Here is what my June looked like in a picture a day… June is a few hours from being over. We are now halfway through 2017. And we are also closer to Christmas 2017 than Christmas 2016. You have 177 shopping days. The word that comes to mind when I look back at my daily photos from the month and I think about all the experiences that June brought with it is growth. The biggest event during this month is…
I said yesterday that I am a minimalist. I don’t like to be surrounded by a lot of “stuff.” I also said that the one exception to my own “if I can’t use it right now then get rid of it” philosophy is books. I like books. All kinds of books. Weber likes books too. This is good for our relationship and bad for our bookshelves. When we got married, we had limited shelf space. We agreed that we would…
“Bloom” There are lots of places that I enjoy being. Really though, who I am with is much more important to me than where I am. If the company is good, I can overlook some pretty dismal surroundings. Proof of this is the nearly a year that we spent in the house with no kitchen while we were remodeling. All those microwave meals were perfectly fine with me because I shared them with the love of my life. It…
“Half Stoned” Just keeping things real today… We are almost done with the renovations on the inside of the house and have now started on the outside. Most of the outside work is being done on the entry way and front porch. The biggest change is the addition of stone to some of the red brick on the front of the house. The stone is in place but is waiting to be grouted. A fresh coat of paint will also…
“A Clean Kitchen:” Today’s prompt asked us to focus on what goes on in the kitchen – food being prepared, consumed or just displayed. As you can see, nothing is going on in our kitchen today; that is the point of my photo. At this moment, the kitchen is clean. There is nothing being prepared, cooked or eaten. This is definitely not its normal state. Though it is usually clean with regard to sanitation standards (except for an occasional cat…
“Home IS Where My Heart Is” Just as I finished taking this photo yesterday, the news of the terrible devastation in Oklahoma started pouring in. It felt wrong to post a picture of my home when so many people had lost not only their homes but their children and loved ones. My prayers are with all those whose lives have been torn apart by Brother Wind. May God give them strength, courage, love and a sense of community as they…
“Silver Where? Today’s prompt of “messy” offered me so many possibilities! Weber would tell you that I need not look any further than my desk, which admittedly is a major disaster right now. Then there is the pile of shoes in my closet. Some days I think that it is a miracle that I make it out the door in the morning wearing two matching shoes! The mess I chose to photograph is our silver wear drawer. It had these…
“The Pink Jokester” Everybody has a pink flamingo in their garage, right? Specifically, a pink wicker flamingo, right? We’re not weird or anything. The weird people are the ones who let their pink flamingos hang out in their front yards, right? At least ours is in the garage. This pink flamingo, along with many other pink things, has become an icon of our remodeling process. She makes random appearances when a smile is necessary or when she is needed to help draw…
Up until this moment, only a very few people know that one of the things on my bucket list is to get stoned. Well really, I just want to smoke pot. I’m not sure whether to be embarrassed by or proud of the fact that to this day, roughly one week shy of my fiftieth birthday, despite having spent nearly a decade on college campuses as a music major, I have never been stoned. Now that it is about time…
For many months our kitchen has looked like this. The refrigerator has protective coverings but has been plugged in and working for quite a while. That has been the extent of our kitchen function. As you can see, the oven is in place but its protective coverings and interior packing materials have not been removed. The many boxes in this picture contain the cooktop, microwave, garbage disposal and, yes, the kitchen sink. You will notice a definite lack of cabinets…