Faith, Folklore, and Friends

Last Saturday, Hub and I were poking around in Jan's Antiques in Rogersville, Alabama, and Hub found this cloth calendar.  I am always buying old calendars to use in quilts.  I made both of my sons a quilt with calendars from the first twelve years of their lives, and I keep collecting them just in case I decide to make another one. I loved the rooster and the quote on this one, and red is always good in quilts.  This calendar was in such good condition that I thought it must be a reproduction.  Then, when Jan was ringing up our purchases, we saw this. Someone paid nine cents for this calendar fifty-six years ago.  I don't know when it was moved to the antique shop, but I'm thinking someone treasured it for lots of years. Washing the calendar to use in a quilt would destroy the price tag, and I don't want to do that now.  What should I do? Maybe I'll hang it on the wall and pretend to live in the past.

We never know when we leave the house what we might see before we get home.  Around here, it can be anything from a coyote to rusty water tanks to a mansion on a hill.  We just need to keep the camera handy for whatever is waiting around the curve or over the next hill.  Here are some examples of very odd fowl that we have spotted while driving down the road, minding our own business. This is an excellent weekend for grabbing your camera and seeing what you can find!