Glass for July

Here we are almost at the end of July!

It has been a busy and weird month for us; not much cooking from recipes, I can tell you. Right now I am surviving on some carefully portioned soup in preparation for leaving the cupboard as bare as I can for three weeks. 

We are going to our Vancouver digs for a brief break, and then coming back and actually selling the house. We have taken loads and loads of books to secondhand stores and little free libraries. We have donated bags and bags of stuff to charity. We have helped both kids set up new homes! Down to the bare bones here. 

I have managed to think about Glass as my photo theme, now and again. I would like to revisit this, because it's hard to get a good picture of glass!

Not even sure if this is actually glass

We have mostly mismatched wine glasses and this is one of my favourites. 

This glass cake stand had a post of its own when I first got it, and now it is likely on its way out. It is used less and less these days, as we don't have cake as much; we haven't celebrated everyone's birthday together for some years now, with kids off at school and so on. It sat on my curb for a few days and no one took it! We'll try again later. 

The cake plate that we'll keep. It is flat, with no pedestal, so easier to store and transport. We certainly don't need two! And we can say this is a cheese plate if necessary!

Ah, this. 

Once upon a time, maybe 15 years ago or more, a kid went to a summer camp, or a Saturday morning camp, or who knows what. They made swamp water: oil and water, basically, although I think there might be alcohol or vinegar or some other liquid in there. It also has beads and sparkles and whatnot. Every once in a while we laugh and shake it up... But now its time has also come. We took the paper lid off, took tape off... and could not get the lid off. I suspect hot glue, maybe. Eventually we banged a couple of nail holes in the lid and poured the noxious liquid down the sink and disposed of the jar. End of an era around here.

Broken mirror on the street, to help someone see around a corner

Mojito in a Gringo glass

This is today's picture: me taking the last of the books to a bookstore. (When I say last of the books, you can be sure there are hundreds, if not thousands, left in the house. These are the last of the "get rid of" books.) The mirror was at a jaunty angle, looking up at the sky. 

Another week of Glass month to go, but don't hold your breath for another blog post too soon. I am driven to declutter, not to sit and write. 

I am, however, thinking of my August plans. I have August's cookbook on hold at the Vancouver library, and the theme of the month will be Hidden. Hmm. That will be fun, I think.