Still moving...
Posted on 2009-Mar-21 at 4:40 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
 They're here! They got here about 8:30 this morning and have been working steady ever since.
 
Our life in boxes...
Which got me to thinking about things. Of course, I have been an advocate for downsizing for some time now. I have done some downsizing...I have taken four loads to Goodwill in the last couple of days. However, we still have lots and lots of stuff.
So I started thinking...what if you didn't have stuff? What if we didn't have anything other than a few changing of clothes, and the necessities?
What if you were told that you had to leave your home in an hour, and take only what was most important to you, only what would fit into a box, or the back of your vehicle? What would you take? What is most important? What things would you just not be able to leave behind?
If I were moving and had to start from scratch with nothing but what would fit in my vehicle, I would have to carry photos, and family videos, computers ( because they all have important photos on them), a couple changing of clothes. However, I don't own one piece of clothing that I couldn't part with. My whole wardrobe is replaceable.
I would take my cameras with me, because I always have to document what is going in our life so we can remember.
I suppose there isn't anything that I would just have to have other than those things, and even they could be lived without if necessary.
My latest ebay finds
Posted on 2009-Feb-18 at 7:03 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 3 Comments - Post Comment - Link
If I haven't mentioned it here before, I love kitchen stuff. I call it stuff, because it really isn't anything that would be necessary to own. It just makes kitchen duties more enjoyable. I suppose you could say, I am a collector of sorts.
Yes, I know I talk about downsizing and getting rid of unnecessary things, and I am doing that. However, some things are just fun and are done for enjoyment. I don't spend money on recreational hobbies; no gym memberships, not a lot of eating out, no going to movies, or other things along that line, so I have to have a hobby. Well I have several, but not all at once. But I digress...
One hobby I have is going to flea markets and antique stores. I could spend hours browsing around. I just do a lot of looking, and occasional buying when it is the right item at the right price. But mostly I talk myself out of buying because of lack of room, and the frivolity of the item...I have my lists of reason, so I usually find one or two to use on such cases.
Recently I have become fascinated by Fire King items. I especially like the color Jadite. So I was browsing ebay and ran across a few items that I placed a bid on. These are the ones I won.
These are from Fire King Jane Ray collection. They are jadite in color.
  These three bowls are FireKing also but they are turquoise in color. The smaller two are vegetable bowls and the larger one is a splash proof mixing bowl.
 Here are my nesting bowls. They are new and never used.
I love the colors.
 Andrew came home one evening and saw me looking at FireKing on ebay and while out running errands that evening he came home with these. He is such a wonderful, thougthful man!
Thanks honey, these are an invaluable tool for me so I can recognize a bargain when I run across one!
I still haven't talked myself into buying this, but maybe eventually I will...
Happy Birthday Little Brother
Posted on 2009-Feb-2 at 5:51 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Thirty-Five years ago yesterday, February 1, 1974, this handsome little guy made his big entrance into this world. He was welcomed by his parents and his very excited sister. For 19 years he was a delight to all of us. He was a wonderful little brother!
Happy Birthday little brother! I sure miss you. I know your in a much better place. But my heart still aches at your absence.
It seemed unfair when you were taken from us so young. You were just becoming an adult, you had so much ahead of you. You would be thirty-five now. I don't know why that drunk driver had to be on highway 10 that night, at that time, in that curve. I don't know why it seems like the innocent suffer and the guilty go on to live out their sorry lives...hurting more people and spreading evil...I don't know why you died that March night on the side of that road, and the careless, thoughtless, selfish person who wasn't concerned about anything but having a good time, getting drunk and partying, survived.
It seems so unfair! But I know that God was there that night, He was in control, and although it grieved His heart to see someone throwing their life away like Garry Fox was doing, He cared enough for you. You were His child, someone that loved Him and lived for Him, someone who was a light to all that knew him. God was there to bring you home to live eternally with Him.
He was merciful in the taking; you didn't suffer, your body was left in almost perfect condition, you looked so handsome...just as though you had just gone to sleep, and stepped into glory!
In my mind, I imagine all of our family that has gone on before, waiting there to welcome you home. As I imagine you doing for the ones who have come after you. I know Mawmaw was so happy to join you there. She grieved so much for you!
Daren, I miss you so very much, even more as the years go by...
