Plant Hangers Plus

A few years ago, Greg made a plant hanger for his house with his sons' initials on it.  He liked it so much, he made three for me - one for each of my sons - with the initials of each of their children.  (I think he also made one for each of his brothers with their children's initials.)  The plant hangers are attached to the left sides of the white posts that hold up the roof on my porch.

This is the one for Greg's family that shows better how they looked on the post:

Two year Facebook Memory

According to Facebook (and Facebook is THE authority on these things),  Greg gave me this 1949 Aladdin oil/kerosene lamp two years ago for my birthday.  He found it at a garage sale for $2.00.  I fell in love with it the minute I saw it.

Greg knew me really well - he knew what I liked - and he knew that I loved things with a story even more than new... or unused things.  We had that in common.  All you had to do was take a look in my basement and you would see that my tastes were varied and more than plentiful (That's 'polite' for basement-full-of-junk). 

Meet BIlly

One afternoon Greg came into the house, grinning, with a rusty, dirty, metal squirrel that you could attach to a post.

"Nice, Greg," I said laughing.  "Where did you find that treasure?"

"Across the street - out of K's trash," he said, looking down at the squirrel.  He was obviously delighted with himself over this "find".

Antique Tricycle

Something lighter today...

Greg came to the house one day with a replica of an antique tricycle made out of steel.  I did my usual ooooooo's and ahhhhhhhh's that always seemed to accompany any new treasure from Greg. He knew me so well and we loved the same things.