iris lilies
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My Christmas tree storage solution takes advantage of our giant attached garage. We slide it out to a corner of the garage, throw a dust cover over...

Rosa it is so great that you found this creative niche to have some fun and make a little money!

We had the nicest garden club luncheon today, my third garden club luncheon in six days. This one was the classiest of the three. It took place...

Happystuff, you may be able to find a leftover Christmas tree at a big box store, but I’ll tell you last year when I was shopping for a fake tree in...

My small local library here in town, which is part of a larger library system has two book sales a year. I stay far away from them because I have no...

Every year our friends invite us to their home after Christmas for their annual fruit cake serving. They get the fruitcake from A Nunnery..?? Or...

We are veterans of house tours so this kind of thing doesn’t phase us, but early on in the house tour I got caught by a “talker.” For that moment I...

i’m surprised you carry some books over from year to year for your sale. Of course no one wants them, old books are really hard to be rid of. One...

oh Lord $400?!!! That is crazy.

haha dog doesnt need to be in this. I’ll work on reloading those missing attachments tomorrow.

Everything but the silver is second hand with much of it from Goodwill. Because I do a tablescape design every year at our towns holiday Tablescapes...

This morning, I figured out how to solve a Christmas crap problem. i had purchased small fake wreaths to hang on my kitchen cabinets. I don’t want...

A final few images. The bathroom is our TV room, newly completed.

Here are photos from our holiday house tour decor. We had 400 people to our house Saturday afternoon. It was fun, very busy, and well worth all the...

it is a nice size and shape.

Moving and well said.

Ok, I can see that, but a targeted health campaign (which probably already exists) to a susceptible population is one thing, but a National Day of...

You have had the thing for a decade. Your personal “use” of it is over. Get rid of it

I have a little more tolerance for those types of cars now in my advanced age when men my age are re-living their youth in those old collectible...

Being able to live with self driven purpose is a luxury, I know, yet I have always kept Maslow in the back of my mind as the ultimate in right. When...

Go outside. Touch grass. Join an activity in your neighborhood. Today we had hundreds of folks through our house for the holiday house tour and...

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with holding back on funds to commemorate a day, one of thousands of commemorative days. Sure still a worldwide...

Just theoretically, how many years do we have to have a “day of the disease” past the stage when we truly need to raise awareness for an emergency...

backup cameras are magic!

ok, chocolate I can see. I usually spend $35 to $55 every time I go down to our local handmade chocolate shop so yeah, I can see that.

Well, I have to say way back around the year 2000 when we bought our neighbor’s used Ford Taurus, it was the most luxurious car I have ever had and...

I read When Breathe Becomes Air and it was beautiful and sad. Art ..Morotcycles..book Is an old popular classic and I probably started it at one...

Wait, this is a candy store? How in the world can you spend that much on candy?.!!!

if one more thing comes into my house that I have to figure out from a manual to operate, I’m done. Done with life! Ha ha. I’ve already decided...

Good for you! All the penis cars looks alike to me. Now when you get to little British cars of the 60s and 70s, I’m your man for marque...

I look at rugs from Rugsource too!

Good news.

the last three major pieces of art I purchased came from Europe. Two of them were in late October or early Novemberr and all were over $800, so I’m a...

I regularly ordered items from Aliexpress in China but have cut that out since I have no idea how much tariffs are and how they are collected.

Ugh the light genie really doesn’t like you!

Turkey soup, turkey over noodles, turkey sandwiches. Turkey turkey turkey. I let DH buy the turkey and he got an 18 lb one, too big for us.

It’ s been 3 years since we fibished the new kitchen here. I have several drawers 75% empty. Those open spaces bring me quiet ioy.

I feel shamed for my excessive participation here. lol, kidding. I don’t know, I still am not convinced I need to show up. I would have to comb my...

The mystery of why Xmas lights don’t work all of a sudden is right up there with the mystery of missing socks. Where did the missing sock go? No one...

Those sock gnomes are funny! I remember one trip to Switzerland years ago and one village. It seemed like every third house had a gnome in their...

I’ll bet you could make some nice ones.

The little boutique retail stores here full of crap no one needs are pushing the “shop local “theme but I don’t need to buy anything. We are buying...

my mom kept her cat’s corpse in the freezer for a while until the Iowa winter ground thawed. My mom had dementia later in life, but honestly, this...

Your fall mantle is pretty! Edited to add: all the colors work so well.

do people actually still stand in line on Black Friday for sales in brick and mortar stores?

In positive news from the sporting world: In Texas over the weekend when the World’s Strongest Woman event took place a male human won it. This...

oh I don’t know kids. I like Zoom because it cuts down on the social chitchat at meetings I have to attend and for that reason I find it valuable. I...

Well la dee dah, my blood is doing important work! I just got a notice from the Red Cross that my blood was sent to Johns Hopkins University...

About falls: I figure I have a few more years before I have to get rid of the throw rugs around my house. Now I like them because they provide...

One of the many stellar things about DH is that he has always been smart and cautious in his work. He did construction for 20+ years and has nary a...

I have to say I was surprised when DH, Mr.Fixit with the mindset of doing everything himself, agreed to gutter guards. Hevalso hired people to stain...

This is not my cat, but it’s a post on Substack that just tickled me so much today. I hope you all can see it. it is a post titled “ a short...

The next time you stalk people in Hermann, be sure and pay attention to the junkyard on Stone Hill Highway, just a stone throw from the beautiful...

I think (without having real data ) prices are a little higher in Hermann because it is more desirable than Owensville. there’s more going on, it’s...

I could’ve actually purchased a house on my starting professional salary in Las Cruces NM as a single person back in the day and I did buy one on my...

There are three not-large older houses for sale within a stones throw of me, what I would call starter houses. One of them is actually very nice, a...

I am thrilled to have found the secret sub Reddit where one can politely talk about trans issues with a gender critical point of view. It is a secret...

That sounds delicious!

The shoplifting in poor neighborhoods is an inconvenient truth and is seen as victim blaming for the problem of “food deserts” there. In my...

I hate wool for that reason. I like cottons and linens which, being natural fabrics, stain. But that is ok.