Winners, Winners, Chicken Dinners — NOT!

~Ready to Go~

Every morning this week, my personal mailman has taken little packages to the post office for me. Just like the real mail man, he braves all sorts of weather: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these courier from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. This morning it was ice! 

~My Very Own Mail Man~

In order to make things a bit easier for myself and my winners as well, I have added a winners' list, with codes and everything, on my sidebar all the way to the bottom. That way, you can check the status of your win. Quite a few have not yet discovered that they are winners so I have no addresses. Those who send their addresses get the prize first...usually. Whatever! All those who won will eventually get the prize. I think the Post Office is already sick of John, but tough! That's what they're there for and we're keeping them in business. 

Have a terrific day!

Sessions Clock or For the Birds

Good thing that the clock comes with directions. Well, some directions. It doesn't say a thing about oiling it so we've been watching You Tube videos about how to oil antique clocks.

John took a good look at the clock and noticed a few things right away. First, someone has been fiddleflipping with it causing a number of problems. Namely, the face no longer sits fair on its pins causing quite a bit of drag as the mechanisms chafe against the housings.  What the entire family thought was some weather gizmo attached to the front is actually the oil applicator. We won't be using the oil in the applicator because it's dirty. There's an old bottle of clock oil from 1937 inside the clock and I'm pretty sure that we'll not be using that either. For now, the clock sits on the shelf above the tv. I think that this really helps to disguise the television much better than the oil lamps, which I showed you earlier in the month.

 A little closer view and, since we're counting birds and nests today, you can see that we've added another in this gold crane painted on the inside of the glass door. Do you see the oil applicator on the left? The measure stick beside it is for determining the swing of the pendulum and there is a thermometer on the right side, broken after all these years.

Okay, let's be off to count the birds. Though I wanted to place them in a mosaic, PhotoScape crops the photo and some of my birds hit the cutting room floor. I can't have that!

See how beautifully the Sessions clock disguises the big tv? Right? Right?!

(Blast! What's that stool doing there?)

1. gold crane on Sessions clock door

2. clear glass swan on window ledge...kinda hard to see

3. & 4. swan salt and pepper shakers declaring everlasting love

5. tassle nest win from Manuela

6. log cabin birdhouse formerly on coat hook, but John has put the coat hook back to its original purpose

7. giant green swan basket filled with all manner of stuff: remotes, cloth ball, devotionals, pens, pencils, sudoku books...

Did you notice that I even decorated John's radio? I can't move it. He loves it there for the perfect reception and right by his spot on the sofa. Sometimes a gal's just gotta do it his way.

Now for the east side of the room...

8. a swan

9.–20. bird images from The Feathered Nest and using Dawn's idea (I've talked about this several times over the past year.)

21. little black bird in upper window, a gift from Robin (Gosh, even my friends are birds.)

22. an owl from my daughter

23. little yellow bird

24. nest

There's more...

25. Can't forget my white bird from Kari

26. Or the bird on the tag discussed yesterday

And even though these birds are in the open living area, they don't count because they're not on the south side of the sofa. Do not question my logic! :D

Leaving you with Karen's image and a neat scripture...

Pat at Mille Fiori Favoriti is the gal who wins the surprise gift for participating in my little game. Though she came in a little low with a guess of a dozen, she wins by virtue of being the only gal to play. Congrats, Pat, and I have your addy already. Look for it by next week.

Happy Wednesday!