tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149490686184431142024-03-17T20:03:32.845-07:00An Old-Fashioned WorldRuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-72020219434601174692022-01-02T12:16:00.000-07:002022-10-05T09:53:29.196-07:00It was supposed to be a little break…<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi02CO-VfrectEtU1CkRgQRzuVTBy7FDMqeXqihDWDRgp3ktHvRRzVH1D52eqo5cDBrZkpPiVatdRU7WIKVJAhTvIWc50IfQQ8jvgiXI4XD8nBXLeV_LZgYxBOYBujbqKbHm06weuqrC7EzVJoTUorjC_MaHzhxVhpnBnbpU6PkriFrMuJeG00uvrD3zA=s2026" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2026" data-original-width="1860" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi02CO-VfrectEtU1CkRgQRzuVTBy7FDMqeXqihDWDRgp3ktHvRRzVH1D52eqo5cDBrZkpPiVatdRU7WIKVJAhTvIWc50IfQQ8jvgiXI4XD8nBXLeV_LZgYxBOYBujbqKbHm06weuqrC7EzVJoTUorjC_MaHzhxVhpnBnbpU6PkriFrMuJeG00uvrD3zA=w589-h640" width="589" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and it turned out to be a whole lot longer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There’s a lot to say and a lot that has happened, but the most important thing is that I am sorry for abandoning all of you and this little blog. I have a lot of excuses…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My computer basically bit the dust.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I couldn’t keep up with life and this blog world at the same time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Things changed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Life moved on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blah, blah, blah…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh and I sold the house and moved to a different city.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yep, I did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A year ago I decided to change my whole life and make things easier. I’m 52 now after all and I needed something smaller, easier to take care of and with a flatter piece of property. Besides, I had lived in and loved that house for 10 years, which is the longest I had lived anywhere in my life and about 2 years ago I started to feel suffocated, like the walls were closing in, so I put the house on the market after a year of thinking about it. It sold right away to a lady that loves it as much as I did, thank goodness!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It wasn’t an easy decision, but a necessary one for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I needed a fresh start and I got one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Other things happened, but I won’t get into all of that, because I feel that moving is the main reason I didn’t come back for so long. I mean, what is this blog about other than the house and my life? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That’s the other issue. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel like I was sharing too much. It’s kind of a strange thing to share your life in a public forum when in reality, you’re a pretty private person. My own family doesn’t know as much about the thoughts in my head as much as all of you do lol I do miss writing though, so I need to figure out a way to do that without saying too much. Not easy apparently 😉</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also miss taking photos. I’ve never been very good at it, but it’s something I like to do. I even started posting on instagram a short time ago, but it’s kind of a strange place. The jury is still out on whether I like it or not. It’s much easier to post there. Two minutes instead of two hours to write a post definitely has its benefits! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So that’s about the gist of it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I’m not sure what to do with this blog now, aside from just leaving it here as a testament of old house love. We’ll see…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I’m not even sure if anyone will read this, but I felt the need to write it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, I do think about you often and I hope all of you are doing well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy New Year!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much love,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">rue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Ruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-72462778137876179082019-10-20T14:56:00.003-07:002019-10-20T14:56:58.198-07:00Revisiting the living room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've shown this room a couple of times since my mom gave me some of her furniture, after she moved, but since then, there's been a few minor changes.</div>
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I'm not sure what the deal is with the paint color in there, but depending on what time of day or what angle I take a photo, it's always changing. The picture above shows it being darker than in real life, but pretty close.</div>
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If you remember this room before, you'll notice a chair missing. I felt it was too crowded, so... poof!... into another room it went.</div>
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See what I mean about the color? </div>
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I found this table at a local antique store recently.</div>
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This is the part I fell in love with:</div>
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Bubba still loves his perch :)</div>
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Great grandma's lamp and some pictures of Alex, Annie and my nephews when they were small.</div>
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The mantel decor has been changed up a bit, but I'm not sure I'm loving it.</div>
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Hi Sharon! :)</div>
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Happy belated Autumn, everyone!</div>
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For those of you that don't know the tale of this bathroom, click <a href="https://anoldfashionedworld.blogspot.com/2018/03/my-sanity.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">here</span></b></a>.</div>
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I start, I stop, I start again, and I stop.</div>
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Over and over it goes.</div>
