New and Old

Our new  Rubbermaid carafe!

It's our little beverage  "lighthouse"

Carafe filled with Celestial Seasonings Blueberry Ice-tea ~ photo taken at Glimmerglass July 4

Our very old bowls recently purchased at my favorite consignment shop.

They are such delicate china, light as a feather and made in Austria!

They were on the clearance shelf!

5 bowls for $2

Since they match my old 1950's pink "diner" dishes ~ they came home with me!

Perfect for everything ~ especially double desserts like

strawberry rhubarb crisp and vanilla light ice cream!
Recipe is from my old Betty Crocker Cook Book.



But you can find it the new  way... on the internet!

Betty Crocker rhubarb crisp recipe with less sugar and added berries.

Here is one of the new  chipping sparrows out of the nest for the first time!
...literally the size of a walnut...

I was doing some weeding near by the barberry bushes and
two of the three babies flew to the ground right in front of me!
I feared I may have startled them...
but the "whole chipping sparrow family" came over
to guide the chicks to the nearby spruce tree where they had been perched.
They spent 10 minutes "teaching" the chicks how to fly up into the tree.
One of the adult sparrows gave the chicks repeated "examples of how it is done."

~ So cute ~

I knew that there was still one more left in the nest,
so I left for a few hours to give them some space.
By the weekend, they were all at the feeder waiting for the adults to feed them.
 ~

Dear Family and Friends,

Here are a few lessons that I learned about old and new.

It's great to try new things!

One of the best ways to recycle is to
find something old and make it new  to you!

It's always wonderful to make a new friend.
feel like an old friend.

and as some of you have mentioned in comments
"how important it is to be a good 'role model' as in the example of the sparrows"
♥

Oh, how much I treasure my new friends that feel like old friends!