I had to get some groceries, so I went to Walmart where I could also get black spray paint, and freshened up this old table. It was green, faded, blotchy, looked like hell. Now it looks good again. The over spray got on my ankles and hands, but that’s fine. Nobody is going to see […]
Spring break took a weird turn this year, as everyone knows. There are five kids home, three college students and two high school students, and none of them really want to be here. James and Aaron are finishing up and graduating in May. This was not the ending any of us pictured. Kari is back
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I ordered these two acrylic racks to put literature in at my real estate listings. All good. They’re just fine. But they were sent in a box bigger than a cooler, just a gigantic box: With another box inside, and all this packing foam. I’m glad they didn’t break, true, but this seems like vast
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This was a long awaited day–the day Julia received her little retainer which would fill in the congenitally missing laterals in her smile. We didn’t even thing it would happen because Corona. But the office called and said they could meet in the parking lot and see if it fit, and if it did, good
The Leprechauns threw their candy around and left a mean note. The kids are pretty big for this, but this has been going on since the late 1980s, over 30 years. And who doesn’t like candy and a mean note? Plus, it’s at that point of the year, where spring is right there, a day
This pictures were taken with my Samsung phone, no filters of any kind. The days are getting longer and the light was so perfectly February, it stopped me right in the driveway, heading out to pick up Julia from a friend’s house. So nice. Love, Val
Everyone is back to school and work. It was so quiet here all week. The snowstorm that was supposed to be dramatic? It was not. It was a very pretty Friday night, snow was done falling within a few hours. Kids are coming tomorrow since there’s no school. House should be a little more lively
It took a while, plus dusting and vacuuming. But the place is back to normal, ready for a new year. When I was picking up toys I found these two. A kid we know has been watching YouTube crafting videos and it shows. Love, Val
