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A Done Deal

August 15, 2018 at 9:43 am by Claudia

Well, if you follow me on Instagram or if you received an reply to a comment you left on yesterday’s post, you know that I bought the cubby cabinet. I just knew I’d never see anything like it again. The dealer who has this in her booth is one of my favorites. She also has a booth at another antique center I frequent. She always has great stuff.

Here’s another photo of it that I took yesterday, right before they put a SOLD tag on the cabinet.

Some of you seemed to think this was a cabinet I could hang on the wall! Nope. It’s a piece of furniture that is 5 feet high and just over 40 inches wide. It’s only 8 inches deep. This will be on the floor. We’ve decided to put it where the little white desk (that has become nothing more than a catch-all) is at the bottom of our stairs. There is a little cupboard that is built into that wall. I open it maybe twice a year. When that happens, we can slide the cabinet out from the wall. And I’ll have the egg cups secured with museum wax.

It was either there or up in the office, but Don pushed for downstairs so that we’d see it every day. We don’t go into the office every day.

My neighbor is lending us her van tomorrow, so we’ll go pick it up in the late morning. We have to give the antique barn a heads up so that the dealer can remove everything from the cabinet, etc.

I’m thrilled. We’ll either put the desk in storage or put it out on the street and see if someone picks it up. It’s basically been a surface for us to pile stuff on that needs to go upstairs. It holds postage stamps and the little lamp and a photograph of Scoutie with glasses on. And a basket of paid bill receipts. All of that can go elsewhere. The chair will go in storage, as well. It will actually make our path to the bathroom much clearer.

Thanks for all your enthusiastic support!

Will I have to paint the cubbies a lighter color? Not sure yet. All will be revealed.

It really feels as if we’ve just emerged from a monsoon. I don’t know the total number of inches of rain that fell during the past five days, but it has to be quite high. Endless rain. Endless. I know there is flooding in New Jersey. I’m not surprised.

But it’s sunny today. I have to recycle and run some errands and, I’m sure, pull tons of weeds. But it’s also going to be humid today, so my weed pulling might be quickly curtailed.

I don’t want summer to end because it is my favorite time of year, but I will say this has been a very difficult summer weather-wise. Extremes. Nothing but extremes. More rain than I can remember. More high temps, starting early and continuing through the summer. And lots of humidity.

It would be nice to have several days without rain so that the ground can dry out. Please?

Happy Wednesday.

Filed Under: antiques, flowers, garden, rain, vintage 46 Comments

For The Rain It Raineth Every Day

July 26, 2018 at 8:34 am by Claudia

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.

He understood.

It’s dark and gloomy here.

Cue someone who has been begging for rain now complaining about too much rain.

And that someone is me.

We are on our 5th or 6th day in a row of torrential rain. It isn’t raining all of the time, but when it does rain, it comes down hard. It’s also unbearably humid.

Don can’t go outside and use his camera. I can’t work in the gardens. I’m going a bit stir-crazy. So is Don. This will last through tomorrow and there’s more on the docket for next week. As you might expect, we have flood watches all around the Hudson Valley.

We haven’t been able to sit in the Secret Garden since last Saturday.

Waaah!

Okay, I’ll stop complaining.

The rudbeckia is in bloom everywhere and thank goodness for it! Those splashes of yellow are so needed on these dark days. It’s such a cheery flower!

We’re going to do something this afternoon. I’m not sure what, but we definitely need a distraction. If it’s at all interesting, I’ll take pictures.

I know this is short, but that’s truly all I have for you today. Nothing Is Happening.

Happy Thursday.

Filed Under: rain, Shakespeare 37 Comments

Flowers, Greenhouses & Cameras

July 15, 2018 at 8:16 am by Claudia

It stormed last night and we got a deluge. In the typical ‘extremes’ mode of this summer, when we get rain, it comes down so hard that it overwhelms the hydrangeas and the grasses in the gardens. And we’re getting more today – one to two inches. I’m happy we got the rain, of course, I wish we could have had something a little less violent.

Ah, well. Do I go outside and try to fluff the plants or let nature take its course? I’m not sure.

It was very humid yesterday, but we took an hour or so to visit my local nursery. The porch lobelia is looking a bit ragged these days and from what I read of lobelia, it starts to seriously sag come July. I also needed garden gloves. So I bought a couple of plants and two more hanging plants.

Now, I have too many plants because I can’t quite give up on the hanging lobelia yet. I’m not one to toss plants if I think they have still have signs of life. I’ll hang on to the bitter end.

Boy, was it hot inside the greenhouses!

Have I told you how much I’d like a greenhouse? I dream of a little greenhouse here on the property. I save pretty pictures of them. I wonder if I could build my own. The other day, we were in a neighboring town and a truck carrying a greenhouse drove right through the center of town. I was beside myself: Maybe I could commandeer the truck and divert it to my driveway! Maybe it was a surprise meant for me!

Alas, Don assured me it wasn’t.

Darn it.

We’re off to NYC for the day. The theme for today is cameras.

With – if it’s not raining – a little stop at the Community Garden.

Happy Sunday.

Filed Under: flowers, garden, rain 20 Comments

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