jim's little Christmas tree farm

#10- 10th Christmas Tree - 2023 - Front porch - Business

!! MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 !!

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At the closed entrance porch of the restaurant where we ate yesterday had this tree. We ate there because we had a BOGO Free coupon. Saved use $17.95. Mrs. Jim and I each had chicken-based entries, each a different variety.

Incidentally, the restaurant was facing Interstate Hwy 10, near our home, and there the widest street in the nation.

On the other front corner were these three blowup critters, two penguins and a reindeer. The big birds are looking Christmassy with their scarves.

You are seeing a conservatively decorated room but we both appreciated it. Besides, makes for a post on the Christmas Tree blog for this year.

!! MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 !!

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Labels: Animals, Antiques, Christmas, Christmas 2023-2, Tree

# 2 ~~ 1937 Ford Fordor advertisement

This car will get you into the Early Ford V8 Car Club

Labels: Antiques, Cars, Travel

More old chairs -- Windsor Chairs

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These are the chairs Florence had in her breakfast room. They are BP's pick for my office (they looked the newest). But you can keep them as long as you want. Mom will very likely want then back when you are finished as they were from Florence.

They are in good shape. We found them on the Internet once, they are Nichols & Stone Windsor Chair. The current model is the Rockport but these have different bottoms and back rungs.

http://www.nicholsandstone.com/OurProducts_Results.cfm?cat1=2107&view=all

I would guess they are from the 1960's. Could be 5-'s or 70's.

Labels: Antiques, Jim's Life, Things to know

Old chairs

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Hi Karen -- I know you and Mom have been talking about these. They belonged to a lady who took care of you while we worked. She lived down the street from ours on the intersecting street that went over to I-45.

We bought them from her when they got a new dining room set. They are pine, should be six. We have five here. You might be using one in your office?

The flood was over almost to the tops. It pretty well ruined the big drop leaf table. I used one of the drop leaves (large) for cutting wall paper on when we put our house back together again.

I would say they are probably 1960's era, we got them around 1975. Mom found the manufacturer, Stickley, on the Internet. She will call you. Love, Dad