br />
<b>This was October 2010, when we were rejiggering the kitchen, and </b><br />
<b>all the kitchen stuff was all over the freakin' house. <i>Including here:</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>We still don't have matching dining room chairs, but that's okay.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>No one coming has matching bottoms, either. </i>:-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am tempted to add "sew dining room draperies" to my List this year,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>as I have had it on my TBDBT List for years</i>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">but I am not including it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">After all, don't the windows look nice, all nekkid?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the draperies get done, that will be a lovely surprise. For me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Do elves ever show up at night and sew curtains? Please tell me<b> Yes</b>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, pared down, this year's TBDBT List is:</span><br />
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Clean, shop, cook.<br />
<i>(Yep, that covers a lot of ground.)</i><br />
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Change the chandelier lightbulbs, an annual event.<br />
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Find all the table linens, platters, wineglasses,<br />
and the cords to the big coffee urns.<br />
<i>(More of a challenge than you might think.)</i><br />
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Fetch guests coming by plane or train.<br />
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Plan table centerpieces.<br />
<i>(I pretty much always forget this.)</i><br />
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Bathe the dogs <i>before</i> Turkey Day itself.<br />
<i>(This reminder is hard-won; don't ask.)</i><br />
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Don't poison anyone.<br />
<i>(So far, a perfect record on this one.)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Yup. That pretty much covers it.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mostly, just the basics. And the fun stuff, like cooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>What's on your T.B.D.B.T. List?</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Cass</b></i></span></div>
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And thanks to Karen at <a href="http://thegraphicsfairy.com/" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: red;">The Graphics Fairy</span></b></i></a> for the vintage images.<br />
Her website is amazing, and addictive. Go see!</div>
Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-20959523586549875122014-11-12T16:44:00.001-05:002014-11-13T09:39:45.999-05:00Chair Love On The Main Line, and an Estate Sale Find<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you read <i><b><a href="http://cass-thatoldhouse.blogspot.com/2014/11/when-estate-sales-break-your-heart.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">yesterday's post</span></a></b></i> about the estate sale at the 1806 house -- the one being demolished -- you know we didn't get the plates I'd gone back for, but ... we did get this:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">An actual period an-tee-cue! A cherry stand, with tiger maple drawer front.<br />Lovely wood, handcut dovetail joints, nice light Sheraton style turnings. Love.<br />And a good buy in the last hour of the sale!</span></td></tr>
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Not cleaned up yet. And yes, it's got a few issues. </div>
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I don't know why, but I like burn marks on antiques.</div>
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Makes me wonder about the husband who got scolded for it! :-)</div>
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Miss Gilda Von Tease says, Excuse me, but why are you photographing</div>
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some old table, when I am right here, posing?</div>
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At another estate sale, we picked up a lovely matelasse bed coverlet, with two shams,</div>
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and a bedskirt, for ten bucks. I'd show you, but it's downstairs in the laundry area.</div>
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Also known as The Dungeon. I don't do The Dungeon unless I have to.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Monday, S-I-L Phyllis and I ventured to Philadelphia's swanky</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not surprisingly, they came home with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two of these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh I do love these chairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They look like chubby little ladies, don't they?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spaniel approved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, there were these two, and they also came home with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nice carvings. On all 4 chairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are clustered around the sunroom table now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but they can easily pinch-hit in the dining room. Useful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One fly in the ointment -- I had to take a table along</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with the four chairs. It's a square tile-topped table,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Dylan DiPoochy says if you can look past his gloriousness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you can see it leaning up against the walnut cupboard in our kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes when you do Craigslist or eBay or</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">do other thrifting, you end up with excess <i>stuff.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This is a perfectly fine table, but we don't need it.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stopped at Goodwill to donate it, on the way hone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but Goodwill's reception center was not open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Turns out, that was okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Howard says he can use it in The Dungeon. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Works for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As long as I don't have to go downstairs and visit it ... </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Cass</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-66944141134852600872014-11-11T08:40:00.001-05:002014-11-11T08:41:53.653-05:00When Estate Sales Break Your Heart<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Last Friday, my sister-in-law and I went to an <a href="http://cass-thatoldhouse.blogspot.com/2014/11/estate-sale-ing-and-armchair-thrifting.html" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: red;">estate</span></b></i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://cass-thatoldhouse.blogspot.com/2014/11/estate-sale-ing-and-armchair-thrifting.html" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: red;">sale</span></b></i></a> at a very old house; we didn't buy anything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But on Saturday,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Howard and I went back to the sale, </span><span style="font-size: large;">because I wanted these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Royal Copenhagan plates.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "Flute Half-Lace" pattern, in <b><span style="color: #38761d;">green</span></b>.</span></div>
