Thrifts, Gifts, And Clues For Youse

I'm about to have breakfast. All by my lonesome.
It's my first solo breakfast since last week,
because we had Blogger company at
That Old House, and at our beach house.

Can you guess who?
Now guess what?  Blogger Friend has let the cat out of the bag on her own blog.
There's a link near the end of the post.

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Breakfasts this past weekend in Southold, at the beach house,

were heavenly pastries and breads from 

The Blue Duck Bakery in the village.  

Photo from North Fork Patch

The Blue Duck opened its first shop in Southampton on Long Island's South Fork

(yes, that Southampton, of polo ponies and mansions fame), and then they got smart,

paddled right across Peconic Bay, and opened another in an old painted brick building in our Southold.

Howard was our early rising hunter-gatherer,

and on Sunday morning he bagged this beauty:

Crumb Cake and Croissants and Scones, Oh My!

We sat with our houseguests -- Blogger Friend and Blogger Friend's Fella -- on the lower deck

of the beach house, with good coffee, pastries, crusty sourdough bread from The Blue Duck . . . 

all accompanied by one of Mother Nature's most perfect gifts of a September day.

Howard, basking in the sun like a contented cat, and waiting for another bite of scone.

Here's a glimpse of Blogger Friend, on the deck.  It's your first clue today, as to her identity!  :-)

She said The Blue Duck Bakery's blueberry scones were the best she'd ever eaten.

And believe me, that is high praise indeed from this Blogger.  (Another clue!)

Mmmm . . . .

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More clues, but this time in my morning's breakfast table setting.

Blogger Friend gave me

a charming hostess gift when she arrived:

 A vintage silver napkin ring.

She clearly knows my taste!

I'm using it in a table setting that gives several clues

as to her identity, if you know her charming blog.

Join me at That Old House for
Breakfast at Tiffany's In The Sunroom

At the old oak table that was my great-aunt's, a breakfast setting.

For One.  Using:

32-year old Johnson Brother's Indies Blue made-in-England china,

including sugar, creamer and tea pot,

Reed & Barton Williamsburg Scroll flatware, a quilted placemat

that was cousin Janet's, a Czech crystal brandy snifter for juice,

a delicate embroidered napkin from a recent auction box lot,

a Staffordshire candlestick from a NYC antiques shop years ago,

a sprawly Pothos in an old silver Revere bowl,

and

the silver napkin ring, the gift from . . . Blogger Friend.

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Indies is surely one of the world's prettiest china patterns.

Hahaha!  The camera strap is swinging in the breeze, lower right.  I'm such a pro.

The whole shebang is watched over by a little marble bird

that belonged to my cousin Janet.

And . . . the obligatory stomach's eye view of

the day's tablesetting.

The clues on the table are the silver napkin ring, the sunroom, the Indies Blue china,
the cloth napkin, and a breakfast setting that isn't a little cardboard box of cereal.  :-)
I'd include the pastries as clues, if there were any left.  But there aren't.
Click here to see who visited us!

So, you (might) ask, did you really eat your

breakfast gruel and crusts of bread at this lovely table?

Nah.  I lie all the time.

I was so busy at the computer this morning, that I never got

around to eating breakfast; now it's time for lunch.

And I have oodles more to say, but this is long enough

and you are probably nodding off, so . . . Bye!  -- Cass

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