Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Mockingbird Hill Cottage

A Warmer Week Ahead and Egg Cups

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Well, the snow melted yesterday. It was a bizarre 24 hours here. Today will be warmer. I want to start buying plants for the pots that are on the porch and patio, but it looks like one day – Thursday – will have a low of 31 degrees. I think I could get away with buying some pansies, because they’re very hardy. But I’ll think on it today. Hopefully the forecast will change.

In the meantime, I can start clearing out some of the beds and begin cutting back the perennials from last year. I alway leave them in place over the winter so the birds and bugs have shelter and sustenance.

My best friend Laural is back in the hospital. I got a text from her son David yesterday. She has bacterial pneumonia and she’s being treated with antibiotics. She’s not up to talking, but I did text her as David said she’ll enjoy reading texts. Prayers for my dear friend of over 60 years.

Egg cups!

• A Fanny Farmer egg cup, marked in raised letters on the base. It’s very heavy and was made for Fanny Farmer by the Nelson McCoy company, which eventually evolved into McCoy Pottery. I see this cup out in the wild and the red paint is often damaged or missing. This one is in perfect condition,

• Love this cup – two dogs on either side of the cup, with a design on the rim which seems a bit Art Deco to me.

• I’ve already shown this one in another photo – that’s what I get for using older photos – but it’s a lovely cup with a mom and babies. The cup itself is lustreware.

• A walking ware egg cup.

• This cup was sent to me by a reader. It’s made from a Holland Mold, a mold that was meant to be hand painted and fired by the customer that bought it. It’s signed “L.H.” with the year ’58. It’s quite lovely and it’s also quite tall.

• An adorable bunny with the egg cup on his back.

• A Holt Howard rooster egg cup from 1961.

I’ll probably use two or more photos of the egg cups in each post this week. I may not get them all in before Easter, but I’ll do my best!

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

I Thought it was Spring

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This morning:

What the…???

It’s still going on, a mix of snow and rain. It won’t amount to much, but it is  covering the ground this morning. Rain should kick in this afternoon.

In the meantime, will I ever get to clean up the garden beds?

Left to right:

• Cottage Ware by Kensington in England.

• A charming egg cup with a dish for the spoon. Or bits of the shell. I found this at the flea market in Paris.

• Motto ware from Torquay Pottery in England. A lovely gift from a reader of this blog. You can see a charming cottage surrounded by trees. And if you look at the other side of the egg cup…

You see the words “Laid today.”

So darned charming!

I’ve been looking at egg cups on eBay and Etsy. There are at least two wooden egg cups I want, cups I’ve never seen before. I’ve got them bookmarked.

Margaret is a strong woman and she has a positive attitude, which will serve her well during the next few months. Adrian sounded more rested yesterday, which is a relief. Right now, everything is on hold until they can do further surgery on her leg. Yesterday’s surgery involved a piece of glass from her glasses that had embedded itself under her eye – they couldn’t remove it and then stitch it up because it would have pulled her lower eyelid away from her eye, making it impossible to close. So they removed the glass and added some sort of filler.

Prayers continue.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

Our Friends

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Wednesday, about 10 pm, Don got a brief text message from his longtime friend Adrian. If you remember, Adrian had a heart transplant two years ago. Two years ago on Wednesday. Don immediately called him back. Adrian was crying.

Adrian and his lovely wife Margaret were going to the theater Wednesday night. They were celebrating the two year anniversary of his transplant. By the way, Margaret had open heart surgery about 3 months ago. She had recovered and was doing well. As Adrian and Margaret used the crosswalk, a car came down the street at a fast speed and hit Margaret. As Adrian watched in horror, her body flew about 10 feet in the air and landed on the hood with her head smashing the windshield. The car ended up several feet down the street. (There was a crowd of people on the sidewalk in front of the theater who witnessed the accident.) Adrian ran to Margaret who was now lying in the street, her face covered in blood, eyes open. He thought she was dead. He couldn’t find a heartbeat. But, thank God, she wasn’t. A nurse who was in the theater crowd ran over to help. EMS got there very quickly and rushed her to the hospital. And that was where we were when we first talked to Adrian, who was sobbing and in shock. We talked to him for a long time, doing our best to reassure him, but, of course, in shock ourselves at what had happened to our dear friend.

After a scan, it was determined that she has fractures on both her legs, her left leg had the most damage. She was going to have to have extensive surgery on that leg. She has five fractured ribs. Pieces of glass were embedded in her face. No damage to the skull or brain, thank God. Later in the day, after performing initial surgery on the left leg, the doctors discovered there was damage to one of the neck vertebra, so she has to wear a cervical collar. The first surgery was to insert a pin in her leg, but they won’t be able to do more surgery until the swelling goes down, which will be about 10 days from now.

She’s will have a long, long recovery.

Adrian kept repeating “She was taken from me” and “Everything can change in an instant.” He couldn’t sleep because he kept seeing her body fly through the air. Over and over and over again.

This happened at almost the exact minute that Adrian was wheeled in the operating room two years ago.

Obviously, this horrific accident has been our focus for the past two days. We are in contact with Adrian throughout the day, and thankfully, his son and daughter-in-law have come down from the San Francisco area to be with them.

I can’t do the egg cups today, but I’ll post about them tomorrow.

Please send prayers for Margaret. And Adrian.

They have been through so much in their time together. Years ago, Adrian and his son were in a car accident and Adrian had to be airlifted to a hospital where he went through a long, long recovery process. He almost died then. Then came the heart problems which lead to months spent in the hospital awaiting a transplant. Then Margaret’s open heart surgery.

Haven’t they been through enough?

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

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