This has been the summer of The Antique’s Road Show. The Antique’s have been going going gone all over the place.
This past week we were in the mid-west visiting my family. The inside of my mother’s house makes me crazy because our housekeeping styles are so different, but the outside more than makes up for it. She has something beautiful growing everywhere — vegetables, flowers and herbs. I took about 1,000 pictures. Seriously — 1,000 pictures. Nearly blew up my computer.
In other news, you may have noticed on my sidebar that I’m featuring Quinn Cumming’s new book Notes From the Underwire. I had the chance to read it when it was in final manuscript stage and I loved it. I don’t know any other way to say it. I’ll be writing more about it here this week or next (and doing a give away!) but I’ll tell you that it’s a collection of delightful, charming, funny short stories from her life as a former child star, daughter, mother, wife, homeowner, pet owner and you’ll love it. Unless you don’t like funny and crisply-written stories, then you won’t like it.
Okay, the laundry is mutating into new life forms, so I must attend to it.
Shirley Cohen says:
I was wondering what happened to the Antique Mommy… your stories light up my day!
Your photographs make me feel like a need to start reading the manual for my camera!
Have a great day!
July 15th, 2009 at 10:14 am
momof8 says:
Glad to hear you were on vacation! I was getting worried about you. Hope you had a wonderful, relaxing time.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Margie says:
Glad you’re back. Missed you and Sean.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:23 am
J says:
I bet mom enjoyed herself. Can’t wait to hear what she has to say. I thought of you all last week. Too bad Southern Illinois is far from Central Illinois.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
deb says:
Can you say new external HD anyone??
I greatly admire the fact that out of 1000 pics you were able to choose & post 1…wow. Just love it, BTW.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Megan (FriedOkra) says:
Darn it I *knew* that name sounded familiar last time you mentioned her! Gosh, I remember just adoring her/wanting to BE her in “The Goodbye Girl.” I will SO be checking out her book! Thanks for the tip. And I hope you enjoyed your mid-western visit!
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It’s a great book to keep bedside or in the car for those times when you have 20-30 minutes to read. But if you’re like me, you’ll sit down and read it clear through!
The only scene I remember from that movie is Richard Dreyfuss pulling nylons (or p*nties, don’t remember) off the shower rod one by one saying something like, “I! Don’t! Want! Nylons! On! The Rod!”
July 15th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Shelly W. says:
I’m so glad to see this post–I was going to email you today to make sure you were O.K. Really! I was!
Glad to see you’re just enjoying your summer.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Retrogirl says:
Quinn Cummings…
She was great in the Goodbye Girl!!!
Definitely a must for my summer reading list!!
July 15th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Karen says:
Gorgeous pic…thanks for sharing the view!
July 15th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
rrmama says:
Love the picture! Hope you had a great visit with your family!
July 15th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Brigitte says:
So glad your absence was due to VACATION and not one of the 100 other scenarios I was concocting!
July 16th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Shannon says:
Yay! Glad you’re back. Thanks for the coolpix review, too btw
July 16th, 2009 at 6:19 pm