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This time though, I've been taking some time getting my <strike>ravens</strike> ducks in a row.</div>
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After Christmas, I started to clean house mentally and took a long hard look at myself. </div>
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One of the things I've realized is that I've always been a Judgy McJudgerson and sometimes that side of me shows on this blog.</div>
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Not all the time, mind you, but I know when I'm doing it, because I'll hesitate before I push publish, knowing full well that when I do it'll chap some hides.</div>
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Then, for whatever reason I'll just say "screw it" and poof! I verbally vomit all over this place.</div>
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That is not what I'm going for here.</div>
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<i>Thanks to all of you for your sweet words on my last post about Mini's passing. It means a great deal to me that you care and that some of you even shared your stories about your fur-babies passing on. My heart goes out to all of you.</i></div>
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Ruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-22335146712083543152019-01-18T15:51:00.001-07:002019-09-07T15:55:06.317-07:00All dogs go to Heaven<div style="text-align: center;">
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Mini passed quietly away on December 5th.</div>
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She had been failing to the point where she wasn't enjoying life anymore and we knew it was time.</div>
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When she went to Heaven, she was lying in her favorite chair, with her head in my lap, as the vet gave her the gift of forever without pain.</div>
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She was 13 years old.</div>
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We had just moved into the first house in Ohio. Annie had gone for a walk with Shiloh and somewhere along the way, a little puppy had joined them.</div>
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We had two dogs at the time and I didn't want another one, but she wiggled her way right into my heart after finding out how she ended up at our house.</div>
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You see, we asked around the neighborhood and some people told us that the neighbor down the street had a habit of buying puppies for his daughter while she was visiting him during the summer and when she would leave he'd let the puppy go.</div>
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We went to the house to confront him, but he wouldn't answer the door.</div>
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The garage was open and there was the leash tied to a pole.</div>
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She had no water or food.</div>
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She was ours.</div>
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I called her Mini, because she looked like a miniature version of Shiloh.</div>
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Some of you might remember them from my last blog.</div>
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I tried to find a picture I had of all three of them together on a chair, but sadly it's missing. </div>
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When I brought her ashes home from the vet right before Christmas, I talked to her all the way home about how it was the last time she had to go for a car ride and that she was in a better place.</div>
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Ruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-28774718387701947982018-11-21T22:01:00.002-07:002018-11-21T22:01:14.412-07:00Happy Thanksgiving!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-45148048284996407242018-11-10T09:52:00.000-07:002019-09-08T14:04:58.766-07:00Turning 49 & Alex's wedding <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm turning 49 on Monday.</div>
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I was going to do a post about this phenomena, along with the trials and tribulations of being almost 50.</div>
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For one, I don't really look like this anymore:</div>
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Amazing how much your face changes in 7 years. </div>
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I still style my hair like this, but I certainly look older now.</div>
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So, I was on a quest for pictures of what I look like now and in doing so, I came across this one of me and Annie taken a few months ago, before we went out to dinner with my mom.</div>
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Bad mom!</div>
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Actually the fact is, it happened when I wasn't really blogging much and for some reason I thought I had posted about it.</div>
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My kid married a beautiful girl and she loves him and he loves her, which is all I can really ask for.</div>
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So, I'm turning 49.</div>
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I had a few questions asked on my post about Julia (my monitor top refrigerator), and the last post about the kitchen, so I thought I'd answer them here, even though I usually answer in the comments, by email, or in my comment on your blog.</div>
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While you read along, I threw in a few pictures of day to day life here.</div>
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<b>Miss Merry asked:</b></div>
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It's just a candle I picked up at wallyworld, when I was in a hurry, called Banana Bread by Better Homes and Garden. Not too great, but not too bad either ;)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;">"Julia is beautiful and she should feel very loved after all your hard work! Congratulations on bringing her to a home I'm sure she feels very at home in. Does she keep cold? Does she have to be defrosted, a job I do not remember with pleasure? I know to you she would be worth it though. The next time I spot her sister in one of my old magazines I'll be thinking of her."</span></div>
