Category Archives: Delaware

Aug10

A desk with a view

Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 by Dianne

This was all yesterday:

Since Bri and I were flying solo (Sean made a day trip to a Delaware Beach), we got moving on my craft area. I’m not saying everything is honky dorie yet, but things are in place. It has a great view of the overgrown butterfly bush and the butterflies that have been visiting there. Lots of dust and sorting. Uggha. So my ‘antique’ Shaker desk is now under my dining room window. It’s painted a funky blue-will have to do something with the paint. It’s ‘sister’ desk was stripped somewhat by me and use to hold the microwave in the kitchen. We made the switcher-roo between the blue and the wood (blue was in the guest room, the wood in the basement). We had to put our teak tea cart in the basement for now-hated to, no room up here. I may offer it to a family member, but it’s not in the best of shape. May end up getting rid of it in the long run. It served it’s purpose. Just taking all the crap stuff off the dining room table and moving it to the desk a big difference. That’s my plan. I really need a super cute storage unit with drawers. The plastic boxes look ugly. When I get it a bit more tidied up, I’ll post a photo.

Sean got home around 7-it was really crowded down in Delaware. They tried Rehoboth first, no parking whatsoever-ended up down the road in Dewey. I was glad to have found a coupon for buy one, get one free at a popular pizza place down there for $10. Mentally I’m taking the $10 of the price of the $35 coupon book. I usually get my money’s worth out of it. : ) Sean has sunburn only on one upper arm. It was probably the way he was sitting on the beach. We go to Atlantic City in a week. Just saw where a guy fell off the escalator where we will be staying (he was sitting on the arm and got killed-geez).

I hope you got to see the opening ceremony of the Olympics-what a techno fabulous show! My mom called me to see if I had it on as she was so impressed by it all. Terrible about the Americans hurt (killed) there.

Sorry to hear about the passing of Bernie Mac-just his facial expressions made you laugh.

Better go to bed soon as we need to go to church tomorrow. I hope my sinuses will forgive me for all the dust I inhaled today.

One of my latest creations-she’s eating glitter-opps:

Don’t the jewels look real-they’re stickers! The lady is from a Victorian inspired catalog. The painting they offer of her is called a ‘yard long’ as she’s 36″ long. I wanted to try some new rubber stamps too.

Jul21

Shopping frenzy

Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 by Dianne

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My mom alerted us that a local(?) store (Value City) had some awesome sales going on, so Sean and I went down to the one in Delaware to check them out. She was right! I came home with three new throw rugs -two for the kitchen and one for the bathroom; New York & Co tops and a silk skirt, two pairs of sandals that are leather-about $10 each, a quilt for the bed, weed blocking fabric, a cute tote, a Mudd ‘compact’ purse (little, but holds a lot) 2 jars of high end salsa for Bri and a pretty necklace with a real Amethyst in it for around $100! Not bad. Sean got a few nice make shirts and a pair of dress slacks.

We ate in a Taco Bell as he said he is getting tired of sandwiches. We got their smoothie like drinks and I took one sip and had a ‘reaction’ (I think) from the tooth missing part of the filling. I am going today at 3 to get it fixed. The top layer of a gumline filling came off Friday night. I’m not in pain, but it’s ugly looking and there is space now between my gum and tooth. The dentist doing it is so nice and gentle. Thank goodness. Guess I’ll wear a new top and sandals! : )

Does anyone in blogland ever get a frequent sore neck on one side or the other? My left side has been bothering me off and on for a while. If I wear my hair up, it hurts more. When I use my infrared on it, I feel it up to my ear. I think it has to do with my support garment or carrying too heavy of a purse. Isn’t it always something? I did buy a new pillow, so it may be what I think it’s from. It’s not all the time and I can turn my neck fine.

Update-Man oh man, that was a nasty dentist visit! He had to take off some of my gum before he could put the filling in as he said it had ‘grown’ into my tooth area. Of course that meant bleeding-a lot. And I had to get two shots of Novocaine causing half my tongue to go numb. Driving a hot car home was no picnic. My gum is sore of course.

The haul (you can double click to make this photo much bigger):

I really like the tote (brown tones). I wore the black sandals yesterday along with the polka dotted top. The pretty silk skirt is black with green accents and a dark green tie at the waist.

May3

Photo Hunt-Time

Posted on Saturday, May 3, 2008 by Dianne

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White star wine bottles, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Time does march on……
These bottles were found on the White Star shipwreck the S.S. Republic. They still sealed and contained wine and were being tested to see if they were still drinkable.

The RMS Republic was the pride of the White Star Steamship Company prior to the
building of the R.M.S. Titanic in 1912. The ship foundered at sea 50 miles south of
Nantucket Island on January 24, 1909.

If you like exhibits, especially FREE ones, stop by the Shipwreck Museum in Fenwick Island, Delaware. They change their exhibits all the time.

Sep6

Lighthouse in the bay

Posted on Thursday, September 6, 2007 by Dianne

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Ok, I did want to tell you about this:



	Bid information: Current Bid: $200,000.00 Minimum Bid Increment: $5,000.00 Minimum Bid: $10,000.00 Opening Date: 07/16/2007 09:00:00 Eastern Daylight Savings Time Closing Date: 09/04/2007 14:00:00 Eastern Daylight Savings Time



	Property Description: The lighthouse is a 3 story cast iron tower topped by a lantern and a upper gallery deck. The tower rests on a black trumpet shaped iron caisson lined with concrete. The lighthouse includes a keepers quarters, fuel storage area and a lantern room. The lighthouse was constructed in 1876. Located in Delaware Bay approximately 3 miles offshore of Bowers Beach, Delaware. Bowers Beach is approximately 10 miles southeast of Dover, Delaware.

