Lovin' them connections...

So, when Didi called about buying some patio tables for a school mosaic project...



...little did I  know that I would soon be meeting a fiddle-playin', goat-milkin', urban farmer.

She loaded her new purchase into and on top of a farm vehicle disguised as a demure, suburbanite's station wagon. All that gave her away were the festooning wisps of barn straw. Didi deftly triple-tied the load down with cargo straps while we chatted about hand-made soaps and city chickens.

Here's a secret video captured at great risk, so you can know the truth behind the growing goat-farmers movement in Seattle. The theme, while it's hard to make out from behind the twang, seems to be something along the lines of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", as applied to "If You Give a City Dweller the Right to Raise Goats":

(You may be startled, as I was by all the racket when Rosie kicks the bucket, but this feature has been rated G and may safely be enjoyed by all but the modern and cynical. Postmoderns might like it, I don't know. I'm not that and I liked it.)



Please check back for uber-moisturizing, goat's milk soap at The Living Room in the near future.

Double dipping allowed here

We've been doing double duty, getting Kenmore Coffee & Tea up and running (and it IS as of today!). That means The Living Room has gotten a little disheveled. Does that happen at your house, too? Gnomes come in while you are busy doing other things, and just trash the place.

But now that our super baristas are settling into their routines in the little kiosk down at the other end of the parking lot, making amazing espresso drinks, tea, and chocolate, etc., it is time for me to spiff things up again in The Living Room.

Laurie did SUCH wonders in here just last week, with her wonderful way of seemingly just walking around the room, creating beauty in her wake. I remember the pleasure of witnessing that as if it were yesterday. Wait a minute, it was yesterday (practically). But you'd hardly know it now. This room really is living; consignments move in and out; people shop, visit, pray, clear a table and share lunch.... So, the entropy war is ongoing.

Do stop by Kenmore Coffee & Tea on your way through Kenmore: 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Of course, you can bring your KCT latte or tea into The Living Room! And I'm still making Keurig coffee and tea here, as well.

What's the use of a blog without pictures? (to paraphrase Alice just before she found herself in Wonderland) So here are some shots I snapped of our sorta-new displays of "smalls", as Wayne Stephens at Armadillo Consignment calls this sort of thing:



Enjoy :^)

To help with your weighty New Year decisions...

It's a quiet, sunny day. A bit on the cold side. A good day for New Year's Day walks, visits, and ponderings.

If you are inclined to assess and consider and weigh things out at the turn of the year, might this newly consigned scale be of use?



It's a vintage Detecto hanging scale. 20 lb capacity on a 10 lb dial. The round scale is 8.5" diameter; the roomy hanging scoop is roughly 16" long x 12" wide x 6" tall at the deep end. All metal with a cheery yellow finish.



I believe it came from a horse-raising family; maybe they used it to weigh out feed? If you are raising teenage boys, it could be put to similar use.