Collecting My Thoughts

  After 3 weeks of one finger typing on my I-pad I decided I really needed my computer and a desk at Phil's. I was looking on-line an...

Early in our married life (1960s) I admired our friends who had Eames style furniture, but I think they are uncomfortable, and there must ha...

Blue, blue, my trash is blue When we bought our summer cottage in 1988, it was an opportunity to redo a house with a color scheme (and some...

A special valentine for you I don't think I could say it any better than Emerald Eyes has--a list of favorite love songs, mature though...

3860 My daughter's garage sale Tomorrow I'm going to help with my daughter's garage sale. But I can't put anything in it ...

Thursday Thirteen--My Book House The carpenters and painters have left, and we've got most of the dust corraled (always, always turn ...

Monday Memories--The Stereopticon There are so many memories in this photo I almost don't know where to begin. The room is the north li...

Happy Valentine's Day This is a valentine my mother received when she was in Pine View school in Lee County, Illinois, from a schoolmat...

3288 How Kool is this? Trinkets and Trash is a website that keeps track of all the artifacts of the tobacco industry with an archive of to...

The Lakeside Antique Sale is usually held the first day (Saturday) of the final week. There won't be any programming after tonight, a...

1418 Photo album at an antique sale Yesterday's antique sale at Lakeside was well attended and appeared to have about the maximum num...