Ballinamore Festival 2009 and Schoolhouse Allsorts

Here we have a pot pouri of pics taken during the week when Pam and I were down at the Old Schoolhouse, Aughawillan for the Ballinamore Festival last week.

 

 

 

 

 

Two sweet old nests that Ed found when he was chopping logs from the fallen trees in the garden. Gotta love nests especially the real thing. We are always finding treasures in the garden of the schoolhouse. We found a collection of YR sauce bottles that the children used to bring to school filled with milk.

We had a great time at the festival down in Ballinamore with Pam and Zinda and Paul. We had a pub crawl on Wed. night as there was entertainment on all over the town....Jazz and Swing, Country and Western, Dj's, Karaoke, Rock, and more.....

Zinda, Paul and meself at Bobby Joe's

Zinda bought me this glam form in Mullingar Pewter. OOh la la. Love it Zinda!

 

 

Pam, Zinda and me...

At that giggly age....(50-ish!)

Scottie begs nicely for a cup of tea! These two adorn the right hand side of my halldoor inthe Schoolhouse.

The Webmaster.....On my windowsill is this little man in need of a good dusting!

An old milk churn makes a good garden ornament especially with a doty plant on top.

 

 

 

On the left hand side of my hall door are these two lovelies.

 

 

 

Now what do you think this is??

Well - it is part of a frame from an old school desk that Ed dug up when he was gardening in the girls side of the dividing wall in the garden.(Boys and girls were separated for classes) Just one of the school related things we have unearthed since we have been here.

Here is the rest of the girls' yard now growing apple trees and fairy toadstools!

 See the trees at the end of the garden? Well, one day when I was having a leisurely breakfast a knock came to the door. I opened it and a bunch of old ladies walked in!

"We planted the trees at the end of the garden during the thirties and we are having a reunion"

Well, they were already in ....and weren't looking like they were going to leave......so what could I do?

I let them wander all over and enjoyed their stories about the various rooms and the memories they brought up for them.

Yes, we actually found a red mushroom with white circles. ...  I meant to add a fairy figure and take a pic...when...batteries died. Oh well, another missed photo op.

Comments

[Colleen]

Oh, love the garden tour! What an amazing thing to have such history right under your feet (and all around you!) And what a nice thing to do to let the ladies in! Love the "doty plant" - does doty mean like cute, or sweet, or perky?? Looks like you all (y'all) had soo much gigglie-girlie-fun :-)

[Val]

Looks like you had a wonderful time.

[sharie]

Brilliant photos and love the story of your house and those insistent old ladies.

[Kay Flynn-The Wrought Iron Gate]

Brilliant photos of the little nests and the mushroom.....can you tell I'm fond of anything natural? I love anything with a history, as well.......what fun to unearth vintage treasures in your own garden.

I'm just home from an extended weekend with my sisters. I can totally relate to your photo of giggling girls. (did a lot of that over the weekend)

Thank you for your kind comments. I love visiting your blog.

Best Wishes,
Kay