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This pattern dates back to 1775, and is still made by Royal Copenhagen,</div>
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and by many other manufacturers under other names: Finlandia, Denmark, etc.</div>
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In <i><b><span style="color: blue;">blue</span></b></i>. These were green. <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>Green!</i></b></span> For about $20 for 11 plates, I wanted them.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But as we walked up the steps to the house, a gentleman walked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">down the steps, carrying those plates. <b>Dang.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><i><b>The thing about estate sales: You snooze, you lose.</b></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>But that's not the heartbreak part of this tale.</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No, the part that broke our hearts is that this house is being torn down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new owners want a place with lots of glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This house, from 1806, is <i>too old</i>, they say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Too old.</i> After all, who could bear to live with an entry like this?</span></div>
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When Howard and I last saw this front parlor, that beautiful fireplace was lying on the floor.</div>
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I hope it's headed for a wonderful new home. It's not original to the house, but it's lovely.</div>
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If I'd had an extra couple hundred dollars (stop laughing, Howard), I'd have taken that mantle.</div>
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Gorgeous old wood. I hope someone took it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, it is heartbreaking that a gracious, beautiful home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that has sheltered </span><span style="font-size: large;">families for many generations,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't get me wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have nothing against new houses. Believe me, living in an old</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">house often makes the thought of new construction very appealing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But surely, surely, this couple could have found some empty land</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And not destroy this bit of old New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, now that I've depressed everyone, I need to say goodbye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My friend Emily and I are going shopping!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She is getting a rare day on her own, without her twins;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>wonderful husbands are valuable assets.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of wonderful husbands, Howard and I did buy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">something from this estate sale; I'll show you tomorrow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and share the results of yesterday's jaunt to Philadelphia's Main Line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy your Tuesday </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>-- Cass</i></b></span></div>
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<i>Confession: Those pictures of the house are not mine; they are from a real estate listing.</i></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-71505345199396870552014-11-10T08:05:00.000-05:002014-11-10T08:05:53.725-05:00A Craigslist Jaunt to Pennsylvania<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;">As I've said before, <i>North Jersey Craigslist</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;">nearly always comes through for me.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;">But this time, it's the <i>Philadelphia</i> CL that</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;">is luring me thither (good word!) with 4 chairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Said chairs are destined for our conservatory, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to go 'round the old oak table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Because it seriously needs some chair love.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been looking for a long time; I thought I'd found</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>the ones</i> last year, but Howard hates them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back on the prowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very nice lady who lives on Philly's Main Line</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is selling two of these chairs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And two of these chairs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once again, like <a href="http://cass-thatoldhouse.blogspot.com/2014/11/hello-new-craigslist-coffee-table-get.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>the coffee table</b></i></span></a> we recently bought,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But they leaped out from the pages of Craigslist, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as my Mom used to say, they licked my hand.</span></div>
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<i>I kind of hated when she used that phrase, but now I know what she meant.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope, when I see them, that I like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because I can't wait to plop them around this table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Keep your fingers crossed that they get the Howard seal of approval.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sister-in-law Phyllis is joining me again today, so it's into</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the Big Blue Minivan we'll go, for the wilds of Pennsylvania.</span></div>
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Yes, because the Main Line is so wild and wooly....</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>On Saturday, this past weekend, Howard and I went back to the</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>farmhouse estate sale Phyllis and I had gone to on Friday. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>We got something lovely, but we came</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>away with heavy hearts, and I am still haunted.</i></span></div>
