Round bottomed bottle used for ginger beer (a spicy version of ginger ale), dating from around 1880. Before caps were common, sodas had corks- the bottles were round bottomed so that they had to lay on their sides. The liquid kept the cork from drying out and the carbonation from escaping. Ingenious, eh?
I took this picture this morning just because the bottle is so pretty hanging there in the window- all green and with the crazing showing (it doesn't show as well in the photo- the bottle is crazed, with little lines all back and forth like the skin of reptiles)... it matches the outside perfectly because today is all greenish gray with rain. Has been raining for days, the yarden is a pond, will have to put my big black wellies on to make it to the car. Cold outside to- feels more like March than May. Still and all, it's the last of spring, everything is growing like crazy.
Yesterday the transformer blew in a ball of blue light, power out for a bit so we ate dinner in the quiet dusk, no sound but the rain on the roof. Nice. All day we had music and singing- did small chores about the house (he fixed the doors, I reded-up). The dogs playing about, getting to spend the day inside because of the storms, dog parties, wrestling on the floor, wanting pets and pats. Max has totally abandoned me in favor of the man, Bear loves everyone but misses the boy. It's nice to be a family.
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