A Weird and Wacky Week!

Hello Lovelies!

Have you ever had one of those days? Where everything seems upside down and just plain strange? Could you imagine a whole week like that?

I am so sorry to just now be rejoining the posts, but last week was the kind to knock your socks off. I sort of thought it might, since I've sort of booked myself for an eyebrow high list of daily projects. But then the SNOW sort of spun everything out of control, it seems!

First, I managed to catch a cold from going house to house for 5 hours each snow day, caring for animals, although it all wasn't bad, as you can see by THIS cute face, below:

You can see more snow adventures on my post HERE.

But, then, the weirdness really began.

On February 12th, I decided to treat myself to a few vintage enamel pots (which, I think, you can see at the bottom of the page HERE)and they are just the sort of farmy-kitcheny goodness that I love (you do know I have a fascination with all things farm, right?) So, because we were decidedly low on cooking utensils, I decided to hop on Ebay (which is dangerous for the antique addicted, like myself) and try to find some cheap, quality pots. They were really beautiful pots--I mean, a set of BLUE enamelware (very rare) and yellow ones, and a nice double boiler. Who could resist?

Anyhow--long story short, I won them! What’s so weird about this? Well, in the four years of near perfect buyer-seller transactions, the poor guy who sent them used FedEx. FedEx promptly delivered them, alright, but the delivery guy, as it turns out, LEFT THE PACKAGE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING. IN NEW YORK CITY. Yep, I found this out once I contacted the seller after having “not received” the package in 10 days. Needless to say, someone VERY LUCKY is enjoying using vintage cookware for free, and I am still working with the seller to figure out why FedEx pulled this “very interesting” move.

In other interesting mail events. The near constant snow over the next two weeks made it impossible for me to actually get to the post office to mail off these beauties that were won by various recipients of OWOH.

I kid you not, my local post office was blocked with snow until it was impassible. It did not help that the snow plows just pushed the snow from the roads right along sidewalks and in front of certain businesses…like the post office. So the entrance of the post office went from “cross at your own risk” proportions to “Get out your mountain climbing gear and see if you can get over this big heap o’ snow.”

So a couple of days later, I gathered all my little packages and headed for another, central post office, only to be told by one of their workers that it might take “longer than usual times” to deliver the mail because of the strange weather all over the country. So folks, if you are not getting your dollies, let me know!

And the final, strange thing of the past week is a very "interesting" email I got from a total stranger with some very strong words, who apparently thinks I cannot possibly be a real person. No, really. Apparently the word "hoax" came up several times, since I suppose real persons cannot make dolls, care for animals, dare to DO THIS, write and write some more, at the same time.

Hmmm...I don't know what to say to that, but last I checked, I pinched myself, and I'm definitely not a dream! :)

Speaking of "unreal".....I have some more swap plans, which I will share with you soooooon! So stay tuned!

Until then, I bid you "No More Snow," and a great day!