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<i>Full story tomorrow....</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">**********************</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Wish us luck with today's Craigslist adventure!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's always that exhilarating risk of ending up in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">someone's basement chest freezer, but Phyllis always has her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">knitting needles with her, and knows how to use them. I think we're safe.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Cass</span></i></b></div>
Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-61403418776506046732014-11-07T10:15:00.004-05:002014-11-07T17:37:23.541-05:00Estate Sale-ing And Armchair Thrifting<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm having lunch today with my sister-in-law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We haven't yet decided where to go to eat,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but we know where we'll go<i> after we eat.</i></span></div>
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<i>Thank you, Phyllis, for this most excellent idea.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's an estate sale today in beautiful, nearby Mendham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An 1806 farmhouse on 5 acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was recently sold, just under a million,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">which is a bargain </span><span style="font-size: large;">for this Mendham neighborhood.</span></div>
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<i>Annual taxes: $26-thousand-plus. Gotta love New Jersey.</i></div>
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Since they are selling off the fireplace mantelpieces, I very much</div>
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fear that this lovely old house is going to be pulled down.</div>
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I hope not; I'll keep an eye on it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, some of the items being sold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in pictures from </span><span style="font-size: large;">the estate sale listing:</span></div>
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Gorgeous kidney-shaped desk, above. <i> Want.</i></div>
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Oddball coffee table? Is that a giant ash tray in the middle?<br />
<i>Don't want. </i><i>Or maybe, I do ....</i></div>
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Oh, my. This desk. I've never seen one like it in "real life."</div>
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<i>Want. </i>Does anyone know what style this is? Adams?</div>
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And ... look at that flooring.</div>
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World's oldest living Christmas tree stand.</div>
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<i>Pass.</i></div>
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And who does not love hairy paw feet?</div>
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And gorgeous wide plank floors?</div>
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Then , there are pants.</div>
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(I think my Dad had those same madras patchwork that are in the middle.)</div>
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And more of the wardrobe of the 96-year old doctor who owned the house.</div>
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I'm thinking that's a genuine Burberry scarf,</div>
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and not a cheap knockoff like we bought in London.</div>
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Cobra candlesticks. <i>Might want.</i> I'm thinking, Christmas grab bag....</div>
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It's my Uncle Louie!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are interested, you can check out this estate sale for yourself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in person or online ... where there are <i><b>more than 400 pictures!</b></i></span><br />
<b><i>So many, many, many beautiful pieces of furniture.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Plus books, china, lamps ... you have to look!</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><b><a href="http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/NJ/Mendham/07945/750057" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Click here</span></a></b></i></u> for the estatesales.net listing.</span></div>
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Meanwhile, I am still armchair thrifting with North Jersey Craigslist.</div>
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This time: chairs for our oak table in the conservatory,</div>
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and more dining room chairs (Anne took some to DC).</div>
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Among the contenders for the dining room are these, below.<br />
All of these chairs come in multiples, all are bargains:<br />
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And for the conservatory?<br />
There are these to consider. Also in at least sets of 4,<br />
and ... yes, bargains. Craigslist in North Jersey do beat all.<br />
Seek and ye shall find.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to include this ... a stunning Frenchy DR table and chairs. 8 chairs. So beautiful, but not really what I want for<br />
<b>That Old House</b>.... but the whole shebang is $200. For that table, and those chairs. Holy smokes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one comes with the table. Gorgeous table -- what patina!</td></tr>
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Oh whose grandma didn't have some of these chairs, below?<br />
Heck, Howard and I had some of these chairs, years ago! (Lost in a flood.)<br />
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-83745487042936289712014-11-06T19:56:00.000-05:002014-11-06T23:19:03.574-05:00Throwback Thrifty Tables<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I considered doing a brand-new <i>tablescape</i> today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">but . . . I am bone lazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually, I'm not really ready to do all the toting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and moving of dishes and glassware and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">centerpiece <i>stuff . . . </i>my knee is still sore and cranky,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and still under those "rest it" doc's orders. <i>Bor</i>-ing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>But the ghosts of Fall table settings past</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>are plentiful in the pictures archives.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>2009: Lunch for one in the Parlor.</b></i></span></div>
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Dollar Tree, TJ Maxx, a free lantern, a few gifts,</div>
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Got the rooster plate in Los Angeles, at a TJ Maxx. Just like home ....</div>
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The lantern was liberated from a country club by my daughter Alida,</div>
