You can get one at Amazon to bring with you. I just bought one the other day.Quote:
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You can get one at Amazon to bring with you. I just bought one the other day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Wait--is that the iron bar?? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Haha nope. I was quizzing him last night about that iron bar and he claims he can saw through it and has used pieces of it over the years, and it is shorter than it once was. OK buddy whatever you say.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
In Hermann, I had already envisioned a scenario where I drag DH in to talk to my physician with a prearranged lecture where she tells him about how One of the top causes of senior citizen death is a fall. I was not going to have a house in our old age with no handrail to the basement. I’m getting handrails in the bathroom I will be using most often.
to his credit DH has agreed to have a handrail to this basement in Hermann, his main logic being that with our walkout basement he has easy access to the basement and doesn’t have to rely on the stairwell to move large pieces of whatever up and down which was his excuse in the city. I will just mention that our city house DOES have access to the basement from outside as well as inside, so I think it was a poor argument but doesn’t matter now.
I guess better late than never!?!? LOL. Congrats on the handrail.
Angle iron is a pretty useful item for DIY'ers. If I were him, I'd hold onto it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
So, DH and I have been rushing around doing some house fixes prior to my NJ son coming up and my daughter's in-laws coming for a BBQ at our house. They haven't been here since the wedding.
After putting up my marigold wallpaper, we rearranged furniture, which left the entry wall bare and an unattractive electrical socket exposed. I knew I needed something in that small space.. a floating shelf or a very narrow console. I started looking at Target and Wayfair but they seemed so blah.
On the way to the supermarket the day before everyone came, I pulled out of our street and noticed that our neighboring antique shop was OPEN!! He was open twice last year. My car basically drove itself into the parking area, and I SCORED a walnut lectern!! $39!! I brought it home and then went back to my food shopping.
When I returned DH and DS had just returned from fishing, and I guess I got a seal of approval for the purchase, apparently, because I found DH thumbing through his fishing encyclopedia to find a great illustrative page of fishes and hooks--and after finding just the right one he set it up on the lecturn. DH approval! SCORE!
I love it! I love serendipitous discoveries!
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That is such a cute and functional piece! Nice!
That's a handsome lectern--and I like your wallpaper!
Nice Catherine!
That's a great piece and perfect for the space!
I love it all!!
Wow, I LOVE the wallpaper and the yellow--the lecturn is perfect, and a very good buy, too!
Thanks, everybody! And the shelf on the lecturn has no back, so it will serve as a charging station also!
That is a wonderful vignette corner Catherine. The wallpaper is everything! And your wide floorboards are nice and so appropriate for that part of the country.
I’m just tickled Pink! I just spent the evening selling Tupper- ware [yes, I know, and I did it on purpose]. I discovered 2 large bins full in my shed this afternoon, been working on decluttering and tidying in there:for a couple of hours daily this week. Remembering that it is highly collectible, I first checked eBay “sold” listings, then Marketplace for “asking” prices in my area, determining , yes, I had sought-after items. Actually posted on a Facebook page, thinking I’d come back later to see if I had had any responses… well! It was literally hours before I could get away from my computer. People were clamoring to Buy things. I had to learn the seller side of PayPal really quick. All in all, I’ve sold all but a couple of small items, and made, ready? $482!!! Selling Things I didn’t even remember I had! Buyers also paid shipping costs, so I had to look up those as I went along; those costs are not included in my total. Tomorrow I will be packing items and delivering them to the post office. Have already collected all the money. What a hoot!
Well done, Mschrisgo2!
That Tupperware caper is FANTASTIC!!!!!
Congrats! That's wonderful, Mschrisgo2!
So, I do not live in the desert as you all know. Because I talk about how awful that would be. So instead, I live in Rainland.
Rainland makes everything grow! Things are green! And the worst thing is that the weeds just grow inches every day ay, Caramba. So this is a rave and a rant. Yes I’d rather live in rain land but good God these weeds!
Wow that’s a lot of money for Tupperware. Until 10 years ago I was still using it from the 80’s but then read that the plastic was toxic so threw it away.
Almost all of mine was from 1975-1985; anything before 1990 is considered “vintage.” People collect the stuff (apparently most don’t actually use it), and they paid me more per piece than I paid for it new- and it wasn’t cheap then! Shocking, really!Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
So glad I thought to check- I almost just took it all to the thrift store without even going through the bins. This morning I sold those huge bins (the biggest I’ve ever seen) to my neighbor for $50. He got a great deal and I got my space back. Pretty sure my brother dumped those on me, he’s forever telling me I’m “too frugal” and insisting I accept Large Items, LOL, I’ve sold and gifted lots of things he’s left here.
Wow, good for you!! I would love to know what the collectibles are! I certainly had my share of Tupperware.
Dustcatchers, LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Rave for friends and vacations! Just got back from a week on the beach down south. Stayed with some fabulous friends and had a great time. (Actually took a banana boat ride!!! LOL). Hope everyone gets a chance to "get away" if they want and are able.
My vacation started great in Ireland with a friend of mine from high school. However, halfway through the trip I got Covid and told the tour guide. I got left behind in a rural hotel. The tour company cancelled my flight home and I had to quarantine for 8 days. It was stressful because I didn’t have my flight information until 2 days before I left and a driver secured until a day before. I was 4.5 hours from Dublin. Many others on the bus were sick but kept it to themselves because of what happened to me. I didn’t have Covid upon arrival so caught it from someone.