You were such a sweet brother...I wish I could have just five minutes with you, to tell you just how much I love you, how wonderful it was to have you as a brother. I know I wasn't always the best sister to you. The teen years were crazy ones and I didn't always see that the most important people were my family, and not my friends or the "cool" crowd. I know that later you understood that in your own life.
You were such a blessing to all of us who had the opportunity to know you, and so many people have told us since you've been gone, just what a blessing you were to them. We all still miss you. In a few weeks it will be sixteen years without you. In a few years, you will have been gone, longer than you were here. But the impact you made will live on and on...
I just wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday and tell you just how much I love and miss you!
Although in heaven, you don't have to worry about birthday's or getting older, but each year that passes we will always mark with joy, the day you came into our lives and will always remember with great sadness the day you left...
The Singing Butler, Seattle, and Mt Rainer
Posted on 2009-Jan-27 at 2:09 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
The Singing Butler by Jack Vettriano is a beautiful painting. I really love his paintings. They aren't anything complicated, just the simplicity of the subject matter and the simple lines and bold colors he uses is what attracts me. There is some that have critized his work, but for me, I really like it.
From the first time I saw one of his painting, I fell for his work. This summer when Andrew and I went to Seattle on our anniversary trip, we drove out to the Pacific ocean and stayed a night there. The room we stayed in had a print of The Singing Butler over the couch. I took this photo of it.
While Christmas shopping this year I ran across a framed print of this photo at Kirkland's. They had it on clearance and I couldn't pass it up! So I bought it and put it over our bed. Now when I walk into my bedroom and see the photo my mind always goes back to the wonderful time Andrew and I had on our trip to Seattle and it makes me want to go back.
Of course with the move coming soon, it may be a while before we get the chance to take a trip back to Seattle, but we do plan to go back.
Here is how it looks over my bed.
Here are a couple more photo's from our trip.
 There was nothing more beautiful than looking out the airplane window and seeing this! It was incredible! Awe inspiring! But it still wasn't as awesome as the first glimpse I got of it from Seattle. For the first couple of days we were there it was cloudy and we couldn't see Mt Rainer. But one day, the clouds parted and there it was...wow! It was amazing! When I see a photo of Mt Rainer I gasp and remember that first time I saw it with my own eyes...it took my breath and my heart!
Here you can see it rising through the cloud line, but this doesn't capture the awe of it. It literally almost stopped my heart for a moment, I had to catch my breath and just stand there taking in the majesty of it. I know that sounds honky, but it is so true. People who can wake up and see this on a daily or weekly basis, they are lucky people. It reminds me of the majesty of God, that He spoke this into existence...WOW!
A New Adventure
Posted on 2009-Jan-26 at 10:29 AM by Sugar Bend Farms - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Well, if any of you read my other blog then you already know. But for those who don't...
We are moving!!!
It took a lot of prayer and thought but we decided to accept the offer of a job with the company that my husband use to work for and move!
The only problem is, my oldest daughter doesn't want to go with us. So she will be staying behind. We feel comfortable with the arrangements we have made for her to stay. But it will be a big thing, a big change in the dynamics of our family. However, I suppose that is the way life is; God gives them to you to raise and train up, and then you have to watch them leave the nest to make a life of their own...
I just didn't plan on being 900 miles away when it happened!
With prayer and God's help I know we can make this work.
I am excited about the move. My husband and I have embraced the fact that we both have a little Gypsy in our souls and we like new places and not letting the grass grow under our feet to long. We have been here a little over four years. Four very necessary years for me. God has done a work in me and I am not the same person I was when we came. I feel like most of the change in me has been for the better. There have been many trials, but through those trials and fire, my vessel has become more pure and my priorities have changed. I have thrown off the unnecessary and frivolous and learned what was really important.
So we are making preprations and will be going in a month to find a place to live. Hopefully we can find just what we are hoping for and a price we can live with.
Random Thursday
Posted on 2009-Jan-13 at 9:00 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Well it is Tuesday again already. Where does the time go? Can you believe it is almost the middle of January? I can't believe it...
There isn't a lot going on yet today, so I just thought I would be random with this post.
I started working on a quilt top the first of January and just now got around to piecing it together. I ran short on one type of fabric, so I have to run to Hobby Lobby to get a little more of it to finish the quilt top.
