{"id":11142,"date":"2021-09-20T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=11142"},"modified":"2021-09-20T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:03:11","slug":"a-trip-to-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=11142","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again David and I got into our Jeep and headed out to the country. This time we had a purpose. A bunch of ladies who call themselves the Country Friends, who do live out in the country have a sale every Autumn, Winter and Spring at their various homes or little stores on their properties. \u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s in the middle southern part of our state which means we drive hills , past lots of farms and through woods to get to every store. \u00a0One of the ladies even has a whole pioneer village built in her back yard!<\/p>\n<p>Much of the items for sale are made by these ladies and there is even an artist who has her paintings for sale. \u00a0 The last time we did this I purchased a mustard seed necklace one of them had made and I wear it all the time. \u00a0I also found an old wooden table with red legs that we have out on our back porch now.<\/p>\n<p>I got a few treasures along the way this time, also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11140\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1429-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I collect egg scales and I found this simply wonderful one that lights up so you can see inside the egg. \u00a0I weighed one of my eggs on this and it flew past the extra large. \u00a0I know my hens lay really nice eggs so I was glad to see just how big and good their eggs are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11131\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1404-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this cute little lighted tree. \u00a0When I \u00a0brought it up to purchase another lady cried, &#8220;I wish I had seen that! \u00a0I would have bought it!&#8221; \u00a0It pays to be quick and decisive at these sales because once something is gone, it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11134\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1407-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tree has tiny baskets on it that I will put tiny pumpkins in for Fall and birds on the limbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11133\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1406-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just magical lit up. \u00a0I have a bunny tree kind of like this one I put out at Easter time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11135\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1408-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even going to tell you what I paid for this lamp, but it was so cheap, I grabbed it immediately. \u00a0 I think the lady thought maybe she priced it a little low. \u00a0Let&#8217;s just say, I would have probably paid her twice what she was asking. \u00a0But don&#8217;t anyone tell her! \u00a0One thing David and I learned when we had a business. Don&#8217;t under price your merchandise or people will think it&#8217;s not worth it. \u00a0Sometimes we&#8217;d price something so high, especially if we didn&#8217;t want to sell it, and by George, there was always that one customer who just had to have it and we&#8217;d sell it. \u00a0David sold an old treadle sewing machine right out from under me once and I told him he would have to \u00a0find me another one, and he did and it now sits proudly in our front hallway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11136\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1409-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lamp \u00a0has these wonderful deer at its base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11138\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1427-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And once again I think this looks magical, too. \u00a0 It&#8217;s just perfect for this time of year. And right on to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11123\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1415-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the ladies&#8217; husband made this barn. \u00a0He wanted to make it a birdhouse, but she told David she wouldn&#8217;t allow him to cut a hole in it. Well, guess what? \u00a0David is going to cut a hole in it to make it a birdhouse. \u00a0It will make a wonderful birdhouse. Speaking of birdhouses. We have a little blue wren house in my kitchen garden and yesterday David and I watched several fat sparrows trying to get into it, but they couldn&#8217;t. \u00a0They just wouldn&#8217;t give up! \u00a0 Several years ago we had a wren house and a sparrow tried getting into it, got its head stuck and David and I had to work to get that sparrow out of that tiny hole in the birdhouse. \u00a0Finally we managed it and it flew away, probably to tell its family of the adventure he had had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11122\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1414-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These darling little jack-o-lanterns on a spring were for sale at one shop. \u00a0I bought two and put them on a picket fence David had made. He&#8217;s been making picket fences out of some old dog ear fencing we&#8217;ve had laying around for a while. I told him he could sell them they are so nice. \u00a0I will have to show you what these look like on one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11121\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1413-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are so cute and a nifty idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11117\" src=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSCN1498-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got a new liner in our pool the other day and David had to swim even though the water was only 72 degrees. \u00a0Brrrr, Not me. My next post will show how it all was done from emptying the pool to filling it back up again.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to country friends and shops and may they live forever! Bye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again David and I got into our Jeep and headed out to the country. This time we had a purpose. 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