Thank you for sharing your thoughts on yesterday’s post. I read every comment (well, I always do) but this time, I found myself reading them more than once. It helps to know that others feel the same way, that the free-floating anxiety and worry and, in some cases, outrage that we feel is shared by others. We need to draw strength from each other. And we need to take action.
As I sit here, sprained ankle on a pillow on top of an ottoman, cup of coffee to my right, iPhone next to the coffee, Kindle next to the iPhone, camera just a bit beyond the Kindle, laptop on my lap, I laugh out loud at the image I have of my “Command Center.” Oh, and now we’ll add coffee cake to my left, because Don just brought in a piece for me.
Gone are the days of being laid up and only connected to the world via a landline and the television set.
I feel like I’m behind the controls on the Starship Enterprise.
I’m sharing two more of my Roseville Pottery pieces with you today. (I have a couple more Roseville scores on their way to me in the mail.)
The green basket is in the Apple Blossom pattern. As you can see, I am sometimes quite willing to buy a damaged piece. The third curve from the left has been broken off and there is a hairline crack that travels downward from there. I saw this in a local antique shop, priced at $25.00. I hesitated because of the damage and Don said I should buy it anyway because “It’s been loved and used. Besides, cracks let the light in.” An homage to Leonard Cohen.
So I bought it, and I’m happy I did. It would be three times, maybe four times the price I paid if it was flawless. But it isn’t, so I adopted it and now it has a home at the cottage.
The smaller brown piece is in the Bushberry pattern. This is the very first piece of Roseville I ever purchased. I found it in San Diego. At the time, Roseville prices were through the roof, so this remained my one and only piece for several years. It was living in the kitchen china cabinet, but I just moved it to the den, where, when the other pieces arrive and I rearrange the den china cabinet, it will live with its Roseville brothers and sisters.
Or, it just might stay on this music cabinet. We’ll see.
There’s a new scarf in the shop.
This is the Obsession Scarf in Pompidou. Gosh, it’s so hard to capture the colors. It makes me crazy. The link to the shop is here.
A couple of blog housekeeping items:
• For some reason the email version of my post went out very late in the day yesterday. It should go out between 11 am and 1 pm. I suppose it was a Feedburner glitch. I’ll do my best to keep an eye on that today.
• WordPress has just had an update and there’s a chance that my comment reply plugin might not work. Can you let me know if you receive my replies to your comments? If you aren’t – and you know I reply to every comment – I need to know that and find an alternative plugin.
Thank you!
Happy Wednesday.
The colors in each and every scarf you have completed are beautiful! If you have yarn ends in enough quantity, one made from all of the skeins might be interesting!
Love that piece of brown Roseville pottery. Earth tones are my favorite.
Hope your ankle feels much better soon.
Unfortunately I don’t. I use just about the whole skein for one of these scarves and there’s only a wee bit – less than 6 inches – left of the yarn when I’ve finished.
The ankle is a pain in the tush, but I’m trying to be patient, Sue.
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I went back to your post, and read all the comments too…it was so reassuring to read the comments of so many like minded people. Even inspired me to put out the garland and swags on the outdoor lights! Starship Enterprise? I would imagine it would feel like that with all that technology at your finger tips! “Beam me up Scotty”! Beautiful scarf…enjoy your day! ;)
It sure provides some comfort to know that others are equally fed up with the inflammatory rhetoric, Donnamae. Have a wonderful day!
I did receive your email post yesterday after 4 PM. I usually receive around 10:15. So right before noon, I googled your website, and found the post. I was worried something w/ your ankle may have happened, so checked for sure, and there “you” were!! Last week one day I did not get an email back from my comment (which was weird), so I went back to the post and your comment was there, but I never got an email. Your post are always so on time, and you always respond to comments, I should have known there was a bit of a snag.
Funny to imagine you in the Captain Kirk role! But so true with all the things we have at our ready.
That “new” Roseville piece is absolutely beautiful. And I am a believer that perfection is WAY over-rated!! Just like that piece, we all have our cracks and crannies, and that is what makes us all so interesting.
Exactly! I’m not sure why you didn’t get the comment reply last week, as this WP update just went into effect today. I suppose, like all things technical and computer-y, a glitch happened!
I agree about the Roseville. Unless it’s broken in two, I usually will adopt a piece. Most of my McCoy is in great condition, but there are few battered pieces that I love just as much!
