Good Buys!

I was intently browsing my favorite shop when a friend called; I told her I was at the “crack store.”  Which is the way I really feel about Two Women and a Warehouse - totally addictive. My old friend Kathy Kanis and her partner have put together a constantly-changing wonderland of new and second hand furnishings for home and garden – at terrific prices!

Here are a couple of items I recently snagged from TW&AW:(There are more, but my camera cord has gone missing so they’re temporarily trapped inside my Sony DSLR….)

	Great big baker’s rack for the porch. The finials make it a perfect match – and possibly a companion piece - to my very first furniture purchase in 1977, a wrought iron patio table & chairs. Score!
What a beautiful patina on this copper washtub!  Big white hydrangeas are going in it.

Promotion without shame – I borrowed this photo montage from Cherry's...In The Garden and More, a fellow crack store fan and blogger:

And I Said I Wouldn’t

We recently got a pair of chickens from our friend Rob who was movin’ on up – actually from suburbia to a darling garden apartment downtown. His two hens needed a home and Mr. C jumped at the chance. He’d raised chickens as a youngster and I knew he secretly wished to tend a flock again. He happily worked to convert the girls’ old jungle gym to a deluxe chicken condo. The fresh eggs each day are great, and the chickens are fun to watch. I resisted naming them at first, figuring I wouldn’t get attached that way. Then the perfect names came to me: Henrietta (get it? HENrietta?) for the little one, and Marietta for the big chicken…and if you’ve ever been to Marietta, Georgia you know why that’s so darned clever.

	Henrietta and Marietta sharing a dish of yogurt (good for the shell, you know)
	The payoff

Finally....Spring! A few photos from the yard.

After days of rain, everything’s popping up – even the hostas I thought I had killed last winter! The azaleas and camellias are blooming together – always a nice overlap. Tiny purple flowers are everywhere - delicate wild violets and clover. Amaryllis are dominating their space, as they always will. The seeds in the greenhouse have popped up, the herbs and lettuces are thriving and even the tiny limes are starting to take shape. Glorious!

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