All Done For The Season

We had our last Antique Show for 2009 and we are happy to report that it ended on a profitable and happy note. We will start up again in March 2010. It has been a while since I posted, almost a month to the day and I hope to correct that. I really enjoy reading blogs and hope if I post more, I will pick up readers. December 1st already!! Yikes, I have not started to even decorate, I still have to close up the house for Winter ( pull down storm windows, heavier curtains, etc.) If you remember we live in a old house, not very energy efficient, so what ever we can do to improve that will help. I really don't decorate that much, all of our family lives in other states, most in NJ, but rarely get to come to PA for a visit. You see, I'm the baby of the family which means they are older then me and use that as a excuse, i.e. It's so far to PA, why don't you come to NJ. Hello, last time I checked the mileage was the same and not bad at all. So, you may ask why don't you go to NJ? Well, we really never get a invite, though we are always asking them. Enough about the family. Back to decorating, I think I will do a bit more then usual, but in a Primitive/Country way. But, for now the cats are crying for dinner and I have some work to do. I hope everyone has a good evening.

Geese & Cleaning Up

Canadian geese are now daily visitors, stopping at the pond to rest before continuing on their way. Some leave at night but some stay all night. And boy what a racket, honking, flapping their wings making sure everyone is aware that they are in the neighborhood. We started to clean up our Mud Porch yesterday and really got alot done. We need to do this from time to time. It is a landing spot for many, many things. Bird seed, cat liter, groceries and inventory for our antique business.This is where it all happens before you enter our Kitchen. Oh, I forgot its also where the firewood gets stacked as well. So you see it needs cleaning up from time to time. It really is a seasonal porch, spring and summer you will find seeds, garden tools, etc. And in the fall/winter you will find firewood and wait the snow blower when we need to use it. I better finish cleaning it up. I didn't realize how much goes there!! Have a great day, Happy Novemeber.

Down to Four

Good Morning, by now anyone who reads my blog knows that I have raised ducks since moving to PA 21 + years ago and also, have helped the wildlife that lands on our pond from time to time. Well, today we needed to say good bye to one of our little black ducks. She (one of three girls) has not been doing well for some time now. I stopped putting her out in the yard over two months now because she was having a hard time climbing the hill to get to the Duck Hilton. At one time when I was working fulltime I would have whisked her off to the vet, but times are tight and there are few vets in our area that really know what to do with a sick duck/goose, so I made her as comfortable as possible and made sure she had a handful of spinach every morning along with her corn and she was happy. I suspect that she had some type of tumor as she got very big and heavy (hence having the problem waddling up the hill) so yesterday she went into a little cage by herself and had her spinach, corn and water to herself and there she stayed until this morning when I found her. Her brothers and sisters are all a little jumpy as they usually are when one dies, but they will be fine and so will she. She has gone off to be with her other sisters and brothers who have passed on. I should add that she is between 10-12 years old, so for a duck she lived a good life. Hope everyone has a good day, take care.

All Set To Go!

Good Evening, Well Black Duck Antiques is all packed and ready to head out before the sun is up. As a matter of fact, I think we will be pulling out before the roosters crow!! We will be out at the Hunderton Fair Grounds, Ringoes, NJ on Sunday. We are under cover, but I think the weather will be nice. Wish us luck that folks will be doing a little buying and not just looking. This will be our fourth time here and we just have a hard time cracking that nut and making a little money,but because we do other shows that these promoters do, we feel that we got hang in there. Not to mention that really none of us are spending money on something that we don't need. Well, off to get a shower and then to bed, I will be back and let you all know how we did.

Where does time go?

I don't have the answer, all I know it has been a long time since I posted. I have been reading all of my favorite blogs, but I guess I didn't have anything to post. Ginnysyard is hanging in there, the heat did in alot of my annuals, but that's okay, they were getting tired looking. And in our part of the Lehigh Valley, our tomato plants were hit with a blight. Nasty looking tomatos!! We were looking forward to making sauce from them, but thats not going to happen. I started to clean up the area where they are planted last night. They said we have to throw away the plant, don't compost it. Now, in our antique show world, things are happening. We are off to Ringoes, NJ Sunday 9/21 for a one day show and then we leave the Black Duck Antiques van loaded and head off on Wed 9/23 to set-up at Kutztown, PA for the big three day show. On top of that we have to go shopping at a couple of sales this week. But, we do enjoy this and I don't think we would have it any other way. Okay, maybe if we had a shop in our home that would be the best, and if I could do antiques, gardening, etc. full-time and make money at it, boy I would be one happy lady. Maybe one day, it can't hurt to dream. Well, back to my real job, the one that is currently paying the bills, have a great day.

Hot Antique Show

Good Evening, We are back home in the a/c (the only room in the house that has it) from our Antique Show. As I'm sure it was in many places today, it was hot, but we did have a breeze just about all day and our booth was under a large shade tree. This was our first time doing this show and it turned out to be a very good show for us. We were next to some friends who are antique dealers and not too far down from us were more of our friends. I thought I would share these couple of pictures with you all, they were being sold by our friend Tina. She is calling them button bags, made out of feed sack material or calico and the bottom of the bag is filled with buttons. This is the way that she purchased them. I just thought that they were the cutest things and I'm hoping to get some made from vintage fabric that I have. They are about 4-5 inches high, but cute as a button!! Well we were up at 3:30 a.m. today and this is one very tired lady, talk to you real soon. Have a good evening.

Antique Show

Good Evening, I can't believe I have been such a bump on a log and did not post for such a while. I mentioned it to Les and he said, Well you should be promoting your Antique Show, DUH!!! So, here it is, Antiques in August, Sunday August 16th, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. North Hunderton High School, Rt.31 Annandale, NJ. Admission $5.00 and it benefits the Hunderton Helpline. 100 quality dealers, and we are one of them. Les & I use to shop this show when we lived in NJ, many moons ago. This is the 28th year for the show, so that has to say something. This is our first time setting up as dealers, if you can stop by, look for Black Duck Antiques, stop in and say Hi. I hope everyone has a great weekend and I will post next week and let you all know how the show went. There maybe some items going on to our e-store soon that we have been carrying too long at the shows, we will keep you posted when that happens.