I have always loved the art of quilting. I have worked on a few through the years. I made each of the kids a quilt/comforter. I was working on one for my brother when he was killed. I never really finished it. I have it put up to one day maybe...
Again, for my grandma's 90th birthday I started working on a memory quilt to give her. It featured a photo of her and her husband(my grandpa: I refer to him as her husband because he died in 1944, so I never knew him, in fact, my mother was born 3 months after his death.) Anyway, then in the squares around it were going to be photo's of my mom and her sister and their families. I had all of the squares sewn together, and some of the photo's copied and ironed onto the fabric then my computer crashed, or my printer died...then we moved, then my sewing machine needed work...after a while we moved again...and like life, time got by, the quilt was not really forgotten, just out of sight and out of mind...then we moved again, and again...then my grandma got sick and passed away...
A few months ago when we were cleaning out one of the storage units we rent, and downsizing, I found a tote with fabric and craft things...inside was the quilt top...
Again, another half made quilt for someone that had passed...I put the quilt top back into the tote and decided to save it for another time, another time when the emotions weren't quite so raw. Another time when I can take it out and work on it without the regrets being so strong. I wanted so much to finish that quilt to give to Maw Maw, but it wasn't to be, I just don't think I can work on it yet. In time, in time I will...
But back to today...here is a photo of what I am attempting now...it isn't for anyone,(I am almost afraid to make a quilt for anyone after the past experiences!LOL!), just to have around the house, in a basket to use as a throw in the living room. 
One day recently during a cold Sunday afternoon, I wasn't feeling well and I wanted to lie down on the couch and take a catnap. I went into the hallway to the linen closet and pulled out an old quilt that Andrew's granny had made. We haven't used it in years, because we all have queen and king beds and it is a full size quilt. So the quilt had been stored up and we also found it while cleaning out the storage shed. Now everyone fights over it, even Noah. Anyway, I wrapped up in that quilt that was aged with the years and use, and thought how comforting it was to have the weight of it on me. I catnapped all afternoon, which is unusual for me, I am not a daytime sleeper, and felt so comfortable and secure. So I begin reading about quilting again, and about quilts. I decided then and there, I would start quilting and make several to hand down to my kids and grandkids. So one day, if the world is still standing, many years from now, when I am dead a gone, one of my grandkids or great grandkids will find comfort and warmth in a quilt, worn with age and use, and know that their grandmother; me; made that quilt, and that will make them feel even more warmed and comforted...
Back to the quilt top. I got a magazine recently called Quilts and More by Better Homes and Garden on the cover was this quilt:
I couldn't find the exact fabrics, but I loved those turquoise and browns together. So that was the inspiration for the fabrics I chose. I want to go to Hancocks to see if they have some that are more similar to the photo. That will be for my second quilt. For now, I have to complete this one, just to prove to myself that I can. I have a few more rows of squares to add then comes the quilting...that is what takes the longest. I would love to start a quilting bee...yes, in the crazy world we live in today, that seems impossible. But I remember when I was a young girl, a neighbor had a quilting frame that hung from her ceiling and it could be raised back up when not in use. The ladies would get together and work on quilts. Wow! Wouldn't that be great. I wish I knew a circle of women locally that would be interested in reviving those lost arts. But for now, I will work on machine quilting to make a few things to pass to my children...
Speaking of children. Here is a cute photo of Noah getting ready for Sunday School a couple of weeks ago.
I will close with a couple of quilting quotes
Blessed are the children of the piecemakers for they shall inherit the quilts!
~unknown~
Good friends are like Quilts. They age with you, yet never lose their warmth
~unknown~
Our lives are like quilts - bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched with love
~unknown~
Quilters touch the past and the future
~unknown~
Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Fried Chicken Dreams, and Goodwill Bargains
Posted on 2008-Dec-2 at 11:03 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I have a confession to make
I can't fry...
I can fry catfish okay, but I do that in a fryer, so that doesn't count...
If it is in a pan, I can't fry it.
The problem is my batter won't stay on...
I have read how to remedy that and it still doesn't work for me.
It isn't because I didn't learn. I took four years of home-ec in high school and
My mom fried everything we ever ate, not really, but mostly...
We were the fried meat kind of people, at least they were..are still
But me, well, I am more of a bake, braise, boil, saute, steam, broil, blacken,
anything but fry...kind of gal.
