Goodness, it rained all night long and it’s still raining! We have a flash flood watch up for this area of the Hudson Valley. We’re always fine, as our little cottage sits well above the river across the street. Everything is getting greener and greener – and it is April – so showers are welcome.
A bit of an egg cup potpourri today.
On the left: a wooden egg cup with a porcelain top given to me by my mom, Devon Ware – a gift from a fellow blogger who was born in Devon (the other side says “Laid Today,”) an egg cup from Prague – a gift from Don, a flowery egg cup found at the flea market in Paris, a lustreware bear egg cup – a gift from my friends Lynne and Sean, and a Cottage Ware egg cup from England.
There are four more that I’ll share tomorrow. I’m determined to because I love them but often forget to show them because they’re on display in the kitchen.
And…drum roll…here they are:
The gang’s all here!
That’s Bashful to the left of Snow White – I couldn’t get his name in the shot.
Oh heavens. I love them!
I love all my egg cups, but I have to admit I have favorites. Some of the figural egg cups that I collected at the beginning of this adventure are now almost impossible to find. I even remember the bidding wars that I got into in order to nab them! We lived in a rental cottage on the other side of the Hudson River when we first moved East. I started collecting in 2002. I would sometimes sneak out of bed in the middle of the night to go into the next room to use the computer to bid on an egg cup. It was the early days of eBay and there was no PayPal, so I would send money orders to the sellers. After receipt, they would put the egg cup in the mail, resulting in a long wait until the package was in my hands.
It was awfully fun.
I think the first egg cup in the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs series that I bought was Doc. I’ll have to go back and check. And Doc was my only Dwarf for several years. Grumpy or Bashful next? I’m not sure. That will be a good mini-project: putting a chronology together. And of course, I can figure it out by consulting this blog, which I often do when I want to remember what I was doing or buying or planting. Just checked: the second dwarf was Dopey!
We watched The Quiet Man last night. Believe it or not, it’s the first time we’ve seen it. What a wonderful movie. John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are terrific, but my favorites are Barry Fitzgerald and Victor McLaglen. Certain elements of the plot – the woman as “property,” John Wayne dragging Maureen O’Hara through endless fields despite her repeatedly stumbling in the grass – wouldn’t fly today. I cringed a bit as I watched those scenes. But it was filmed in 1952; another time, another era. (I should know, it’s the year of my birth!)
I hope you’re having a lovely holiday weekend.
Happy Saturday.