SUMMER ARRIVED WEARING A HEAT WAVE. Now that's styling. Temps in the 90s on the first day of Summer, but we stayed comfortable in an air conditioned COTTAGE. Fan running and air blowing. Worked inside.
I managed to empty one of the curio cabinets filled with my doll collection. Hubby and I scooted the piece across the floor so it can sit in the living room to be hauled away for an auction.
I started cleaning out the other cabinet then stopped because my Husband began to feel ill and thought it best to go HOME so we could rest. I'll see about finishing later.
Hoping to haul over in two pieces what I call my Grandma's Hutch. Clearing it off. Boxing up items. The mirror will need to be released from the base and I think we can load the base piece in the back of PETE today then unload into the Dining room. I have old dishes sitting out already that I can put into this piece so they are in a safe place.
Hubby plans to work at the COTTAGE scooting the bathroom vanity into place. It won't be hooked up yet as we need to find a faucet for it, but at least the large vanity will be in it's new HOME ready for hook up. While he is doing this, I can be going through boxes and taking out the dishes to go inside pieces of furniture. Another trip HOME to get the mirror for Grandma's Hutch and attaching it will be order.
The boxes in the middle of the Dining room can be gone through and removed making space for the round table and four antique chairs. The Dining room would start to look like a real Dining room. Tadaah. Progress. Maybe this will actually happen today.
Slowly the COTTAGE is getting filled with furniture and in order. PTL.
Company is to come in today. I need to make sure there is enough food in the house. We'll sleep in the main house and eat there as well. A slow paced atmosphere so we can visit. The beds are not broke down yet, so they will have a comfortable place to rest. Praying for safe travels.
I was reading about foods to eat for healthy living with a BIBLICAL flare to it. It makes wonderful sense to eat the way GOD instructs. Dr. Axe has some very good information to share as Annette Reeder does as well. I believe I will read some more and take it to heart. God help me be responsive to your ways.
We have one more week in the month of June. Seems like the month just started. This month, I learned I have uterine cancer, I had a precancerous area treated by my eyelid, my oldest son turned 48, we bought 6 Amish pressed back chairs for under $50, moved quite a few pieces of furniture from the main house to the COTTAGE, celebrated my sister's 70th birthday, attended an adoption event at the local court house and celebrated the occasion with delight. What else? A very full month and looking forward to SUMMER even if it's extremely HOT.
I bought two wood signs from the thrift store to place on our COTTAGE PORCH for the 4th of July. This is as patriotic as I will be decorating this SUMMER as my seasonal decorations are boxed up. When I think about last year's 4th of July Celebration, it's as if it were literally just a few days ago. It seems impossible that it's been a year already. We were working on clearing out the storage shed this time last year and here it has been a year. Makes my head spin. How can time fly like this?
I will want to eat some homemade ice-cream, maybe some brownies and sip on lemonade in the shade this SUMMER making plans to clean up the front flowerbed and rearrange some Irises making room for planting bushes later.
I am in high hopes that we will have all the big pieces of furniture relocated to the COTTAGE in July. The boxes will need to be out of the main house as well then we can begin our painting touch-ups and prepare to sell the grand place. I have enjoyed the main house for 6 years now and it truly doesn't seem like it has been 6 years.
We weathered C O V I D in this 1883 house that we bought in 2017 that I admired every time we came to this town, rebuilt the screened-in porch in 2020. Had the Living room and Dining room's floor professionally laid with beautiful wood and shutters professionally hung in the Living room and Dining room. Painted these rooms as well with Behr paint. Hung different ceiling lights. I had my gangrenous gall bladder removed, discovered my Husband to have non-Hodgkins lymphoma, that I am diabetic, and now have uterine cancer. On the bight side we are still alive! While we have lived here, we began to eat healthier and our daughter became pregnant with her son who is now a very active 19 month old. My Husband retired from working over twenty years at KSU. We have been watching our Grandchildren grow up and become such neat people. I have been working at thinning out our earthly possessions and shredding old papers getting better organized and downsized. We have new COTTAGE Iris gardens and given much thought to remodeling the 1900 Folk Victorian COTTAGE. Hubby has been drawing and I have been researching health issues to be better informed. I have been given a golden opportunity to focus on what is really important in LIFE. It's a life surrendered to a HOLY GOD, loving people and being kind to one another within a covenant marriage. Things are things that we are blessed to use while we live and people are eternal beings that we are to love and respect.
With all that said, this SUMMER I shall enjoy. Hot as it will be, I will enjoy each day and trust GOD to see us through.
SUMMER times ahead and all is well,
~d
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