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Greetings!
New In The Store
This week's short list: a pile of great iron railings in
various sizes, a blue folding child's desk, a small
wooden cachepot/planter box, a pair of Italian, floral
candle sconces, a pair of nice cast iron newel posts,
cast iron vent panels from a church in Chicago, a blue
metal fish tank base and lid, a neat little wooden and
metal bistro set, an arts and crafts cast stone and tile
birdbath, a pair of tall, oak pipe organ screens, a pair of
silverplated single arm wall sconces, a red and gold
wrought iron coal scuttle with shovel and a pile of nice
hanging light fixtures.
As usual, much more has come in than I can list here.
Check out the website or stop in and see us for the
whole batch.
Link to Kimball & Bean Web Catalog
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Movie Night - Saturday August 23 |
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Success!! We ran an equipment dress rehearsal last
week and got rave reviews from our audience.
Unfortunately, we later found out that most of them
were half-in-the-bag before we ran the film. Just to be
safe, Nancy and I re-ran the film the next night and it
worked beautifully again.
...Leave the kids with the sitter and bring everything
you think you'll need for an evening of movie viewing
fun - a little wine, a picnic dinner and your most
comfortable picnic blanket (chair sitters will be sent to
the back row). Come out anytime after 6:30 - The film
will start as soon as we think it's dark enough (probably
around 8:00.)
You only have a few more days to cast your vote for
our first Saturday movie! We are going to tally up all of
the votes on Tuesday to make sure we can get the film
in time.
We've had a huge response with lots of great
suggestions. The current front runners include the 1940
classic "The Philadelphia Story" with Katherine Hepburn,
Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, 1969's "Butch Cassidy
and The Sundance Kid" and "Saving Grace" a funny,
kooky independent English film from 2000.
Link to Netflix.com For Movie Ideas »
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Sunday Farm Stand |
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Sue is going to have a fabulous load of heirloom
tomatos this week - big, small, red, green, purple,
yellow, sweet, tart - you wont believe it! She'll also
have onions, cucumbers, kohlrabi, roly-poly zucchini
and amazing little fingerling potatoes.
Paul will be back this week with that great flaxseed
flatbread, a tasty array of focaccia (my favorite is
the walnut, goat cheese and rosemary), variously
berried breakfast rolls, French and Italian loaves and
loads of other sweet and savory treats.
Bruce will be back with more of his prize-winning Lodi
baking apples. Nancy made the best apple pie I ever
tasted last week using these apples. Addy I and had to
wrestle for the last piece after eating pie for breakfast,
lunch and dinner two days in a row.
Be sure to stop by this Sunday starting at 12
noon.
Link to Nancy's Apple Pie Recipe »
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The Mosquito Coast |
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The mosquitoes must be really bad at your house! I've
been swamped with requests for information on how we
keep the little buggers at bay around here. Just
spraying to Kill adult mosquitoes is only a temporary
solution. If you want to get at the root of the problem,
you need to break their reproductive cycle. We use a
three part process - part of which we do ourselves the
rest we contract out to Clarke Environmental Mosquito
Control.
Part One: I am very careful to eliminate all of the
standing water that I can. The water that I can't get
rid of (fountains, ponds, etc...) I treat with a naturally
occurring bacillus that keeps mosquito larvae from
reaching adulthood, but does not harm fish or other
beneficial insects. These kinds of products can also be
bought in most hardware stores either in granular form
or little floating rings.
Part Two: Clarke Environmental sends a crew every
other week to apply a larvicide to the grass and other
low lying vegetation where larvae are found. This
larvicide is a naturally occurring bacillus that keeps
the immature mosquitoes from reaching adulthood by
paralyzing the digestive tract.
Part Three: Clarke Environmental also sprays an
adulticide into the bushes and trees to kill the adults.
This product actually causes their legs to drop off and
inhibits their ability to feed properly or mate. This
treatment is very specific to mosquitoes and we have
noticed no reduction in our huge population of
beneficials (bees, butterflies, etc...) Good Luck!
Link to Clark Environmental Mosquito Control »
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