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Thursday, July 31, 2008

antique jars

Saltjars

My new "favorite thing" in the kitchen.  Antique jelly jars with tin lids.  David's aunt Alice Ann gave me a whole box of them.  She inherited them from her mother, and had them lying around in her basement for years and years.  They were old fashioned jelly jars, the kind her mother used to seal with paraffin when she made homemade jams.  She said she was quite happy to be rid of them: I think she's just being generous.  Of course I was being greedy, if you've been around here long enough you know my obsessions with glass jars.

They are on my counter now, repurposed as salt containers.  Quite handy for the different salts we use frequently.  From left to right, fleur de sel from Brittany, kosher salt, Australian red salt, Mexican sea salt from the sea of Cortez (found for 5 pesos a bag at a market in Todos Santos.)  I still have a whole box load, my mind is racing, so many possibilities, so many things I could do with these little darlings.  Stay tuned for more!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

no sale on Sundays

yum yum

Straight pins

straight pins amish

Look closely, you'll notice she doesn't have any buttons on her blouse, just straight pins in their place.  I hear the men use straight pins even on their trousers.  Ouch.

God is always looking

god's looking

I want me some honey

honey

Monday, July 28, 2008

Amish farm stand

farm stand

Potato chips fried in lard, by the box

the best potato chips

a sister city of Condom, France?

should be sister city of Condom, France

this certainly ain't Paris anymore

Sunday, July 27, 2008

self portrait

self portrait in Pennsylvania Dutch country

 

...with leafs.

do you know what kind they were?

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