I’ve spent most of my life in Oklahoma. Currently and about 12 years, I’ve resided in Tulsa. Before that, I lived in Texas at various times. I moved here because this is where my daughters and grandchildren live. My grandchildren, two boys and a girl, are between the ages of 9 and 19. My oldest…
Outside our homes a pandemic rages. Epidemiologists have urged us to stay home as much as possible. It has been nearly a year with no sign of this deadly virus abating. And so we need our homes to be more than a roof over our heads. We need it to be a cozy haven where…
I’m working on a new project with one space serving two objectives that I’ll talk about when I’m a little farther along. When you live in limited space, you sometimes have to get creative about how best to use it. It’s getting so hot I don’t want to be outside, so projects will probably be…
Today we are visiting with Kim in Manhattan. She blogs at Exquisitely Unremarkable. Kim and her husband and two daughters live in their little cottage home. Though they’re only about 45 minutes from NYC, Kim says they live in a small town where most of the shopkeepers know your name. Kim favors the combination of…
Yesterday my younger daughter and Andrew came over after church and we went out to eat lunch. Then we drove over to my older daughter’s latest flip house. It was less than a mile away. She said she couldn’t stop for lunch because she had far too much to get done on the house because…
A few flowers are blooming again. We had a brief respite of cooler air. But now it’s pretty hot again and I fear the flowers will retreat. Ah, but you can’t question nature’s time table. You just have to enjoy it when you can and wait for it once it’s gone for the season. This…