This and That: A Blog

There was an estate sale down the street last month.  The photos online didn't show much of interest, so I skipped the first day, a Friday.  Saturday my son and I were driving around to sales and figured we'd stop in.  I'm glad we did.  While he didn't find anything (well, he did, but decided he didn't have room for more cameras!), I did!  Salt and pepper shakers.  It was half-off day so I didn't hold back. My second pair of Kasin Molded Products atomic/space ship shakers with bullet or ball point tips. My other pair is yellow.  1950s-1960s, these were the company's most recognized product.  Bagged together with a boring 1960s aluminum pair I didn't keep, these were just 50¢.  I can't seem to get into the pepper to clean it! Top: Lobsters!  1950s-1960s.  Actually my second set of lobster shakers.  $1.00 Middle: These late 50s to early 60s Japanese made dog and cat were $1.50. Bottom: Souvenirs of Mexico, these are missing the h...

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge The Crayola Box of 8 - Black 

  Sunday Stamps  this week is the letter  W . W eevil, Flax  New Zealand 1997 W ildebeest South Africa 1954  W aterbuck, Defassa Republic of Guinea1961  Next week we finish up the alphabet with a three-fer, X , Y , and Z!

In daylily season it's hard to pick just one!      

 July's theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt is Architecture.  This week is Churches. AZO stamp box, pre-1907-1910 - unknown location, most likely east coast U.S.A. St. John's Catholic Church, Rochester, MN EKC stamp box, 1930-1950 The Tower of London, England.  Tower Green, place of executions and St. Peter's Church c.1907-1910 Next week's Architecture theme is Houses.

 I'll start out July (July?  Already?) with some random things. There's been a very nice break in the high temperatures for the past week.  We even got quite a bit of rain one night!  They're slowing creeping up again, but no 90s expected until Friday.  Blazing Star (Liatris)  Bees go crazy for this flower. I think the chives look pretty even when the purple flowers are gone.   The oregano is starting to flower.  I don't cut it back, I leave it for the pollinators.  In the front yard the bees pick the blazing star, in the back it's all about the oregano. I forgot I planted some grocery store Oriental lilies until this popped up through the Moonshine yarrow and Phenomenal lavender.  It smells so nice.  The lily I mean, even nicer than the lavender!   Mickey knows how to nag for a walk to the park. Sprinkler drops on a small piece of tree that broke off.  This was at the park.  Mickey got his way! Someone forgot a ...

 Postcards Again!  I'm not sure if I mentioned how agreeable the manager at St. Vincent de Paul was on the "big haul" postcard purchase days.  Maybe it's because she was retiring in June!  One day she brought out boxes of antique postcards for me to look through, and told the volunteer cashiers to give me 25% off all my postcards that day!   Here's what I got (the dogs from the same day are under all the ephemera.)  There are the holy/prayer cards from a previous post.  The WWII ship photos will be featured on an upcoming Tuesday.  The only individual postcards shared today are two which come last, a case of "Last, but not least."  I got a lot of postcard books.  Amboise, France with tissue between each image. Amboise is on the Loire River. Chicago to La Junta Overland Set No 1 depicts scenes along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and were produced exclusively for them. I got several postcard books of Pike's Peak from t...