1st day of summer

It's officially summer time!

hope yours is filled with whatever you love to do during summer;

cookouts, camping, rock collecting, flea markets, drive-in movies, watching fireflies, synchronize swimming,

etc. etc. 

enjoy and be safe!

 the rock display idea from

the cute blog lay baby lay.

goodbye summer, hello fall

i break for tomatoes

 on my biking route around town, i pass a business that has a little 

tomato plot in front of their shop.

free for the picking!

i stopped to pick a few while waiting for ours to ripen.

 a great way to enjoy them is with cottage cheese, 
and a little salt and pepper.

we are in wisconsin after all.......

august elkhorn

he's back!

a a ron rodgers came back to the 

elkhorn flea market.

needed a little break before the pre-season game 

this thursday.

he's not the only big cheese at the 

flea market.

the madison mayor was checking out the deals.

cute sign?

it was the perfect pink trimmed in violet.

just wasn't sure if the drawing of 

barbie was of barbie's evil twin,
baruska?

this can of glass wax would make me want to clean!

you can't tell by this pic but these are vintage child size chairs.

i have never seen the real deal, child size.

i showed this photo to a friend and she said

she remembered sitting in the eames chair on the right at her dentist when she was little.

i was thinking i need to shop for a new dentist............

fun NY travel plate

cute smaller shop counter, perfect green color.

hi again!

jadite and red.

no need to say more.

 green cross?

ready to go - soda shop set-up. 

don't forget these,

found in another booth.

 $6,000 dear anyone?

this was my big find.

it's an old aluminum halliburton case.

my dad worked at the company 

when we lived in california.

if you see any spy/espionage movies,

they ususally are carrying their spy gear in a case from halliburton. 

one of my all time favorite movies, 

rear window, with jimmy stewart

has a scene with one and i am sure it was made when

 my dad was there : )

my parents still have their set of haliburton luggage

 and still use it when traveling.

it's gotten a few dings 

since the traveling days as a youngster with my parents 

on route 66. 

good mornin' saturday

happy to see you.

red, white and lou

happy 4th to you!

soups on

i saw this poster in a magazine or on a blog, 

i can't remember exactly where.

but after i saw it, i was on a mission to find one.

it took a long time to find.

and when i found one, it took a long time before it arrived.

it's a long story.......

glad i found it though.

it's working out for the "gallery wall" above the kitchen cupboards.

sorry for the bad photo.

will retake when the store is stocked : )

elkhorn - flukes, coincidences, chances

went to the first elkhorn flea market of the season last sunday.

beautiful day and lots of strange coincidences, flukes, chances. 

first up - best parking spot ever! didn't get there until 9:30 

elkhorn opens at 7.

the line to the entrance was long and once you enter you wind around the fairgrounds and you never know where you will end up, hit the jackpot this time.

second - out of the 1,000's of people at the market what are the chance that you run into someone you know, i ran into my friend denise and her mother. 

and then very similar just walking down a aisle, jan from gracies cottage was walking by to her car and 

hollered hi as she passed by.

thirdly - i saw a couple walking by at the flea market that i had talked to in passing at the columbus antique mall the day before. 

columbus is about 60 miles north of elkhorn.

what are the chances........

below are a few treasures i saw, signs as usual seem to be a theme.

thought michael's and vicki's cart was cute 

with all the mini license plates.

you could even buy a soda fountain - in my dreams.

spotted this in another booth and this would have been perfect to go with the soda fountain of my dreams.

if money was no object it would have come home with me.

and we end with another sign.

what are the chances : )

the end

to a fun day.  

i took friday off to hit the new glarus city wide garage sales.  new glarus ("america's little switzerland" and home to the new glarus brewery - famous for it's spotted cow brew) is a cute little town about 30 miles south of madison.  many years ago my friend kathy/kate and i had an antique booth in town, started it right when gas price went sky high and folks stopped venturing out for sunday drives so timing wasn't the best.  anywho, thought i would take advantage a beautiful summer day and venture south and visit the old neighborhood. 

on the way out of town i hit a few garage sales in madison and found the coolest vintage screen.

packs up in this handy case

pull the cord up

and ta-dah - it snaps in place and you are good to go.

not sure how old it is, the company is still in business.   

knew i was going to have a fun day when this was one of the 1st things i saw on my garage sale adventure. 

not for sale though.........