Our Family's treasured Christmas Ornament.

Couldn't resist showing this treasured 80+year old Christmas ornament of my mother's before I lovingly tuck it back into my oriental cabinet for safe keeping. She had this since she was a little girl and it was on her tree since she was wee. Now it is on mine. It is a chalk faced Santa on skis and my sister and brother graciously entrusted me with keeping him after our mother passed away~they know how much it meant to her and how much care I will give it each Christmas.

There is a special blog that I follow..Little Byrd. I love her photography and the wonderful outfits she puts together from her thrift shop and Goodwill treasure hunts. I saw that she had a Homer Laughlin bowl posted on her blog and it just happened to be the same pattern that I found in the fall while junking. I have researched and researched and wrote and sent scanned images of the sugar and creamer that I acquired to Patterns, Ltd. to no avail. No one knows how old the pattern is or what the name of it is. I am so intrigued so I was so excited to see the little bowl on Little Byrd's blog. I would love to send them to her for her collection..they appear to be very old. So here you go Little Byrd..I hope you can see these clearly...not the best images as they are scanned.

The end of the Christmas 2009 season..Tucking away the Christmas decorations...very minimal this year, however much less stress and more enjoyable somehow.

I hadn't blogged for a very long time and I'll tell you I was inspired by Kim of Daisy Cottage when I read her blog about her beloved Maggie. I was suddenly able to type somewhat of how I feel about Kitton's passing on the comment portion of her blog..and you know what? She really does read what we write to her and she expressed her sympathy to me. That meant alot to me..she is a really sweet genuine lady!

It's been just a little over a month and maybe now I can actually talk about it. We lost our beloved kitty Miss Au'Kitton on Oct. 29, 2009. She was just fine, never had any physical problems, never even expelled a fur ball. But on that fateful day, she was fine when I left at 6:20am that morning and by 9:46am Michael found her lying in the middle of the living room on her side. She doesn't usually lie in the middle of the floor but then again, our house is small and the cats lie anywhere that is in the way :)! He called me and was so hysterical I couldn't understand what he was saying. I had just talked to him less than 5 minutes before since I was trying to catch him before he left to get his hair cut. It was on his way out to the door that he saw her and saw that she didn't move to the sound of his voice. I just wish this was a dream..but it is the longest dream I have ever had. She was my baby! Michael's kitty, Miss Indy, is 18 and has some impending health issues but she is still ticking! Kitton was 12. Every night Miss Indy goes to the spot where Kitton died and lies down on her side and puts her little head down on the carpet. Every night! She misses her soo much~even though she swatted Kitton a lot!

Postcards from the Midnite Backyard

We are officially a Wildlife Habitat and every week we are selected by more and more midnight creatures...some I never thought would be in a city backyard..and some I have never seen up close except at the zoo. Take a peek..Rocky Raccoon, Miss Orangina Spider, and Petunia the nearly all white skunk (not a very clear photo of her but you can see how mostly white she is. Rocky is the ring leader..he climbs the birdfeeders and what he drops Petunia roots for. Couldn't get a picture of Low&Slow the oppossum, because he just wasn't in the mood to have his picture taken.