Saturday, April 2, 2022
THOUGHTS ON DINING...and thoughts on the slap heard around the world
Friday, March 25, 2022
D O N E !!!
THERE'S TIME TO HANG PICTURES, A MIRROR AND A CLOCK UP if we so desire. The DINING ROOM is painted! Wow! So pleased of how it turned out. Ceiling, crown molding, walls, wainscoting, baseboard and some caulking done.
D O N E. Hallelujah. It was a long time in the making, but she's HISTORY NOW. Praise the LORD. I started last Summer on clearing out two curio cabinets full of Blue Willow China. Then clearing out an antique china cabinet full of crystal. I boxed up the crystal and took it over to the COTTAGE. I filled the antique china cabinet with the Blue Willow. The curio cabinets have been moved completely out of the house.
We had to shuffle the rest of the furniture about the room to paint it. One side of the room got painted and when it was done the furniture was moved to the other side. Now each piece of furniture is in position.
💑 Hubs and I love it. It's prettier in person than the pictures show. Maybe my Dining room isn't photogenic, but I'm the one smiling showing off my teeth. While hubby completed the finishing touches, I shredded paper. I'm closer to being done than the day before, but still have a long ways to gooooooooo.
NOW, I will spend some quiet time in the Dining room sitting at the table having a nice HOT cup of tea, enjoying the room.
🥤~d 👵
Sunday, August 9, 2020
SUNDAY SERMONETTE: Thou Shalt Not Dilly-Dally
SUNDAY IS HERE. Hopefully a day of rest. No church service today for me. On line is available. So are a multitude of programs that can be watched anytime of the day or night. This is one element that is really nice about the internet and having a home computer. Still can listen to a recording, listen to the radio or watch the tele, but the internet can far reach for me.
Some places of worship are returning to gathering together as a body. Outdoor services are a plenty. Tents available much like the tent meetings of old. When indoors, there is concern of sitting too close to one another.
Our neighboring community ignored social distancing during Fair Time. I was surprised they had their Fair this year. Word is out the virus struck and today the sheeple are ill. Developing into what is called community spread.
It will get worse before it gets better. Numbers are climbing. When living in small communities when the word gets out that there is community spread, you usually know the people it has made ill so you know the stats are true and not made up.
If people choose to ignore the warnings they may get ill. Not until it happens to them will they believe? You know that saying you can lead a horse to water but you cannot force them to drink. It applies to humans as well. Sometimes humans are more like donkeys. Stubborn and mule headed. Some will not heed the warnings and they do not take cover to protect themselves which leads to not so nice consequences.
Proverbs 22:3 KJV
Getting ready for the week to come. Stepping outside one is quickly engulfed by humidity and heat. It feels more like HOUSTON HEAT than Kansas weather. I remember when I did live in Houston that some Summer months it was as hot at 3 in the morning as it were 3 in the afternoon. During the Summer months, there was no cooling off during the evening and early hours of the day. This was hot.
I missed how Kansas cooled off during the night and it was bliss to open the windows or have electric fans suck the cooler air into the house to cool things off. Bliss.
Standing on the Kitchen porch today is like entering a sauna. No breeze. Stuffy and difficult to breathe. Back inside, the fans are running helping to circulate air which helps keep the body comfortable.
The Weatherman is predicting RAIN on Monday. Welcomed rain. This Summer has had it's fair share of rainstorms. A wonderful phenomenon to have on the Prairie. The scent of Kansas rain is sometimes unique having a pleasant aroma to breathe in. Refreshing.
This past week I went inside Walmart to buy bluejeans. Having much on clearance, I quickly shopped and did not dilly-dally. It's been a while since I had been in the Walmart store. Months. One of the main door entrances were locked as to encourage shoppers to all enter on the other side of the store. When at that entrance, security was monitoring shoppers to enter through one door as those exiting came out of the same entrance just a different door.
