Welcome to a very late Aqua Blue Heaven Friday! Got tied up today with a whole lot of yard-related drama- long story short: don't run over a yellow jacket's nest when mowing the lawn, even if it was a total accident and you didn't even know it was there in the first place and for future reference you cannot, in fact, flood them out with a hose stuck in their hole in the ground like in cartoons, nor should you then add dish soap to it, expecting them to come out coughing or preferably dying, because all it does it turn the area into a giant mound-o-bubbles and sprinting past the area and trying to throw rocks into their little hole also does absolutely nothing against the wrath of angry bees and I swear this is the nail in the coffin for our neighbors who already think we're odd enough to begin with.
So. Let's just move on already, because if I sit still too long the bees will see me and presumably come after me with a great, unmerciful vengeance for disturbing their love nest with water, soap, bubbles, ant spray, rocks, bleach, sparklers, and firecrackers in vain.
Today's theme is the vintage 50's aqua salt & pepper shakers!
Vintage Egg-Shaped 2Tone Salt & Pepper Shakers w/Stand. These remind me of Mork and Mindy for some reason and give me an incredible urge to say "nanu! nanu!"
Vintage 60's MCM Japanese Salt & Pepper Shakers.
Vintage Aqua Wheat MINI Ceramic Salt and Pepper Shakers. Look how tiny they are! They fit on a spoon! CUUUUTE. They're so...so...wee!
Vintage 50's Windmill Salt & Pepper Shakers. This is so ding dang cool, I'm almost seizure-like! (Of course, it could be from inhaling all that wasp spray when the wind shifted.) When you turn the windmill propeller (what the hell is that even called?), the little plastic salt and pepper holders pop up out of the roof! Popping pepper pot! Sigh. I'm tired.
"Shake It Up" by the Cars.
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Howdy Kim
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh ,I hope your okay ,well as okay as you can be after all the drama.
Love ,the salt and pepper shakers what a great idea .
Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and try for pete's sake to leave little buzzing bee critters alone :)
Big Hugs
Happy Trails
Hi, Terry!
ReplyDeleteWell, those flying jerks are still buzzing around out there, so they may be waiting until I'm asleep to make their attack. I may sleep with a baseball bat tonight.
Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!
oh dear. what's the right way to handle them anyway?
ReplyDeletei haven't figured out how the windmill thing works... they're all adorable.
I got your package the other day. Thanks so much for the cool prizes!
ReplyDeleteThose are all wonderful. They look great. Hope you've been enjoying your weekend. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the words of wisdom for what not to do when dealing with yellow jackets. I would have thought the water would have done the trick as well. I hope you find a solution to bee problem! The salt and pepper shakers are marvelous!I especially like the Japanese ones. I am a friend of anything that is aqua blue in color :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. If you were my neighbor I would not think of you as being odd...your experience reminds me of some of the outdoor catastrophes that have happened to my family over the years!
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