I have an Apple Blossom teapot with that marvelous rusticated handle. Found it in a thrift shop several years ago, and paid about $30 for it.
I do hope your ankle is improving, albeit slowly.
That was a good deal, Margaret! I love the twiggy handles – so beautiful. Ankle is improving. I’m being careful.
Have been receiving your replies without problems, Claudia. I think there have only 1-2 times when there was no reply, and then we knew there wouldn’t be – such as right after your parents passed away, etc.
Let me know about today, okay? Today is the day that WP was updated. Thanks so much!
Message received – no problem! Have a great day…
Great news! One less thing to deal with, Janet. Have a wonderful day yourself!
I really like the Apple Blossom Basket…love those twig handles…I remembered that there was some damage to it but I had a hard time remembering where it was in your picture today…at $25 I wouldn’t have care about it either..I would have grabbed it up and ran to pay for it..sort of like when I found my Hoosier cabinet for $50….lol…I made my boyfriend guard it…I also like the Earthy look of the little brown one…I’m anxious to see the new ones!
Dear Claudia,
Since reading your post yesterday, I have given this much thought and have decided to unfollow your blog. You are free to post anything you choose on your blog just as I am free to agree or not agree with you. The reason I’m unfollowing is this: our world is totally upside down now. We live in a country that has been built on the freedom for others to come here and become Americans. I love my country BUT I love my husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren more. Everything in me is geared to want them to have safe, free lives as everyone else is who has loved ones. We are also free to disagree on what methods to use to gain that safety and peace of mind. What I strongly disagree with is people condemning those who do not agree with them. The name calling and insulting that was on your page yesterday is not what I want to read. My bloglist is where I go for downtime, not to have the same thing reaching out to me that is on every single television and radio station. I am a strong person, however, the stress of 911 and all that followed brought me to anxiety and depression that required physical and pharmacutical therapies to relieve the tension and regain my balance. My husband and I have shared 50 years of life both coming from military families and raising a son and now a grandson serving our country. No political party claims me and I make my own decisions independently. BUT……never once have I behaved as those women who responded in your comments column yesterday. The fact that they took the liberty to judge others offends me greatly. Bluntly, my own opinions would make all of them, including you very unhappy but this is not the format for them.
I will dearly miss your beloved Scout and the lovely dollhouse you have created with it’s charming resident but I do not wish to sit down to read my blogs and be bombarded with such hate and verbal carnage. Thank you for being part of my days.
Name calling? Hate and verbal carnage? I’m not sure what blog you were reading, but it clearly wasn’t this one. I just went back and reread the comments, and, sorry, none of that is there. I read a lot of comments about tolerance and peace and love and I read a lot of comments that spoke strongly against the terrible rhetoric we are hearing. It sounds like you disagree with those opinions, and that certainly is your right, but calling them ‘hate and verbal carnage?’ No.
But have at it. Unfollow. If expressing an opinion, which is what the readers did, falls into the category of judgement, so does your response to their comments. Aren’t you doing the very thing that you say offends you? We’re all judging all of the time aren’t we? None of us gets through the day without doing that.
And I make no apologies for expressing my heartfelt feelings about this subject. I believe I spoke of love, of tolerance, and of compassion. I don’t see a lot of that in your response. I wish you only the best and I thank you for reading.
Claudia, first let me comment on the post. I love the ‘well loved’ Roseville and your other pieces very much. Pottery has always called to me. Thanks to your influence (good influence) I now have several pieces of McCoy that brighten my day and some with little imperfections! (just like me).
As usual I read comments and sometimes come back later in the day to see what others have shared. Today I’m late reading the blog and I find this very strange comment from ‘Chris’. I also can’t see any of what she said was on your blog and in the comments at all. Mostly love, tolerance, and hope for peace. I think your response to her was right on. I love you and your blog even more because you keep it real and share your emotions and feelings with us.
hugs,
Linda
Thank you, Linda. I must admit, I was befuddled by that comment. I can’t imagine what was generating that completely off-base perception. It was as if she was in a completely different universe. Ah well. Something tells me, though I’ll never really know, that she is a supporter of the very person that has spewed forth all the xenophobic, racist and generally appalling remarks. If so, she wouldn’t really be comfortable with this blog anyway. Because I am certainly not going to countenance any of that dangerous drivel.