-- Look what I found in my garage! Tucked back on a 2x4 near the door, there were three bicycle licenses: '45-'46, '46-'47, and '47-'48. This was the only metal one; the other two are made from heavy card, and I think removing them would mean damaging them (and they sort of 'belong' to the garage at this point!). The second half of my house was added in 1952, so my best guess is that these must have belonged to the father in the family who lived here the longest. They raised three boys (in my little house!), but I think they would have been too young for bikes (or not yet born) in the mid-forties.
--Although, having said that, the mother lived here until she was in her nineties, and that would have been five or ten years ago. So maybe the kids were old enough. I think my mind just boggles at the thought of raising three sons in 500 square feet (which is probably a little more than the pre-1952 footprint of the house).
-- Gardening continues. On and on and on. My friend Alex is coming over tomorrow to help out, and I might have to cheekily ask her to do the heavy lifting. I'm completely fine, except for my wrists -- bizarre! But it's totally worth it, because the yard is already looking really nice, and it's only going to get better.
-- Beany is having a rather high-energy morning. She just ran up a wall and used it to ricochet her in the opposite direction. For real.
-- I was SO looking forward to the Bones season finale, and it really disappointed. Without purposefully spoiling anybody, I'll just say that it would have been a great 'fun' episode halfway through the season, but the penultimate episode had been so great, and this did not continue on from that. Those crazy kids. But Elvis Costello on 30 Rock? He really is the Coolest Guy Ever.
-- For those of you who clicked over to that Tiny House Blog and enjoyed it, check out Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. There aren't even words to describe how amazing they are, except: wood paneling! The shelves! Teeny porches! I am so, so smitten.
I feel you on the Bones finale. I'm wondering if that episode was more of fun episode for the cast rather than the audience? How else would Sweets get to show off his singing voice? It was also nice to see Zach again since the whole assistant Gormogon thing really peeved me! I loved Zach!
Honestly, I wasn't expecting much from the finale because I just knew they couldn't finally bring Temperance and Booth together. It's the show's fuel. If that happens, well, then the show is over.
That said, I really love those Tumbleweed homes!
I was driving through an isolated part of Hawaii a couple months ago, and passed an honest-to-gosh Tumbleweed house in a little clearing. It had wheels and a trailer hitch � now that's a camper!
I only wish I had found my way here (thanks, Alicia) before you sold all the zines, as I garden just a bit and live with many thousands of anthropomorphic *plants*. (The cat situation: just one, and he's recalcitrant.)
I am so jealous!
I wish I had a neat old house where I could find awesome things like that!