gift from the Carys

 We had a wonderful visit with Hal Craddock our architect this past week. He said that the place has a warm, comfortable, inviting feel. He is sending a professional photographer to take pictures!

     Another thing that we did this week was to find a spot for the beautiful cutting board that Sue and H Cary gave us. It is made of bamboo, and is far too pretty actually to use to chop things. So we were trying to find a good place for it in the kitchen. I wanted to place it on a cabinet. It would fit perfectly inside the 4 raised sides. But Brad would have none of that --- no nails in the cabinets!

So we found a good alternate location for it, as you can see below. It is shaped like a wine bottle! and it pulls out the lighter brown colors in the stone chimney. Thank you , Sue and H!

There are a number of other things in the house that have been gifts in the past from Sue. Here are photos of a couple of them: First, a cute mobile that I decided to hang from a long-resident nail on the end of the mantelpiece.

Next a wonderful hand-painted box. The dots on the box mimic the dots on the Peace plaque, which came from another good friend, Linda Milam. All very cool.