Winter and our House Plants in Delft White Pots

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all American readers!

Before I've mentioned how hard it was to keep all our house plants alive, while being away for 3 weeks at a time, doing consulting work.

With the water computer inside our greenhouse, things worked out perfect, together with a heater for the colder period.

Here is our excellent collection from that time...

When viewed on YouTube you can find English text below, with clickable points.Remember, we always talked Dutch, as those videos got mailed out to my Parents...A nice view of our Kitchen Bay Window and our Veranda—full with plants.

This was around Christmas in1985, our previous home where we had solid oak indoor shutters that were not painted white.

Me crocheting on some curtain with my feet up onto the leather foot stool.

You can see the same solid oak indoor shutters here now open.

Related links:

Houseplants in Delft White Pots in Our Veranda | previous post showing same orchid and some Christmas cactus

The often HIGH price of being AWAY for Consulting | previous post about what we found the same year...

Solid Oak Shutters REDONE: Now Professionally Mortise Hinged by Husband Pieter | our shutters in white

{Our 'GREEN' Bedroom} | showing the bedroom with shutters and windowsill as seen in video above...

{Our Living Room} | showing the white solid oak shutters

Thinking about Mom and Dad on Saint Cecilia

 Saint Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Musicians

Above video from Easter Saturday, April 6, 1996 is a nice musical medley with Mom & Dad and Pieter first playing the keyboard and later playing the organ.Keep in mind, this is just IMPROMPTU...The video can best be viewed on YouTube, so you can read the text below, where I've better explained with clickable points.
Songs being partly sung are: Thank You Lord (Dad) with Pieter playing the organ.Dad with Mom and our friend singing 'Ich bete an die Macht der Liebe', a German song 'I pray to the power of love' by Russian composter Dmitri Bortniansky (1751 - 1825) and text by Gerhard Tersteegen (1697 - 1825).Next is Guten Abend, Gute nacht (Good evening, good night – Brahms lullaby (1868).German – Strophe 1:  Guten Abend, gut' Nacht,mit Rosen bedacht,mit Näglein besteckt,schlupf unter die Deck':Morgen früh, wenn Gott will,wirst du wieder geweckt.
Strophe 2:Guten Abend, gut' Nacht,von Englein bewacht,die zeigen im Traumdir Christkindleins Baum.Schlaf nun selig und süß,schau im Traum 's Paradies.
English – Stanza 1:Good evening, and good night,With roses adorned,With carnations covered,Slip under the covers.Early tomorrow, so God willing,you will wake once again.
Stanza 2:Good evening, and good night.By angels watched,Who show you in your dreamthe Christ-child's tree.Sleep now peacefully and sweetly,see the paradise in your dream.                                                 Pieter also gets summoned by our friend to play How Great Thou Art (which Dad never had heard...).Video is ending on Easter Sunday at home and it shows that Pieter could not refrain from pulling some weeds!!! 

HIGH TEA in November

 With my passion for cooking, baking and fine table setting...

Once again I offered to do a HIGHT TEA for the bi-annual local Rotary Club's fundraiser.

Pieter wearing his Gianni Versace jeans and I wear my sewing creation Silk Batik bolero jacket, hand painted with gold and made from Indonesian formal shawl on Escada skirt.

If you watch on YouTube you will be able to see all the text with explanation as to what was being served in detail.At 1:25 you see my Tea Cups with paper doilies and also Demitasse Coffee Cups.

Lydia is the lady in white silk blouse...

A happy group of ladies and we both enjoyed hosting them!

Tablecloth used is our Portuguese Guimarães white work, we bought in Coimbra in 1994 while on tour through Spain Portugal for 19 days.

Related links:

High Tea Prepared and Baked by Me | previous post

Merry Christmas and My Previous High Tea | previous post{Our Japanese Diospyros Kaki Persimmon} | previous post showing our Persimmon which was on kitchen table for High Tea...From Singapore to Jakarta and SURPRISE upon arrival at our Villa | previous post of when I bought the hand painted silk batik stole from which I created the bolero jacket{Angels engraved on lucky calendar coin of 1969} | final photo shows the hand painted with gold silk batik jacket...