Beauty

[just bee]

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@PAlady wrote:

just bee - Your house looks beautiful.  Enjoy.

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@PAlady 

Thank you!  We will.  Once we get past that stage where we're afraid to touch anything.  I like the gray and ivory.  It's like living with an elephant.

[just bee]

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@Squirrel Lover wrote:

@just bee Oh, my, your "new" house is just gorgeous! Everything is so nice and shiny and clean looking.

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@Squirrel Lover 

That won't last long!  We just got home and the plumbing's leaking.

We returned the keys and garage openers to our young landlord today and he already had a crew at the rental to "sanitize" everything to protect the new tenant from COVID-19.

Not that he thinks we're germy, but he has to protect himself in case the new tenant claims the family was infected after they moved in.

We live in litigious times.

So how's everything going at home?  Catching up?

[just bee]

Remember I mentioned all those wine glasses that BH thought he had gotten rid of after the fire and how happy I was when we discovered some of them had survived when we were unpacking?

This morning he had only four of them on my wine rack.  I looked at him and said:

You threw away the wine glasses, didn't you?

He said: Yes, I did.

Tomorrow morning, when he's looking for his e-cig, I'll tell him that it wanted to be with the wine glasses. 

[just bee]

Now, before you think I'm petty and vindictive, I don't intend to throw his e-cig away.

I wouldn't never throw away another person's property.

[just bee]

I don't even throw away my own property.

(Have to maintain my sense of humor.)

[rnmom]

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@rnmom wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

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@geezerette wrote:

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@rnmom wrote:

@geezerette -yes, it will definitely help to start warming up a bit. We do have some acreage and a lake, so we're looking forward to getting out and doing some fishing. Today is supposed to be pretty nice, in the 50's and sunny, so I'm hoping to get out a bit later. 

I am very glad that I have been able to continue dieting and not start eating again. I think the only thing that has saved me is that I had already been in this mode for a couple of months before it all hit so I had kinda gotten into a routine. Trying to start and make changes now, among all the stress, would be impossible.

Plus I think that I feel like it's still one thing that I can control, when everything else is so out of control. I can at least control what I put in my mouth. 

Thank you for your kind words, you guys really are the best.

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@rnmom 

Aw, don't be too hard on yourself.  Everybody's under pressure now and going through unprecedented territory.  You don't have your usual outlets to relieve it, along with fewer distractions.  And heck, it's all you hear everywhere!  It's really hard not to get depressed and angry when you see and hear people that are smarter than us (or at least you hope they'd be) only talking gloom and doom 24/7.

It does sound like you have a handle on your diet, so you can concentrate on your success in that area.  And how much better you feel.  And how much more you'll be able to enjoy yourself when you can get back out again, compared to how you felt with all those extra pounds.  

If your kids are running out of things to do, you might want to check your local online resources.  My niece is the children's librarian at her local library and she's been doing online videos for various projects for kids of all ages.  She has a theme going: crafts using all those toilet paper rolls we have nowadays! 🤣  It's neat for me to be able to 'see' her more often.

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@rnmom 

Are there any around-the-house projects that need to be done?  Painting a room?  Refinishing an old piece of furniture?  Repotting the plants?  (I want to plant a tree but we're taking new landscaping slowly.)

Any photos that need to go in an album? 

Are the kids helping with meal prep?  I'm trying to think of group projects...  

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@just bee - I do have a bedroom that I want to paint, it's my son's old room since he moved down into the basement last summer. It's blue and I just want to paint it a neutral color.

I actually went downstairs yesterday and found almost a full gallon of an ivory colored paint, so I don't even have to go to the store to get more. I work today then have 5 days off, I think that will be my project. 

I would like to start puttering outside, but it needs to be just a bit warmer. The boys have been planting a garden the last few years, but it needs to be a bit warmer and drier, it's really wet here. That helps give them something to do. 

I do want to make a photo collage, I have a frame here and haven't taken the time to go thru pictures for it. The boys might like doing that too, helping me pick out pictures.

They are not really into cooking/meal prep. I wish. 

I would still like to work on cleaning out hubby's pole barn too, we never got to that because it rained the whole weekend we were going to do it. No, the weather really hasn't been helping with this whole stay at home junk. 

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@rnmom 

I was thinking about a garden and I'm glad to hear they're interested in that.  Weather will begin cooperating soon.  What kinds of things are they growing?

Food prep can be fun.  They can start with something like a taco bar.  Chop up whatever they like on their tacos and create their bar.  

Ivory sounds like the perfect neutral.  Sounds like you've got plenty to do to keep busy.  By the end of this, you and the house will have a whole new look!

