My New Egg Lady

 

It might not look like much, but wait until you see inside this little red building in front of the silos. Some photos are dark - it was a rainy, cloudy day. 

The eggs come from Carol's (who is English) hens plus three of her Amish neighbors. 

One of the Amish kids is in charge of washing the eggs. You bring your own cartons and fill them. 

We are on the honor system! There are packed eggs in the frig for those who somehow can't put eggs in a carton. 

Payment is the honor system too. Now I have to keep 5's and 1's in my wallet again. 

There is also a silent auction for a child who is going to a camp, house plants for sale, homemade greeting cards and jewelry and honey and produce. There was no produce when we stopped but I heard there was rhubarb right after we left! 

Getting back to my treasures from yesterday's post - here they are! 

Meet Mrs. Bunnykins and Pigling Bland, the last two Beswick Beatrix Potter figures in the thrift store. They figured out what they have and Pigling was more than the others I purchased previously even with his chipped ear.  Mrs. Bunnykins was not inexpensive, but worth every penny.  Can you spot them in the cabinet of things I don't need but love?

I would like to say it is a good thing that there are no more figures available at the cancer thrift store. 

I hope I was able to capture the iridescent shine on these saucers and plates. 

There was a large basket of miscellaneous saucers and what I am calling "cake plates" for use under houseplants. They were priced for $1 each. 

I'm not sure I can capture how beautiful they are. Anyway, at my house they will be used as saucers under small glass dessert bowls and as cake plates! 

And how is the bathroom remodeling going? Well this weekend we decided to trim my lilac bushes. This how we started. 

Landscaper trainee.  He was posing, not actually operating. 

My hard worker took branches to the truck for a trip to the city compost pile. 

Trimmed. Please notice the little porch on the right. The helper went up onto the porch which we never use (I call the door my fire escape) and put his hands on the rail. It is rotting! 

Today we took a trip to the home improvement store and bought vinyl post cover kits, new railings and whatever else is needed to rebuild the porch to match the front porch. This project will need to be completed before the total demolition of the bathroom can begin. 

Two days ago the brown house across the street went up for sale. Today was showing day and it was pouring rain with 90% humidity. I tried to sit on my porch to spy on potential neighbors but gave up and my husband repositioned our security cameras. 

There were at least 15 families that looked at the house; at one point there were six vehicles between realtors and buyers. I am thinking it will be sold today. 

On Saturday at noon my son's fiance got an alert on her app that lists houses for sale in our area. She immediately called her realtor and they were at a showing for a house a few streets away from me within 45 minutes.  Five families toured the house by 3 pm and three of the families (including my son and fiance) made full price offers so they cut further showings.  They asked everyone if they wanted to bid higher. After some counting on fingers and toes, they submitted a second bid. They were sitting on my couch Saturday evening calling bankers on cell phones to get copies of pre-approval letters. And Sunday were notified they got the house! They have been looking for over a year.  And that is the housing market in my town. They never even got around to putting the sign up in that yard. Crazy.