Beneath the Wraps

            After over a month of parking our cars in the street we got our driveway back – at least for the time being.   The exterior of our new room is finished; we now have to work on the interior.   Plus there is still the issue of the floor.   The wet spot in front of the toilet seems to be growing. Roland and I painted the sides – mostly Roland.   He ended up purchasing a spray painter and moving it was a two man job.   I finished restaining the front dek and will continue with the back stairs – a chore I would prefer to have completed before 7:00 a.m. Today Jenna and I took Bonnie for a walk.   We walked to a house where a new family has moved in.   There were several cars pulled around waiting for the new owners who got stuck rerouting themselves due to accidents or fires.   I walked Bonnie home after learning the new move-ins had dogs and so did the neighbors.   There were five dogs in the driv...

                When we first looked at our house, I was thrilled with the large tub in the master bedroom.   Evidently I had not even looked at the shower. The shower in my mom's house was made of pink tiles.   There was a 4 to 5 inch lip that we could step over to be in the shower.   After daddy had his strokes, we put a plastic chair in the shower and invested in a shower hose. The hose split shortly after he had passed.   It hadn't seemed like a great investment.                 Because I can't always make the time for the luxuries of a bath (not to mention the many gallons of water)   I have taken more showers. For a while I was using the shower in Jenna's bathroom.   Her tub is more shallow than the master bath, but there is definitely more floor room in the tub than there is in the master shower.      ...

            Have you ever felt inconvenienced by a situation, but later on down the road, you realize that inconvenience was/is a blessing?   It’s even more awesome when you can recognize the blessings in the process of being inconvenienced.   I can see the blessings;   Jenna sees the inconveniences that become more inconvenient to her with each passing minute.             I noticed when I mopped the floor in the back room, there was a nasty splotch that wouldn't remove - a stain I hadn't noticed before (I'm actually not all that observant) nor had I noticed the floor had gotten softer.   I had just chalked that up my own aging and slowing down.   It seems like each time I did laundry, moisture would leak out between the walls and the floor.   Oh . . . . that is not good.              Roland contacted our insurance company to find...

         Though Roland seemed anxious to purchase a house right away, I still don’t know what city I would like to make my permanent resident.   I love Myrtle Creek. Everyone’s been so friendly and it really did not take long to warm up to things.          Roland has always looked at the house itself.   My primary concern is with the neighborhood, the ward, the area itself.   The house is only secondary.   But I do love this house we’re in right now – though we are just renting and haven’t even bothered looking at a house to buy – though Roland still seems anxious to do that very thing.           School is so expensive, and if we can find a home now, Jenna will have a better chance of going to school in Oregon for a much lower cost than her brothers.   MUCH LOWER – but we have to be homeowners.   But I also believe w...