~ A Date Which Will Live In Infamy~

Let's us never forget December 7, 1941....

May I never again see this pain in my Dawna's eyes....

As she had to say Good Bye to her son Jacob and his family....

Jacob,

We as a family love you and are so proud of you," THANK YOU "for the sacrifice's you are making for our Freedom will be praying each and every day for your safe return.....As you leave on December 17, to Afghanistan...Grandma is so proud of you...I love you Baby boy...and I salute you!!

Love, Granny girl

Times Remembered: May 26, 1924 - July 13, 2005

To my Daddy who served in the Second World War and fought on the beaches of Normandy
and lived to tell about it...

And to my Mama who worked in a parachute factory during the war while she had me and my older brother at home...
My Mama told me that each day at work if the Western Union boy came into the plant that the whole plant would get silence and that each and every woman working their would just pray that young Western Union boy was not walking toward them....And the day that young boy did walk up to my Mama she just fainted...You see she had a telegram from the war Department saying my Daddy had been wounded in action...It did not say where, how or why....Just WOUNDED !!!

I can not imagine the pain she must have felted....I was a young child during the war...but I so remember my Mama and my Aunt Millie having a Victory Garden and sharing it with the rest of the neighbors...I can remember us having a 1940 Ford Coupe but couldn't drive it as my mama had donated the tires to the war effort...I can remember my Aunt Millie and my Mama standing on kitchen chairs and putting tanning lotion on each others legs and then drawing lines down the back of each leg to make it look like they had on silk hosiery ha ha!! Because during the War all the silk was needed to make Parachutes and the only way you could get silk hosiery was on the Black market...
I can remember having rations stamps that were like Gold to my mama...Oh my brother and I thought we were the riches kids in the neighborhood when we had a simple thing like sugar....

These are just some of my thoughts today on December 7,2010

Did I ever tell you I HATE WAR!!! I just wished in my lifetime that I didn't have to have memories like these...Now to see my Grandson go off to WAR will it ever stop...

I sometimes wonder what GOD must be thinking when he looks down at what he created this beautiful World and all this War on it that man created....

I know I have not been around the world of blogging much lately....But will tell you my heart has been so heavy...And some days it's just hard for me to be " Happy To Be"

Until next time from my mountain to yours,

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~ Christmas from the past~

This is my kitchen from 2008 so it really is a Christmas past...I love to put out gingerbread men in my olden kitchen each year and also try and add at least one new piece to my collection... Now this is the top of my Old wood burning stove...the long glass container is from a bakery and held Fresh baked cookies at one time...behind it is an old scale and I have one of my Blue and White Pitcher and a Butter churn sitting on it...you can also see another Blue and Gray Pitcher in the window...and of course the snow man sitting in a spatter ware bowl.. Now this is the front of the stove...I bought this right out of a collector home about 25 years ago and I love the fact that the oven doors are on the side and it opens from either side..click on any picture and get a closer look at it...this stove is ca. 1900 all the front is porcelain and its triangle shape and I have never seen another like this shape...

Now this is just another space I created...I had the Handy Man go between the studs and add more cabinet space for me to put my Old general store Candy Containers and my TV In ...hey I got to have a TV in the kitchen and didn't want to give up counter space...next to this is a Camel Cigarettes display case from ca. 1940 that I use to put more spatter ware and yellow ware bowls in..on the floor in front are more Butter churns..and that thing with magazines is a Grain scoop and it sits on a Shaker Grain box...

Now this is the back of the Bean Counter that came from a General Store ca. 1880 it has 18 drawers in it...I use it as an Island in my Kitchen...I had the maple cutting board made for the top...I do use this every day...

Now this is the Front of the Bean Counter...all the glass fronts are only maybe 2 inches in depth and this is what you would see at the store and say give me a pound of Beans etc..and all the beans etc would be in the drawer's that I already show you...So this has 18 glass fronts to go with the 18 drawers....I already show you the De Laval Cream parts cabinet I have at one end of the Bean counter and these are some of my Old Picnic Baskets at this end...I keep Potatoes,Onions, and Paper Plates in them...Great storage for me!!!

Now this is my HELLOOOO !!! that you !!! phone that I have hanging at the end of my top cabinets...see I even added some Holly Greens to it and of course a Gingerbread Man... The little book hanging on the phone is an instruction book on how to use a phone....bet this was before Cell phones ?

This is a National Candy Store cash Register and a Hamilton Beach Milk shaker maker that still works... the white thing you see hanging there are paper towels that hang from an Old set of Ice Tongs from my pot rack... Now the Granite on the top of the Bean counter I got when someone ordered it and then didn't want it...so its 8 ft long and I got it for $150.00 and really needed to put something on the top of counter...as people would sit wet drinks down on it and its all Tiger Oak..

Now this is just a Meat slicer from ca. 1880 and I use it to just sit things in...great display piece..

This is the other end of the Bean counter with my Chas Parker Coffee Grinder on it and a Blue and White Salt box that I keep my napkins in...and if you look real close you'll see I have a Gingerbread boy trapped in that jar...little tree of course from where else but Dollar Tree...

This is the counter next to my every day stove...I had this mini Bean Bin made to hold all my Chocolate chips and stuff I use to make candy with...I love this because I can move it to any counter top I want for a change and trust me its been all over my counters...Also another Bubble Gum Machine sitting in the corner...Now the Glass containers here are Planter Peanut Containers from a general store... I have nine of these from differ years..I don't use canisters in my kitchen but old glass containers instead..that way I can display them plus put them to use... for added storage...

Just another shot of the counter...my oldest Planter Peanuts container is the 3 one in picture..it still has all the original decals and paint on it...the one next to it is shaped like a Giant Peanut..and the first glass container has a tin lid its just from a soda fountain that sold Candy...I know you can buy new ones like these now days...but is is an old one...There are so many re-pops out there that when you collect you have to be careful you are getting the real thing...

I know my Country Kitchen is not for everyone...but hey !! I am a antique collector and I put things out that make me Happy To Be...So Please girls don't send the "Clutter Cops" after me lol!!!

My way of thinking is "I love it..I paid for it...and I'll clean it .... Hope all of you enjoyed another look into my Country Christmas Kitchen....

I'm joining Marty this week At " A Stroll Thru Life" Thanks Marty, hope you don't kick me out for showing olden pictures...

Until Next time from my mountain to yours,

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

Don't you love looking at old Christmas pictures and getting ideas on how to decorate this year...I know I sure do...I hope to be able to show you how I did my gingerbread kitchen this year...Right now I have a ton of boxes out all over the kitchen ha ha!! I love it when I unpack the things that I have forgot I even bought ha ha!!