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when she waitressed at a wedding there. The lanterns were abandoned and up for grabs.</div>
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Free is my favorite price. The fabulous tea pot is a gift, years ago, from my daughters.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>2009: Lunch, in the Conservatory.</b></i></span></div>
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Walmart, Dollar Tree, Ebay, and more Dollar Tree.</div>
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Seeing a pattern here?</div>
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Dollar Tree well represented here. I love a store where everything is a buck.</div>
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So, this table may have a bit of a pumpkin overload going on. Hey, the tables can't all be winners.</div>
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Looks like a pasta night, doesn't it? </div>
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Plates from Dollar Tree. Bowls from a discount drugstore.<br />
Plaid linen napkins, vintage, eBay, <i>cheap.</i></div>
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It's hard to see with my clumsy pictures, but the blue in the plates <i>does match the blues</i> in the bowls.</div>
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Trust me.</div>
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Hand blown turquoise wine glasses from my favorite charity thrift shop.</div>
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Home Goods napkins. They have <i>the best prices</i> on new napkins.</div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Dion DiPoochy, also in 2009, wondering why I have draped him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And with that, it's Goodbye time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think there are chairs in my future, on Craigslist,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and on tomorrow's blog post. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And hopefully in our dining room. Be well! <span style="color: red;"><i><b>-- Cass</b></i></span></span></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-26024373478603804672014-11-05T17:34:00.002-05:002014-11-06T11:47:45.777-05:00Wednesday - Wordless AND Outdoors!<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Okay -- Almost Wordless. But definitely Outdoors!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">These are from today, November 5th, and we have not yet had a hard frost. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">Suits me. -- Enjoy your Wednesday! </span><i><b><span style="color: red;">-- Cass</span></b></i></span><br />
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-59414833466683405092014-11-04T08:09:00.005-05:002014-11-04T08:10:52.448-05:00I Elect Not To Fret<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Today, here in these United States,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">it is </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Election Day.</span> </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">E PLURIBUS UNUM. The phrase suggested 'way back in 1776, for<br />the Great Seal of the United States. Latin for "out of many, one," it describes the coming-together<br />of the 13 former colonies, which had strong regional differences, into a cohesive, purposeful whole.<br />It's still a part of the Great Seal. You can read more <i>(lots more!)</i> about the Seal <a href="http://greatseal.com/overview.html" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: red;">here</span></b></i></a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anywho, I'll vote today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This isn't a presidential election year, so there isn't the great</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">excitement of nationwide voting, but that </span><span style="font-size: large;">doesn't mean it doesn't count.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Now, about that fretting mentioned in the title. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know my Thanksgiving "to do" list?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The TBDBT?</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year, I'm letting it go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year, I'm a bit hobbled with a <i>bum knee</i>, and spending</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">way too much time with that knee immobile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meaning I am doing way too much sitting. Yes, annoying.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going to the doc today.<br />
Hoping for a quick fix!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With just 3 weeks till Howard heads out on his annual</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Turkey Hunt, and brings home a whopper of a Tom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">those "to-do" items are most likely not going to get "to-done."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The important stuff will get done; it always does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cooking, cleaning, <i>more cooking</i> . . . . </span><span style="font-size: large;">Those things we'll do.</span></div>
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The old silver will be polished.</div>
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We'll get out the Thanksgiving dishes.</div>
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Cranberry sauce will boil merrily away on the stove.</div>
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And I'll make the walnut pie - just one this year.</div>
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We don't want a lot of leftovers.</div>
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On the great day, Howard will host - in his Turkey Shirt.</div>
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And most importantly, <b>That Old House</b> will be full of people. Well fed people. :-)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But as for that TBDBT List,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for yet another Thanksgiving,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the dining room chairs will not have matching seat covers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And it's a pretty good bet those draperies in there will not be sewn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Unless Howard has heretofore hidden talents.</i></span></div>
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And you know what? Those things aren't important to anyone but, probably, <i>me.</i></div>
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So I'm letting them go. I'm allowed. Kind of amazing.</div>
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You can find me here, today, un-laxing,</div>
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being all Lazy Lady Liberty on Election Day.</div>
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<br />Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-70079937252153065792014-11-03T15:45:00.003-05:002014-11-03T15:51:53.467-05:00Hello New Craigslist Coffee Table: Get To Work!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For the past month, I've posted every Friday about</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This past Friday ... we found it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Yay!</i></b></span></div>
