Thursday, April 30, 2020

Holiday Decorations

Here are some of the Easter and Spring decorations we set out.

Here's the basket for Easter Dinner with the rolls.







After Easter come the patriotic holidays:  Memorial Day, Flag Day, and Fourth of July. I repeat this for Labor Day and 9/11 too.




Then we have more summer decorations. After the 4th of July, I hide the blue drum inside this basket for the rest of the summer.


 This is a wreath I got on my visit to Jessie's family in Hawaii.










In September I put up our fall wreath and some autumn touches here and there.


The little "bouquet" you see here is Broom Corn from Louie's garden.



This is a table mat I made as one of the group projects with my Art Group.


Here's a little paper bag book I made with an autumn theme. There are little pull-outs with family photos.








Halloween is fun.

Halloween sort of morphs into Fall and Thanksgiving.  I have my pumpkins and Mom's turkey that I gave her on our table.  I recently added pictures of the namesake of my hometown Winona, MN; Princess Wenonah, along with a photo a college friend took of me with the statue, in silhouette.  Nice to remember Native Americans on this holiday, I think.



Christmas decorations are my favorite. Here's a link to my post strictly about Christmas.

This is our lovely Christmas tree. Many of the ornaments are really mementos of wonderful memories.


After Christmas I move the snowmen onto the buffet and they stay until Spring.







Sunday, April 19, 2020

Sleeping

My sleeping boys



 

And Lully



Early mornings at the Wisconsin Dells.

Partying too hard!

And Jessie always catches us sleeping!



And of course... New Years Eve!


And from a long time ago:










Saturday, April 11, 2020

Pet Goose

This goose with a broken wing touched Louie's heart and he fed him all winter.

Grain Drill

Old-time grain drill ready to go!