Spring Break 2013

 

Spring Break this year, started with LeAnna's arrival.  Her wedding shower was held at

a delightful winery just outside Hartville.  A good time was had by all and she and Adam

received some very nice gifts!

 

 

It was a beautiful day, but really, really cold.  We were all doing our best to look

"springy" without freezing to death.  If someone had told me that LeAnna was

taller than I am, I would have argued the point, however, it would appear that she is!

 

 

What follows are random pictures from the past 2 weeks.  This is a hopefully the

last snowfall of the season.  It was cold, but sunny and dry this past week.

The rain is supposed to move in tonight for the next week, but the temps hit 65 today and

is supposed to stay in the 60's all week.  Ahhhh...spring in Ohio :-)

 

Arlo, Maggie and I got in several walks on the new trail.  Arlo, of course, didn't mind the cold.

The park district has decided to enforce the leash laws at all the parks, which I found out

after this walk.  We are pretty sad about loosing the lake as a place to take

the dogs to run.

 

 

Dad turned 83 on April 6th.  We celebrated with birthday apple pie and ice cream.  His film

camera bit the dust recently and Nancy asked for help getting him a new

camera - it should be a "good time" helping him figure out how to use a digital!

 



 

oops....out of order...here are my new hiking shoes.  Thank you, Adam and LeAnna-

Love those Merrells.

 

 

Finally!  A day warm enough to do some yard work.  This is the awesome birdhouse

that Sarah and Keith made for us - Thank you :-)

 

Here we are out for pizza to celebrate our upcoming "Grandparenthood".  Don't we look

like awesome grandparents?  Congratulations Eleftheria and Ian!

 

Here is another seasonal rental on the Harrington homestead.  Last year we had house wrens.

They had the sweetest call.  Hope they come back this year.

 



 

Look at this AWESOME garden cart!!  It is sooo cool.  It even has a cup holder.  The lady

from the garden tour called a couple weeks ago and asked if we would like to

be on the tour this year again...thank you, but no.  My cart should get a

nice workout this summer though.  I am predicting hot and dry, just for the record.

 

Becky was here Tues, Wed and Thurs and we had a really nice time, but unfortunately I

didn't take any pictures.  We spent several hours in the antique and resale

shops checking out all the cool stuff.

Now it is back to school for the final push to the end ~ 45 days, if I counted correctly.

Love you all,

Mom

 



Ye Olde Glass Shoppe

As you all know, I have been cleaning and refurbishing the basement for much of the late fall and winter in hopes of  re-establishing my stained glass workshop of 30 years ago.  The basement, while not completely cleaned is immensely better than it was and much of what is left is waiting for the Great Retirement Garage Sale slated for later in the summer.  My glass shop has been set up and functioning.  As always there are refinements to be made as I begin to use it, but at the moment I am very pleased with the results.


This is a panel I started and finished last week inspired by a bookshelf designed by Eleftheria for their apartment.
She sent me the drawings for it, but neglected to copyright it, so I stole it for my panel!



I did the joinery in lead (instead of copper foil), which has always been a challenge for me.
I felt the panel design would look better in lead.

The finished panel.  The lead joints represent the shelves of the bookcase.

A close-up of my joint work and soldering technique.  I am pretty pleased with my first effort.  It is much better than any lead work I did in the past.  I am anxious to try some more.

I also re-took a beginner's glass class and this box was one of the projects to come out of that class.  This is copper foil work and the lid design is my own.   That's and oyster shell soldered to the hinged lid.

Seville Antique Mall

 A couple Sundays ago, Linda and I spent a couple hours

in Seville at the Antique Mall.

 

 Ian, how about some old clip on bow ties? 

I thought they were really cool!

 

 I thought this was really cool. 

Think of the things you could collect!

 

 This is the fore-runner of the hoosier.

Linda's hand is on the flour bin.

The little black drawers were for spices.

This store had a very nice collection of primitives.

 

 Linda and I recently realized that inspite of 30+

years of friendship, we don't have any pictures of ourselves.

Hopefully our future attemps will be better.

 

 Cool old work bench and stool.

 

 

And look at this scooter!!

I almost bought a set of dishes, but I was afraid

your Dad would notice.

 



Bottle Blog

 

Dear LeAnna, 

 

 

 

Some are old

  

 

 

 

And some are new.

 

 

 

 

Some are green

 

 

And some are blue.

 

 

Some are tiny

 

 

 

And some are tall.

 

 

 

 

You can use none

or

You can use them all :-) 

 

 

 

 And, on a completely unrelated note...

 

91 days and counting. 

 

 

Moonshine

In the wee hours of this morning, I got up to

let the dogs out - they don't seem to "get"

the vacation sleeping schedule -

 

The moon light and the snow and the night

were so beautiful that I went back in

for my camera. 



My snapshots don't do the beauty of the

night justice, but maybe you get and

idea?

 



 

Every season has a beauty all its own.



CHRISTMAS 2012 IN MEDINA

 

Right on schedule, the weather gods blew through

and dumped a lovely covering of the white stuff!

 

This one might be next year's Christmas card.  At that time, as a newly

 retired teacher, I plan to have time to do such things.

 

Last year we had Christmas and a Wedding Shower; this year,

we had a Wedding Shower and then Christmas.

 

Lots of ladies, lots of good sweets, (thanks everyone).

Lots of gifts.

A very pleasant afternoon.

 

Adam, was very excited to find out about all the place settings of

Fiestaware he now has. 

 

And then it was Christmas :-)

 Only half the kids home this year!  Three stockings instead of six.

And, for the first time since 1978,

 NO boys (much less girls) on the steps.

 



But, in the afternoon, everyone arrived for dinner and gifts.

With the Shower and Christmas at the house, we decided

that we needed to go with small tree!

 

Ahhh, at the end of the day everyone was tired and content.

To everyone who was here, thank you for sharing

your holiday with us.  We loved having you

and look forward to the next time we

gather.

To those of you who were with us in spirit, we hope you felt

our presence as we felt yours.  We hope that your holiday

with your family and friends was filled with joy.

We love you and look forward to the next

time we gather.

May our New Year be blessed with love, peace and purpose.

 



Cool Graffiti from our trip to Greece

Art is everywhere and talent is talent no matter where you find it.

 

 

Wish I remembered or had even made a note of where I took these "Urban Artwork" pictures, but alas, I really don't know :-(    So, I think they were taken in Athens (but it seems like Keith

and I were enjoying this together, so that would have been Thessaloniki...???) 

except for the truck, which was on the dock when we left Noxos I think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aren't they awesome!

 

Love you all,

Mom