The theme here is Getting Ready to Dine.
The pig on the left is sitting at a table, utensils at the ready – he’s just waiting for his egg. (Made for Tiffany.) The chick on the right – given to me by Linda, a blogging friend – is adorable and those tail feathers function as a salter. Pull out the tail and salt your egg.
It’s fun doing this yearly egg cup roundup. Now that I have the cubby, I open the doors, look at all the egg cups, and then I try to put together some sort of theme. The challenge is to remember to include the egg cups that I have displayed in other areas of the house.
Looking at them makes me happy.
I cleaned the bathroom yesterday, vacuumed the house, that sort of thing. Then I sat down and worked on the dollhouse for a bit. I’m using wood putty to fill in some openings. While I was there, I listened to a music app on my bluetooth speaker. Yesterday, my mood was “All Antonio Carlos Jobim.”
Do you remember when I had to put the Boston fern outside and the wind knocked it to the ground? A few days later, in yet another insane wind, it happened again. I ended up putting a heavy rock in the base, but those two falls damaged the fern. Lots of broken fronds. A couple of days ago, I was sweeping the porch and stopped to examine it more closely. It didn’t look good. So I brought it back inside. It’s now up in the office. I think putting it out in weather that was just too cold was a shock to the plant. The falls didn’t help. So I’m nurturing it up there until the weather is warm enough to safely put it outside again. And it had been looking so beautiful right before I put it outside! All that work to keep it healthy only to have so many fronds broken during those godawful winds.
But it’s already improving.
You wouldn’t know it to look outside at the moment (it rained all night long) but it’s supposed to reach 74 degrees here today! It that holds true, Don may be able to get out and start taking polaroid portraits again. He’s really missed doing that. Our friend Jean Andre Antoine – another Crown Graphic Press Camera photographer – was profiled in the New York Times on Thursday. I follow JAA on Instagram, so I saw his link to the story early on Thursday. It’s a terrific profile of a lovely man. He’s one of many former students of Louis Mendes – although you’re never a former student of Louis. The mentoring is ongoing. In fact, Louis wants to come up here for a day in the next month or two and take some portraits with Don.
We have portraits by Jean Andre and they’re beautiful.
More dollhouse work on the docket today.
Happy Saturday.
I’m glad your fern is recovering, Claudia. I don’t take anything inside during the winter, as my winters are wet as of late, but never as brutally cold as yours. I do put some of the plants under the patio table when I know there will be a bad rainstorm, so the pots don’t get flooded. I’m assuming the glue you bought for the doll house is working out? Enjoy your continuing work with it. Though I don’t craft in miniatures and doll houses, I feel that I would enjoy the challenge of a fixer-upper, then the joy of choosing and seeing the decorative elements come together. May I suggest a game with the egg cups? You put them together for a photograph and we guess the theme. I’m off to a performance at the Berkeley Rep. After reading about your and Don’s theater work and experiences, I attend performances with a different eye.
Have a wonderful time at the theater, Wendy!
we have your cold rain on this Saturday morning (well morning is almost over!)
but we needed the rain. it’s life giving. and it will be warm soon enough.
sending fern love to the little patient recuperating in your office. XOXO
Rain is a good thing, though sometimes the timing is bad! Thanks, Tammy.
Oh, these wayward winds!! They have been incredible here the past few days. And ~ we are back in the 30’s and 40’s. So cold! Went to a concert last night and the walk from our car to the venue about did me in between the wind and the cold. So tired of being cold!!
Hope Ms. Fern recuperates in your office. Have a good Saturday!!
We have had such incredible winds over the course of winter and spring. I hope it warms up soon! You guys deserve it!
Sorry to hear about your fern….especially after the great care you took of him/her. (Did you name him or her?). As Chris said….extremely windy here. It’s gotta stop sometime, doesn’t it?
I enjoy seeing your egg cups, too! ;)
No name. And now I’m afraid to name it!
Thanks, Donnamae. Enough already, wind!
Sounds like a good day — productive in lots of ways — the essential and the fun.
Sun’s shining here, too and when Rick goes down for his nap I’m taking a long walk. It’s supposed to get lousy tomorrow!
