Nancy's A Bad Girl

 What??  It's raining??  Here I am sitting outside in the cool morning air when I felt drops on my head.  It's raining, though not a lot.  It seems the worst of it hit in the foothills above us, knocking out power everywhere.  Though it's supposed to heat up right nicely today, it should cool down to the 80's for the next week.  NICE!!

You already know I'm that type A personality that can't sit still.  I stared at the dining room table for about an hour before deciding I could get it moved just a tad.  Interestingly enough, none of the rooms in this house are as big as the rooms in the Arizona house.  I measured for my longarm and was short a couple of feet.  

See that Chinese cabinet?  It's an antique found in a little shop in Monterey California.  It was the perfect storage piece for my Mom's china.  I know, weird, but I had just come back from a trip to China as evidenced by the two terra cotta soldiers on top (made the same way the real ones were).  It needed to be moved.

Yeah ... Nancy was a bad girl.  She took all those heavy dishes out of the cabinet so it could be moved to the other room.  These rodeo dishes are the kind of thing you can't find any more.  Oh there are replicas around, but nothing like these originals.  They are actually being used on the series Yellowstone.  They haven't been made for many many years, so if you have the originals, you have a treasure.  One plate goes for $65-85.00.  To have the entire set is rare.  

The pitcher in the back and the salt and pepper shakers are not original.  I bought them later to finish the set.  

One of the reasons Mom splurged on them ... and I mean splurged because this was something we could never afford for every day ... see the K Quarter Circle in the top left corner?  That's our brand.  Every brand on these dishes came from a legitimate cattle ranch.  We were pretty proud to be included.

It also has the Four Sixes brand.  I'm hoping these won't be lost when I'm gone.  Maybe I should donate them to a museum somewhere.  I just don't know where.  Maybe Wyoming?  South Dakota?  Montana?

The Chinese cabinet got moved to the kitchen ... no worries, I used those moving pad things under the feet ... but I STILL didn't have enough room.  This cabinet will have to be moved also.  Hard to see, but there is a doll in that glass cabinet on the top.

Her name is Wilhelmina.  She was given to one of my Great Aunts for taking care of a sick gentlemen in Germany.  I inherited her from my Grandmother, along with a letter telling her story.  The very well off family didn't want this doll with a wax face to be destroyed by the bratty little daughter who lived in the house, so they gave her to my Great Aunt.  

When the seamstress came to the house to make the clothes for the women, they had her make the clothes for the doll.  At this point in time, she is 218 years old.  It's amazing that she has lasted this long.  Again, I should donate her to a museum ... I just don't know where.

I unloaded the second glass cabinet all over the dining room table, which now completely blocks the walkway through the house.  No, I didn't move that cabinet.  It's too heavy.

And THEN .... I did this.  I just couldn't stand seeing my longarm laying around.  I used my feet and my legs more than my back to get it set up this far.  It's was like only 9:00 when I called Uncle.  My back was pinching something terrible.  BAD NANCY!

So I literally spent the rest of the day sitting in a stool at the counter with a tennis ball buried in my back.  I used to be able to move things around doing that, fixing my back without the use of a chiropractor that always seemed to make it worse.

By the end of the day, I could stand up and walk without much pain.  Hey ... it's working ... sort of.  I'm down to only one bad spot in my back.  Maybe another day of that will fix me up.  Worst case, I've found a chiropractor that uses the table I'm familiar with.  

So sadly, there will be no more moving crap ... I mean cool antique stuff ... from place to place.  Of course now the house is in even MORE of a mess than before, making me crazier than normal.  

I may have to give up the idea of a yard sale and just donate all this stuff.  This is a LOT of work for one person!!!!