Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Flowers and Egg Cups

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Well, look what appeared next to the porch! The beautiful little grape hyacinths. Spring is definitely here. These little beauties popped up one year and they’ve been returning ever since.

Congratulations to the state of Wisconsin! You did it and you showed Mr. Moneybags that you are the boss, not him. Such great news!

And Corey Booker? A hero. We watched a lot of his filibuster and I can’t remember seeing anything more powerful on the floor of the Senate. Thank you, Senator Booker.

We needed some good news, didn’t we?

On the left, a little scottie dog egg cup. I lucked out on this one. I rarely, if ever, see it on eBay. Great condition.

Two wooden egg cups – the girl in the center is from Italy, made by Sevi. There are several egg cups in this series and if you’re lucky, you can find one with the original knit cap which functions as an egg cozy. This girl was a gift from a reader of the blog.

On the right, a wooden sailor. Don (and Scout) found this little guy in an antique shop and gave it to me for my birthday. Made in Japan.

I love my egg cups.

I miss my Scout.

I think it’s going to be partly cloudy today, but right now, the sun is shining.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

Whimsy

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Good morning. It’s a rainy Monday. We might have some thunderstorms this afternoon. Lots of rain is due during the coming week – April showers, right? I can already see the grass getting greener, so we’ll gladly put up with the rain.

Don’s cruise control drive was tension making, he was so afraid that he’d have to hit the brake because of another driver which would result in having to do it all again, but luckily, he didn’t. He did exactly what the Honda tech suggested and checked in with me at the halfway point. When he finally walked in the door, I looked up and he said “It worked!” Hurrah! Apparently, it’s called a “drive cycle.” So, if any of you run into this problem, that’s what you do. Don did so much driving over two days – he’s my hero. He needs a break, so I’m running any errands for the foreseeable future.

The egg cups for today: these little fellows from Japan. I’d love to find another one or two if they’re out there.

A dog wearing a suit and hat,  a little boy dressed up as a cowboy, another little boy with very rosy cheeks and the sweetest face, and a little boy dressed as a clown, his dog licking his cheek. The two in the center are sitting and the others are standing. All are marked “Japan.”

They make me smile. How can you not smile seeing these sweet faces?

Figural egg cups, which the majority of my egg cups are, are downright charming and whimsical. They’re not necessarily practical, but who wants practical? I fully embrace whimsy – it’s a necessity in my life. We need it. Especially now.

That’s your prescription for however long it takes to get that man out of office. Whimsy. Look for it, create it, recognize it, enjoy it!

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

 

Egg Cups & Recalibration Woes

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I looked at the calendar and realized that Easter is not that far off! So it’s time for some egg cups, don’t you think?

Life has been stressful lately, so I’m recycling photos.

These, of course, are my prized Snow White and the 7 dwarfs egg cups. It took me 17 years to complete the set. I have a book on egg cups that I purchased early on in my collecting. This set was pictured and the author made it clear that the cups were very hard to find. My friend, Nels, who passed away earlier this year, had a massive collection of egg cups and had been collecting for years. In the days before eBay, finding any of them was much more difficult. He paid a LOT of money for some of them – several hundred dollars – and could only shake his head when the prices eventually went down due to increased accessibility on eBay. But even with the alerts I had programmed on eBay, it still took me years and years to find them all. I think I paid between $30 – $75 for them, Snow White being the most expensive. That’s pricey for an egg cup, but much less pricey than when they were going for hundreds of dollars.

Doc was my first buy, then Dopey, and then Bashful. Much time went by before I found more. Somewhere along the way, I found Grumpy. Then, one day, I was on the FB egg collecting group and a woman from Orillia, Ontario posted that she was selling her set. (Since both my mom and grandmother were born in Orillia, I felt it was meant to be.) Long story short, I persuaded her to sell me three of them – Sneezy, Happy, and Snow White.

Last to arrive, after a long, long search, was Sleepy.

I suppose the set is worth at least $350 to $400 – but that fluctuates. I’ve heard from some other collectors that some of them came in cereal boxes (in Canada.) I don’t know if that’s true, but they were certainly inexpensive in the beginning.

My set is in great condition with no paint problems or chips.

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The car: yesterday Don drove well over a hundred miles and nothing changed re the calibration. So he called the Honda dealership and a tech told him to get on the interstate, set the cruise control at 65 mph, and drive for about 20-30 minutes. Exit, and turn the car off and let it cool down. Then, turn around and do the same thing until you exit the interstate. Then, drive to our local guys who are doing the inspection and, hopefully, it will have re-calibrated.

Exhausting.

I mean, really, this is ridiculous, And we’ve put more unnecessary mileage on the car as well as spent money for gas. But Don, bless him, is currently making our second cup of coffee so that he can put his in a thermos and start this little journey. Fingers crossed there’s nothing that forces him to stop the cruise control…

It’s supposed to hit the seventies today. Whoo hoo!

I did do some clean up work outside yesterday. Boy, do I need to get in shape!

Update: It worked!

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

 

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