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Found a couple of 45s at an estate sale this morning
They are Purple Martin gourd houses.^^^^^^
I may at some point look into how birds might be attracted to it, then. A couple-three years ago a pair of robins built a nest atop that beam this thing is hanging from, but the squirrels had them moving on before the nest became active. So I suppose that in birdhouses as in human houses it’s all about location.
No one grows gourds anymore so the started making them out of clay & ceramics. Available at most home & garden centers.
My grandmother always had Martin houses on the farm.
It was a spring ritual to clean them and get them ready for use !
No one grows gourds anymore so the started making them out of clay & ceramics. Available at most home & garden centers.
I’ve seen those too. Martins must like communal living.This is the kind of Martin house my grandmother had.
There were three of them placed around her back yard.
I’ve seen those too. Martins must like communal living.
The OP started this thread on shot glasses back in 2014. I reactivated & expanded it to include vintage whisky & beer glasses. Haven’t posted any in sometime now.I‘m not a shot glass collector (hell, I don’t even drink) but it seems I have a collection of shot glasses, as I was reminded yesterday evening while taking out and washing the rarely used dishes and such that get relegated to the rear of the upper cabinets and collect whatever funk in the air that somehow manages to make its way past those cabinet doors. You know, the stuff you have to wash BEFORE using it.
Some of those glasses are kitschy souvenirs (“Wall Drug,” for instance, or “Elks Lodge #1292, Raymond, Washington“), some commemorate relatives’ weddings and some caught my eye at thrift stores and garage sales. Taking them down and running them through the dishwasher (gotta pour out the water collected in those little divots on the bottoms) and putting them back in the cabinet reminded me of how they came my way. And ain’t that the entire point of souvenirs?
That's a pretty good find!!!My most recent thrift store find.
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A good brand with a historyMy most recent thrift store find.
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Wrangler (who make Big Ben) started production in Mexico in 2001 and closed down their last US facility in 2005.Thrifted. Anyone know when the Big Ben brand was no longer made in the USA?
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Wrangler (who make Big Ben) started production in Mexico in 2001 and closed down their last US facility in 2005.