Sunday I went to see my Grandmother and we had a great time walking around her yard looking at her flowers. She has the prettiest tiger lillies. I happened to catch a visitor checking out the lillies too. Her butterflies are almost tame around her. She can reach out and touch their wings and they don't fly away.
My favorite of her flowers are these ornamental peppers. She has them in purple and white, but the purple are my favorite! I have some growing from some seeds she saved for me, but mine haven't bloomed yet. She is fretting about them some because she was sure she had planted some red ones too. Maybe she gave me the red seed. We shall see.
Not much time to post this afternoon as the tomatoes in the garden are calling my name!
Have a blessed evening.
Linda
I was a majorette when I was young, so I really love the majorette dolls. They are not too old, The red one is from the 1950's and the green one from the 1960's.
These little ladies are all alike except fot the color of the band around their middle. Not sure why they have a colored band around their middle! These dolls are from the 1920's/1930's. See their bobbed hair. 
I found this little doll at an old house that belonged to one of our friends. I was standing in the yard, kinda kicking my feet in the dirt and unearthed her! My friend didn't want it and told me to take her home. Wonder how long she had been buried? And why?
The little dolls are very tiny and are called Frozen Charlottes.
The little metal tray with the flowers has Wisconsin in the middle but I don't care. What a cute way to carry glasses of tea out to the pool without them sliding all around on my tray. There are individual little cup rings on it. I also got the metal colander for .50 and the little elves and snowpeople were in a bag for .50. My favorite finds were the books. The pictures in the Country Flowers of a Victorian Lady are so pretty, and there are some unique recipes in the June Roths Fast and Fancy Cookbook!
Speaking of recipes. I made Cha Cha Chicken Salad from the June 2007 Southern Living Magazine to take to my book club meeting. It was really beautiful and tasted very good, but needed something. I think the next time I make it I am going to increase the curry powder and add a little grated onion. I think that will give it the kick it needed.
This week for show and tell I have one of my thrift store finds. A couple of weeks ago at the Rescue Mission thrift shop, I found this old rocker for $3.00! When I took it home both Dear husband and son turned up their noses. "just you wait and see" I told them.
I made the pillow last week too. This was made from an old dish towel that my Grandmother gave me. I love the print on it and knew I had to use it somehow other than as a dishtowel.
I am going to do a double show and tell because you just have to see this tomato! I really need to do a commercial for miracle grow!!
This sunflower growing in the veggie garden is lazy. It refuses to stand up and greet the sun. Oh well, there are a few in every crowd.
This is the first year for this deep purple morning glory that is growing up one on my plant stakes. I love the color.
But this is my favorite. The water lilly in my pond opened this week. It only lasts a couple of days, but is so beautiful in the pond.
The flower gardens were in full bloom and I took so many notes while on the guided tour. Many varieties that I want to incorporate into my garden.
Thomas Jefferson was constantly trying different ways to run his household more efficiently and the 7 "eyes" on his kitchen "stove" is proof of one. Instead of cooking everything over the fireplace, he made 7 small fireboxes along the wall!
After our tour we ate at Michie Tavern. It is such a beautiful place, built in 1794. The food is southern home style and you are served by waitresses in period dress. 
We went up to the Smith Mtn. Lake Dam. This is the whole reason there is a Smith Mtn. lake. SML is a man-made lake. It was 20 years in the planning before they actually started filling the lake in 1964. There is 500 miles of shoreline. The dam supplies power to many counties. My husbands great-grandparents and my great-grandparents houses were bought my APCO in the 1960's and were burned to make way for the lake. My great aunt remembers when they started filling the lake and said they would stand and watch watermelons, roofs, outhouses, etc. float by. There are still trees standing upright in some parts of the lake. My Dad has an old "movie" (filmstrip) showing him water skiing around the trees in the water.
The first thing I spotted was this old silverplated tea pot. I loved it's shape and for $3.00 it was a steal!. Then on another table I spotted the Peter Rabbit bowl made by Wedgewood, its was .10! The small bowl said Sears Roebuck on the back and it was .10 also. I also bought 8 small craft books that were .10 each and two small cookbooks also .10. I really like the one called "Party Ideas in Action" There is no copyright date in the booklet and on the back cover it says Southern States Cooperative. There is lots of fun crafts and food in there.
And of course there are your chenille bedspreads. I actually have a chenille bedspread on my bed now!
But my favorite thing that you could order from Sears are pigs! Yes! I said Pigs! Not just any pigs, but disease free pigs, starting at just $77.95!
Thanks for looking everyone! I'm on vacation starting today at 4:45 and will be off work until Monday, July 16th! We aren't going to journey too far from home because we don't want to leave my MIL alone too long. We may go to Monticello, Thomas Jeffersons home, for a day. We haven't been there in years and it is so beautiful.