Bouquet of Utensils

~Who needs flowers? ;)

Tiny Tracks

So beautiful. So intricate. Like a dance.

Lovely Leftovers...

.....from St. Valentine's Day.

While We're on the Subject...

....how about a few more pictures of our house? Here's another closer shot of the mantle:

Below, you can see some of the lovely wainscoting in the dining room ( ~and a family friend working on the wiring).

Did I ever mention the huge windowsills in the living and dining rooms? ~I love them!






Here is more wainscoting on the wall dividing the living and dining rooms.

And, just for good measure, I thought I'd post a picture of the old wooden door I wrote about in my last post. Perhaps someday I'll take a shot of the staircase it conceals............;)

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the carpets are now a thing of the past. Upstairs there are some good wooden floors that, with a little work, will look very nice. Downstairs the original wooden floors are really not worth saving.........except possibly the living room.........we'll just have to see.

The wiring is almost completed, and then the fellows move on to plumbing! Hurray!!!

In our old, old House.......

.....there's an upstairs room.

In the upstairs room, there's an old wooden door.

Behind the old wooden door, there's a dark narrow staircase

(~Which leads straight up to the attic........spooky, I know!).

By the dark narrow staircase, there's an old dusty wall.

In that old dusty wall, my husband found~

these:

We are not really sure what this is...

...an old picture frame, perhaps?

There was broken glass around it....

And old boots, beautifully made.


A child's and what we think was a lady's.
They are each a right-footed boot.



We think they must have been stored on the stair,
and that just the right boot of each pair got knocked off into the wall.

If they could only talk,

I wonder what stories they could tell........

On Walks........

"Take long walks in stormy weather.......

..........or through deep snow in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up.

Deal with brute nature.

Be cold and hungry and weary."

~Henry David Thoreau

Dull, Brown Day......

"Everything today has been

heavy and brown.

Bring me a Unicorn

to ride about the town."

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

*Edited to add that since my last post, a dramatic change has occurred, and now it is quite wild and white outside! Miss Posy and I have decided that an afternoon tea will be just the thing.....paired up with the remainder of the lightning cake, of course!;)