It is a bit January-ish this week. In back of the house is the river and you can just barely see here 5 million geese and ducks happily quacking away. Your host is wearing his Bears coat and hat, as it is Super Bowl week, and the front of the house and studio, built as a log cabin in 1865 and the shoemaker's house and workshop, but probably not purple until recently.
22 comments:
I have that exact scarf, Gary!
man I love the history of buildings like yours. Just inmagining all the goings on in the.. touching a wall, that you KNOW many people over 100yrs ago touched... that connection with history
wicked!
Cruachan, Gordo! It is Campbell plaid, no doubt. I got it new and unused at a garage sale for a buck, cashmere no less.
Greg, 1865 was an important year down here: Civil War ended, Lincoln shot dead AND Cornell founded up the street. The one room cabin this house started as is quite obvious when you look at the living room ceiling, or the logs under the floor. We have little ghosts in the walls, who I wish lived somewhere else when they are scratching at 2 am.
ghosts! how cool is that. could it be the cobbler and his wife?
Ugh, no. That most certainly is NOT a Campbell tartan. There are four or five of them and they're all blue/green based. I'll see what I can find out ... :-)
weeaaaalllll excuuuuse me, gordo, I thought it was a nice scarf.
Those little ghosts, Denis, are likely happy little mice who are so glad they don't have to be out in the cold. I wish they would move to my neighbors' house.
hmm reminds me.. I need to find a cobbler to make me some period shoes... a rarity these days, someone who can actually sit down and do custom work..
That is the clan MacBurberry, Gary. Trendy London outfitters.
And don't forget the 50% cake mix and 50% plaster of Paris makes all the mice scratchings go away. Leave a dish where you see droppings but where the cats can't get at it.
Sorry, Gary. It IS a nice scarf. I was wrong about the Campbell tartans, as well. Campbell Hunting has tan in it. It's not the right one, though.
Clan MacBurberry! And to think I got it for a buck....
I know Alan, but the little bugger is in the ceiling and wall, so I would have to drill a variety of holes.....in our last house I did just that, and they still did as they pleased. If they come INTO the house, our cats are experts...
Take off a wall socket and slip a little dish in there. Think roof access hatch, too.
Burberry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burberry
Nice to see you can now hunt for the matching handbag.
I remember another passive mousetrap. A deep pot or vase with a taper to a narrow top. Put some tasty smell food in the bottom and build a book stairway to the top.
I was thinking matching Burberry umbrella and high heeled boots.
You might look really good in high heeled boots. Much practice walking in them? Hmmm?
Alan, I like your passive traps.
Man, I have to stop reading blogs after I have a rum and coke into me ... I just spent an alarming few seconds trying to figure out high-heeled boots would help with mice ... LOL
Gordo=superfreak
I actually see a vase in the shape of a high heel - with the mousie steps build in ceramically - into which they can fall towards the nice bait...but never leave.
If you can build that, it is only a short step from that old boot mug I want.
You can get cognac in a high-heeled shoe, I can't imagine what the holdup is over a silly boot mug. I still have my big glass one from Ponderosa. :-D
Check the charter, chapter five verse one:
'we ignore bizarre special orders'
Man- I even forgot to show Gary the boot mug at the Kingston Brew Pub. Plus there is a venerable tradition of old boot mouse peaking round corner art. This is a natural.
I do a nice mouse, with cheese even. Makes a nice little cheese plate. This boot thing I gotta see, Scots sure are different, or maybe it is just Canadians?
We're not different, laddie! Everyone else is!
Post a Comment