It was supposed to be a 11 day tour but you lose a day and a half to travel each way so really 8 days of sightseeing and I had 4.I will get a partial credit for another tour. I will find out next week how much of a credit. Ireland doesn’t have any restrictions but just guidelines. Unfortunately the county I got sick in had guidelines of 8 days in isolation instead of 5 like most of the country. It cost 5k but the travel company spent about 4 k between putting me up in a hotel, food, private driver to Dublin and airfare home. I booked with them because of their Covid promise and I also took the best travel insurance. Glad you had a good time Happy!!
Is this a rave or a rant? Who knows. Haha.
Yesterday I hatched a plan to move all of the orange daylilies that still live here in our Hermann Gardens to a place in our yard where it cannot be mowed. It’s too high of a hill and we’re not gonna mow it.
so, I asked myself, what would live there that won’t cost any money and that I simply won’t care about? And it occurred to me – those godawtul stupid FKING orange daylilies. I hate them. Roundup will not kill them. The deer eat all the flowers off so I never see any flowers even. But you know what? Their foliage will keep weeds down and I could dive in between any plants and hit weeds with Roundup because it’s not gonna hurt the stupid daylilies.
This might be a rave or a rant, but I will tell you that it is Personally embarrassing because I’ve said many times I will never plant orange daylilies. They’re the devil spawn. Nope, I would never ever in 1 million years plant those stupid FKING things.
You would think at my advanced age I would learn to never say “Never.”
Haha! I don't know what you have against daylilies, but the deer do love them. Their foliage is pretty dense and will definitely help keep the weeds down, so I think you're making a good decision! And good for them for being resistant to that FKIG Roundup!
I found an artist who will apply for a grant to put art in one of our city marks to honor those of us who successfully fought to free the people from covid mandates. Wish him luck!
Hemerocallis fulva are invasive everywhere in the United States. They are native to Asia.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
I will admit that drifts of them CAN look fine when in full flower, but it is ridiculous to me that people actually dig them up and try to give them away. What a waste of labor.Our local plant exchange will not accept them.
Hmm.. I didn't realize they were not native, and in fact considered invasive. I was going to suggest to you a variety of milkweed to plant instead (I grow Asclepius incarnata), and here Asclepius tuberose recommended as an alternative to day lilies.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
https://www.gardenia.net/guide/nativ...rocallis-fulva
Thanks for the education
Funny, I have had the Orange Asclepius perennial and it didn’t survive into the next year, don’t know why. I think The pink one grows at our community garden and seems Hardy, but is not spreading. I need a full carpet of plants. perhaps I,could intersperse the daylilies and also Asclepius.
it is a hill with poor soil and I will not waste my time amending soil because I have way too much of that work to do elsewhere.
I have a variety of ground covers. I just planted them, didn't do anything else to them.
You are in a different client climate than I am. Your ground covers in PNW will not work on the space I am talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Yes--you'd need zone-appropriate ground covers for Hermann.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I think this is a rave: I came close to offering use of my condo for a month to one of the condo building’s residents who will be displaced during The Big Sewer Repair. I do not know this old guy except by sight. Before offering, I checked with our condo President to see if the old guy would be a decent temporary tenant (i was not going to charge him anything, of course. It was my good deed for the year.)
But our condo President said the old guy smokes in his own unit, and also has a little dog.
The dog I could handle, but um NO to a smoker in my perfect pristine tiny condo.
So i backed out of the idea, and the condo Prez thanked me profusely for my kind offer, and he agrees it would not be a good match.
so, this is a Rave because I get street cred for being a friend to the condo community but do not have to actually put myself out at all, a win/win. Our condo Prez really has no idea how rare it is for me to offer to help humans.
Haha!! Perfect! DH, always throwing offers of all kids out there to friends and strangers alike, feels the best thing is when you offer to do something for someone and they decline to take you up on it. I rarely roll the dice that way, but he always does and comes out smelling like a rose whether he fulfills his offer or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Which is why he is such a popular guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
i should try this strategy more often.
Another Rave:
In tooling around my tiny town of Hermann today I came across a newly opened fabric store. A FABRIC STORE! I distinctly remember the month the last fabric store within the city limits of St. louis, population 350,000, closed. So here my tiny town of 2,500 has a fabric store. Granted, the fabric is all for quilters and is all polished cotton, a type I never use. But it is still nice. it’s here because my tiny town is a tourist trap for groups of ladies. I don’t think it will be open a real long time, but who knows.
Also, Hermann has a brand new library just opened. I dont like the location at all, it osnt walkable. But the expanded collections, meeting rooms, and computers are nice. I used it this morning to print copies of several digital documents.
I offered to share my home with a co-worker (and her three children!) due to an abuse situation. Afterwards, I had this OMG! What have I done??? panic set in. Fortunately it didn't happen. She was a good person who didn't deserve the jerk. I lost track of her, but hope she eventually got free.
Out of curiosity, I looked up Hermann and it seems to be a lovely place, with hills and a river, and trees. Congratulations on your new home.