There was a news story on NBC 10 by Tim Furlong, wonder if it may help get this place sold? No electricity and batteries power the functioning light and fog horn. One ladder to climb up. The ‘bathroom’ toilet is a hole that when you look into it, you see the bay! Interesting purchase, don’t you think?

Jul16

More travelin’

Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 by Dianne

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We decided to help Sean move into his dorm next month. We originally were going to take a run up there at the end of this month and then he was going to fly solo in August. I just couldn’t see him doing all that, though we’ll have two cars heading there instead of one. When I moved in the dorm way back when, I had my mom and grandmom to help me. So he went to book a hotel room on campus and couldn’t get one. We have to drive 12 more miles and stay in a Holiday Inn in a small town up there. I’m glad we got that room!

And next month we are headed back to Fenwick Island, DE for a few days at this quiet beach community. I may bring along my mom if she is able to travel. She’s gotten herself in a BIG stew and I sure hope she can get out of it with the help of her kids and the friend that lives with her. I still think she needs to think about selling her house and moving into an assisted living place. They seem to be sprouting up all over the place. There are 4 nice ones I can think of within an hour of mom’s house. Her car is also on the blink. She was driving it with a bum air conditoner compressor and my brother the mechanic (who was away all last week) said it could have caught fire! She is also getting a new frig, and I plan to go on Wednesday to see what I can move out of the way so the delivery guy has room to breeze in and out of there quickly

I actually picked up the Nicholas Sparks book I put down months ago. I think it’s a bit wordy, but now that there is a new conflict, think I’ll finish it up. So many books, so little eye power. My brain is foggy and my eyes hurt today. Brian cut the grass over the weekend and all those catkin flowers from the chestnut trees are breaking down and I know they are getting to Bri and my sinuses.

I went outside to check out the tomatoes and pulled some weeds. I gave that up quickly as the humidity was making me sweat bullets. My coleus experiment is still going on. I have now planted 4 baby coleus in my one shade garden. I’m curious to see how well they do. To me they are plants that like pots, like geraniums.

Rory, from the Next Food Network Star show has me on her mailing list and I got an email to ask me to vote for her. I checked out how many people she sent it too-there must be 100s-I sure hope I don’t start getting lots of undesirable mail. Speaking of ‘that’ show-I can’t believe what happened last night. It’s Jag and Rory as the final two. Then they find out that Jag lied about being a culinary school graduate and serving in Afghanistan. He withdraws and now it’s Amy and Rory! I read where Rory is being compared to Rachael Ray- I can see that. Amy’s more like the Barefoot Contessa. I think both stand a fair chance of winning. I didn’t even know Susie the judge was expecting (she had a big belly last night!)

1st veggies of the garden-a Roma tomato and a green pepper though Bri said the pepper was on the plant when he bought it (cheater!)

May1

Down a country road…or two

Posted on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 by Dianne

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I ventured out to the bank and post office and decided to go to my favorite nursery and do some more flower shopping. I went straight on a road that I thought would lead me to the correct road down in Delaware. Boy was I wrong! I couldn’t believe I was in like 3-5 miles of my house as I couldn’t get my bearing and saw nothing familiar. When I finally found a road that said ‘Old Kennett Pike’ I turned and then the sign said ‘to PA’. Geez, that was a 30 minute ride I won’t forget! I did go to the nursery down the regular back roads I know. I was happy I went as I bought a profusion of color in the form of petunias, dianthus, snapdragons, impatiens and a few more. So I’m all ready to start planting. The place didn’t have my red mulch, so I have to go back for that.

By the way, when I got home I looked at Google maps and some of the roads I saw I actually could get to the nursery-I think I went the wrong way on Old Kennett Pike. I do appreciate where I live even more-the landscape is gorgeous.

Finally, some snapshots:

I transplanted a bleeding heart plant that was hidden between bushes last year. What a treat to see the plant (separated into three new ones) blooming so lovely.

My first dear iris of the year called ‘Stitch Witch’ (don’t say ‘so appropriate’-lol). I can’t wait to see all the different colors blend together.

Apr1

Feeling cultured

Posted on Sunday, April 1, 2007 by Dianne

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Woo-hoo! I’m the blog of the minute on wordpress as I type this. : ) **bows** Hey is that April Fool’s maybe?

SO, last night the three of us headed to Wilmington, DE to hear The Delaware Symphony Orchestra at the Grand Opera house. The ride there is very scenic, and I don’t know why we don’t go to Wilmington more often. All the years we lived here and we never took Sean to the Brandywine Zoo! They say three is the charm (how many times Bri and I have been to the GOH) and we didn’t get lost, we actually got there 40 minutes early. A requirement for Sean’s History of Western Music course was for him to hear a professional concert of classical music. We were thinking of Philly, and then the instructor mentioned the DSO. I also have an Entertainment coupon book and we have one for the DSO and got $13 knocked off of one of the tickets-Sean was only $10.

I can’t really remember hearing a symphony orchestra. I have heard orchestras with stage plays though. We sat in the balcony and it was awesome up there. Many of the other patrons were elderly folks. A few kids were mixed in.

The guest pianist was a man named Christopher O’Riley. He was wonderful. First he played a awarding winning composer’s ode to Liberace. After that he played Strauss which was what Sean came to hear. He reminded me of a shorter and brown haired Conan O’ Brien.

I would recommend anyone going to hear a concert like this. It’s interesting to watch the musicians play and to distinguish the different sounds of the instruments.

We amazingly didn’t get lost going home. It’s always good to have directions printed out, but we just had to back track.