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@just bee -The last couple of years the kids have set up a produce stand to sell some veggies, and hubby also started canning a bit too. Last year didn't turn out very good because we had so much rain, we kept getting flooded out. Our growing season is already so short, it's hard to get a lot to grow here, and that didn't help.

They grew corn, which we cook and freeze, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, some beans and peas, canteloupe. Hubby has been canning pickles and tomato sauce. It's actually pretty good.

[rnmom]

@just bee -your house is so pretty! Thank you for the pictures. I hope that you enjoy it. Is it a lot different than what you had before?

I will agree though, everything looks very light. There is no way I could live in a house that light, it wouldn't last 5 minutes. We purposely tried to pick colors for the counters, carpets, etc, that would try to hide dirt. Maybe without 2 kids and a few less dogs, but certainly not now. 

It sure is pretty though! 

[rnmom]

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@just bee wrote:

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@Squirrel Lover wrote:

@just bee Oh, my, your "new" house is just gorgeous! Everything is so nice and shiny and clean looking.

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@Squirrel Lover 

That won't last long!  We just got home and the plumbing's leaking.

We returned the keys and garage openers to our young landlord today and he already had a crew at the rental to "sanitize" everything to protect the new tenant from COVID-19.

Not that he thinks we're germy, but he has to protect himself in case the new tenant claims the family was infected after they moved in.

We live in litigious times.

So how's everything going at home?  Catching up?

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@just bee -Yep, leaky plumbing. That was another problem we had. When we moved in every sink in our house leaked and we had to call the plumber back out to fix it. But of course by then, it had leaked into the cabinets underneath so the wood inside the cabinets got all warped. In a brand new house. In both bathrooms and in the kitchen,

Needless to say I was VERY UNHAPPY, but short of replacing all the cabinets I didn't know what to do. So disappointing to have a brand new house and have destruction a week after you move in. That was just one example of the problems we had. I had actually forgotten about that until you mentioned it. We had to have our master tub reglazed too. I can't even remember everything, there was so much. Our builder kept saying "I've never seen that happen to anyone else before". Yeah right, We were the only ones that had EVER"YTHING go wrong. 

[geezerette]

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@rnmom wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

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@Squirrel Lover wrote:

@just bee Oh, my, your "new" house is just gorgeous! Everything is so nice and shiny and clean looking.

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@Squirrel Lover 

That won't last long!  We just got home and the plumbing's leaking.

We returned the keys and garage openers to our young landlord today and he already had a crew at the rental to "sanitize" everything to protect the new tenant from COVID-19.

Not that he thinks we're germy, but he has to protect himself in case the new tenant claims the family was infected after they moved in.

We live in litigious times.

So how's everything going at home?  Catching up?

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@just bee -Yep, leaky plumbing. That was another problem we had. When we moved in every sink in our house leaked and we had to call the plumber back out to fix it. But of course by then, it had leaked into the cabinets underneath so the wood inside the cabinets got all warped. In a brand new house. In both bathrooms and in the kitchen,

Needless to say I was VERY UNHAPPY, but short of replacing all the cabinets I didn't know what to do. So disappointing to have a brand new house and have destruction a week after you move in. That was just one example of the problems we had. I had actually forgotten about that until you mentioned it. We had to have our master tub reglazed too. I can't even remember everything, there was so much. Our builder kept saying "I've never seen that happen to anyone else before". Yeah right, We were the only ones that had EVER"YTHING go wrong. 

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@rnmom 

@just bee 

Oh dear.  Leaky plumbing.  Good thing I read this first @just bee , because I was going to say that even with all the hassle of getting your new-old house back, at least the plumbing doesn't leak anymore!

Yes, shoddy workmanship.  That's another thing keeping me from moving.  This place I'm in may have a lot of downsides to it, but when it was built the OG was here eagle-eyeing everything he didn't do himself.  But even then, there were still things we found after we moved in that needed fixing.  

I'm still dealing with outlets that are nonfunctional and ground fault switches that go wonky for no reason.  The good thing is that after 14 years, I know all the glitches.

And trying to get the workman in during all this virus mess is going to be another hassle in itself.  But at least the dog is happy...🙂

[geezerette]

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@just bee wrote:

The question now is: How in H_ll do we keep this place clean?  It took us two days to clean that rental from top to bottom and that house was half the size of this one.

I never wanted stainless steel sinks or appliances.  Every time I turn on the water I have to wipe up each drop.  It's like having a second job.

And the floors...

Carpet hid so much.

Not complaining, just overwhelmed.

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@just bee 

Oh, you'll have no problem cleaning for a while.  It will be neat to have a new, clean, empty canvas and you'll want to keep it that way.  And then once the novelty wears off and the accidents and actual living start in, it gradually goes by the wayside.  But since it doesn't happen all at once, you don't notice it so much.

That's when your new-old house becomes a "home" again.💖