Jibber Jabber

A different kind of day for me.  The KANSAS skies are grey with the sound of a distant thunder rumbling across the Prairie.  The path to my front door remains unseen to rain.  Sipping cold coffee, I sit resting from a week of a lot of traveling including a whirlwind trip across country to see our newborn grandson.  I'm having to speak words of encouragement to myself to get up, dust and do laundry.  

Traveling seems to affect me more than ever.  Sort of like jet lag, but no airplane was involved.  What should this be called...auto drag?

A good day to look at pictures.  Looking through my WEDDING PICTURES was time well spent.  Beautiful memories.  There are hand written notes of wedding gifts that were given at wedding showers.  Gosh...I had forgotten how sweet people were to give us such nice gifts to start our HOME MAKING with.  We both were way skinnier than presently.  Sigh.  grins.  At the end of the month, we celebrate 40 years as Husband and Wife.  We've built a life together.  Here we are...still going.  

SIX grandchildren later.  

Our newest was BORN just this week.  

What a sweetheart he is.   


Cleaning.  The Parlour is long over due.  What I call the BUMP OUT on the house is really a very small Conservatory.  A perfectly inviting place for spiders and another host of bugs to call HOME.  Only problem is, I no likie spiders and buglettes.  

This week-end I hope to clean this small place out and reclaim it for humanity.  I should probably sell tickets so others can get a laugh at how it looks as an older woman crawls around on her knees to dust under the furniture.  The bugs have invaded.  As I attempt to get up in an upright position they'd see that the human body moves in ways not nice to mention.  Mercy me.

Speaking of HUMANITY, we stopped by RESTORE and claimed a couple of old chairs that need tender loving care by the Master of this estate.  Saw them and just knew they needed our old stone house to come HOME to.  See the picture...she was calling my name.

Sure hope that we have a slow paced week-end.  I would love to get rested up.  The week was a 'on the go' kind of week where we drove over to Hillsboro to see my oldest brother recovering in a nursing home from emergency bowel obstruction surgery.  My sis and bro-n-law were out to see him.  My poor Mom is exhausted.  It's been 3 weeks since her son had surgery and she has seen first hand how ill he has been.   We drove HOME.  

SHE STILL STANDS

Next day we were in the auto again and drove to Pilsen to attend a cousin's 40th wedding anniversary.  
I was in the wedding party way back when.  Was nice to be there.  

Drove HOME and rested on Monday to pack and hit the road on Tuesday to see newborn grandson and family.  Spent the night and drove HOME the next day.  Thursday was busy and today it's Friday!

I was reading in a local paper that 75 years ago sprinkling lavender about the books help prevent mildew.  Thought that was good to know.  

The way I do my housework these days has changed big time from how I did it as a young woman.  Now, I might dust a section of a room, sit down and do some book keeping, get up to put a load of laundry in, then return to dust another section of the room I was dusting in before, sit down to write a card out, return to room cleaning, do a little something, then get a drink of water, eat, sit down, etc.

Whatever floats your boat and works...do it.  Perhaps this cleaning technique will change again.  At least I am moving and breathing as I go.  A little here and a little there gets the job done.  Praise the Lord. 

Day dreaming this week with visions of sugar plums dancing in my head.  Christmas thoughts with snow.  How many Fridays until Christmas?  Only ELF knows.  

I have this habit of starting CHRISTMAS SHOPPING through out the year.  Little gifts start to collect and congregate desiring to be wrapped.  Know what I mean?  I had a pile of gifts stashed behind a wing chair in the Parlour.  Moved the gifts upstairs into the hallway.  Wish I had a GIFT CABINET to store all kinds of gifts, but don't.  Not a huge problem to have. 

Even have thought of writing out Christmas cards in July, leaving card open to insert a Christmas letter that will be written in December.  May still do this.  Though July has come and gone, might do in September.

Hubby plans to work some on our famous KITCHEN.  Wonder how this will go.

Me…hope to accomplish whatever I'm suppose to accomplish like...cleaning out the BUMP-OUT.

This week I got some great decorating ideas which gives me lots of ideas to fall asleep on as I drift off to la la land.  Sweet sweet dreams.


Blessings and I hope it's a great week-end for you,
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