March Home Textiles Market 2025

Another textiles market has come and gone. It was very successful. Some great meetings and great product.

Goodbye Ole Truck

We are having to say goodbye to our old pick up truck this weekend. We have had this truck since 2004 so its been a part of our family for 21 years. We bought it when we bought the acreage. I tend to animate inanimate objects and project personality and emotion to them. I have always had pick up trucks since I was in college. I couldn't live without a pick up. We really needed a bigger truck and bought a used one recently. We decided to donate our old baby to Vehicles for Veterans so it is going to a good cause. It still doesn't make it sad. We have had so much fun in this truck and have great memories - Road trips such as a Massachusetts literary tour and Peeping season in North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Lots of funny situations such as our annual support for the Briarcliffe Congregational Spring Rummage Sale. We help Tim's Mom with her church's annual event each year for the past 10 years. One of the funniest moments was when I was helping haul furniture with Tim's 80 year old father to the sale. We got a call one afternoon prepping for the event that we had not picked up a donation of a "lady dresser" from a local home. We drove over late in the afternoon to retrieve it just Tim's Dad and myself. I was imagining that a "lady dresser" would be dainty and pretty and petite. Unfortunately it was not. We got to the donation home and were taken down a series of practically vertical stairs to retrieve the dressser. The underground rooms looked like something out of Silence of the Lambs. The "lady dresser" ended up being this incredibly long, heavy, coffin-like dresser on castor wheels. It was huge. Neither Tim's Dad or myself are big guys so we had a job ahead of us. We hauled the dresser up the two flights of stairs and somehow loaded it into the truck. Unfortunately, the dresser was very long and the tail gate had to be put down in order to accomodate it. John who was 80 had to get in the back of the truck and hold it so it wouldn't go rollling out of our truck. We got it back to the church but not without some back aches and serious guffaws. It was an event that we always talk about when the Rummage sale prep begins. Great memories and we will miss our old Nissan very much.

Transom and French Door Update

The French doors and transoms are installed and trimmed out - now some sanding and spackling and painting and it will be finished. We love it.

Remodel Work: Vintage Transom and French Doors Kitchen

In the process of framing in the doorway to the kitchen door opening. Found some vintage transoms and door panels to build into a frame in the doorway of the kitchen and add a little architecture to the opening. The house is in complete disarray but it looks promising. Very excited.

Orange Ricotta Pancakes

It is Tim's birthday and started the day with this little treat.

John

Yearbook Pics of My Father

My father's ex girlfriend sent me his high school yearbook along with a bunch of pics and I have been enjoying going through them. Of course, he would be voted best looking, biggest flirt and best dance. Wouldn't doubt that in a minute.

Parade at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady

We got free tickets to go see Parade the touring company play at Proctors theatre in Schenectady. We had never been to Schenectady so it was a new little venture for us. Schenectady is very pretty so we will have to come bak and explore when we get the chance. Proctors theatre is gorgeous and so impressive. Parade was very good with some dazzling voices. We really enjoyed it. Afterwards, we crossed the street from the theatre and went to this lovely Italian restaurant - Johnny's . Such great food and kind of old world Italian restaurant. Really loved the experience. So much fun.

John Shuford RIP

My father, John, was in a nursing home in Santa Maria, CA - which is north of all the LA Fires but he came down with a respiratory illness and had to be admitted to a hospital. Unfortunately, the illness was too much for him and he passed this past week. He was a jazz drummer and musician most of his life and played with several bands and loved horses. RIP John.