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Rain is on the docket for today and tomorrow. The gray skies get me down, but rain will bring green grass and buds on the trees, so I can’t really complain.

And we continue:

Another little niche in the house where I stash more egg cups. By the way, I counted them yesterday. I have more than 70! I don’t have all of them on display, but most of them are.

Starting from the left: from my blogging friend, Linda – this guy has a salter in his tail; the next two are from Japan, a little boy and a cowboy; the wooden egg cup was a birthday gift from Don and Scout, the next two I found online, I don’t think they’re old, I just liked them; and a cottage ware egg cup from England.

Another view of the cottage ware egg cup; the next egg up is from Devon and was a gift for my blogging friend, Mary; the Chambéry egg cup from France has two groundhogs in the design, so you can see why I wanted it; and the last two are plain, utilitarian egg cups that I’ve had for quite a while. Last year I made the bunny egg cozies for them. Mom and son.

Tomorrow – all the egg cups that are scattered here and there around the house. I’ll gather them together and photograph them.

If you celebrate Easter, what are your plans for that day?

I’m feeling better every day, but I’m still coughing off and on. If I feel better on the weekend, I might head into the city to spend some time with my honey. Having him here for one day spoiled me! I miss him. The cottage alway seems less homey when he’s gone.

Happy Thursday.

 

A Visitor and More Easter Egg Cuppery

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A guy I know who is temporarily living in NYC came home for 24 hours. Just what the doctor ordered! He’s here now, but I’ll soon be taking him to the bus station for the trip back to the city. We’ve had a lovely time.

But then, he’s a lovely guy.

By the way, if you want to see a ‘feel-good’ movie, watch Wonder, starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. Cried my eyes out in the best possible way.

Today, we look at the egg cups that are on the mantel that is right above my desk. These are all figurals and they make me smile every single day.

The bunny on the left is named Scout – she reminds me of Scoutie: the facial expression. the eyes and the big pink ears. Bunnies frolicking, chicks on a seesaw, and a dog – so much lovely detail.

Love the little girl in a bunny costume and the bunnies holding up the egg cup. There’s my childhood egg cup and a bunny standing outside his egg cup house.

Here we have hens and chicks and a scottie dog and two dogs holding up an eye cup and bunnies and a pig.

And, of course, there’s the Lamb with the Party Hat and lovely thimble with a cow on top sent to me by a blogging friend, Susi, who lives in Amsterdam.

A couple of the egg cups are here as the result of successful bidding wars in the middle of the night. I was younger then.

You know, of course, that looking at all these egg cups makes me want to hop on over to eBay and see what’s out there.

Happens every year. Like clockwork.

Happy Tuesday.

Home. And It’s Sunny!

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Had a little glitch with the blog this morning and, I guess, last night, though I didn’t see it. When I tried to get on this morning, my browser said my ‘certificate had expired.’ Very frustrating. But my host fixed it, so if you saw a warning that my site wasn’t safe, it is, and it was. Certificates renew every few months and this one was lagging a bit, according to the tech. He pushed it through. Just a technical glitch. All is safe here at Mockingbird Hill Cottage.

But since I’m not feeling well this morning, it was energy I didn’t need to expend.

Yes, I’ve got some sort of congestion, cough crap thing. Not feeling at all well. Sigh.

Despite that, I arrived home yesterday to a sunny day and almost all the snow melted. That put a smile on my face. Even though I don’t read reviews, I would have bet a hundred dollars the NY Times wouldn’t like the show and they didn’t. It doesn’t fit into their ‘model’ and, let’s face it, the reviewers there can be snobby. It’s not like anything else on Broadway, therefore, they don’t know what to do with it.

I’ll say it again. If you like Jimmy Buffett, you will love this show. If you want something traditional, you probably won’t.

I’m just praying that the show has a healthy run despite the Times. Send some positive energy our way!

Enough about those people. That is exactly why I don’t read reviews (and I didn’t read this one) because it’s one person’s opinion and if that person doesn’t get it, then it’s slanted, and people can be influenced by that. I like to make up my own mind. Frankly, I’ve long thought that reviews should be outlawed. One person’s opinion is not necessary my opinion. Or yours. Nor should that reviewer have any influence whatsoever. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve loved something on television or film or theater that a reviewer didn’t, I’d be a rich woman by now!

There are other reviewers out there who did  get it and that’s a good thing!

Change of subject: I can hear lots of birdsong this morning! Heavenly. I know that we’ll have very cold temps at nighttime for the next week, but temps during the day are warming up. March doesn’t want to give up winter just yet and there will be the inevitable ‘snow showers,’ but they won’t last…because spring is just around the corner!

This is what a about-to-open new leaf looks like on a rubber plant. Isn’t that splash of red beautiful?

I have to buy some groceries today and then I’m going to lay low for the rest of the day. Don has one show this afternoon and then he has the evening and tomorrow off. I’m planning on heading back into the city for the March for Our Lives this Saturday. Then I will most likely stay for a couple of days, or Don will come home with me. We’ll see.

Happy Sunday.

 

 

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