56°f/13.3°C, overcast. A warm start to the day.
Roses from Larry, which he gave me yesterday. He gave me beautiful red carnations and Pacski
doughnuts on Saturday. If you know those doughnuts, you'd know how delicious they are, and only available for a brief time each year. When he went to the store yesterday he found the roses marked down from $22 to $5. Aren't they lovely?
Irish Shortbread cookies. Oddly, I can't find the online Dr recipe I used! Basically, it was 1 cup softened butter, 1/4 tp salt, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 4 cups of flour, and 2 tsp vanilla. I preheated the oven to 350°. I creamed the butter and sugar, added the vanilla, then the flour and salt. Idid not use cornstarch as most recipes call for, and did not refrigerate the dough, but they came out great. I rolled out the dough on a floured surface, cut them out, pricked with a fork to keep them from puffing up. Baked for 8 minutes, took them out and sprinkled them with sugar, then returned them to the oven for 5 more minutes. I allowed them to cool on the tray for 5 minutes before moving them to a cooling rack. It yielded about 48 cookies.
An aerial photo of our place, apparently taken recently as Sarah's is in the photo, upper right. Our house is sort of center, and not easy to see.
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Found in my stash as I continue clearing out my ebay room. Centennial plate for WV's 100th year.
Also found this very old paper packet of tobacco. I bet it's dry as dust
Time to break out the Belleek Irish tea set!
I spent part of Saturday morning cleaning silver. Such rewarding results, after much elbow grease.
A new for us medicine cabinet. Our old one (it really was old, probably from the 30's) was replaced by this even older cabinet. This was likely from a hospital or industrial setting, as it is stamped Uwanta Linen Service inside. It doesn't match the other cupboards, but I am not painting it.
Found this stored away; we bought it prob10 years ago and planned to sell it, but I am glad we still had it.
Found on my bookshelf. Want to know what it says about your birthday? Shoot me a message!
We stocked our Ravenswood booths yesterday. This little table and chairs sold last week so we came in to find an empty space. Usually they call to tell us, but didn't do so this time for some reason.
And last but not least, I framed this anniversary card, sent to my mother from my father, probably very early in their marriage, as he signed it "Billy". No one ever called him that in my memory, so this was likely late 40s to early 50s.
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