Inside on the floor were decals of traffic flow arrows pointing the way to go. When I did get to the blue jean section, the dressing rooms were off limits due to COVID. I purchased two pair of jeans and will use my home as the fitting room. If needed I can return items which means an additional visit.
Shopping for about 30 minutes was too long. Twas hot inside with no air moving. The inside of the car was a retreat for an old woman like me. Mask off and air on. The drive HOME couldn't have come quick enough.
The rest of AUGUST will have a concentrated effort to dust the inside of each room of our HOME. The Kansas dust is everywhere causing frequent dustings. Making headway on filing paperwork. I pray that I can get to the bottom of this burdensome task. Inching along on the new TV room. Bills taken care of. Hubby continues to work at rebuilding the screened in porch as it was falling a part. Will plant some Mums.
We'll drill some holes in this galvanized tub, adding healthy soil to plant mums in. Autumn is just around the corner and MUMS add some FALL CHARM when decorating.
We purchased some mums and they are about to open up with flowers.
This week the laundry will get attention. The rooms tidied. Time to think and meditate. Some do not need QUIET TIME. I crave it.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
NEW Dining room Is An OLD Dining room
of working at getting things the way we want as we morph right along.
| Our $10 Buffet and $28 Parlour Chair |
Since these pictures have been taken, we have already shuffled these two pieces about the room.
One of these days I hope to have a beautiful Dining room table with at least 6 matching chairs and China Cabinet.
Mom's and Grandma's pieces will go elsewhere in my old rock house. Gotta PLAN.
at 6 PM on a Saturday.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Like This Dining room
when we get around to embellishing our Formal Dining room.
where there was more love than space and
At present, my Dining room looks like a warehouse
My attitude needs refreshed.
it's stinkin'
installing hardy backer board on top of old worn out and ugly linoleum floor.
He laid some tile and it's looking nice.
Lil Miss had a tummy ache
the heat,
sitting for a long time in the car,
If I have to choose between what Forrest says about shoes
bring so many memories to mind about my childhood.
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DAUGHTER'S PIE CRUST RECIPE
With her permission I share her recipe with you.
Pie Crust Recipe
1 cup flour
3 heaping tablespoons of shortening
A dash of salt
A tiny bit of ice cold water
Mix ingredients together well.
Assemble pie.
Spread a little milk on top of crust before baking.
Simply delicious,
DECORATING
John 3:7
“Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.”
King James Version (KJV)
PROVERBS 24:3-4
By wisdom a house is built,and through understanding
its rooms are filled with rare
and beautiful treasures.
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MEMORY VERSE
SALVATION
Romans 10:9 King James Version (KJV)
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Acts 4:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
PHILIPIANS 4:13
THANKSGIVING IN THE MOMENT
MUSIC TO ENJOY
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THESE WORDS CHANGED MY LIFE!
Blue Willow Moment On The Prairie
PSALM 90:12
HOME HAVEN LILIES ON THE PRAIRIE
LUKE 12: 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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BLOSSOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED
As long as I live, I will have to continually submit to God's plan for my life. You will be blessed because you turned your life over to God. Be confessing how good God is and tell Him you agree with who He says He is. BELIEVE and watch miracles happen. Be not afraid. ~Deanna
I Love My Husband
A Quiet Life
FUN FACTS FOR CHANDYS
SELECTING THE CORRECT SIZE CHANDY TO USE IN A ROOM MADE EASY. FORMULA MEASUREMENTS: Measure the room's height and width. Add together the numbers. Example: 8' x 10' room is 8 plus 10= 18" Use a 18" wide chandy. OR Take width of room calculating 2" for every foot. Example: 15' wide room. Take 15 times 2 = 30. Room needs 30" wide chandy. Standard distance between the bottom of the chandelier to the top of the table is 30 inches. When hanging the chandelier, make sure to hang it at the proper height. The bottom of a chandelier over a dining table or kitchen island should hang 30 to 32 inches above the top of the table or island. Most rooms call for at least 7 feet of space between the bottom of the chandelier and the floor.

















