Another cold week - with snow

The 1st week of March wasn't much different from the last week of February.  It snowed Tuesday.  The highs were below freezing, though not in the single digits.  So we stayed in and did greenhouse work, planting seedlings and trimming coleus.  Later in the week we helped the conservation workers clean.  My crew went to Lyon drug, which was most fun. 
We will make it through this winter yet.  All the kids, except for Mckay and Andrew, will be here the 1st week of April.  Now that's something to look forward to.

Seedlings are sprouting. 

We planted them in compartments.

See up high on the back wall. The window automatically
opens when it gets too warm in the greenhouse.
  Sign of Spring.

Lyon Drug

Not everyone can touch the artifacts.  Only people in Conservation - and those who help them. So this was a responsibility that we took very seriously - no one wanted to be responsible for breaking anything. 

Whit gloves required. 

Possibly the inspiration for the baseball bat.

Cleaning the china dolls.
Grandpa Griffith had a dry goods store and with a millnery on the second floor.  This wall reminded me of his store. 

 Do you know what this is? A washing machine.

This is the painter, Jared.  Sister Howard painstakingly stripped this column down to the original paint, which was the faux wood painting. The top part is the original.  Jared is matching the bottom to look like the top.  Faux painting dates back to ancient times, but there was a revival in the 18th and 19th centuries.  There are examples of faux painting throughout Nauvoo.