A week ago, on Sunday, we got home from a 4-day weekend
at the beach house, to find this at home:
Snow!
A week later, this past Sunday,
we got home after spending the weekend
at the beach house, and we found this:
Bliss.
Now that, my friends, is change you can believe in.
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Why were we at the beach house for a second weekend in a row?
It was a mid-Saturday-morning impulse; we tossed clothes and toothbrushes and Dion in the van,
and off we went. While there, we painted swatches of color on the walls.
More on that later this week, when I'm going to ask you to vote on the wall colors.
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But there's another change at That Old House, that also speaks of Spring.
It's a little change, and it's not finished.
It involved taking this:
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| Nekkid front door. |
And making it into this:
A Spring door -- an egg-shaped willow basket, with fake greenery and a few bunches
of 79-cent species tulips from Michael's stuck in. Yes, it needs work!
Like, fewer tulips. And a hanger so it's not stuck 'way up at the top of the door.
I'll get to it tomorrow. Hey, it's Monday.
But speaking of the 79-cent bunches of small fake tulips at Michael's -- they are pretty nice!
I bought some more.
I am ditching my faux phobia, and adopting my mother's attitude toward man-made flowers.
Mom loved them; she was not fond of fresh cut flowers.
"I don't like dead things in the house," she'd say.
That's real -- but alive and growing -- hyacinths in the pot, above.
Howard did his hunter-gatherer thing at the supermarket yesterday,
and came home with 3 hyacinth plants. Sweet!
Expect to see these tulips show up in tablescapes and vignettes this spring.
But remember -- and this is directed primarily at my dear husband -- I still love fresh cut flowers! -- Cass
Visit Little Red House for Mosaic Monday. Click here!
Metamorphosis Monday is at Between Naps On The Porch. Click here!
At The House In The Roses it is Show Off Your Cottage Monday. Click here!
Tomorrow: the story of cousin Judy's mystery gift,
continued from Time Travel, Part One, from last week's Wednesday post.
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