House Project

A while ago my husband and I found this bench in a thrift store and bought it. My belief that it had been made out of an old bed headboard and footboard was confirmed by a neighbor who is also a furniture maker. He believes the back of the bench was made from the headboard and the sides were made from the bed footboard. He also said he thought the bench seat was made from another piece of wood.

We bought the bench to replace the old bench we had in the entryway to our house. That one was functional but only allowed one and a half people sit on it at the same time  and was not really big enough to hold everything we needed it to hold.

So we bought some new hardware and came up with this.

A whole lot nicer and more usable.

All Flowers Keep The Light

Other wildflowers we saw up in the mountains a few weeks ago

Wild Roses

Blue Lupine

Scarlet Gilia

I don't know what these are called but I see them all the time.

Arnica

Another unknown; planted on the grounds of the Grand Lake Lodge.

Sunshine And Rainbows

The house across the street from me is for sale. This happened  the other night while someone looking at  the house was driving away.  Is it a sign? Did they miss it?

Rocky Mountain High

Tis the land where the columbines grow,

Overlooking the plains far below,

While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees

Softly sings where the columbines grow
-Where the Columbines Grow by  A.J. Fynn  (First Colorado State Song)


We were up in the mountains last weekend and were delighted to find the state flower, Rocky Mountain Columbine,  in bloom.

A line of columbines

I've always thought Columbines look like starbursts or comets shooting across the sky.

The most beautiful ones were under the Aspen trees.

And Another House Project Done

Front porch rail before.

Front porch rail after.

A Doggie Dog World

On one of our twice a day walks Belle discovered that sometimes there are bunnies hiding under the parked cars in the neighborhood.  Since the word sometimes is not in her vocabulary this means she has to look under every single parked car on every one of our walks. 

Our walks take a little longer now.

I Got A New Coloring Book And Coloring Pens For Christmas

It took two days to color and was worth the time I put in.

Crocodile Rock

The rare and extremely dangerous Snow Crocodile.  Found only in the northern front range of Colorado.

But Baby It's Cold Outside

I put up my Christmas tree yesterday which I have never done before Christmas Eve since....forever.

This is what I woke-up to this morning.

 

 

My apologies, Colorado.

Splendor Of Ended Day

-Walt Whitman, Song at Sunset

Sunset ( December 7, 2015) looking East from the pocket park near my house.

Sunset (December 7, 2015) looking West from the pocket park near my house.

My Morning Cup Of Tea Brewing

Morning Visitor

Sunday In The Ramada With Lyric

Went to the Record Expo with my niece Sunday and came home with these beauties.

The View From The Passenger's Seat

Thunderclouds out on the eastern plains

Sea Queen

The city of Loveland, Colorado has two foundries and metal sculptures scattered all over town.   "Iscariot" by Trace O'Connor is one of the newer ones.  If I had $95,000 to spare (and the space for it) I would buy this in a heartbeat. 

Loveland Reporter-Herald article about the installation of the sculpture.

The View From The Driver's Seat

Yard Sale Finds From This Morning

I Quit My Book Club Yesterday

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-William Hazlitt


Re: August book club meeting

I put this off too long and I apologize in advance for waiting until today to spring this on all of you since I am scheduled to lead the discussion for The Art Forger at the next meeting. I have decided to resign from the book club because of the several anti Semitic remarks I've heard during past book club meetings. I feel if I stayed in the book club any longer I would be condoning the intolerance expressed by these remarks and, frankly, my mother taught me better. I will miss book club and I am sorry to leave but this is something that I cannot let slide.

It's Miller Time

We are being inundated with Miller moths right now.  Every morning when I open either the patio screen or the front door screen at least four Millers go for my face.  Mid-morning I stepped on the front porch and found this little guy huddled in the corner of the left sidelight.

This is a Sphinx Moth (aka Hawk moth) and looks huge compared to a Miller moth. Its kind of cool.

Redo Part Two

Today we replaced the old petroleum product carpet with wool carpet and I cannot believe the difference it has made. I feel as if there is now more oxygen in my house. I am now a big fan of wool.

Old carpet.

New carpet.