Frying doesn't really do much for me.
But with that said, there are times when frying is just want you want.
Like say fried chicken...
All kids like fried chicken, and I don't really want to have to drive down to
Popeye's every timethe kids want fried chicken.
Even though I am sure they wish I would,
especially after they see my poor excuse for fried chicken.
Tonight I was in a daring mood and decided to try it again.
I pulled a bag of chicken parts from the freezer and thawed them.
Then I put milk into the bag for the chicken to soak in for a while.
I prepared my flour, adding Tony's, pepper, salt with a dash of garlic powder.
I pulled out the trusty cast iron pan and added my oil.
I coated each piece very heavily with the flour mixture and dropped them into the hot oil.
I waited, and after I felt it had browned enough on one side I
turned it over and let it brown on the reverse side.
Once that was done I turn the heat down some and continued to turn and cook.
And tonight, I guess the mood was right, and the stars aligned just so, because
my crispy didn't fall of of the meat!
Grant it, they were a little, wee bit browner than I like, but hey, there was
crispy on my fried chicken! Isn't that what really matters?
What does this have to do with anything?
Well I asked myself that very thing before I sat down to write about it.
I suppose it means that sometimes, things just work out, sometimes they don't. Just because it never worked out for you before, doesn't mean it won't at some point happen.
What does all of that mean?
Well maybe I feel like sharing a little "fortune cookie wisdom" tonight.
Maybe I just have to much time on my hands and I am just rambling...
Here is a picture of Noah in his new pj's... Isn't he a cutie!
Here are a couple of my recent Goodwill finds:
 I found these two bowls three weeks or so ago. They are hand crafted Japanese pottery. The design is Wild Iris. I am sure they aren't worth anything really, but their simple design and their shape and size was appealing to me. I think I paid $2.00 each for them. They are in perfect shape, no chips and look like there were brand new.
 This is a magnetic board. I paid $2.00 for it. And really I would have never bought it although I am one of those people who has my refrigerator full of clippings, comic strips, kids drawings, appointment reminders, and anything that catches my eye that a magnet will hold up on the fridge... so I could use more space for posting things. I wasn't looking for anything like that but this reached out and grabbed my attention.
This was attached to it, done on a piece of vellum paper. I suppose I was in a "Fortune Cookie wisdom" kind of mood that day also. Sometimes I struggle with things; not great big things, but those small things in my head; like purpose, and why are we here, and what is the big picture. Maybe I am the only one...
...Anyway, this caught my eye. It was like a message, on a day when I needed some voice of wisdom speaking to me, some direction, some God-inspired message just for me. Whoever thought I could find such a thing at Goodwill, and for only two dollars at that! I'd say that was quite a bargain!
It also included magnetic letters that said I LOVE MY LITTLE. I started wondering about the previous owner. Little what? For me it would mean, my little ones, kiddos. But I wondered why the person that had this before decided to get rid of it. Did they stop dreaming? Did they no longer love their little? Yes, I have such a small brain that these things cause me to ponder...Humor me, please...
...or did they catch that dream that they dared...and did the little get big...so the message no longer applied...
...maybe the motivation of the message worked so well for the prior owner they wanted to pass it along to someone they thought might need this bit of wisdom...
This is where I came in, searching through Goodwill for some source of inspiration. Some life changing Epiphany, some answers to those nagging questions that keep me up at night. So I bought it and it is now hanging on my kitchen wall, soon to be filled with comic strips that I find humorous or ironic. I will pass it daily and be reminded that in life, you should dare to dream, and you should always love your little_____!!!
I am sure that this post confirms what many of you have always believed about me...
I am a little nutty!! Some of you are saying, "More than a little nutty!"
But if you made it this far, at least it was interesting to you!!!
Or, like a freak show, you had to keep reading to see just how strange I do become!!!
Either way, thanks for visiting...tomorrow I may be medicated and the post may actually make sense...LOL!(not really, I'm not on medication, unless you count midol one week a month!) OH! TMI!! Sorry!
A Little Rant
Posted on 2008-Nov-12 at 6:11 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Yesterday I did something that at one time in my life would have been unthinkable...
Something that would have embarrassed my girls, had they been with me.
Noah was with me, but at three, didn't realize that there was cause for embarrassment....
I took Noah for his three year checkup and while I was in that area, decided to go to a new Walmart near there.