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Yes, she keeps really cold! In fact, when we first tested her after bring her home, I put a glass of water on her top shelf and it froze within an hour. As far as defrosting, it's been almost a month and she barely has any buildup at all, so I'm not sure how often it'll have to be done yet, but I'm sure I will at some point. The other fridge had to be defrosted quite often, so I'm used to it :)</div>
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<b>BJ asked where I got Julia:</b></div>
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We found her in an antique store down the street. At first she wasn't for sale, but one day she was and that's when she came to her new home!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;">"So the little freezer section on it, does it freeze? Some small refrigerators in Italy don't have a door on the freezer. Did he put a new motor in it?"</span></div>
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Yes, the freezer section works really well! This one had a door, but sadly it broke off. And no, we didn't need to put a new motor on it. We just needed to put a new seal around the door and paint it.</div>
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Kind of like the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmrSiJTMf7s&t=932s" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Carousel of Progress at Disneyland</b></span></a>, except that there's no animatronics or fun sing alongs, and we're going backwards instead of forwards ;)</div>
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This is a very well used kitchen, where I cook from scratch every single day, with the rare exception that we go out to lunch or dinner.<br />
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Anyway, this is your view to the right when you walk in.<br />
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And here's a close up of the shelves.</div>
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The top shelf holds an old serving tray, some gifts I've been given over the years and a little tin that I painted. The second shelf holds a coca cola crate with my grandfather's baby bowl in it along with his cup and some WWI cookbooks that his mother might have cooked from when he was little, although these particular ones didn't belong to her personally. There's also a vintage biscuit cutter, a pastry cutter and a depression glass measuring cup/juicer, all three of which I actually use. The third shelf holds my jars of rice, sugar and flour, and the fourth shelf holds a reproduction cookie jar from my daughter, Annie, some random jar of Halloween candy and my 'new to me' 1940s radio. </div>
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It still lights up and works! But sadly, since the only way I can listen to an oldies radio station that plays the 20s through the 40s, it really just hides Alexa.</div>
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I usually listen to <a href="http://www.1940sukradio.co.uk/" style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The UK 1940s Radio Station</a><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;"> </span>on iheart radio<span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">.</span></div>
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I'm probably repeating myself to a few of you, but these are the original cabinets. The white tile and 1930s sink were put in by me. Well, not me personally, but you know what I mean ;)</div>
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You can see what the kitchen looked like when I moved in and my inspiration for the restoration <b><a href="http://anoldfashionedworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-kitchen-inspiration.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">'here'</span></a></b>. And what it looked like three years ago <b><a href="http://anoldfashionedworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-colorful-little-kitchen.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">'here'</span></a></b>.</div>
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My view when I'm washing dishes.</div>
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That was my intention when I bought it though, so I guess it works.</div>
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I love my whole kitchen, but if I had to pick my favorite part, besides the appliances, it would be the breakfast nook.</div>
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Isn't she a beauty?!</div>
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It took about 3 weeks to get her ready for her big debut.</div>
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If you remember, she looked like this when we brought her home:</div>
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Just getting her here was an ordeal and I wish I had taken pictures.</div>
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It took two trips from the antique store, which was down the street, to get her home.</div>
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Just to get her top here, we had to use those cement blocks you see in the above picture, because the ice tray and all her components could be damaged without keeping her top in the air.</div>
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Bringing the bottom here wasn't too bad, but it was definitely heavy!</div>
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Even though they were only made between 1927 and 1936, people kept them for a long time afterwards. I don't think it was just because of the great depression, I think these things stayed in people's homes so long, because nobody wanted to move them again. In fact, I'm surprised they aren't found in old houses to this very day.</div>
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They were definitely made to last!</div>
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Just to lift the tops, an installer would bring this:</div>
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First, all of her shelves, legs and door were removed and then the hardware was removed and bagged.</div>
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To adjust the hinges someone used whatever cardboard they had on hand, so we found these underneath:</div>
