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Well that’s awesome
Except I am obsessed


Well that’s awesome
Well, yes and no. I think anyone who has their dream home ( or any other dream) in their sights would be the same. And think about the person who does, but isn't excited about it. Then what's the point? So I totally understand your excitement and I hope you find that dream house soon ( so you can start to relax a bit ).Except I am obsessedMadness
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Thank you!!! I love peaches so much, and really enjoy in season fruit! The butter and cinnamon sounds great I will try that!@FL_runner, okay well that food looks amazing but my goodness those are gorgeous roses!
I haven’t tried grilled peaches but we went peach picking recently and I did sauté them in a little butter with some cinnamon for breakfast. Amazing!
Reading, cooking unhealthy food (as a hobby, once or twice a week). Cooking yummy and relatively healthy food daily. Walking my dog 45-50 min every morning - the only kind of exercise I like to do these days.
Photo of unhealthy food attached. They were fried in oil and have meat and potato/onion filling inside. Street food in the USSR. The taste of childhood both my husband and I love.![]()
Your deck looks so clean and organized! I'm so jealous
I don't know where you live, but the view is beautiful!
We are in the FL keys - absolutely love it!
@Alex T , with the property market here at the moment, your best bet is probably through a good estate agent.
We’ve just contacted agents to value our house, and they all said the same, they have people actively waiting, and within an hour of them leaving, they rang to say they have buyers begging to come and view.
Our house didn’t even technically ‘go on the market’, it was done purely through the agents (we used 2, and got a really good deal on their commission), they showed people the video walk through we had done, and only after seeing it, could they bring people for an in person viewing. The viewings started on Thursday, and by Saturday, we had 2 firm offers, and 2 other viewers said they were going to put in an offer.
Can I live on your deck, please? I'll water the plants for you & everything!![]()
A gut kitchen remodel has me on jewellery ban island.
Reading, cooking unhealthy food (as a hobby, once or twice a week). Cooking yummy and relatively healthy food daily. Walking my dog 45-50 min every morning - the only kind of exercise I like to do these days.
Photo of unhealthy food attached. They were fried in oil and have meat and potato/onion filling inside. Street food in the USSR. The taste of childhood both my husband and I love.![]()
……PiroshkI by chance?
Vintage silver plate flatware. I currently own a total of 54 place settings in six patterns. That’s not counting the my everyday stuff, which is still at my old house, and my husband’s everyday pattern - another two patterns and at least 10-12 place settings.
I bought my everyday set at a consignment store, maybe 35 years ago. I loved the exquisite art deco design, the heft of the individual pieces, and the warmth of the silver. A few years later I found that whole sets, in very good shape, could be found on eBay - many for very little money. Apparently baby boomers found these sets - many of which had only been used for special occasions, if at all - and practically gave them away because they couldn’t conceive of anyone wanting flatware that couldn’t go in the dishwasher! I was like a kid in a candy store when I discovered the bargains out there and the wonderful array of vintage patterns. I quickly found nice sets for each of my brothers and their wives. I also found a lovely, unused 12 place setting set for my mother, which has since been used for many special family gatherings. That set is now in my collection, and I intend to hold on to it. The others I hope to pass on to my niece and nephews, but they’re being maddeningly slow in terms of settling down.
Last month I passed a very nice set (8 place settings) on to my step-daughter, which immediately caused me to panic that I might not have enough for everybody (LOL). Then, just a week or two later, I found a very nice quality set in a pattern I like at a thrift store - $25 for eight place settings in a wood storage chest! Couldn’t pass it up, even though I’ll have to hunt down a one or two serving pieces. (One, actually…I found and snagged a casserole spoon just today.)
Oh, and did I mention that my other “thing”right now is downsizing? Flatware does take up more room than jewelry, but fortunately it takes up way less space than some other hobbies!
Thats pretty interesting to know! my mom keeps trying to unload all this crazy flatware (none of it is my style, I pass on it) she had 5 sets, which I'm sure some came from my grandparents. One of my nieces took a set, my oldest brother took a set, but no one else is really interested. I'm still sitting on this sterling silver set from his mother's family. Does have the family initials on it. Only thing I even know about it is that it came from France. We never use them and the box that they live in is huge.
Vintage silver plate flatware. I currently own a total of 54 place settings in six patterns. That’s not counting the my everyday stuff, which is still at my old house, and my husband’s everyday pattern - another two patterns and at least 10-12 place settings.
I bought my everyday set at a consignment store, maybe 35 years ago. I loved the exquisite art deco design, the heft of the individual pieces, and the warmth of the silver. A few years later I found that whole sets, in very good shape, could be found on eBay - many for very little money. Apparently baby boomers found these sets - many of which had only been used for special occasions, if at all - and practically gave them away because they couldn’t conceive of anyone wanting flatware that couldn’t go in the dishwasher! I was like a kid in a candy store when I discovered the bargains out there and the wonderful array of vintage patterns. I quickly found nice sets for each of my brothers and their wives. I also found a lovely, unused 12 place setting set for my mother, which has since been used for many special family gatherings. That set is now in my collection, and I intend to hold on to it. The others I hope to pass on to my niece and nephews, but they’re being maddeningly slow in terms of settling down.
Last month I passed a very nice set (8 place settings) on to my step-daughter, which immediately caused me to panic that I might not have enough for everybody (LOL). Then, just a week or two later, I found a very nice quality set in a pattern I like at a thrift store - $25 for eight place settings in a wood storage chest! Couldn’t pass it up, even though I’ll have to hunt down a one or two serving pieces. (One, actually…I found and snagged a casserole spoon just today.)
Oh, and did I mention that my other “thing”right now is downsizing? Flatware does take up more room than jewelry, but fortunately it takes up way less space than some other hobbies!