You Were Right

Yes, you were right.
This was used to hold water in an old refrigerator/icebox.
The spout swings down and lets the water out.
I'm thinking of using it to make sun tea..
Anyway...I have never seen one before and think it's pretty nifty.



Who gets to lick the bowl in your house?
I made brownies for the kids today (both big and little kids)...
Spent two hours at the community center rummage sale this morning...
...and had tons of fun. I will show pictures tomorrow of my finds...

Everyone started arriving late this afternoon and we have a houseful now!
I'm so happy to crawl into bed tonight but know that tomorrow morning I will be refreshed and up early making blueberry pancakes...
...or as 5 year old Kate requested...M & M pancakes!

The forecast is for beautiful weather so I am sure we will be spending all day at the lake and in the water or boats.

The parade is at 7 pm and then fireworks at 9 pm.
I wouldn't miss it for the world!

Happy Celebrating!

:)

Cleaning Out

Last weekend I had planned to go to the flea market on Sunday.......I took Friday off of work in order to clean off my front porch which I am embarrassed to confess had become a storage area over the last few years....



I filled the back seat of my car as well as the trunk with tons of stuff to bring to the thrift store....



It felt really good to begin to get a handle on what exactly I had, what I wanted to keep and what I knew I could get rid of......



It felt even better when I delivered it all to the thrift store this afternoon.....they loved it all and even gave me a statement for my taxes.....



I really got into the purging process....I am afraid I have been a bit of a hoarder (stop laughing at me family) ....anyway.....I was so involved in the cleaning out process I decided not to go to the market on Sunday and instead kept going through all this stuff that had accumulated.....


I think you could say that I might have even had a breakthrough.....My family will be very impressed and proud of me as I plan to continue cleaning out this coming weekend.......
Oh and by the way.....the things in these photographs.....well, they are the things I kept....and are back on the porch.....couldn't quite part with them yet....