Another Antique Milk Can, Red Wagon, and Tub

This last week a friend asked me to drive our pickup over

to her garage to move a few boxes. She had this

old milk can sitting in her garage and I could not resist.

I asked her if she was wanting to sell it and I got it

for 5 dollars!  It is a small one, not as large as

my other ones so I wonder if it was a creamer

type can.  Made my day!!!!

This miniature red wagon came home with me from the

Kountry Kin Quilt Shop that was closing.  Not sure

what I am going to find to put into it.  It has those

hard tires so I know it is one of the old ones.

The friend that sold me the milk can also wanted to get rid

of this old tub.  It's in rough shape but I like it.

It reminds me of the tub Mom always had hanging on

the side of the little well house down on the farm

where I grew up.

If my memory is serving me right, I believe that I was bathed

in one very similar to this when I was really little.



Radio Flyer Wagon, White Milk Can and Porcelain!! WOW

My white milk can now has company.  An old friend 's girlfriend gave me the little

red wagon after seeing how I messed around a little in my yard. Bless her, I

hardly know her.  Then the friend gave me the old chamber pot on the right when

cleaning in his storage unit.  I saw it needed rose moss planted in it right away.

Then while down at my Mom's farm house, I noticed her old porcelain pot with

the red handles and saw the moss was croaking since she is not living there.

I thought I better bring it home so I could water the moss and had a vision of it in this

little wagon with the other porcelain pot. Yep, they fit. 

I also saw that little black tub sitting neglected and needing flowers in it so

home with me it came and it fit in the milk can.  I have never grown Petunias, 

that's one of Mom's favorites. I just don't like the smell of them.

Well, I thought since I took the little tub from her place I would put some

Petunias in it....so far it's working for me, they are thriving in this 100 degree heat.

While thinking about one of my favorite fabric and quilt shops going out of

 business it came to me I had seen one of the white and red pans in her shop

and wondered if she was selling it.  So on my next trip up there it came home

with me for a good price.

I didn't have any dirt from the farm around so I went to Wal Mart and bought 

cactus soil.   I have never used that before and  am not sure how it is going to 

work  for my hens and chicks but they are still alive in it. Hope they thrive

in this heat.  

I really like my little arrangement if I may say so. Just wish it

were not so very hot outside so I could sit and enjoy it more!! 

It would all probably look better with some white landscaping rock under

it....give me time and some $$$$'s and maybe it will happen.

Antique Milk Cans

I love having my old milk cans around my house.

Last fall I bought this white one for $15!!

Hadn't bought one in years.

I love how it is different than the others

I have sitting around.

See how it says Kansas City at the bottom?

Well the dandelions are gone and I planted

a Hosta by it so I hope it grows and

they look good together. I have never

grown a Hosta plant before.

This oldy has been many colors.

I plan on having it painted bright red

some day. Hopefully I can do it

myself. It sits on our little back porch.

The blue one below is probably the first one I owned and have had around 38 years. It sat on the front porch of the first house I lived in when I left home and married when I was way too young. It was brown back then. Got this oldy when a neighbor moved and just left it behind. I love how you can still read the number on it. My dad and oldest brother drove a milk truck when I was little..under school age. I do remember riding with my brother on his milk route. Mom was with us and he let me eat his cookies out of his lunch box. I put a Boston Fern in it yesterday, so I hope the frost is gone for this spring. I wonder just how many gallons of milk this carried for the farmer who owned it and how many different places it went. Have had this oldy a lot of years too....can't remember for sure where it came from now. How I wish I had kept better track of where and when I got these cans. Like I said before when your young you think you will remember it all.... I try to keep these hens and chicks going in the lid. It doesn't do the best ...but they survive. We had cows and milked till I was around 6. I remember when we started buying milk to drink from town and I thought it was just awful tasting. I remember Mom putting cream in a peanut butter jar and having me roll it all around on the hard wood floor to make butter. I don't really think she was needing that butter that bad.....but it was a good way to keep me busy and out of her way for a while!!