Green Stuff and Old Stuff

[sakon76]

In this weekend of rain (she says, looking out the window to note that it is in fact sunshiny at the moment and she should set a jug of sun tea out to take advantage of this) we had a break yesterday, so I went out into the garden and got muddyish. I planted seeds for carrots, radishes, parsnips, beets, turnips, and snow peas. I also started leeks, spinach, and mustard greens. Last weekend I had harvested and started the sets from the top of my Egyptian walking onions; those are just starting to poke their tiny green heads up. I still have garlic, lettuce, and more peas on my list; we'll see if I get to those today or not, since the order of the day is trial run experiments for Thanksgiving, making my Grand Shopping List for said event, and sorting and filing patterns since we hit up Ikea for some pattern-suitable boxes yesterday. Have already discovered three duplicates. ^_^;;

Yesterday morning I went to an estate sale and got a few things of interest to me. The real score, however, was a vintage hand-embroidered linen tablecloth in fall colors, with eight matching napkins, that perfectly fits my mother's dining room table (without the extra leaves; oh well, people on the ends this Thursday can have placemats) for $6.53. I can't find a new tablecloth for that! ^_^

Trying to convince myself that the otherwise perfect ornament storage boxes at The Container Store are worth $27 + tax to store sixteen ornaments each. I mean, my vintage ornament collection isn't that big (2-3 boxes worth maybe?) but I would really like something secure to store them in. And I don't think cats jumping up and down on those boxes would break any contents; they're very sturdy. OTOH, that's a lot to pay for storage and I don't need archival quality....

At least we're not setting up the tree this year, so I don't have to worry about any ornament (vintage or modern) breakage. :)

Comments

[eerian_sadow]

as a member of a family who lost all their christmas ornaments one year in a flood (antiques, first anniversary, baby's first christmas for both us kids, all of them), spend the money on the boxes. you may not feel like you need the quality, but the unexpected happens and it's not worth the heartache and lost memories later.

[mmouse15.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I found ornament storage boxes at Target that were just as sturdy and $13 each. They won't have the same thing this year (they never do) but you might check them out before you buy the Container Store ones.