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The nice description of my dining room at present, with one coat of red paint and no more until the roof leak that appeared in such a timely manner this afternoon (our first!) stops sending a small trail of water between the paint and sheetrock.
That room has been so disagreeable this whole painting process. I was quite thankful tonight that Alabama is Blue Bell country and for the first time in months, we had some in the freezer. I needed some therapy.
ETA: At least Kate likes it. She’s exclaimed multiple times, “Oh mommy! The dining room is BEAUTIFUL!”
Posted in home sweet home
Sanding, spackling, sanding again, cleaning, priming & painting multiple coats = a dining room that is no longer orangellow. Pictures after the painting is finished and better blogging then, too!
Posted in home sweet home
I’m a little disappointed that Richmond & Raleigh got snow and even Texas had an ice storm and we got nothing but grey skies, drizzle and chill.
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We haven’t been to Wal-Mart in a month. I’ve blogged about it before, but I just don’t like Wal-Mart. I try to avoid it, even though it’s hard in a small town where Wal-Mart is the largest and cheapest store. We usually drive to the next town over to shop, about seven miles without much traffic but a few traffic lights. Anyhow, even avoiding it, Wal-Mart is still on the tip of my tongue and the front of my mind. When Kate pushes her shopping cart around the house, she is always “going to Wal-mart!” When I recommend my favorite homeopathic teething remedy, I tell where they usually shelve it at Wal-Mart.
On a related note, I would like to confess publicly that I like Starbucks. I really like independent coffee shops as well, but Starbucks is the closest coffee shop to me and they have above average hot chocolate and decaf drinks. Due to the kindness of my marvelous husband, I go to Starbucks almost every Monday evening, get something to drink and read for a few hours. Over the course of the last free months, I’ve come to know several of the employees and we chit-chat about life and books. I am always surprised that they remember my name and story and was tickled when they made me an extra drink “on the hiz-ouse” this week and gave me a Bearista for Kate.  Some empires, not so evil.
Posted in culture
I have never done this before, but what the heck…
We love books and we want our kids to love books. Paperback books are cheap, but they wear quickly. I use my trusty packaging tape to reinforce the spine and edges and they are so much sturdier! I learned this trick as a teacher. I’ll try to post pictures later if anyone is interested.
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A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken is one of those books I’ve always heard great things about and never read. It’s of particular importance to a couple I know, which only served to deepen its mystique. I finally read it last week and it certainly met my expectations. I appreciated the integration of both the romantic and spiritual elements of the story, and enjoyed it far more than most autobiographies because the prose was better than most in that classification.
The beauty of the relationship remembered is breathtaking. Sometimes I wondered if everything really happened just that way, but we all reconstruct memories from time to time and even if it is partly fiction and partly fact, it’s nothing but the truth, as Pierce Pettis so aptly sang. The conversion story is also interesting as it captures the classic pattern of the modern coming-to-faith. I think it will help people in the future to understand the classic evangelism of the past.
A quick but thoughtful read. (8.5/10, from the bookshelf, acquired on paperbackswap)
(Another graphic you can use, if you’d like.)
I really like to share what I’ve read here on my blog and get your feedback on it. We’ve had some good conversations. But writing book reviews isn’t easy for me. I give them a little more circulation by cross posting them to Amazon.com. Then I’m sharing not just with my wonderful blog readers, but also with Amazon surfers near and far. I’m still not churning out reviews, but it has improved my sharing a little and every little bit helps.
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“There are 17 million Anglicans in Nigeria and about 350,000 people in the PCA worldwide. You could fit our entire denomination in Talledega Motor Speedway.”
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I need a few people with different browsers and internet connection speeds (dial-up, dsl, etc.) to report in and tell me how quickly/accurately this page is loading for you. Thank you!
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For some reason, our Akismet spam filter has gotten a little overly aggressive lately. Please don’t get offended if your comment spends a while in filter purgatory. :o/
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