Work Day: Booths

72°f/22°C, breezy and light overcast.  Need rain.

Heavy work the last 2 days! On Thursday, we drove to the Parkersburg area to pick up a couple pieces of furniture, and met some really nice people. At the first place, the lady said, "So you live in Ripley?"

"Well, not exactly," I said. "Between Ripley and Spencer." 

"My daughter is married to a man whose parents live out that way, on Joe's Run.  Do you know where that is?" 

"That's our road! Well, the one we take to get to our road."

"Their names are Randy and Carla. Do you know them?" 

"They're practically our next-door neighbors!" I said. (They are about a mile from us, but that's next-door up here.)

Small world. But I always say West Virginia is just one small town. Talk to anyone long enough, you will know someone in common.

When we got home we had to unload that evening, because Friday was booth day. We skipped it last week, so we had plenty to do. Friday morning we loaded the white cupboard and 4 totes. At Farmhouse we took out the possum belly cabinet and put in the white cupboard. Loaded the possum belly and took it to Ravenswood since a green cabinet we had there had sold. A solid 5 hours of work, no lunch break, and we were done. And done in! But all looks good now.

I didn't take photos at Ravenswood,  but here's some from Ripley. 

I tried to echo the scene in the framed print, and got a little bit like it.

Crystal is selling again, if I keep prices low, and put lights around it. Not a fast mover, but some sells each month.

Linens also sell, but I need to tidy up this display. 

Not attractive!

Dollies sell too, but again, I keep the price low. Most are below $5.

No plans for today, except do some wateringvand put in a few plants.

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The Spice of Life

56°f/13.3°C, clear. Warmed up to 86°, hot! At least the humidity is relatively low.

Looking back through photos, I realized there were some I meant to post but never got around to, so I will so it now. Pure randomness here!

Well, this is actually from today. I picked a bouquet while I was watering some new plants. This is, from bottom center, coreopsis, then the red is spigelia, then feverfew,  an allium seedhead barely visible, a sweet little rose, and below the rose a Shasta daisy.

Also today: farmers are hard at work getting hay up while the weather is good. This is near our home.

In the garden recently. That's Brazilian verbena and feverfew, and I believe a Great Fritillary butterfly. 

In my shopping cart at Walmart yesterday: 4 miniature rose bushes.  They ard only $4.97 right now! I have several already, one about 10 years old and blooms like crazy. I had gone in for my eye exam, and had to wait for Larry to come pick me up, so flower shopping it was! The exam was good by the way, no glaucoma or macular degeneration,  and only a tiny beginning of cataracts. I need better glasses than just readers though, so I am trying to get used to that idea. Haven't ordered them yet.

On our road, the tree trimmers have been hard at work clearing electric line right-of-ways. We had to wait a bit on this truck, but we weren't in a hurry. And we arranged to have them empty their chipper truck here, so we will have free mulch in a few years, after it rots down.

Did I already post this? This guy kept coming back, apparently attracted to the yellow design on my glass.

We stopped at a Chinese buffet on the way home from the VA on Monday. It has been years since we went to one, before the pandemic as far as I can recall. I was craving General Tso's chicken, which i have been told isn't actually Chinese. But it was so good! I hope this fortune proves to be true. 

At Taylor Books Saturday night, I was struck by this gorgeous pottery, made by a West Virginia potter whose name I forgot to get.

This glass is also made in WV, in Huntington. It was very like stained glass to me. Beautiful. And expensive.

Taylor Books also sells Folkmanis puppets.  This brought back memories of my many puppets, all gone to the local library now. I had many of the ones in this photo.

And they sell bouquets of fresh flowers! 

At the table across from us, a couple bought 3 desserts! They all looked delicious. 

I bought this blue bowl at the antique mall in Marietta. Still haven't identified maker and pattern, but I am sure it's Early American Pattern Glass.  

This was a Goodwill find a few weeks ago. She is so lovely. Not bronze, but "polystone", daggone it. 

Found at the GW on the same day, for $8.99!

My gardening shoes, absolutely worn out. I bought a new pair in the same style, but I hate to give these up! The soles are thin as paper though.

One night last month up on our ridge.

The local jewelers truck. 

Someone made this steel goat and mounted it on a steep rock cliff along US 19 in Nicholas County, WV, in honor of the Powell Mountain Goat. For 18 years, the goat roamed the cliffs along the highway and was never caught. We saw her (it was a she) several times ourselves. Her legend lives on!

Old barn in Pocahontas County. The 45° angle cut of the siding is pretty cool.

Last, just an old door in Marlinton, WV.

And there we have it---variety, the spice of life!

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Wednesday

47°f/8.3°C, warming up quickly. Clear skies.

Morning coffee,

with David Austin roses. 

So, yesterday: mulched, moved the chicken coop, did a lot of stringtrimming, packed some larger ebay sales, went to open mic.  

We had plenty of porch time, too, and nice visit with son Derek who helped move the coop. He had just run over his phone while helping a friend fix his golf cart, which was so sad, since he had just bought the phone ($800) two days before. Fortunately he had insurance on it, so a replacement is already on the way. Whew. How many of you have done something similar? I messaged him later, noting that lots of people drop their phones in the toilet.  He wrote back, "did that with my last one!" Larry has run over or lost at least 3 phones. I am sure my time is coming.

Open mic last night featured my friend Pete Kosky, a writer, songwriter and musician who is also very funny. It was another fine evening with friends.

Today has started off quite noisy. Tree trimmers are here to clear the electric right-of-way,  and their saws were going at 7:30 am. Now I am on the way to an eye appointment,  my first checkup in years, while Larry goes to pick up grass clippings from our friend Glenn. Busy days.

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