Things For The Upcoming Fair and a Pie Safe....

This is my latest knitted sock. The other one is completed except closing up the toe. They will go to the fair.

Here is Carolyn's pie safe. She sold her hutch and bought this pie safe. It is really old, but in good shape. I like it a lot.

And I knitted this doll . It's a little strange being it's arms and legs are so skinny. It will be one of my fair entries. I named her "Dolly"....only because of the hair! :-)

This flag afghan was made by my friend Carolyn. It will go to the fair also. I think it will win a blue ribbon. What do you think?

Mine isn't as pretty. It is supposed to look like stained glass windows, but it leaves a lot to the imagination. This is the first one I've put together with black. I always had to work on it in the daylight. Have you ever tried to work with black yarn after the sun goes down?

Just three Photos.....

A heartshaped potato..... My exchange square for the month of July...It is called Firecracker Square.

And a Hibiscus blooming in my friend Carolyn's yard. The bloom is bigger than a plate.

NEW YORK CITY.....

Lisa, Donaldo, Ryan and Lucas have been on vacation to Washington DC and New York City. The first picture here is in Washington. It is the Hope Diamond.

A street in New York....

Lucas....resting at Times Square.

A Broadway Show......

The Statue of Liberty. The torch has opened up again recently for visitors. The tickets were sold out through October.

~~NEW YORK CITY~~

Lisa and her Godiva Chocolate.... Lisa, Ryan and Lucas....

A Picture from a picture.....in front of the empire State Building

A boat tour around Manhatten....

Manhatten from atop the Empire State Building....

Bill's Country Store......

Bill has a room in our house that he calls his country store. He says I have taken over because that is where I have my computer desk. It is in the lower level of our house. He doesn't work at collecting things any more because he can't. Above is a set of scales with the weights. I remember weighing candy on scales like this at FW Woolworth's 5 & 10 cent store.

Rawleighs Liniment. My Dad sold Rawleigh products in his later years. This is some that is still on Bill's shelf.

This clock belonged to Bill's Dad. It is an eight day clock. Bill says he can remember it when he was but a lad.

Old bottles......

Old postcards from Bristol TN and Virginia.

Country Store cont'......

Old bottles and lanterns....

misc....

The green cups and plates are the ones that used to come in oatmeal.

The little boy and girl bottles are Avon and I bought them when my children were babies. Anyway....you get the picture!! :-)

July 4th......

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY WEEK-END!!!!!

God Bless America!!!!!

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Photos I made at Lisa's friends house in Grainger County

Her chickens....

Hanging Chair on front porch....

Quilt hanging in her living room....

Display of Saws.....

A window frame filled with flowers.... More in the next post.

A Neat Porch......

A real working cook stove.....

A loom.....

A church pew.....

A wringer type washing machine.....

And a wooden ironing board. I could stay on this porch forever. Earlier, I posted a picture of the sleigh. The porch goes all the way around the house. Part of it is screened in.....with a real nice seating area. I love to go there!

Just Some Photos....

Tennessee Birdwalk!!!! Lisa's Macaw!

Lucas sleeping at my house! Sweet!

Lisa, Ryan and Lucas standing on Promiseland Road ...(where they live)

And "The Granny" with them.

Lisa's friend Kathy has a sleigh on her front porch. Isn't that neat?

My Yard This Morning.....

My Grapevine.....

My Yellow Flowers. I don't know what they are, but they bloom at night and close up in the day.

My purple flowers...

and....look what the storm did yesterday. We had a hard storm about 5 o'clock PM. It blew over my Wolf River apple tree. It wasn't a strong tree because two years ago it was so heavy with apples that almost all of the limbs were broken...so I guess it has done it's last duty. I will miss my wolf rivers!

Now the task of cleaning it up!

Debbie Macomber.....

Lisa and I went to a book signing/ champagne brunch with Debbie Macomber in Knoxville. She is one of my favorite authors. I have almost all of her books and HAVE read ALL of them. The first pair of socks I knitted was out of one of her books called A Good Yarn. Lisa bought the tickets for my Mother's day present. Debbie told some funny things that her fans had written to her in e-mails. She said a man in prison sent an e-mail and said, "Will you be my woman.? I don't care that you are fat." Another one, Will you hurry and publish the last book in the Cedar Cove series, I'm 85 years old." And ...."I like your books so much, I don't even care to pay for them." She said someone ask her why her books wasn't all lovey-dovey, and she said she didn't know what that was...that she was married. She told the story about how uneducated she was and how she became a writer. She has sold one and a half million copies in seventeen different languages. I like her! The top picture is when we were leaving to see her and the second picture is Debbie Macomber and me.