Bovina Bicentennial

Unfortunately because of Covid, Bovina had to postpone it's Bicentennial celebration for a couple years. Finally, the party got to happen! Lovely day and lovely parade. So much fun and so many nice things happening for the party and for the town in general. We love it here and Happy Bicentennial Bovina!

Margaritas and the Pool

For being just a little bit hotter and more humid this summer - it has been the loveliest summers ever. Not enough rain but such a gorgeous summer. Making it better are Tim's margaritas and spending more time in the pool! Heaven!

New Friends and Neighbors

Tim has a friend named Liz that he has worked with for years. They were talking on the phone one day and she told him that she was weekending in the Catskills. He asked where? and she told him - Bovina. He got excited and said - we live in Bovina. He asked her where she was staying and she gave him our street address - Tim goes we live on that street - turns out she is living at a house just next door to us. We had a good laugh and then invited her over to the house for drinks. They were so close they could walk to the house. Very Kismet - y. We had a lovely evening - Liz, her boyfriend, Richard and her sister, Irma. We can't wait to see them again soon.

Visit with JP

One of my oldest and dearest friends, John Courtney Pollard, came up for a visit. He and I have known each other since I was 18 and we were living in San Antonio, Texas. We have so much history together and it is great having him here and listening to all his great theatre stories.

Happy 85th Birthday Mom

Today would have been my mother's 85th birthday. I wake up and she is always my first thought. I miss her everyday. Hope you are having a great birthday celebrating with Dad, Chris, Tigger, Calvin, Bisquit, Sam, Tiffany and Rupert. Took an oleander bush to your headstone to remind you of Texas. Love you.

Finished Door Headers Finally !

I have been working on adding these vintage architectural salvage door headers to most of the doors in the living room, back hall and back mud room. They have been going so well, I was pleasantly surprised how easy they were until I had a snafu on one door. It slowed me down a little bit but I was determined to get them finished this weekend. Got the last two up and so happy with them. Now onto my next woodworking project!

July 4th Yard Sales

Walton had yard sales town wide so we drove over to check it out. There were so many yards filled with kids stuffed toys and bad home decor but we managed to find a couple places and a new store called Yolo which just opened that we love. At Yolo we bought this beautiful hand made crochet flag throw - really beautiful and so much work involved. Then we hit a couple yard sales and I picked up this huge turkey sized Ironstone platter (cheap), a set of small binoculars for bird watching, this little mesh box someone had made and a vintage 70s printed pitcher. Quick drive through Hamden and picked up some bread at Birdsong Community Garden and then headed home to do some gardening and clean out the woodshop and storage shed. Tim made smash burgers for dinner which were quite good.