Bread from the Bank

Yesterday hubby went to the food bank, well still no job.  He came back with about fifteen loaves of bread.  He brings home about five different loaves of bread for us, some we freeze others we eat straight away.

Bo was leaving the food bank and was outside passing their trash cans and they were just full of yes!  Bread.  So he went back in, you have to be buzzed in, and asked about what they did with it all at the end of the day.  The guy there, who he's got to know over the months said, "oh nobody likes this bread, it just gets trashed."

Well this bread is all the expensive stuff from Wegman's and other such supermarkets, selling at around $4.00 to $5.00 per loaf.  Beautiful square olive bread, and cranberry and nut bread, and sweet bread, great for bread puddings, you could cry at the waste.  He said take it, so Bob came home with fifteen loaves and I gave it all to friends.  The trouble is nobody seems to eat bread these days.  I do understand, but what is more delicious than a lovely slice of good bread, with butter?

Oh! And just a picture of Bo's chocolate chip cookies, and if I say it myself he makes the best.  Along with our very old and dented Starbucks coffee mug; which is the best of all our mugs because it keeps the coffee hot longer than any of the others, and I come across quite a few in the promotional marketing world.

Christy

Tuesday of This Week, Dare I Say the Word, Snow

Today we must keep the fire cranked up as it is hovering around 20 f and was below during the night, and as we heat the house just with the wood stove it must be made up in the early morning to keep a fairly constant heat in the house.  It's hard to bring the heat up again once it has dipped down.

This was our evening on Tuesday.  The snow is coming down outside; we actually landed up with five inches.  But we are warm inside and this is the giant stack of wood that hubby brought in to tide us over.  The basket was his mum's washing basket, it's a giant one, has to date back to the forties or early fifties, because Bo's mum died when he was four.  It looks nice in the house and serves a useful purpose during the winter.

I mustn't forget my latest thrift find isn't she so cute.  A little Kitty Lamp, I would say circa fifties.  I just love her.  Along with a picture of Boosul boy as a little boy.  And a dear little pottery teapot.

Tinkerbell in her favourite place.  My constant chair companion.  Not a cat who likes to sleep on your lap, but one who loves to be with you, by your side.

Well that was our Tuesday night this week.

Christy

T.G.I. Tea, Around the World

My little afternoon tea at my gate leg table is such a hotch potch, Tray from Florence, an old plate probably from old Germany or Czechoslovakia, a lovely Parisian serviette (napkin) made in Germany.  The little green glass jug was a gift made at Williamsburg, from the family I used to nanny for, many years ago, and my little tea and cup set from a friend, by Kelly Paulk  I just love the colours.  Blueberry scone courtesy of the food bank.

Christy

Finds of The Week

I love the mug it's very whimsical and Hobbit like.  I have some mugs in this type of pottery.

The tooth pick and holder are from Hong Kong.  When I was a child it seemed that a lot of plastic items came from Hong Kong, of course now they all come from China.  There are more toothpicks inside, besides the ones on show.

The paper from Fort William is a design by Mairi Hedderwick and when I was visiting the Isle of Skye last year I bought a 2010 Diary as a gift for a friend and the illustrations were by her.  On the way to the Isle of Skye we went through Fort William.  I had remembered it a little differently than when I had been there as a teenager with my parents and sister.  I do remember walking along the side of the Loch which runs the length of most of Fort William.  As a teenager both my sister and I had bought kilts there.  Mine was a black and yellow tartan, my sister's was a blue.  I loved that kilt and always wore it with a black polo neck, I will have to look the photos up.

The little cloisonne boxes are for rolls of stamps, the square ones and the oblong ones, plus a little pot, I think they're lovely, 50 cents each.

The perfume is Crystalsong, and quite good for a little dab, reduced to 50 cents.

The margarita glasses were so dirty but washed up a treat 50 cents each. I now need to get the makings for a Margarita.

Popcorn maker has already been tested out and is much more economic than buying those microwave bags and makes very nice popcorn.

Well those are my finds, all for under $10.00.  My finds are all ongoing, that darn thrift shop is just too near.

Christy

And Yet More Snow

We had more snow this weekend, just some pics around the Farm Park.  Corn sticks and Canadian Geese.

Christy

Northern Hemisphere Big Snow Winter

Well it snowed again today, but in this area we still have not had a really big snow. It seems most of the Northern Hemisphere has seen some snow this winter. This was at the park yesterday.  I had to show the roads just for my friend Jean in England, even in the park they have been snow plowed.  Jean said she's been slopping round in slush for weeks.

In the one photo you can see one of their little orange snow plows.

This railway bridge and line is still in use.  It's a goods line, about two trains a day, I think mostly at night though.  Sometimes you hear that lonesome American horn sound so associated with the trains in the States;  especially when your awake on a hot summers night and the windows are open. 

I guess you need a fire hydrant in the middle of a park?

Christy