I had clipped some coupons and printed some from the computer...
I did my shopping, took my half-filled buggy to the check-out
I got in line, put my items on the conveyer belt...
After having all my items scanned, I handed her my coupons...
She pulled out the clipped ones and returned the ones printed from the internet...
She said they weren't allowed to take them..
I asked to speak with someone about it...
A CSM walked over and I told her the situation, she looked at the coupons and said that they couldn't take them because people had been faking coupons...
So I asked to speak with a manager....
I waited...
and
Waited...
Finally a manager of some sorts walked up and asked what the problem was...
I explained the situation and that I use them in other stores and she said that she couldn't take them...
So I reached in the buggy, where my groceries were neatly placed in my reusable bags, and I began taking the groceries out of the bags...
I put them back into the buggy and said to the cashier and manager that I would leave the groceries in the buggy. If they couldn't take the coupons, I would shop in a store that would.
I told them that Kroger takes the coupons, so they would get my business from now on...
I took my bags and my purse, I picked up Noah and walked out!!!
I will NOT spend any more of my hard earned money in that store!!
I took Megan the her orthodontics appointment yesterday evening, and afterward went to the Walmart where I usually shop...
When I walked in, I asked the CSM if they took coupons printed from the internet. She said as long as they scan properly they will take them...
I picked up the items I needed, and took them to the register
Without any question, the cashier scanned my coupons and gave me my total.
I paid, thanked her and walked out, feeling much better about my Walmart shopping experience...
Kroger and that Walmart store will get my money from now on!!
I think more people should have the courage to stand up against things that aren't right. Vote with your money. Spend your money where you are treated with respect. A place that will remember the old adage in retail:
"The customer is always right"
I am giving them my money, so in return they must be willing to make things easier for me as a consumer. Gone are the days of thinking that they are doing us a favor...
We are the reason they are in business, and there are many places to chose from. Some places have gotten to big for their own good, and think they don't have to please the consumer any more.
But I am going to spend my money where I am treated well and not talked to and treated like I am a criminal that is trying to rip them off...
I am sure they have people like that, but I am not one of them, and don't feel I should be punished because there are a few moral deficient people in this world.
Okay, enough rant for today!
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid. ~
Audre Lorde~
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to
step out of our ruts and start searching for different
ways or truer answers.
~M. Scott Peck~
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot
hear what you say.
Coupons
Posted on 2008-Nov-12 at 8:11 AM by Sugar Bend Farms - 3 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Okay, so I have used coupons a lot through the years. No big deal, right? Sometimes I would save a few dollars on my grocery bill and I thought I was really doing something.
But when I read this blog and this blog with all of those who commented on their savings, I began to think that maybe there was much more to couponing than I understood. So I began to read, and study and this is what I did..
Kroger is having a Mega deal event this week and next. If you buy 10 of selected items, you get $5.00 off the purchase. Kroger also doubles coupons up to 55 cents,(that's $1.10). So I had coupons on all these items. I got these 10 items for a grand total of ...are you ready?
I got
4 boxes of Quaker Oats,
1- 3 liter bottle of water,
2 boxes Betty Crocker scalloped and Au Gratin potatoes
1 package Betty Crocker Triple chunk chocolate chip cookie mix
2-24 boxes of Tylenol extra strength
That is 10 items
I paid....$4.13!!!!
I was so pumped! I have never saved that much on anything before!
I was hooked. I am like a crack addict looking for my next fix!
Here it is. The water was free and the tylenol was also free with coupons and the money back after buying the 1o items. $4.13!! Wow!
So I go to another Kroger store today, because the one I went to yesterday didn't have some of the items I wanted. So today this is what I got. Minus the items listed earlier.
 
 ..
Today's haul was great. I got:
1-4 roll Cottenelle tissue- .29 cents!
1-2 liter DrPepper
1-2 liter Big K Ginger Ale
1-64 oz Welch white grape juice
4 cans condensed soup
2 cans carnation cream
16 slices kraft cheese
1 can Pringles
3 cans Chef Boyardee
1-package Betty Crocker Chocolate chunk cookie mix (in addition to the one I got yesterday)
1 box Duncan Hines brownie mix
3 boxes Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix
2 Peter Pan peanut butter
4 boxes Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal .40 cents a box!!!!
