Splint Baskets

 Hello friends.

Today I wanted to share with you

the various splint baskets I have.

You may wonder what the heck is a splint basket.

A splint is a thin strip of wood.

These splints were mostly made from 

oak, ash and hickory trees.

Native Americans in the Eastern tribes

first brought these well made baskets into fruition.

They came in all kinds of sizes.

mostly square, but there are some round ones.

This is my biggest one.

This one someone whitewashed.

This one has seen better days...

but I still love it.

Large splints.

Smaller splints.

I love them all.

In other news,

Carla asked about my daughter.

She has not even mentioned 

her headache issue to me lately

 since Michael's car accident.

Maybe her focusing on him has made

them go away.

I will have to ask her.

Bob put the antique store up 

for sale again.

He had an offer....a dumb one.

This guy wanted to purchase our building,

have Bob sign a 10 year lease and continue

running the business.

Say what?

Why would we do that when we dont

pay rent now, we own the building 

with no mortgage and we want to sell.

The nerve of some people just amazes me.

Yesterday morning we had freezing rain.

Bob told me to come home because it was

getting bad...so I left work before lunch.

Drove in it for a few miles,

but by the time I reached home it was raining.

Thank goodness.

The thunderstorms rolled in the evening,

and then another round early this morning.

Sunday night out towns tornado alarm

went off just before a thunderstorm arrived.

We were not sure why because it was

really not that bad....I have seen worse,

and also been in a tornado before.

Crazy weather.

Well  have to get ready to go back to work.

April Blessings To All!

Janice