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Here it is, in its Craigslist ad.</div>
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I liked its sturdy bigness. And the chubby legs.</div>
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I mean, really . . . chubby legs! How cute.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So on yesterday's glorious Sunday afternoon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a short drive </span><span style="font-size: large;">up Route 15 from us . . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And after keeping my husband from wandering off</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to look at the boats, </span><span style="font-size: large;">we found the sellers' house,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Mr Coffee was loaded into the b</span><span style="font-size: large;">ack of the minivan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And it came home to <b>That Old House!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are no good pictures today; I am laid up with a bum knee,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there's an extra chair in the study for me to use, and this table</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is just tucked in where it would fit. It's not set in place yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The table is lovely, and nicely "distressed" -- restrained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But ... white isn't right in this room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we are choosing another color. Or, colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Howard and most of you are leaning toward green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Me? I am kind of leaning toward red, but that's because </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like this red, below, on that strip of fabric on the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's the fabric for the dining room draperies, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have paint in that exact color. All ready to go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or maybe ... red legs and base, and green top?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or a top painted in a gold, green, red plaid?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or a top decoupaged in paper or fabric?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the white finish is very nice, it is not</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">right in this book-lined, rather dark jumble of a room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next Craigslist search: More dining room chairs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and also chairs for the round oak table in the sunroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh yes. I've got some on the hook already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a lovely Monday! </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>-- Cass</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">charming </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">lakeside village, where we're going</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to take a gander </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">at this table, <i>below.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I think it's a pretty safe bet that this table, <i>below,</i></span></div>
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For the past month, I've been <i>assiduously</i> cruising <b>Craigslist</b></div>
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for a <strike>cheap</strike> bargain coffee table, big and sturdy, for our study.</div>
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Which has been without coffee table convenience</div>
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since Anne moved out, and took hers with her.</div>
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No luck with the coffee table search until Friday, when lightning struck, and that</div>
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cute, cottage-y, kitschy, scallop-y, chunky coffee table stood up and said, "Pick me!"</div>
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So we did.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Now</span><span style="color: magenta;">,</span> <span style="color: red;">what</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">color</span> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">should</span> <span style="color: orange;">we</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">paint</span> <span style="color: #741b47;">it?</span></span><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sturdy study upholstery is a <i>very printed</i> cotton tapestry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">furniture </span><span style="font-size: large;">we bought in 2001 for its dog-and-teenager-proof qualities.</span></div>
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And it has stood up to dogs, kids, <i>and</i> grownups very well over the years.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Loads of colors.</b></i> Gold, brown, black, red, other red, rust,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">pale green, dark green, weird blue, and a bit of a purplish color,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I don't know what you'd call it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there's the rug. Similar colors, only paler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Stop looking at me!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You think I want to wear this stupid dress?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I initially was thinking dark red (<i>mostly because I</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No, let's make it <i>green</i> to blend in </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with the room, which </span><span style="font-size: large;">also has green walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>And I already have green paint.</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Howard, in the study in his favorite spot ... and I have leftover wall paint in a Sherwin Williams<br />green that I cannot remember the name of and will have to find the can and hope the label is still<br />legible ... because the wall color may make a nice table color, too, with a poly finish over it.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">So, whatcha think?</span></div>
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Green? Red? Gold? Plaid?</div>
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No, seriously -- what do you think would be a good color for this table?</div>
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(It's kind of a dark room.)</div>
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And ... should I decoupage the top because -- yes -- <i>I already have some Mod Podge?</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Have a gorgeous Sunday, my friends.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">It is crazy, crazy windy here, and a few loose shutters keep</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">scaring the life out of me by banging on the house.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm glad it's not Halloween tonight!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The leaves are flying off the trees. Goodbye, chlorophyll!</span></i></div>