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They're from a box of Kellogg's Pep cereal, which was made from 1923 until the 1970s, which is funny, because growing up in the 70s, I don't remember it at all. I dated the green Pep writing to somewhere between the 1930s and 40s.</div>
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The closest we found was called Antique white by Rust-Oleum.</div>
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But first we had to take off all the bad paint jobs she had gone through over the years.</div>
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She also had an old suspicious burn mark on one side that looked like someone kept her by a stove and they caught something on fire. It might just be why she was given away in the first place.</div>
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A close up of the top:</div>
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It's the perfect size for just the two of us, but if we had kids at home, we'd need one of these big boys:</div>
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Thank you to those that got my humor on my last post and apologies to those that didn't, but I did warn you ;)</div>
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This trend where people take old things and repurpose them... </div>
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I know a lot of you do it, but when you're a gal that actually uses antique and vintage items for their intended purpose and the prices keep rising on things you need, because of a trend, it's annoying.</div>
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Clawfoot bathtubs that used to grace the inside of beautiful victorian bathrooms are now sitting in people's yards holding flowers. Can you imagine what your great grandmother would have said if she came across such a thing?</div>
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There's a particular store here that claims they sell antiques. John and I went in and our jaws dropped. Things that we've needed for so long for the house were everywhere, but turned into something other than what they were intended for. And the stuff that hadn't been touched was so outrageously expensive that I just shook my head.</div>
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There's been times when I've bought something old and the person taking my money will ask me what I'm going to do with it. </div>
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Um... use it for holding a plant.</div>
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By the way, she's restored and in place.</div>
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Next post is about her :)</div>
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Ruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-24229068116349587112018-10-04T15:52:00.000-07:002019-09-07T12:05:13.085-07:00Autumn greetings<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's finally here!</div>
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I know some of us (<i>cough, cough, <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://www.exquisitelyunremarkable.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">Kim </span></a>,</span>cough</i>) aren't as excited about Autumn as others, but I for one am thrilled. It was a hot summer this year.... actually, who am I kidding? Every summer is hot to me and anything over 80 degrees makes me want to sit inside a refrigerator.<br />
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Anywho, on my last post I had a lot a requests for finished project pictures. I'm going to be honest here kids... None of them are finished lol<br />
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I have 400 things going on in my heads at once and sometimes in the middle of one project I'll jump to another and another and so on. It all gets done eventually, but in my time, not in normal people time.<br />
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That means the bathroom, the porch, the potting shed and the back yard are all still in limbo. So, by the way, is the dollhouse that some of you thought was a real home. Nope, just another 'smaller' home project ;)<br />
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Here's the one we're currently working on...<br />
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Meet Julia.<br />
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She's named after Julia Child and she's a monitor top fridge.<br />
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She was brought home last week and we've been frantically fixing her up to go into the kitchen.<br />
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And by later, I mean soon, because this is one project we'll be working on until she's finished.<br />
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I want that baby in the house, yesterday! ;)<br />
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By the way, are you wondering why I'm showing these pictures of my living room?<br />
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Well, I'm finally getting around to showing you what it looks like now, a year after my mom gave me some of her furniture after her move.<br />
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The lighting hasn't been the best with the rainstorms we've been having, but it was clean for company (i.e. no dog hair) and the curtains aren't drawn anymore to keep the dreaded summer heat out, so I grabbed my camera and.... snap, snap, snap ;)<br />
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I'll see what I can do about taking some better ones soon.<br />
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As it is, I have what seems like a billion pictures to go through, so I have been thinking about you. I've just been too busy to post them.<br />
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I also have about 6 months worth of stuff I've missed in your lives, so expect a visit from me on your blogs soon.<br />
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Hey, at least it's only been about 6 weeks since my last post ;)<br />
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Happy Autumn, my sweet friends!<br />
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With all my long absences from this blog and my lack of visits over to your blogs, I sometimes wonder why any of you even show up, but I'm always thrilled that you do.</div>
