A few years ago I walked into Pier One during one of their “pretty” merchandise seasons (as opposed to the ugly seasons where I would run screaming from the store away from all the hideousness. You know you know what I’m talking about!) and found this beautiful scrolly wrought iron sofa table base. The trouble was, all Pier One offered…
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Garrett’s newest thing is making a tent out of all the blankets and chenille throws in the living room. The couch and ottoman and Dad’s legs make fine tent frames, in case you didn’t know. It seems like every night he will drag the blankets over to us and say “TENT!”. After we get it all situated he will waller…
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One score and one year ago I wrote a little entry called Curtainless Showers and Other Keepin-It-Real Tales of Moving Woe. Fast forward to today, and that woe is still hanging around here in full force. We’re trying to do everything we can to make our house look better and stand out from the other four or five hundred houses…
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G was spending the night at the inlaws last weekend so J and I went out to eat at a real sit-down place that doesn’t have the word “nugget” anywhere on the menu. After dinner we were in the movie theatre halfway through Up In The Air when I got a phone call from Papa. Garrett had fallen down on…
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So we’ve had record lows for the beginning of 2010 here in Alabama. After record amounts of rainfall last year it hasn’t been above freezing at night for the past two weeks! Not since the 1940’s have we had lows below 25 degrees for this long. Before that it was 1899 since temps have been this cold. It’s just craziness…
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