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We Have How Many Windows?!?!

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AFTER:

The shades came! It took some doing to get them ordered after a computer glitch, but they finally arrived. They are perfect. We started with the six in the sunroom, my favorite room in the house. Only 14 more to install!

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The Light at the Back of the Garage

I've never been so thrilled to see a garage wall! The two crumbling broken windows in the back of the garage were replaced with gleaming bright glass block today.

It's a small thing, but a huge improvement. The garage wall is my last view when I leave for work each day, and my first impression when I come back home after a long day. I couldn't take looking at the oozing "Great Stuff" around the frames of broken glass panes any longer. Dave the Glass Block Guy to the rescue.

Paul's Fathers Day gift may have to be painting the garage. Because, of course, now the rest of the garage looks worse by comparison. But that means we need next to pour a new floor....and add a work bench...and a while you're at it add a lift...

 

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Finally Committed

For more than fifteen years I have searched for the perfect dinnerware. The set I coveted, Rosenthal porcelain, was always out of budget. But I refused to get cheap stuff I didn't love. There's a story about an argument with Mom in a Walmart over a toaster in this history of waiting for what I really want. In the meantime, a hodgepodge of three or four basic diner plates have gotten me through the years.

Just yesterday I was talking about how I'm down to just two plates. It had become a thing---the search, the rejection, the hope, the disappointment---truth be told, I enjoyed the hunt.

Today, there on the shelf at Legacies, was a gleaming white set of perfect vintage Japanese porcelain (Fukagawa). I finally committed!

 

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