1-box Ritz crackers
2 boxes Pilsbury Toaster strudels
1 bag Totinos Pizza rolls
2 kroger chili envelopes (seasoning)
1 bag Fritos
1 bag Chili Cheese Fritos
1 bag Cheetos
5 cans kroger brand sliced potatoes
With the $10.00 off because of buying 20 of the items and with the coupons I had the total for today's shopping trip was.....
$38.02!!!!
I am so into this now!!
I can't wait to go back to save more money!
I am a crazy woman. I am so excited!! I use to dread going grocery shopping, now I want to go everyday just to see how much money I don't spend!!
My total savings from both trips was.....
$73.16
If anyone out there doesn't use coupons, and you get them in the mail or in your newspaper, I would be glad to take them off your hands...
Just let me know and I will send you SASE's and you can just drop them in the mail to me!!
Here are a couple of cute quotes about money to end this post. Enjoy!
If more of us thought in these terms, we would have much less junk in our homes and much more happiness in our lives!
Weekly Happenings
Posted on 2008-Oct-31 at 2:38 PM by Sugar Bend Farms - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Well we finally did it! It took us a while, but after all this time, it is finally done! I talked about it here. Over a year ago! But little by little we completed our mission.
We got rid of one of our storage sheds!! We cleaned it out!
Everything! We threw away two truck loads of junk!
We brought the rest home for more through going through
and hopefully throwing more away.
That is $50.00 back in our pockets each month.
 Some things will be kept. Some will be given away (does anyone need a twin mattress set?). Free to a good home!
Some things will be taken to Louisiana and put into our storage shed that we own
and don't have to put out money on each month.
Those things will be things like Megan's very large collection
of Barbie dolls and baby dolls that she wants
to keep so someday she can show her children!
Other weeky events included:
Making fig preserves!
In August when my parents came for a visit, they brought me several gallon freezer bags full of frozen figs.
These figs were picked and frozen by a very dear lady who has more figs than she can
do with herself, and is such a doll that she is willing to share
with her friends. Thanks Sis Phyllis!
The figs are delicious!
 I just used one gallon bag to make these. I was just testing the recipe and it turned out well! I thawed the figs, cooked them down in a water and sugar syrup. Added a little salt and some vanilla flavoring. I let them cook down very slowly, for about three hours, stirring often and staying very close to the pot.
The next batch I will add some sliced lemon instead of vanilla.
And another batch I will add strawberries to the mix.
I have fond memories of fig preserves.
My Granny Holaway use to make them when I was a kid.
We had a fig tree in our yard and she would come visit and I would climb up and pick figs,
she would then go home and make preserves and bring some back to us.
I loved them on toast!
I had forgotten about fig preserves for years until I was pregnant with Noah.
I started craving them. I searched and searched and finally found some in
Mountain View, Arkansas.
I bought a jar and ate my fill.
Then I started buying them at the Farmers Market at $6.00 a jar!
But thanks to Sis Phyllis, I have my own for just the cost of the sugar and my time!
Yummy!
And finally, this is my new kitchen curtain. For years, I have decorated my kitchen in peppers. But when we moved into this house, I decided to change
the decor. I wanted to go with the "waiters" but just never did do much
toward decorating. The kitchen is smaller than I am use to and counter
space is precious, and I don't have any wall space for hanging plaques or pictures.
So I just didn't do anything.
While visiting the Goodwill store I ran across these curtains. They looked brand new,
never used. I paid $1.50 for them. I just couldn't
pass up such a deal. And I like how they look
in my kitchen window. It added a new
feel to my small kitchen. And for $1.50 how could you go worng?
Well, that about wraps up the week, other than the fact that we have all been sickies. We have been treating allergies all week. I suppose it is the change in the weather that is bringing it about.
Speaking of change:
Don't forget to change your clocks this weekend. Fall back! We get an extra hour on Saturday night to either sleep, or whatever...
But starting next week it will be dark much earlier and we will have to start
staying inside more and the days will seem much shorter. Lord knows I
could use longer days to accomplish the things on my to-do lists, but I suppose for
a few months, we will just have to deal with shorter days and more indoor
activities. Which sends me looking for one of these.
Maybe this year I will actually try the light therapy. Wonder if Goodwill has one of
those lamps? HMMMMMMmmmmm......
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