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Cass @ That Old Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12173199705431319322noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072219918314541508.post-89734862117036509582014-10-31T17:43:00.000-04:002014-10-31T17:49:50.498-04:00Cruising Craigslist, and Sitting On A Laptop<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So a few months back, someone sat on my laptop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Turns out, this isn't a great idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is what happens:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a quite new laptop, Windows 8.1, with one of those</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">touch screens that ... well, that I hate. Horrible, horrible computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I did not assassinate it. <i>I swear, Judge, it wasn't me!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the cracks in the screen smoosh together and you can</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hardly tell there's any problem; at other times, it's a hot mess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are these screens replaceable?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or should I ask Santa for a new laptop that does not have a touch screen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or Windows 8.1 because Windows 8.1 is simply <i>awful?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Okay. Enough complaining.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Time for some threats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Craigslist: It's been three weeks, and I still have not found our</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">perfect coffee table for our Study. What the heck?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm running out of patience. Let's see this week's haul of possibilities:</span></div>
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Oval. Big. Nicely beat up, so cheap. And salvage-able. Maybe. </div>
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Almost square. Rustic. A bit of ironwork on the bottom, Sturdy. Another maybe,</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh. <i>Oh</i>. OH.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What have we HERE?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Look at this cute cottage-y coffee table!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can forgive it for not being square, it's <b>big, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it's got chubby little legs and <i>scallops</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you see it here, in this room, below, painted a nice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">new color (what color?) that will bring out its</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">cottage-y, scallop-y adorableness?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't really expect to find <i>this particular table.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought I wanted a more sophisticated one, maybe with some</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">brass or glass or something shiny, or possibly iron, or an industrial style</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . . not one that looks lifted out of a Mary Engelbreit illustration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>But I kinda love it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wish me luck; I hope it's still for sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last weekend, I spent a wonderful few days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with my two daughters </span><span style="font-size: large;">in Washington DC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anne lives there now; Alida came East from Los Angeles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for our "ladies' weekend." <i>Such fun! </i>And so rare.</span></div>
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Anne and Alida, selfie-ing front of the Capitol.</div>
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Mostly we talked, and ate, and talked, and shopped, and ate ...</div>
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but we did a little of the tourist stuff on Saturday.</div>
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Including some of the highlights, like the FDR memorial.</div>
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Here's what my darling daughters took a picture of:</div>
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"Look, Ma! You have that table!"</div>
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Oh my.</div>
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What have I done to my children, that they notice the <i>furniture?</i></div>
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<b>I am so proud. :-)</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, it is Halloween, and so far,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">at That Old House, not one little beggar</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">has knocked on the door.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Where are the children?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Don't they hear the silent song of our little ghosties?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Happy Halloween, my friends! <span style="color: red;">-- Cass</span></i></b></span></div>
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<i><b><a href="http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com//" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Miss Mustard Seed has Furniture Feature Friday</a><span style="color: red;"> -- </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://missmustardseed.com/" target="_blank">Click here!</a></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;">At </span><b style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;">My Romantic Home</b><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;">, it's</span><b style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"> Show And Tell Friday</b><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.4639987945557px;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 22.4639987945557px;"><b><a href="http://romantichome.blogspot.com/" style="color: #4c4c4c; text-decoration: none;">Click here!</a></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Feathered Nest Friday </b>makes its home at <b>French Country Cottage</b>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><i><b> <a href="http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/" style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"> Click here!</a></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Charm of Home</b> features <b>Home Sweet Home </b>on Fridays. <i><b><a href="http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/" style="color: #4c4c4c; text-decoration: none;">Click here!</a></b></i></span></div>
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