German's Chocolate is the best

My sister made this beautiful German's chocolate cake.  I have eaten it with other chocolate but German's chocolate is the best for this cake.  It's what makes it authentic I think.

good butter and pecans.  All made from scratch.  Three high layers.

Shared with family.

Now to finish decorating

New repurposed

My sister Lynn, who lives in Corinna Maine repurposed this well worn head and footboard you see in the picture below

to this -- she made the pillows and seat cushion
which she won for best repurposed

this chair is a beauty some one recovered and won

Beautiful painting some one did on this dresser

a neat table for the porch or outside I would like

from this pedestal

love this color on this buffet

All of these at Traditions in Corinna Maine.
I see I will have to take a large vehicle when I visit.

Round Town and other Things

Lynn and I took a  ride downtown Richmond to look around late the other day and came upon this neat building with
graffitti .

We saw this building, not too sure of what it was but it had this statue I had to take a pix of

Lynn is on the left

We then headed to Broad Street to

St. Patricks Church , built in 1850's by Irish Immigrants to Richmond Va.

Sorry,  the last bit got cut off

an idea of how large this tree is

the limbs spread over much of the park

sign on broad street across from St. Johns Church

1741

My grandmother used to live here

built in  1900

Old iron fence in front.

I remember the inside of this home very well,  the stairs seemed so long and narrow, there was a skylight in the hallway

Grandma and I, along with her friend - Nanny, would sit in the yard eating lime sherbet.

I have always had fond memories of this place

She let me go across the street to St. Johns Church and sit  in the yard

It was fenced and of course very quiet

I remembert the time like it was a few moments ago (sitting on someones above ground grave) I didn't want to sit on the grass and being a kid,  I didn't even think about it

Across the street, advertisement still visible

Grandma used to work here - and would bring me paper that was used for covering gift boxes to draw on

It has been turned into apts.

Looking up the hill from Pohlig brothers-if you click on pix , you can see the larger picture

Pretty home downtown, lots of these fine old places have these very nice wrought iron railings

Very old home here

across the street from Pohligs is this Gallery called - Windy Hill Gallery

I hope to visit there next week as it was closed

Now to show you my table I got from my friend

I love it,  sits on my porch

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I purchased this mirror for three bucks at an estate sale