Flowers and Japanese Fishing Floats

Greetings my friends!  How is your week going?  We're just ambling by the days, doing this and that.  Hanging in there.  I used my big Lumix camera to zoom in on this beautiful orange Azalea.  Isn't it something?

I'd always wanted one of these so Kristi planted these for us.

The big pink Rhodies.

The Goldfinches have been flocking to our feeders!  How many do you count?  I got 39!

I have a big lantern that is fun to put different things in and I thought.. hmm.. it would be fun to put some of my collection of antique glass Japanese fishing floats in there.  These are just the smaller ones.  I really need to show you my BIG ones.  Someday.  The ones with nets are how they looked before someone cut off the net or else it rotted off.  They used these to attach to the fishing nets to float them.

It's fun to see through them.  

History of the glass float can be found HERE.

Kristi inherited several glass floats from her grandfather who acquired them while he was stationed in Guam in the service and also he found several on the Oregon Coast.  She gave them to me to add to my collection.  This is one of the medium sized one still in its original netting.  They recycled brown glass, probably from beer bottles.

Dayle brought in roses that have bloomed.. you should smell these Double Delight roses!

Roses already, isn't that something?

:-)

I found a recipe for a copycat for Starbucks pumpkin bread and got out all the ingredients and Dayle stirred it together and baked it.  It turned out great!

Chef Dayle also made a chicken tenderloin alfredo pasta for dinner with peas and grated some cheddar cheese on top.  Yum!

The night of the full moon I went out and decided to quickly snap an image before that band of clouds covered it.

And then zooming in for the money shot.  :-)

And lastly, I was the lucky winner in my blog friend KathyB's contest for a gift certificate at her LYS (local yarn store).  I worked via text with the owner to decide on which yarn I'd get and came up with this wonderful Queensland Collection TIDE yarn which is: 

40% Cotton, 30% Viscose, 15% Alpaca, 10% Polyamide, 5% wool.

I'm going to make a 2nd Sunday Shawl, with that luscious dark purple as the base and the lacy edging will be multi-colored.  More on that in upcoming posts.  Thank you, KathyB!!  Her blog is HERE.

I hope you're staying safe and doing well.  Thanks for the visit.
((hugs)), Teresa :-)