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As always, there's a reason and this time I think you'll understand even more so.</div>
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Let me start with a cute picture and we'll go from there, because this isn't a post that's picturesque.</div>
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This is a picture of the back of my home a few years ago.</div>
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Surprisingly bigger than it appears from the front, but not pretty.</div>
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That's why you've never seen anything except the front.</div>
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This view is actually the prettiest it ever looked.</div>
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But see the paint coming up?</div>
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Yeah, that's not the worst of it.</div>
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It was rotting, the nails and boards were coming apart and although it might sound fun, but wasn't for me... when you walked to the other end it moved. </div>
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Also, there wasn't a way down into the main part of the yard unless you walked all the way to the gate that you can kind of see in the bottom picture to the left.</div>
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I lived with it this way for the last 8 years, hopping and planning that one day I could take it down.</div>
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Why not fix it or rebuild it?</div>
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Because, I found out that there was a flagstone patio underneath that was original to the house.</div>
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And if you know me at all, you would know that the wood porch was doomed from that very minute.</div>
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And so it started...</div>
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Just look at that darling step underneath!</div>
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It was built for Bubba so that he can go in and out when he's not with me and not get eaten by random wild animals.</div>
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Spraying off the flagstone patio...</div>
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The house needs a little power washing, but it's not too bad.</div>
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Just a little patching here and there and definitely some deep cleaning.</div>
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We definitely have our work cut out for us, to make it what we want...</div>
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Oh and because we're gluttons for punishment, we also have this little project going on:</div>
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I haven't had the easiest time in my quest to find out more about the people that lived in this home before me.</div>
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There's been little bits and pieces found here and there, but nothing concrete.</div>
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And in fact, my previously found information might not even be true, due to a mix up of the area.</div>
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Of course, I'd done a lot of research and I knew a few names, but there was a change of address when they put more houses on my street and the historical society here only keeps records past the 1970s, unless you live in the historical district.</div>
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Of which I only live one street over.</div>
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Funny, my house is older than some of the ones they keep records on.</div>
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But because of location... ugh.</div>
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Have you ever heard of such a thing?</div>
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So frustrating!</div>
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I worked backwards from the people I bought the house from and this is what I came up with...</div>
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Some of the information on that piece of paper came later.</div>
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It all started one day, out in the backyard with the dogs, and came across a little brown bottle.</div>
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That lead to a little digging expedition, which uprooted a lot of broken glass and a few more bottles.</div>
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All from between the 1940s to the 1950s.</div>
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Including odds and ends like Christmas bulbs, a regular lightbulb from the 1940s, a pull from a filing cabinet, an old oil can and lots of toothpaste tubes.</div>
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From all that digging, I found out that Fred drank whiskey and beer on occasion, that Pearl knew how to sew, that they celebrated Christmas, that someone like to draw with ink, that they used a lot of bleach and brushed their teeth a lot, that Fred could work on cars, that children lived here and so much more.</div>
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Sunnyslope is the name of the development on which I live and the name matched the information I found at the recorders office.</div>
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She's buried with her son John and her daughter Faye, the one she left this house to.</div>
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I also found all sorts of information on her husband Fred Gibbs, b. 1892 d.1987, including a picture of him on a passport from 1920.</div>
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Via the 1940 census and these papers, I figured out that he lived at a previous address a few months prior, that happens to be across town. So, I've surmised that he and Pearl bought this house in 1942 and lived here until 1970 when Pearl left the house to her daughter or the 1980s when Fred died.</div>
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For one thing, I noticed that it had more bushes in front.</div>
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It's something I question quite a bit.</div>
