Tradescant, and Other Missing Things
hippiechick33 8B, TX
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Comments (10)I could pick out endless scenes from my childhood and young adulthood I would love to go back and re-live and they're all burnt in my memory somewhere. Sometimes they're layered so deeply it takes a smell or the light hitting a certain way to bring them back......and when they bubble up to the surface, butterflies go off in my stomach and I get to taste them again in my mind. However, I think I'd rather talk about something I find for the most part missing in today's lives, and that's the delicious anticipation we don't have anymore. Christmas season didn't start until after Thanksgiving and that month to a child was endless. By that time the weather had turned and it was cold and dreary with the yellow blur of old electric lights and remnants of decor in most houses from the thirties. There were no artificial trees that anyone I know of had, so a Christmas tree didn't go up until right before the big day. The stores didn't have their seasonal merchandise out until the snows flew, either. Christmas shopping was a two week blur of excitement and gift wrapping usually happened the night before. If you had a phone, long distance was something saved for emergencies. You corresponded with friends and family by mail and even if the person to whom you wrote answered immediately, there was a two week hiatus before you got a return letter. I don't ever remember there being a carton of ice cream in our ice box, or a carbonated beverage when I was growing up. They were treats and you got them at an ice cream shop or a soda at the cinema. Speaking of cinemas they were one of the few places you could see a 'movie'. So a film was also a treat. I don't know of anyone personally who had an air conditioner in their homes, either. Summer was summer and nights were hot. Winter was winter and mornings were cold until my Mama would rise and stoke up the coal furnace and I miss the smell of wood and coal smoke on the air in winter. I never even heard of an answering machine until I was an adult, and nobody had heard of a cell phone either. So, if you were away from a phone, somehow you got along until a message got to you. LOL. I miss the privacy of being unreachable when I wish to be. And if you lived in a town, there was never a school so far away you couldn't walk to it or a corner grocery so far you couldn't walk to it either for emergency supplies like a quarter's worth of lunch meat and a loaf of bread. The only people who worked through the night or on weekends were emergency personnel, and everyone was home on a Sunday evening. You waited until early afternoon to see a television program if you were lucky enough to have a set and the test pattern came on again at eleven p.m. Everyone had slamming screen doors their parents told them not to slam, and front porches where you sat and watched the world go by. Not much of anything was instant....See MoreThings I will not miss when I move away from here
Comments (26)I will not miss the heliconias I planted which throw up new plants but never flower, or the pine cone ginger that takes over every summer but leaves a bare spot where nithing else will grow in the winter. Canna lilies which wander wherever they want. The lemon grass and ornamental grasse in my supposedly zero scaped front yard which pop up worse than the weeds. Potato vine and others like virginia creeper vines (that is the vine a previous poster posted a picture of, the one with 5 leaves) anyway, my 2 cents worth Dave...See Morefinally, bold miss piggy pics and others
Comments (2)Fran, your Bold Ms. Piggy is breathtaking, and so are all your other MG's! :) Mine are really doing well this year also. You have m any of the one's I have. The Wisteria Tyedye is just waiting to burst open, one did already, but it didn't open completely. Wish I could work this photo bucket. :) Arum...See MoreSome Things(s) Missing?
Comments (3)what grapefruit and Denita said. art, curtains, another side table(maybe round, to break the lines a bit?), more lamps..bigger lamp or lampshade on the existing one/ A cozy room that'll become even cooler. As for the table/ottoman-I envision something with pattern..)) maybe same shape, or oval..it can be a storage type of ottoman as well..but I'd take this opportunity to bring in a different color/pattern in upholstery wood would look good too (or mix of wood w/metal, wood w/white) but your sweet boy seems so cozy with an ottoman..and I totally understand him-we have an ottoman ourselves in family room/library..very cozy and versatile indeed. And another sitting spot if needed. Check EBTH for large scale art..unique and can be won for a very low price(it's a huge auction site)..narrow down to your location though-their shipping gets very pricey with really large scale art. other sources are of course eBay, Etsy, Chairish.. if you love prints there are plenty of these too. I like what I saw recently on OneKingsLane, Anthropologie that has 20% off home and decor right now(still pricey a bit if you ask me..)..Saatchi Art is an amazing site..can get very expensive but prints and gyclee canvases would be much, much cheaper, as much as I prefer originals I do have couple prints too, and currently thinking of purchasing a print from Saatchi-first, the original is long sold, second, I wouldn't have such money anyway..:) Check estate sales too..some are incredibly cool. Craigslist. One can get very intersteting and sometimes very expensive and great quality lights for an unbelievably low price....See MoreLilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
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