Take A Walk With Us

A Good Stretch of The Legs

Hey gang. How was your weekend? Ours was good. Low key. A little youtubing Friday night, Saturday I finished up the closet cleaning/winter clothes in/summer clothes to the attic, topped the day of attending our niece's birthday party in Dublin via Skype, and yesterday we just worked around the house and I got caught up on my Blogging You Way homework.  Then enjoyed cocktail hour at my parents to celebrate my sister Dianne's birthday.

I also fit a couple of walks in there. Saturday was glorious. I'd say it was around 60ish, so walk was a must. Yesterday, woke to fog, but that didn't stop us.

There was not only fog yesterday morning, but with that came the turkeys. Like a gang of marauders in the neighborhood. They have been very active the last couple of weeks. I caught a couple who were lagging behind the rest of the gang at the top of the field.  Heads down and pecking away.

When Lucan and I went over to the field for a walk later, he was too busy sniffing around to even notice the Winnicutt Road Gang at the bottom of the hill.  A bunch had already made it into the woods and the others were quietly (not always how it is with turkeys) following their lead.

Busy birds.

What about you? Busy weekend? Low key and relaxing? Special event? Nothing special? 

How'd you spend your time?

Like the birds, I've a busy week on tap that involves a ton of design work.  I'll be sharing the fun projects I'm working on as I make progress. Lots of logo design work for customers from Ontario to L.A.

Hope you have a great Monday. The rain is coming in here now and we're supposed to have a morning windstorm so I'm up early posting this.  We'll see how all that shakes out considering the destruction this storm caused coming across the country. We've been assured that it has weakened, and quite frankly, that suits me just fine.

Ciao for now,

BLACK FRIDAY SALE at the mercantile

Savings for YOU

It's Black Friday, as most of you know. I have to say, I'm not a rush out and be there at 6am kind of gal. In fact, if I take advantage of any black friday sales it will be from my keyboard. If you're like me, here's a deal for you........25% off storewide at Bates Mercantile Co. now through next Tuesday (I threw an extra day in there for good measure).

Use coupon code FF11BF25 at checkout and enjoy big savings on whatever tickles your fancy......perhaps the customizable notecards above?

Bird Is the Word

How Was Your Thanksgiving?

This pretty much says it all for me- brother Bill carving the bird.

More tomorrow.

Enjoy your day. I'll do the same.

See you on the flip side,

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday......Where'd Saturday go?

Friday Comes Before Saturday

Friday, my sister Dianne called to say we had a surprise visitor.......our cousin Margie had driven up. So Friday night, I left Garman on his own as he was beat from his week, and I was off to Di's.

The door kept opening to another person.........first our sister in law Kelly, then my sister Gloria, and then later on my niece Nicole.

Now, I know I'm fuzzy because I was running to get into the picture but not sure why Kel is. Go figure.  (Sisters G, D & P in the back row, cousin Margie in the front with sil Kel on the right front). Nicole missed the photo shoot.

It was a good night around the table filled with lots of laughs. I just love a surprise guest like that!

Saturday To Do List

At the top of my list yesterday was package up a pretty linen and lace table scarf from Bates Mercantile Co. and get it to the post office for shipping to Australia.  I know the girl who bought it from our shop, is going to love it more in person. It's very pretty. We love our customers and I always try to make packages look special so it's like receiving a gift in the mail.

It doesn't take much effort, and a small personal touch is one of the things that sets etsy shops apart from other retailers.

On the Way Home

I had a couple stops on the way home from the post office, and on one of them I scored a couple new pieces of merchandise for Bates Mercantile Co.

Check out these vintage straws. Well, what I really liked, was the illustrations on the straws, beginning with the eagle on the front.

The back was just as good. The top one kills me.........

"Children will drink more milk through a straw." Really? What a hoot.

I spied these little gems the other day, and had to go back for them. The prettiest little spools of thread ever with hombre coloring.  This is just three of a whole bunch.

Each one, just really great visually in its own right.

Like little works of art.

Pretty, pretty.

Pretty.

I'm not even thinking of them being used for the original purpose, though someone might. I think they'd look great as an accent of color. I might have to keep one for myself.

Rainy Day Sunday

Though we've had peeks of sun this week, we've also had gray and rain. Today is no different. Sun tried for awhile this morning, but no luck. I don't mind though, it's Sunday afterall and sometimes a rainy Sunday is welcome. 

Gar just got back from errands and said "It's lashing out. Did you see the turkeys?".

Apparently they're the only ones who are really out in it. 

Sorry I missed you guys yesterday, the day just got away from me.

Hope you're nice, laid back Sunday wherever you are.

No big plans here today. What we get done, we get done. What we don't we don't. I would like to do some organizing in my office so I can start the week with a clean desk. What about you? Any big Sunday plans?

ta ta for now