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Especially, when it comes to this house.</div>
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Case in point, my latest venture in un-remuddling.</div>
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The bathroom you see below looks perfectly fine, doesn't it?<br />
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Well, to my eye it just didn't look right.<br />
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I'm still looking for a matching top to go with it.<br />
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No toilet out there though.<br />
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The second thing that bothered me was that the tile happened to be from the 1950s, but I'll get to that later.<br />
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The third thing was the drywall.<br />
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In case you're not up on your drywall history, it's existed for a very long time, but it just wasn't commonly used until after WWII. Lath and plaster was much more common and the walls in my home are no exception. If you're curious enough to learn more, you can read more about it '<a href="https://didyouknowhomes.com/2017/08/30/the-history-of-drywall-and-sheet-rock/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">here</span></b></a>'.<br />
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'So, what could it be covering up?'<br />
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That's the question that nagged me for almost 8 years, until one day about a month ago, I thought to myself...<br />
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'Why not just tear a little piece off by the outlet. Worse case scenario I could just patch it and forget about it.'<br />
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Or was, to be honest.<br />
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The walls and ceiling are almost done.<br />
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You know what took so long?<br />
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Those, my fiends, are the remnants when you take off drywall.<br />
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It leaves behind an evil hard glue that won't come off with anything except a hammer, a chisel, a sander and a scraper.<br />
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And if you're not careful it'll try to take the wallpaper with it.<br />
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You know what else it leaves behind?<br />
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Four billion screws and nails.<br />
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It's not fun.<br />
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But, it's so worth it.<br />
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I found three layers of paint in different shades of tan-ish pink underneath the sink where it's never been wallpapered, so I know the wallpaper isn't original, but I love it anyway.<br />
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I think it's from the 50s, which was when the tile was redone.<br />
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I also happened to find a tile in the side yard, that just happens to match one of the paint colors I found in the bathroom.<br />
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It all makes so much sense now.<br />
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My little 1930s bathroom, got a makeover in the 1950s and then the last owners changed out the sink and toilet and added the drywall.<br />
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So, I'm doing my best to take it back to when it was redone in the 50s.<br />
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It'll be like the rest of the evils had never been done.<br />
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And you'll never guess what else!<br />
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I know who the owners were in the 1950s, but I'm not telling you about Fred and Pearl until next time.<br />
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You're also going to have to wait for pictures of the finished bathroom.<br />
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Or at least as finished as I can get it.<br />
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Who knows when or if I'll ever find those missing bathroom fixtures.<br />
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xo<br />
rue<br />
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This past December, we decided to find the ghost town called Stanton.</div>
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It ended up being somewhat of a disappointment, but I'll get into that later.</div>
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On the way there, we passed through the town of Yarnell, where we spotted this...</div>
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Car stuff, old appliances, and much more.</div>
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Mike, the owner, couldn't have been any nicer and he's willing to deal, even on the cheap stuff.</div>
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You can read more about the history of it '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton,_Arizona" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>here</b></span></a>', but basically it was a stagecoach stop until gold was found nearby on what was to become Rich Hill.</div>
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After it was abandoned, the Saturday Evening Post bought it and gave it away in a "jingle contest", but the winners didn't know what to do with it, so it went up for sale.</div>
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In the 1970s, a mining association bought it and turned it into a recreational vehicle destination for members only.</div>
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You see, we didn't know any of this when we headed out, because we just like to pick a town on the map and go, hoping that there will be some evidence of the people that lived there... buildings, foundations, etc.... So, when we arrived in town, we were surprised to find it surrounded by RVs, and ATVs zooming around in all directions.</div>
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As we got out of the car, my first reaction was to go up to the building you see below.</div>
