New Find

The weather has been beautiful the last few days,

 no rain and cooler.

 Pog and I have been working outside,

cleaning up flower beds, trimming trees and clearing brush.

A feeling of Autumn is in the air. 

I love this time of year!

Cool nights, the sound of the crickets and

 the squirrels busy gathering 

for what may turn out to be a long snowy winter. 

I don't mind but since Pog has to go to work, he does. 

Besides working outside in the yard, 

I have put 26 quarts of oven roasted tomato sauce in the freezer,

 made 4 pints of blackberry jam, made 4 runs of pesto and

 next week I will put corn in the freezer.

It is a lot of work but will be so good this winter! 

Oven roasted tomato sauce.

 Sorry I don't have anything from the studio to show you. 

I haven't worked on much, other than to finish up some UFO's 

and I have started piecing a new quilt. 

I'll show that next time since I could not get the pic's to load.

I can show you my latest find. 

While visiting The Collectors Antique Mall in Asheboro, NC, 

I noticed this crock sitting on the floor.

 The dasher and lid are much older and had been married to this salt glazed churn.

There are no markings on the churn (other than the 2) and it is not antique 

nor does not appear to be factory made. 

It has all the characteristics of being hand made.

The price was 32 dollars. 

It came home with me along with 

an old large key and little gray enamel berry pail!

For now it has joined my other crocks sitting under the hutch.

What do you think? 

Did I get a good deal? 

He is a sweetie!

I am dog sitting my grand doggie Jack for the rest of the week!

He and Sadie don't get along very well 

so we are staying quiet and working in the studio between walks.

Hope you are having a good week so far. 

Louise

Christmas Visitor

Since my daughter and son–law are visiting their family in the area, I am dog sitting.

This is my grand-dog Jack! I have never kept him over night but he did great!

He loves the wood stove!

Sadie’s not too happy, but at least this morning they were in the same room.

Sadie was keeping an eye on Jack from behind the stove!

We have had a little snow, enough to make it feel Christmassy, but the wind was terrible last night! Grand Father Mountain recorded the highest ever 3-second gust of wind at 121 miles per hour. Sure glad we didn’t have that here, but there are a lot of limbs down in our yard, 

but no trees.

Kids are coming and going over the next few days, so Pog and I are making some special treats and Chinese food tomorrow!

Hope everyone is enjoying his or her last holiday weekend before Christmas!