Happy New Year! Windows?

Wishing you health and happiness in the new year!

Anyone out there interested in another year of "My Kitchen Window"? Let me know.

Stay safe and make some memories tonight!

Enjoy the day,

Robyn

What a day!

After this...

We did this!

This is our brand new bike/walking/running trail that was recently completed. It spans Tampa Bay and runs parallel to the causeway. It is awesome!

This was the first time we have walked/run this fabulous path. Annie and Mr. MW were out of the car in a flash and running. That's them on the left.

I walked...enjoyed the view...and took a few pics.

Pelicans are so fun to watch...these two were preening and snoozing.

The sky was beautiful! 

The sun was starting it's descent on the other side of the bridge.

And...............

............they're back!

What a great new tradition we started this year! 

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The "Big Guy" ate every one of the cookies we left out for him! They were yummy!

I hope that all of you had a magical Christmas...hope you made memories!

Enjoy the day,

Robyn

December 25th

Believe

This is one of my favorite photos of Annie. It was taken at church, before the Children's Mass, on Christmas Eve, many years ago. The children went up on the altar where the large nativity figures were gathered and placed a piece of straw in the manger to prepare a soft bed for Baby Jesus.

You can see how much Annie enjoyed all the fun! Annie still gets this excited at Christmas. She still "believes"...and I think she always will. 

Annie had the same look on her face this morning when she opened a special gift that arrived in the mail yesterday.

This sweet punch needle owl was made by Nancee...http://flew-the-coop.blogspot.com/. Annie's face lit up when she saw the package with her name on it. She was overjoyed to find an owl inside to add to her tree! Thank you, Nancee, for your kindness, for thinking about my girl...and for the lovely little owl that has joined the others on Annie's tree.

The Spirit of Christmas...like my Annie...I am a believer!

Hope you are enjoying these last few days before Christmas. 

Enjoy the day,

Robyn

Christmas IV

I snapped a few pics of the living room last night. It looks as if the sun is shining but those are the spot beams that shine on the front door and the window wreaths. It was actually dark when I took these.

Welcome to our home!

...a lucky find from Homegoods! It's velour and so cozy!

Enjoy the day,

Robyn

Sorry my photos look so grainy...I need to get the book out and figure out why!

Bits of Christmas & Pieces of the Past

I know many of you are experiencing some very cold weather. It's been nippy here in the morning...nippy for the Sunshine State that is. But the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming...it's December in Florida.

It is the best time of year for geraniums. I have several colors, but the red are always my favorite.

My great grandmother's black iron pot is just starting to bloom. My mother remembered her grandmother doing laundry in this pot, in the yard of her home in Georgia. If you are a visitor to this blog, you know by now we are a family that hangs on to things. 

This pot has traveled from Georgia to Florida, to Virginia, and then back to Florida.

There were two of these pots in my parents yard here in Florida...always full of red geraniums. When my sister and I cleaned out my parents house I knew I wanted one of those pots. They hung from their original tripods then. My father had cemented the tripods to cinder blocks and buried them for stability.  At the yard sale we held, I told a fellow interested in buying one of the pots if he could get both of them out of the ground I'd give him one pot. He did...and the remaining pot sits in my yard...full of red geraniums.

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A few bits of Christmas...

...a sweet Christmas angel

Another bit of my family history resides on the shelf next to the small Belsnickle.

That black thing is actually a lump of coal. It is a piece of anthracite coal from Pennsylvania...brought home by my grandfather as a remembrance of his days as an engineer in the mines. It has sat proudly on a shelf every day of my life, in each childhood home, and now in mine...a  reminder of my roots...deep in the earth of Pennsylvania.  

An old iron pot from Georgia and a small lump of Pennsylvania coal...pieces of the past still with us today. 

Enjoy the day,

Robyn

***The beautiful sampler I shared with you yesterday was bought on Ebay. Look for The Primitive Stitcher, Linda Babb's seller name, and maybe one can come and live at your home too***

A Sampler

I wanted to share with you this wonderful sampler that was waiting for me when I got home this weekend.

The talented Linda Babb made this beauty in her endearing primitive style. Also known as The Primitive Stitcher, I was delighted to meet Linda when we were in Tennessee last year. This makes the sampler even more special to me!

Love the reindeer!

Love the verse!

Love the red!

I think I will be leaving this sampler out all year!

Wait till you see the wonderful Christmas surprise Linda made for Annie! You'll have to wait till after December 25th!

Enjoy the day,

Robyn