A Day Out

A Little sunshine on a Rainy Day

Signs of Spring

                                           Lots of seeds to tuck in come May.

                                                     Tomatoes and peppers growing well.

                                                 The chickens are firing on all cylinders.

A Little Kitchen Enamel Lovin'

 I pulled this kitchen table from the back of Marty's dad's barn. He used to fix motors on it. We rescued it and fixed it up as our first table. Thirty-four years later, we are still enjoying it!

 I found this a few years ago at a town wide yard sale.  I love the way "BREAD" is lettered.

 Oh so many years ago, we purchased this Hoosier. The pull out enamel counter has always been very handy.

                     For a long time this has held the cooking utensils close by the stove.

 A more recent fixer upper that makes it home in the kitchen also sports an enamel pull out counter.

 Finds from the past:  smaller enamel jug, timer from and old stove as well as the back from an old stove with it's own mirror.

 A very recent find: and old postal scale.   It weighs a tonne! The enamel is  practically perfect.  It has a voluptuous form.

                                                  The glass plate is perfect too. Lovely!!!

Thrifted Yellows

 I came across a stack of wonderful vintage yellow Melmac plates at a thrift store recently.  The top one is the same brand that my grandmother's plates were, Rainboware.  We still use them everyday.  There is a very interesting blog on Melmac dishes. You can check it out HERE.

 At Barnfull of Goodies, in Morrisburg I finally bought this neat little set (?) of enamel on cast iron pieces. I have been admiring it for a long time.

                                                I love the veggies painted on them.

 Then there was a yellow pear bowl, with divider. Another thrift store find.  It is an early Pfaltzgraff  chip and dip bowl.

Yellow kitchenware is always welcome. It reminds me of the smaller enamel covered casserole my mom gave me as a wedding gift decades ago, and the larger one which was a most fortuitous yard sale find years ago.  Yellow brightens up the space.