Snow on the multiple roofs.........

It is Saturday and I am still plugging along slowly.  The week long siege of the head cold and such took its toll on my energy level.  I work for a while and then I sit down.  I have some framing to mess with today and we also need to go get some mat board for some new projects.

 Someone brought me their replica of a $100,000 check that he won in the lottery games.  They want it framed but don't want to spend too much on it.  Catch the joke there?   He said it he didn't want to put too much money in the frame or the job in general.  You can see why I have worked myself out of the business as much as possible.

I asked my wife if we went to Hobby Lobby to get framing and art supplies that maybe we could pick up a sandwich somewhere.  We might actually venture over to a bookstore or something like that.  It will be nice to get out of the house.  We are out of dog food and orange juice so we have to go somewhere anyway.

My Christmas cactus has decided to bloom all over again.  I bought it with a third of it in bloom and wow it is has new buds all over it again.  I guess my climate is so different than the greenhouse it came from that it thinks it is spring again.  It has been a week since I started the violet slips and they are all looking very good.  I slipped the whole container of new starts into a clear plastic bag to help keep the soil moist.  I will have to remember the date to see how long it takes them to sprout new leaves.

Speaking of the subject of coffee prices, they sure crept up and stayed there.  With the gasoline prices being forced onto us and the coffee being so sky high I am wondering what next will we be hit with in the future.

I did finally buy a six dollar jar of peanut butter the other day.  It was a very large container and it ended up being about what the regular price should be if you proportioned the amount per cost.

I am taking a break from coffee for a while and the price should be of no concern.  I will be back on the wonderful beverage some day again but not right now.  I bet the price will still be high when I return to it.

It is sunny again today and the temperature is 16 degrees this morning.  I guess we will get above freezing later today but the sunshine is so welcomed.

Thanks for stopping by my post today.

Photo parade.........

I have a new blogger friend in Canada who likes to make lists.  I admire his ability to find new creative ways to share things about himself through his lists.

Me, I have coffee cups to show.  It is a rainy day all day Saturday and one mug of Joe is very soothing.  The above cup was an end of the summer sale mug I purchased at Target.

I haven't visited Grand Marais for over five years and that is sad.  I do have a mug from up on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

A cheap mug  that I have from a five and dime.  It can't cost over two bucks or I don't pick it up.  I had this one at school when I was still teaching full time and it would cheer me up when the crowds were getting to be too much.

This is a cup and saucer from one of our favorite garage sale finds.  It was a ten dollar box full of a complete set of dishes.  We use these dishes a lot of the time even though we have three or four sets that we rotate through. This set seems to be a favorite.

An antique cup from my wife's Aunt Irene, it was the cup she used to fill her canning jars or jelly jars as she preserved food for the winter.  I don't think she had done canning for so many years before she passed away, but the memory was there for her and she wanted my wife to have it to help make grape jelly.

A gift from my wife a few years back, this mug is one of my favorites as it  holds lots of coffee in the morning. The rooster is trying to crow to wake me up.

In one of my weaker moments I paid a lot of money, it was a mistake, to purchase the cup and saucer.  I had a matching plate that I had bought for a dollar at a garage sale and thought it be good to have the set to go with it. It is my first ebay trophy purchase and probably my last ebay purchase. It is an English product that you can find for sale in Canada and throughout the U. S.

Those of you who have followed me for a few years know that I have oh so many more mugs and cups. I just decided to stop with this one.  This was another Grand Marais, Minnesota purchase a few years back.  Since we have been cleaning out my parents house of stuff we stopped buy things.  I haven't and probably won't buy any more mugs.  I have decided that I have my complete collection now, except if it is free or I find it in the dump.

I actually went off coffee for a few days back in May and discovered that I don't like it as much as I had in the past.  I really have reduced my consumption a lot and really find it is a better life for me.  I do like a good cup at the bookstore once in awhile but I do just drink less of it now. I don't drag coffee with me when I work at school like I use to.  I found that I was carrying a mug in my hand all day when I was teaching. It was a sign I needed to quit teaching.

I hope your weekend it what you wanted it to be.  We had no plans so the rain all day Saturday didn't ruin our day.  We will be at church today and may hit the bookstore in the afternoon for a little browsing among the volumes.

Thanks for stopping by..........