Here is a jewelry box that I refurbished and re-decorated that a sweet friend gave me. The hinges were broken, the inside lining was ripped and it was pretty beat up and just dark wood. The latch and lion head pulls were already there. I just added some clay pieces that I made and many layers of paint. It was fun, but fixing the torn red lining was a nightmare. However, I love a challenge!
Remember all those green bananas Bill brought home last week? Well, they are getting ripe..there's still more..(Does anyone still make this Banana Breeze pie? It was really popular in the early 70's. My grandma Westman made this a lot. It was her favorite pie. Her crust was crushed Corn flakes though. This one is graham crackers.)
You just can't get a good picture when your glasses reflect every speck of light, but I got my hair cut, so time for a new profile picture.
Halterman's Stonehenge...every year on this day the sun is setting in this exact same spot between the forks in this tree when we are sitting in our swing. I know the Summer Solstice is tomorrow, but it starts at 4:00 a.m.or so, so it's close enough.
So much damage in the town of Effingham, IL, just 30 miles from us. There were tornadoes all around us here in Kinmundy. Here are just a few photos publish to the public.
For those who don't live here, this is a great story about Salem, IL...also my kitchen table is loaded with green bananas. Bill stopped by Twin Willows nursing home to take care of some business for his mom. While he was leaving the administrator drove up with her car full of bananas, voila, the whole county has bananas coming out of their ears! Everywhere Bill went yesterday, there were people with green bananas...(the reason for all of these bananas was the truck refrigeration unit malfunctioned and the bananas were not kept at the correct temperature, so they had to be discarded).
All the bananas are now gone! The Salem food pantry managed to get rid of all the bananas in just one day.
The Salem Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry at the Grace United Methodist Church late Monday afternoon received a truck load of bananas. 970 boxes to be exact containing more than 100,000 bananas.
The Director of the food pantry, Carol Ann Short, is the one who got the call for the banana truck.
“Yeah, so we got a phone call Monday. They said we have a truck of bananas and we’re trying to find somewhere to donate them. We were like great, not realizing how big of a truck we were going to get. So, several hours later we had a semi. It took about three to three and a half hours to unload. We had quite a team of volunteers, and some of the sheriff’s department guys came over and helped.”
All the bananas are now gone! The Salem food pantry managed to get rid of all the bananas in just one day.
