Zentangle Show

 My Zentangle work is in a virtual show. Click on the poster below for the link and look for me: Marcia Brown.

Puzzles

 

Granddaughter is enamored with Star Wars and since she likes to do puzzles like I do, she brought over a box with 6 that have that holographic effect.  She had done the one on the right at home and we worked some on the one on the left.  I ended up finishing it but it wasn't easy.

Emily had been to the thrift shop and picked up two more puzzles for me.  I opened the Penguins one and tried and tried to even get the border done.  When granddaughter came over with her dad who also likes puzzles they gave up pretty fast.  I gave up too.  Just look at the photo on the cover, you wouldn't think it would be difficult, but it's too much of the same colors.  It will go back to the thrift shop for someone else. Actually it didn't look like it had been put together before.

I purchased this one from Shutterfly made from a photo of our barn.  Granddaughter took it home and completed it.  It will be my turn next.

But first I'm working on this one also purchased at the thrift shop.

It looks easy from the photo but look at the size of the pieces.

No bigger than a penny and all shaped the same.

It's also small.

I managed to get all the edge pieces, though on the left edge I had some in the wrong spot - they really looked like they fit there but then other pieces didn't fit into them.

I'm sorting by color to help figure out where pieces go.  No one's come over to help yet with this one, but they are always welcome.

When spring finally comes, puzzles will be relegated to evenings since there will be lots to do as I get back to gardening again.

Calling Humor

 

[That pull toy phone?  I still have one from when daughters were toddlers.  Granddaughters still like to play with it because of the noise it makes when they pull it.  What was so surprising was when granddaughter #3 first encountered it when she was a toddler she knew what to do with it and put the receiver to her ear.  It looks nothing like a phone these days so how did she know?]

Found

 Look what Dan uncovered in the barn?

A huge sign.  Maybe 6'x 10'.

It had been nailed to the back wall of the first section of the barn but with the sign against the wall.  The backside had been treated like a blackboard which is what we thought it was at first.  Dan had very long nails to pull out to get it unattached and revealed. We moved it outside for this photo but it's back in the barn for now.

Based on the picture of the cream separator it looks to be of 1911-1912 vintage.  It also confirms for us what we've seen on maps that our house was a store.  Now we know that at one time it was the Huggins store. But we now realize that it's not a convenience type store but one that sells milking equipment.

Notice that the illustration on our sign is the same as the one on this 1912 calendar.

The DeLaval company still exists making equipment for milking.

This is a bit of history that's going to have to remain with this house.  We will find someplace to mount it; probably in the upper loft which I want to turn into a game room.

More finds to come!