How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2026....

[hearlady]

Garage sale leftovers are packed up and back in the basement. The living room and garage look empty after looking at sale items for almost a week. My legs are sore.

You're influencing me to have a garage sale after I get cleaned out and organized.

 

[hollydolly]

Last week I was throwing out stuff from one of my outhouses.

A big cardboard box with lampshades I've been meaning to chuck out I emptied, because a neighbour asked me for some of the lampshades. At the bottom of the box I found a set of grimy antimacassars, they were probably in the box as padding for something I bought on ebay.
I remembered my grannie having these sort of things on her armchairs and settees when I was a young sprout.
So when the lovely lady came for the lampshades I showed her the antimacassars and her eyes lit up.
She asked me if she could clean them up for me (apparently the lace fabric needs to be cleaned in some careful way) and I told her she could have them.

She called me over to her house earlier and proudly showed me the antimacassars on her 3 piece suite, they looked stunning.

I'm going back over ther shortly for a special dinner she's preparing. Yum yum, this is what I call a result.

I;m not surprised about the Antimaassars ...lace ones do need gentle treatment... but Antimacassars were used when I was a kid really to stop people's hair treatments from marking the furniture on the back of sofas/My father always wore brylcream for example.. and my aunties always had bouffants glued with ''laquer''...

In traditional Spanish and Italian houses where the owners are past 60.... Antimaassars are everywhere still...on everything...

..even today tho' people use them here .. but the name has changed, and instead they're called sofa back covers..or sofa arm covers et al...

 

[timoc]

I;m not surprised about the Antimaassars ...lace ones do need gentle treatment... but Antimacassars were used when I was a kid really to stop people's hair treatments from marking the furniture on the back of sofas/My father always wore brylcream for example.. and my aunties always had bouffants glued with ''laquer''...

In traditional Spanish and Italian houses where the owners are past 60.... Antimaassars are everywhere still...on everything...

..even today tho' people use them here .. but the name has changed, and instead they're called sofa back overs..or sofa arm covers et al...

Holly, my friend over the road told me that it took her a whole day to carefully hand wash the lace and dried them on her big table in her lounge with an assortment of towels.
Anyway, I applaud her, because she transformed what I at first thought were rags into things of beauty.
She told me that they are quite old and skillfully made.
I'm chuffed for her.

 

[hearlady]

Holly, my friend over the road told me that it took her a whole day to carefully hand wash the lace and dried them on her big table in her lounge with an assortment of towels.
Anyway, I applaud her, because she transformed what I at first thought were rags into things of beauty.
She told me that they are quite old and skillfully made.
I'm chuffed for her.

She must have loved that gift!

 

[hollydolly]

I called the garage about an hour ago, because I'd received no call from them. They said they'd just had the tyre delivered, and they had to put it on and then retest the car. They know the car only needed a tyre after it passed yesterday .. it had passed on evrything else.. but the law says they have to retest.. so they told me the car won't be ready for another couple of hours...

Highly frustrating for me, because it meant I had to cancel my physio today.. which I've waited 6 weeks for.

While I've been waiting I've been trying to connect my new Bluetooth wireless keyboard.. but I can't get it to connect, even after watching youtube vids..

 

[moviequeen1]

Morning all, on my early walk, it was cold 45, lightly raining as I strolled around the building once before breakfast. Its going to be cloudy, rain on/off day temps maybe near 50
I have no plans ,good day to some more shredding, ck out today's lunch/dinner menu,read today's NYT,after dinner tackle the crossword puzzle. Tonight at 8pm on PBS "Nature'Life on Earth' David Attenborough's Greatest Adventures', then I'll switch to watch part of Game 1 Sabres vs Canadiens on TNT
Everybody have a good day