Their markings are exactly the same.
Aren't these triplet kittens adorable?
Sweet dreams.
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Saturday, May 28, 2022
MOVIE to WATCH: Educating Rita (1983) with Michael Caine
This is one of my favorite movies! I watched it on YouTube last night and thoroughly enjoyed it once again. I have always loved Michael Caine. Julie Walters is the other star.
If you want to go directly to YouTube to watch this free film, click on the link provided below. Enjoy.
Have a fabulous long Memorial Day weekend. xo
Friday, May 27, 2022
Irish Cottage with Daffodils
Just lovely. The clumps of daffodils scattered over the lawn are perfect. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend. xo via
Thursday, May 26, 2022
A Corner of My Bedroom Showing AC Decorative Vent Cover
I haven't featured any photos of my bedroom lately. Here's a photo of the ceiling vent cover and some of my bookshelves. I love my blue and white checked curtains that have been remade over and over since 1972. They started out life in a NYC rental for sliding glass doors going out to a terrace. I purchased the fabric on the lower east side. xo
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Handyman Coming Today to Attach My Ceiling Projects
I repainted the Regio Register air conditioning vent covers yesterday, just in time. This afternoon at 4:00 my young handyman is coming to put them back in place. He wasn't expecting the project to be so advanced and I'm sure he was secretly thrilled I had done so much by myself. The two very large ones are for a vertical wall in the attic. The rest go in the ceiling on my main floor. They are heavy and I thing I will somehow have to help holding each one in place while he drills them. I got a tube super tacky construction adhesive that "grabs" in 30 seconds but I'm not putting much trust that it will work but maybe it will. I have a long telescoping pole with a lambswool covered blade on the end for washing windows outside. Maybe I can hold these in place somehow if needed. Wish me luck. Will post photos later.
For anyone who hasn't been following this project, click the link for the complete history.
xo
It was definitely a two-person job and all 7 vent covers are back in place. I had everything very organized and we were finished in an hour.
My telescoping window washing pole came in very handy. I pushed the rod with the lamb's wool cover against each ceiling mounted vent cover after the construction adhesive was applied while my handyman screwed them in place. It's dipping down to 45° tonight so I have no need for air conditioning but when it gets hot, I'm ready with all the louvers in the open position. In the fall, it will be a snap to close them. Another project completed successfully. I am thrilled. xo
Morning after in my bathroom. Nothing fell down from 5 ceiling-mounted installations during the night😂 The two large ones in the attic were wall mounted and were a snap to put back. The only hard thing about those two was turning one in another direction so I could get my screwdriver inside to open and close the fins of he louvers. Luckily it was square so the placement of the screws didn't matter. Believe me, these things took a lot of engineering and I had to orchestrate every step. I think my young handman appreciated all of my prep work and he probably learned a lot in the process. I have already shared him with one of my girlfriends who needs window boxed installed.
Monday, May 23, 2022
Classical Architecture in Houston Texas
If that's a sleeping porch over the open porch, I'm in love.
You can't have too many porches, can you?
The rocking chair porch too.
Sunday, May 22, 2022
17th Century Hand Embroidered Bed Hanging
In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in The American Wing. See many more detailed photos here. Cotton/Linen embroidered with red wool. Size is 76" x 74" with a scalloped border. Intensely embroidered all over! The design was stamped on the fabric in England but probably embroidered in the New World. The panel descended in the Clapp family, members of which emigrated from England to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1680. It's amazing this needlework survived isn't it? Enjoy!
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
My Tools of The Trade
Doesn't everybody's kitchen counter look like this? I am in the midst of one of the hardest projects I have ever undertaken. Think trying to fit a square peg into a round hole! All of my central air conditioning ducts are in the ceilings and they don't have louvers behind the grilles and are always ON. In the winter all the warm air escapes making my house colder than it should be. I ordered the louvers and am in the midst of retrofitting them behind the decorative grilles made by Reggio Registers. My ceilings are plaster from the late 1930s and it took me over 3 hours on one hole yesterday chiseling out the ragged edges to get one louver in place. You know I don't admit defeat easily so I am all caffeinated and ready to attack the one over the other French door in my living room.
My Grilles are in this design,
painted the same color as the ceilings.
Louvers look like this.
Wish me luck. Sometimes I wonder why almost nothing in my life is easy and ordinary? Is this because I live in an old house or do I just look for seemingly impossible projects to make my life easier that actually make my life harder while the work is being done? That is the question. xo
Workin' wear. Yesterday I didn't have a hat and didn't put on goggles or a mask until well into the project. Today it was all about Safety First.
Today's louver was inserted in 15 minutes. YAY!
I have ordered some white pliable clay that will air dry in 24 hours and be hard enough to drill thru (fingers crossed). I thought that would be neater than spackle. I want to encapsulate all this stuff that looks like crumbling concrete. It should be delivered today. I still have to scrape all the gunk from behind the grilles that stuck when removing them. To close the louver, I have to attach the grille in the proper direction so I can reach thru one of the openings with a screwdriver to close the louvers for winter. This can only work in one direction so I have to make sure it's correct before screws are inserted.
The DAS clay is made in Italy!
It looks like a block of Cream Cheese.
It initially looks a little gray but dries bright white
This clay comes in a terracotta color too.
Would be great for flower pot repairs.
Here is my first encapsulation after a overnight drying session.
It's not pretty but functional. I had to rebuild an area behind the left screw hole because material behind it fell out and I had to completely rebuild the right-hand screw hole because the chunk fell out. All of this unsightly mess is completely covered by the grille.
Larger view of the construction site.
xo
Thursday, May 19, 2022
BEST JOYFUL MOTHER'S DAY for AN OWL (Video)
For the last two years, a hopeful owl named Luna has tried to be a mom. Sadly, however, despite her best efforts, things just didn’t pan out. “Not only did her eggs fail to hatch this year, but she also lost her clutch last year,” Robert E. Fuller, a British wildlife rehabilitator, wrote. But this year, Luna’s wish finally came true.
When Fuller came to learn of two owl chicks who’d become orphaned and were in need of a parent, his thoughts turned to Luna. Knowing that her maternal instincts were going unfulfilled again this year, he decided to introduce Luna to the two needy babies.
Fuller placed them inside her nest, awaiting her return. But would she accept them?
Footage of what happened in the video above erased all doubt.
Have you ever seen such a joyful reaction??????
Love at first sight.🦉♡♡
This wonderful story was found here.
Watch this 28 minute film when you have time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3gfeFtpz4
It's by
Robert E.Fuller too and is entitled
PS: I read some of the comments on YouTube and found this one.
"Even better is knowing Luna was a foster owlet too."
Isn't that amazing????? Do you think she remembers she was a foster child?
This story just keeps getting better and better.
Another commenter said HE WAS RAISED BY OWLS😂
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