Hallo all. Happy New Week.
Diane: That is unusual indeed. fab video! Jackson is on Highway 49 that runs through the Gold Country along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada - it's a lovely drive. :-)
Annette: That sounds beautiful! I've only been to San Francisco, and that was on a business trip decades ago. But, I did get to see the bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, Pier 39, the California Academy of Sciences Natural History Museum & Steinhart Aquarium, and Muir Woods (the redwoods). I loved it all. I got to see Utah for about 1/2 an hour on a layover. LOL(That probably doesn't sound like a big deal to most folks, but I haven't been able to travel much in my life--except when I was married and my husband was always dragging me to Florida.)
Diane, I would just love to see San Fransico. Or the redwoods. Or the Great Lakes in Canada. Or California. I hoped to see more of the world when we retired, but my OH hates long times in airplanes, and of course it's expensive. Still trying to persuade him to go to see the Austrian Lakes! Only a few hours from here. But mustn't moan, as we have our trip to Norway (a year this May) to look forward to.
Following on from my miserable post about my deeply unfashionable furniture - curiosity took me to eBay where I found the same sitting room wall unit/ dresser/ display cabinet/ drinks cabinet. Only £100 and no takers - why am I not surprised ?
And I see from the receipt that it cost £1599 in 1997 ( all paperwork here as OH was a record keeper!) So, not a good investment, then :-)
Only joking, in case anyone thinks otherwise !!! I wasn't here at the time, it was before I met my OH so nothing to do with me :-)
Morning all:
Heather: We had a G-plan sideboard with glass sliding doors and a cabinet for just one bottle of sherry (for guests). :-) All very mod at the time. I think that era of furniture has now been re-branded as trendy "mid-century." I still like the clean lines. We get a lot of "vintage" resale stuff here too - a label that gets applied to some pretty ugly items that don't rate 'antique.'
Lindybird: I was wondering the same thing about the stag - maybe his loose antlers were like a loose tooth that you can't stop fiddling with. By the way, you could fly to California with a stopover in New York or somewhere else on the East Coast, which makes it a 5-6 hour flight going West and less going East. Just a thought... EDIT: That's each leg of the flight!
Desk work, an extra pair of hands for friend, document drop off downtown and Tai Chi class followed by stop at the grocery are on the list today....