Tuff Village has been tastefully decorated with paint, wallpaper and its matching borders by an interior designer, but the entries to our apartments we do ourselves and show our own interests so guests can find us for we do not have name plates on the doors.For example, Bud and Ione are easily identified for the Bush name is everywhere. The Bush name and the Hills Main Street has been burned into wood by Sandy Feucht. Then a long picture with big letters spelling Bush. You can’t miss who these apartment dwellers are. Currently a little Viking caroler is in the corner of apartment 112.Our woodworking friend in 107 always has one of his creations on the wall. A fish, a deer or now, a raccoon. There is a sign on the door telling guests he’s in his workshop if he’s not around. His intricate maple leaf is hard to believe it’s homemade.In 108 welcome signs and the Crawford Crest greet you. Sandy made Beaver Creek street signs, too. She has a pen and pencil available for notes if she’s unavailable and a little snowman is currently carrying a pail filled with snowballs.Across the aisle our Norwegian neighbor identifies herself by a Hardanger wall hanging.Room #110 finds Caroline with a chicken welcome. Since she’s a quilter, she has a little 5x5-inch quilt hanging from a doll rod and a statue of a lady quilting in front of a beautiful mauve, purple and blue quilt with a basket of needles, thread and a gray and white kitten sitting nearby. I wish you could see it. She also has a Iowa sign made by Sandy.Erma in 106 is always changing her entry but currently a corn husk doll sits on a table with fall leaves in a duck flower vase. Once Erma had a shoe and a bee on display or a gum ball machine with a sign saying she needed help to pay her rent.Room 101 is now bare but Earl has had cut glass angels he made himself that were beautiful.Arnold’s daughter, Joan, is active helping the people of Bolivia so its fitting scenes of this country are artfully framed for his entry.If looking for Berdella in 105 you can’t miss for her name is framed and hung. A counter-cross-stitch “You Are Special” on plastic canvas is there as well as a poem in a counter-cross-stitch hoop that says “All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful. The Lord God made them all.”Welcoming Thanksgiving is on Shorty’s door #103 as well as a rock with welcome painted on it.The Sandagers in 104 have an etched picture of the farm. Indian corn and a little scarecrow sit on a table and a big political sign reads “Council at large Jim Sandager” He won, he is now a councilman in Des Moines, Iowa.A long welcome tapestry with flowers and birds welcome 117L guests. A large cloth picture of corn candy adorns the other wall.Room 116L has Goettsch framed crocheted name and a welcome sign with birds in the nests and others hanging from the bottom on cords.Room 114L has pretty pastel morning glories and the Serenity Prayer to welcome Florence’s guests.A fall wreath with berries and acorns. 115L is in keeping of the season.A girl swinging from a harvest wreath is in the middle of Dave and Alta’s door and a farmer and his wife writes their names as well as a heart saying “All who enter should do so with a happy heart.” 118L also has a weathered wooden sign with the Olson’s name on.A huge grapefruit wreath with fruit and berries identify Sarah. Small Indian corn tied in a plaid bow, hangs next to an embroideried Sarah.Palma, in 120L, has a framed fall picture and a plastic canvas welcome sign with a huge full pink tassel.Everyone seems to recognize the season. The Apostolic Singers came in great form and about 35 in number. Judy, Sarah’s daughter, brought treats. The singing itself was a treat. The Bush boys are here and hunting, gathering mementos from the home they’re moving out of. Erma and Martha have packed their bags and gone on a trip. I’m not sure where.I’ll keep you posted.
