Home of the Flat Pack

[photo by Jackie McGuinness of Junk Boat Travels]

What's In YOUR Cupboards?

Surprisingly, I do NOT have any

Captain America / Winter Soldier

glasses or mugs --

But I DO still have my

plastic Yogi Bear mug

from when I was a pre-schooler!

I hope all the paint I ingested off the rim

wasn't toxic. Consumer safety regulations

were SO lax in the early 1960s.

Thank Gawd I Had the Fish 'n Chips

Top of the Fridge

Well, from the top of MY fridge, 

you'd get a pair of red silicone oven mitts, 

an antique bronze statuette 

and a red china teapot.

The bronze statuette is the only thing of value, I suppose.

 

It depicts a small cherubic Cupid hammering out

an arrowhead on his anvil. Someone gifted it to 

my paternal grandfather about a hundred years ago or so

because he and his father before him were both blacksmiths,

as well as being farmers and millers.

The statuette eventually came down to my father

and then to me to be its guardian.

Here's a back view so you can see

Cupid's cute little wings and bare bum.

So, what would we find 

on top of YOUR fridge, hmmm?

Tell all in the comments!

[Photos © Debra She Who Seeks, March 2022]

Thursday Art Date With Rain -- "Snowman"

Welcome to Rain Frances' first Art Date of 2022!

We've got lots of snow in Edmonton but unfortunately, 

it's not wet enough to actually make a snowman for this post, 

so I've resorted to photos of My Rare One's 

vintage blow mold snowman instead! 

This dapper gentleman lives 

between her two garage doors, 

securely fastened in place by 

looped electrical wire around his neck 

which then goes inside the garage. 

It looks a bit like he's being garroted but 

I assure you all, he's fine. 

He lights up the back alley at night 

with his internal 100 watt lightbulb!

[These two photos © Debra She Who Seeks, December 2021]

As per usual, I'll pad out the rest of this post 

with LOLs and memes from the internet -- 

enjoy these goofy varieties of snowmen!

Flowers, Both Fake and Real

(1) Fake:

Longtime readers may remember my luuuuuv for fake, maintenance-free greenery on my balcony. Alas, these two lovelies bit the dust at the end of last summer --

Age and relentless sunshine did them in and they became brittle, shedding leaves and causing general mayhem. So this summer, I bought a new fake floral-and-greenery arrangement to sit on this table instead. It's also nice and heavy so it won't blow over if there's a strong wind. The damn thing cost me an arm and a leg so I hope to get at least a couple of summers out of it before it too succumbs to the pitiless elements.

(2) Real:

On the other hand, My Rare One luuuuuvs to garden and has some beautiful irises which flower every June. Here's her Japanese irises --

I don't know what the official name of these yellow-and-purple irises are but when we were kids, they were commonly just called "flags." My Mom used to have them in her little front flower garden too.

These beauties are called "root beer irises" because of their rich tawny colour --

And here are both kinds of irises together --

[All photos © Debra She Who Seeks, 2017 and 2021]