Fiesta Ware Learning Journey

Not long ago, I wandered into a most fun and cheerful kitchen wares place.  I didn't die and I didn't get sick.  This is such a cheerful place, that I actually enjoyed it.  I discovered Fiesta Ware.  Good Gad.  Too bad I'm old now.  If I had discovered Fiesta Ware back when I was trying to cook and eat at home, I would be Fiesta Ware rich now. Today I revisited the kitchen place.  A young man was telling his parent family about his wife's collection of Fiesta Ware. I…

Boomerang!

My son took me shopping today to a store called Boomerang.  It's near Westport.  I think it's called Boomerang because it implodes you back in time.  Nathan told me it was sort of a costume store.  I was unprepared. Boomerang has clothes and household things from back in the good ole days.  I was walking into the most unique costume - thrift store ever. We entered the store and I nearly fell to my knees in worship. Here, before my cowgirl eyes, were floor to ceiling shelves filled with used…

Copper Family

I don't know where it came from.  It's been mine for years now.  I don't remember growing up with a copper kettle, but then my grandmother died after I left home.  I believe that it came to my house upon the death of my mother. It is a beautiful copper tea kettle.  I thought of it as a beautiful antique.  My mother died in 2007, some five years ago.  Yesterday, I had an amazing thought. What if it were a real tea kettle that my grandparents used? I decided to…

Shooting Crows…

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1923972 Shots rang out very near our two horses on the trail.  It sounded like heavy artillery. Hope and I were riding at James A Reed park today. Hope called the Park Ranger department to report that we were trapped in a real life shooting gallery. Park Ranger returned her call and was on the way to investigate. We decided to take the park road back to the parking area. I thought the road would be safer than the trail. Plus we might be able to see the shooter if…