If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

Saturday, December 31, 2022

I want some advice

Good morning everyone 
The last 10 months with our 5 house guests has been fun and busy.  They finalized the purchase of their brand-new just-built home yesterday and started moving in. The new home is beautiful and I will share some photos later. Right now it’s very much in transition as they move stuff from this home and from several storage buildings.

I’m guessing most all of you were in that recent cold spell over Christmas. That was a hard one, wasn’t it? Anyway we’ve known for a while that our doors and windows were kind of leaky, they are 22 years old. But during that cold spell with the hard winds, the curtains in our dining room were fluttering back and forth from the breeze coming in the closed and locked window.
So, we have started shopping for replacement windows and a replacement front and back door, there is a good company in our town and we feel very safe using them.

My biggest decision is what kind of front door to get. We can get a metal door which we can paint or they will paint whatever color we would like. Or we could get a wood door and my husband is thinking he would like a wood door.
Our home is brick, with a lot of terra-cotta in the brick and gray mortar. We have fairly new siding and it is white.
Our roof is brown and our fence is white. Shutters are white but could be painted.  









We do plan to paint the hanging light fixture glossy black to match the ones we painted by the garage door.  



What kind of door and what color do you think would look good with our home?  I don’t want a big glass window again.  I’m leaning toward maybe a row of windows just at the top or a solid door with no openings but I really don’t know. 
Do you think a color like terra cotta, gray or blue would be good?  Or what about a wood door and what stain wood?  

About 2023,  I plan to be back to blogging regularly 

Thank you all 
❤️ Rhonda 

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

November news 🦃🍁🥧

Hello everyone 
Today was getting things started for our Thanksgiving meal on Thursday.  
I think 10 of us will be here
I’ve started a pile on the  counter for the Thanksgiving ingredients, 
I saw Manuela at  https://acultivatednest.com/ had links to several free printable Thanksgiving planner sheets.  I’ve always just made my list on plain paper but this year, I printed off a few sheets that worked for me.  I plan to keep them and reference them year to year.  

Our 3 little house guests wanted to help peel the potatoes so I said sure! 

I diced onions and celery for dressing,  chopped pecans for several dishes and diced some onions just for anytime we need diced onion.  


We also grated some really sharp cheese to make pimento cheese to eat in celery.  


Earlier this month,  my husband and I spent 9 days in Branson, Missouri.  The trip had been planned for months with reservations and show tickets all paid for.  My husband has several back issues and one of them flared up shortly before we left.  But he still wanted to go so we did.  He was physically hurting most all of them time though 
There are many things to do in Branson and we like the musical shows best. 
We saw The Haywood’s, Clay Cooper, Hot Rods and High Heels, Christmas Wonderland, Jersey Boys, Hughes Family Christmas,  The Gatlin Brothers, The Bellamy Brothers and The Oak Ridge Boys- and maybe a few others but I can’t recall them as I type this.  
We stayed in a condo and ate most of meals there.  We didn’t shop except to get groceries at a huge, fairly new Aldi in Branson and of course Walmart.  
It was cold in Branson!  
We had a good time and got our fill of vacationing.  
And this homebody is happy to be home 🏠 

The Gatlin Brothers 
Jersey Boys - we learned the young man on the left side of the photo graduated from the university in our town. 
 He is an amazing singer and we also saw him in Christmas Wonderland 
Hot Rods and High Heels- a 50s theme show 

Clay Cooper 



Our sweet Cora- she is growing fast!  She likes plain raw carrots and doesn’t want them cut up.  

A funny joke about inflation 



Although there is really nothing funny about inflation.  
I know many people are truly struggling right now


❤️ Rhonda