Love how you are grouping the cups!
We took a walk yesterday because we knew it was going to rain this morning. Take care, Jeanie!
I get weary fast with the declutterers and minimalists who try to tell us that we shouldn’t put value in ‘things’/material objects. What I’ve gathered over many years evokes memories I’d otherwise forget, brings me joy in knowing I’m a caretaker for them in a long line of caretakers even if I don’t know their name, etc. That your egg cup collection makes you happy, s’wonderful. I love ’em all but these two today are particularly delightful.
Hope you’re having a nice afternoon; we’re warm & humid in my part of SoCalif (it’s just typical, murky Spring where we don’t get many clear days inland; just too much muck in the ozone, making it feel ten degrees hotter than it is – – we had so much rain, and the hills have been so green but we noticed yesterday that the green is starting to fade and that’s primarily because we’ve had too many days now of above-average temps [no April showers for us]). I miss the cool and the clear and the sparkling sunshine between rains that was so often in, say, February (we took advantage of it, taking day drives whenever we could, our own locale; just have to be out there in all that beauty). It doesn’t stick around long with us, those high-60s days with no humidity, pleasant sun and being able to see for ‘miles’. I dread summer. But I know they’re having severe weather in the Southeast right now, so I have no room to grumble. (And of course other people I know would argue with me; they love the weather that I don’t!)
Oh, I am so over minimalism. I understand why some people go for it, and I can appreciate the aesthetic, but my goodness, I would be bored out of my mind!
Totally agree. Totally. I can’t be so impersonal; I have to have some degree of eclectic (and not saying that smugly, just that we know what we know; what makes our heart happy, the soul sing, the spirits soar, etc.). Even when I moved out of my parents’ home as a ‘youngster’ I still scavenged for interesting, affordable things to build my little nest (cheap, colorful travel posters; flowers gathered in a field and allowed to dry; scarf draped over a lamp for a different light effect; if it were today, I’d be ‘living’ at Goodwill or the like, scouting for some cool vintage accoutrement), even though I had SO little money yet I recall a friend, a girl I worked with in those years, whose apartment looked like one of those furniture showrooms, nothing on shelves or walls or counters or tables; just boxy/bland furniture, neutral wall-to-wall carpet, a TV, a bed with some dull comforter on it, like colorless, no books, absolutely cheerless (even a guy’s apartment would tend to have some character to it, with a surfboard against the living room wall or a bike in the foyer or a guitar leaning against a sofa!); I mean, to each his own, but I’d wither like a flower with no rain and sunshine.
To me, a home has to have heart and soul. The starkness of minimalism doesn’t lend itself to those qualities.
Happy that your Fern is recovering. The egg cups are so cute. I like the theme you have said.
Marilyn
Thank you, Marilyn!
sorry about the high winds causing a tumble and broken fronds, but i am certain your fern will rebound with all your loving care.
and yay you for all that cleaning and dollhouse work! feels good to get stuff done, doesn’t it?
glad if don can soon get back to his street photography. it’s good to have interests, hobbies …
love the yearly egg-cup parade! thank you.
hope you have a great weekend!
kathy in iowa
He did well yesterday on his first day!
Louis Mendes coming to take photos…how wonderful!…I will have to start checking for Don to post pictures again!
He took some yesterday. And he had fun!
You know I’m such a fan of the egg cups although my collection is much smaller, I love them. It has been crazy here as John got really sick and I ended up taking him to the ER. They admitted him as he has a serious kidney infection. He hopes to get out today and come home. I saw him yesterday and he was already much better. I also got to see the Grands which made my day. I have the ‘cough that will never end’ and it’s wearing me out. Sara will go by and see her Dad today and one of us will pick him up when they release him. My Mom has been sick so it’s been a really stressful time around here. If we can just all get well and the pollen will go away we just might enjoy a day of Spring!
Oh, poor John! I hope he’s feeling better – and your mom, as well. When it rains it pours… xo
Regarding taxes. I was listening to NPR this morning and the callers were very angry about taxes and what each one has to deal with that was so unexpected. One person said that the Republicans have no souls. They are Dementors.
That person is right. They have no souls – they sold them in exchange for lots of money.