It’s yard sale season! They’re early in Richmond–8am to 12pm. My haul was not large. I spent $1 on solar Halloween dancers. But fun was had.
Vintage Halloween die cuts have such a happy quality. I especially love the old German ones, like the lovely witch in the bottom photo who arrived yesterday.
Spook shows were live scare shows that usually came on before other entertainment, like a movie. Old codgers may remember costumed monsters running around before a drive-in movie began. They were around for about 100 years, beginning with phantasmagoria in the 18th century, and phasing out in the 1970s with midnight spook shows.
Spook shows were primarily a magician’s trade, and though I’m not a big fan of magic shows, I love spook shows and wish they’d come back.
Bet you didn’t expect a game from me. I admit it, I’ve been playing every day for almost a year. I’m even in a good guild. What at first seems to be a match three game turns out to be highly strategic and complex. Big learning curve. Much fun.
Drawing fiddly crap, to be precise. Because everything is better with stripes and paisleys.
Well, birb feeders. Watching the birds is feathered Prozac. And yes, we’ll have a hummingbird feeder soon.
If her brother gets a turn, surely Becky does, too! Here she is, by the light of Bill’s phone. His lap is her favorite place.
It was a while ago we decided we wanted an alligator downspout statue. When I found it for this house, I discovered it was by Toscano Design, and they had other things we actually liked better. We have a dragon, too.
When Margaret Wander Bonnano died a few days ago, it reminded me of how much I enjoyed her marvelous Trek novels. In my 20s, I read everything available at the time. It was a lot. I’ve decided to start over from the beginning. There are about 700 books now. This is gonna take a while.
Our little gallery room is between the living room and kitchen, so we get to walk through many times a day and see a the pretty things we’ve collected over the years.
