Monkeying around..........

Two  monkeys fighting over the coconuts.  The can is actually a little bucket and it doesn't hold 24 pounds.  It certainly had a very fancy decoration to draw your attention.

On the side panel you can see the naked boy taking his little bucket with him to the beach.

From some of the recipe suggestions, the coconut must have been pretty well dried out before one bought it.  It keeps saying in the directions to soak the product in warm milk before making your pie or cake.

Just another view of the monkeys having their little tug of war. 

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It's Folgers in your cup............

Who wouldn't want to buy this can of coffee with a graphic like this on the side?

There is a company that still exists today in Kansas City, downtown, that you can smell the roasting coffee beans as you drive by the building. I don't know if it is Folgers.

I had substitute taught on Monday and that night I picked up a stomach flu that wouldn't go away.  I try to blog ahead by a day but I am going to be blogging behind instead.  I haven't had a cup of coffee since I started my illness and when I do have my first cup,  I know I will be all better.

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Can Collection.......

I have spoken of a couple who lived on a farm south of Murray.  They saved everything and their house seemed like a living history farm.  When they moved to town, my John and Iva connection had various old containers that they were throwing away.  I liked the colors and designs and they thought it strange that I wanted them.

As a series, I will blog each can, to show you what they look like more closely than in this still life. 

John and Iva have been gone for many years and I try visit their graves each year. Their furniture lives with me daily and sometime I dig out some things like this to review what I have. They had fours sons and one died in France in WW 2.  The other three sons are still alive.

  Of the three sons living I have contact with the one who is Loren Horton.  Sadly his wife Carol is suffering with liver cancer. They are actually step cousins, if I were trying to identify relationships, but to me they always have been John and Iva's kids. My Grandmother married into the family to Iva's brother. Their kids are probably in their early 80's now.
Loren was  the manager of the Des Moines Historical Building in downtown Des Moines.  He writes and publishes poetry and is still involved in things at the University of Iowa area.  His wife Carol sang professionally most of her life and churches still  hire her to sing. She is still in area performing choirs.

The cans will evolve in my blogs to come.  I am back to working at school as a sub so I am becoming busier.  So stretching out the cans will keep my material coming for  you.

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Headers that I never used.......

As I crop photos to prepare them for posting I can see parts of a picture that would make a great header for the top of my blog.  The problem is that I have more headers than I need for a season unless I post them out of season.  Below are some long and narrows that I created to be headers but never used.  These came from my Maine 2010 folder.

Top of Cadillac mountain

 

Another view of Cadillac mountain

 

The rocky shoreline of Maine and Atlantic Ocean

White water of the waves coming in on shore

I am substitute teaching today at the high school.  I will be with the Industrial Tech Classes.  

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The jail bird escapes.............

Photo by guest artist Della Burgus

Inside and outside of the cage at the same time.  How does that work?  Actually Jack Sparrow escaped again today.  I looked in there while talking on the phone and he was just sitting up there, wishing he could get back into the cage.  Canola his mate is confused about this little escaping technique that he pulls and doesn't like him to leave her side.  On my Larry's Photo a Day I have more pictures of the total incident.

The cold is the news around here and it continues to be crippling most of the middle of the United States.  We will venture out today as we teach Sunday school.  The car has been starting regardless as to how cold it is so we should have no trouble.  

Thanks for stopping by and stay warm everyone.

Bling, cat and blooms.........

I found this wonderful idea for displaying Christmas balls in a book at the bookstore.  I wanted to buy it but I am waiting for it to go down in price one more time.  It had a lot of pages that I didn't want to own,  more that the very few ideas that I liked in the book. They were displaying various ornaments in the Ball canning jars..and I have lots of jars and lots of old Christmas stuff.

The above photos are manipulated together to give you a creative design.  Below is the original, only one, jar.

It was touch and go putting the first balls in there as I couldn't just drop them in there.  I lay it down on it's side and then filled it partially until I could sit the jar up and complete the filling.

I am in the basement putting away decorations and I opened a box of various objects. I found this ceramic cat planter.  There is a sleek black panther planter down there that I didn't bring upstairs. I collect these haphazardly but I didn't know this cat existed.

I shared another photo of my oxalis on my Photo a Day blog but I wanted you to see this one also.  The plant shoots out these blooms and they are so heavy that they drape down away from the main leaves.

Saturday is here and we are still cold.  I was out yesterday for a few hours taking a neighbor for a doctor's appointment.  It was really miserable to the most part but I did survive it. I bought good things at the store to eat while we are frozen inside.  We can eat pumpkin bread and drink coffee and tea for a few days now.

Thanks for dropping in on my blog.  I wish you all a good weekend..........and stay warm where ever you are.

Sansevieria planting...........

After my friend Doug gave me the three rocks I was inspired to plant them in my bonsai planter.  I searched over the plants that I already had as I didn't need to buy anything new and this is what I found. I don't know it's exact name but it does come from the sansevieria family of plants. I took it away form the side of two other plants and figure it will give it room to put out a new one again.

I was asked to come over to see my neighbors blooms on her amaryllis plant.  I took pictures but they were not open enough to make a good picture.  So I snapped a view of this one sitting next to it.  Tropical looking when it is so cold outside.

Austrian Pine

Balsam Pine

To balance out the warm photos I will give you two cold photos.  If it is around 69 F. degrees in the home and it is 13 degrees F. in the daytime that is a difference in  temperature of 54 degrees. When it drops another 12 degrees down to 0 which is -18 degrees C. , then tonight that will be a difference of 69 measurements on the scale. No wonder my furnace doesn't stop running.

Thanks for stopping by.......I may not have my math right up there so if you want to check it, go ahead.  I am too cold to do much right now.