All Things Bright and Beautiful: CHRISTMAS and MORE!
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Comments (12)THANK YOU FOR YOUR NICE COMMENTS, ALL... that little chipmunk has been around awhile, and I'm constantly chasing my cats to keep them away from him! We have lots of chipmunks, red & gray squirrels, mice, moles, birds, & frogs which all fall prey to Cosmo...he is ruthless! Nemo just brings them to me ALIVE, and drops them at my feet as a gift, so I believe I've met this little chippy a time or two! Nemo knows his "mama" will get mad at him if he kills them, so I could be working in my garden and he'll come drop a squirrel or bird at my feet! He's my good boy. iris gal, I agree...that little bee does look like he's off to bed! I thought he was just the cutest little thing, with his legs sticking out of the rose (and his little bottom!). Celeste...See MoreSome flaming flowers and other bright things ....
Comments (13)Hi Roselee. If you got the snapdragon vine from Patty, I think she got it from me several swaps ago. I got it from Barton Springs Nursery and they called it Big Bend snapdragon Vine. An empoyee collected it from a valley there. I think I have gotten a ID of Maurandya barklayana but the picture online does not agree with it, so I am not sure about it..The Peckerwoods Gardens had it IDed as such. Asarina is the same thing. The name Asarina has still stuck in the comercial world but the scientist are all over the place with this family's name. They also call the family Maurandella . It keeps me pulling my hair out trying to keep up. some asarinas are much larger leafed. Mine staid around for 4 years but those nasty winters and drought killed it off, but I have lots of babies. I have a much more delicate roving sailor vine that is just like this but tiny and it comes in blue and a pink variety.Maurandya antirrhiniflora or "Roving sailor". They make LOTS of seeds....See MoreFall Swap? More like Christmas Swap!!! Thanks to Earthydelights
Comments (30)Michelle, you're just having way too much fun, LOL. The martini glasses sound great and I want to see those cruets. Diana, get a disposable camera and when you get pictures developed you can get a CD with the pictures on it. Load those onto the computer and then you can put them on photobucket or a similar site or send them by email to one of us and we can post them. At least, I'd try to post them, I don't make any rash promises, LOL. Annie...See MoreAny funny things happen on Christmas Day where you were?
Comments (21)Your poor mom--she sounds like a hoot, though. Guess the only funny thing was my sister's adopted dd who kept asking to see my other niece's ring. This ring was among my mom's things when we were cleaning out her apt after she died on Thanksgiving. It was beautiful, and obviously a 'good' ring (diamond set in a beautiful filigree of white 18 gold), so we gave it to my one niece who was the closest to her. So anyway, the other niece kept saying stuff like, "Oh, I saw you wearing that at the funeral. It's so beautiful. I just love that ring. I always remember Mom Mom wearing it and loved seeing her in it" and so forth and so on. Here's the funny part--NO ONE in the family had EVER seen this ring before we found it among mom's stuff. Mom only wore yellow or preferably rose gold, never white gold. And the really funny part of this story? The ring is a size 4.75 (and fits my dainty niece perfectly) but my mom's ring finger was a size NINE--she couldn't have put this ring on with a shoe horn and a jack hammer--LOL! Well, fortunately, the niece wearing it, didn't take the bait, and kept it on her finger. She's the one who was truly the closest to my mom and deserved this beautiful antique ring. I actually had it checked out and cleaned before I gave it to her. It's an antique setting, the diamond is a specific cut that had to be done either the late 1800's or the very first few years of 1900. The setting, I was told, would have been made in the 1910's, definitely before 1920. Our best guess is it probably belonged to mom's mother--who, from all reports, was a tiny little thing. Anyway, that was about as funny as it got yesterday--unless you count the moment when I unwrapped a present that looked like a sculpture made of driftwood, and didn't realize that it was a birdhouse. Think I hurt my sister's feelings, but the opening for the birds to use was so well hidden, that it was hard to figure that out. Hope the birds can find how to get into it....See Morekculbers
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