Tuesday's a sluggish day...

I am reposting an archived photo of my Grandmother Brooks' creations.  The reason I am doing that is that I wanted to share on new thing that I found among my mom's things.  It is a tightly rolled small bundle of newspaper. It was tied with string. As I took it apart I discovered that it was my grandma's original pattern to her wonderfully stuffed chickens traced out on newspaper. She and a neighbor bought a chicken that was already made and she took it apart to get the pattern. 

The chickens were photographed on the walnut table that my grandmother had given to me my senior year in high school.  It is a common table and yet is made of solid walnut, and she replaced it with a modern formica table with chrome legs.  She received the gray vinyl covered chairs that went with the kitchen table and she was so pleased to own it.

An archived photo of a chicken from the zoo we had visited.  She was busy looking for something good to eat among the gravel road.

While watching "This Old House" today, I thought of my own renovation project.  They were working on a three hundred year old house and had replaced the windows with restored originals.  My old house of one hundred years had two long narrow windows.  I could not restore them as they had been taken out and replaced with bad larger window.  All I could do is find a paned window that would make the room look better and also blended with the style of the house in it's present form.  I have replaced most every window in the house with the same style of window so it is uniform in design.  I have two windows yet to replace and that may come this summer.

The new window has been great for keeping the house warmer and we can watch the birds from the dining room table now.

I hope your day was a good one.  We had to return our car to be looked at again after the replacement of the fuel pump.  It seems that they didn't get the seal tight when they installed it and we had gasoline fumes continually which also set off all the sensors related to the emission system and the gas cap.

We also went in to buy and replace two major appliances today.  Buy today, deliver tomorrow they say, but we won't see a delivery until next Monday. Don't believe them when they say they have a great deal as that only happens when they have your products in stock.

Thanks for stopping by my late posting today.  I sometimes think that it is the last, I won't continue but no, I keep on posting.  I know that I am getting bored with my own stuff so I need to get out and shoot some new and different things.  We have no snow so it isn't very pretty out there.  I may have to go out and take ugly scenes.  Later.........