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It's just that this piece of history has survived so much, only to be taken over by a group of people that couldn't really care less about it and use it for a gimmick to get people out there.<br />
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That was the word that came to my mind, when I decided on a wall color for my new master bedroom.</div>
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You see, when I bought this house, there was an upstairs master and a downstairs <strike>nightmare</strike> area that could be used as a bedroom. I didn't want Annie downstairs <strike>in the dungeon</strike> and she didn't want to be down there either, so I took it and made it my little hideaway.</div>
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Christmas was lovely.</div>
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Annie is moving out on her own.<br />
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I'm sure you know what I mean, if you have grown children.<br />
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Even though she's in her early 20s now, when someone says her name, this is the picture that comes to mind.<br />
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To give you an even better idea of what is in my head, I picture this when she says she can handle it:</div>
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Obviously, she's not getting married, but it's the same thing for me.<br />
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So, my living room has looked like this for two weeks:</div>
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Obviously, things have been busy around here, but add to that my computer quitting on me, the flu that hit me and John right after Christmas, and a slew of other things.</div>
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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that all of you are enjoying this New Year.</div>
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I don't know about you, but when it comes to decorating for Christmas, I've always been a Santa girl.</div>
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I mean, aside from all his great points, like the fact that he's jolly all the time, has adorable flying reindeer and has been married to the same woman for a millennium, how can you not love a guy that brings you all those wonderful presents for just a couple of cookies and a glass of milk?</div>
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Well, although the old bearded guy still has my heart, I fell in love with another familiar character this year.</div>
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How sad is it that someone just tossed him out onto his faded earmuffs?</div>
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Just click <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Ruesfinds?coupon=4ULOVERUE" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">here</span></b></a> or put the code 4ULOVERUE in the code box at checkout.</div>
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Remember when I told you that I had been going<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> <a href="http://anoldfashionedworld.blogspot.com/2017/09/sometimes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">through some changes around here</span></a></span></b>?</div>
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Nope, it's not my constantly changing office.</div>
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That's just a picture to pull you in ;)</div>
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Actually, one of those big changes was starting the <a href="http://www.flylady.net/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Flylady system</span></b></a>.</div>
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I found a wonderful woman on YouTube, named Kat, that walked me though the whole process with her videos, but we'll get to that in a minute.</div>
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I'm sure you've heard of the Flylady, as she's been around for years.</div>
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The ladies in Blogland started going nuts for her years ago and she was all over the place.</div>
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I remember checking her blog out and thinking, "I don't need this, because I'm an obsessively clean person."</div>
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The truth is, I'm am OCD, but unless I had the time to clean every single little inch of my home like it was going to be in a magazine, I was lost as to what to do. So before someone would come over, or I would take a picture for my blog, I would go insane like a cleaning madman.</div>
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I came across one of Kat's videos and was intrigued, so I went to her channel and clicked on the video below that she recommends for newbies and I was hooked!</div>
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The video is 40 minutes, but well worth your time.</div>
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I followed her advice and started routines, then the weekly plan, then decluttering in zones and now I've reached the cleaning in zones, instead. Albeit with a little decluttering still to do here and there in hidden places ;)</div>
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I watch her daily morning videos and live videos that give advice and tips and now my home is presentable all the time and I don't have to go nuts before anyone comes over :)</div>
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Kat is no longer an "official Flylady", because she was spreading herself too thin (she takes care of her elderly parents for a week at a time every three weeks), but she still helps us flybabies (now we're called Lions) everyday with her daily videos, under the name "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShdnbY_veeq8LjqnVSq6qg/featured" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">A Better Life with Kat</span></b></a>", while still following her version of the Flylady system.</div>
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Kat truly cares about every single one of us and you can see it in her live chats especially.</div>
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She's definitely changed my life and I'm unbelievably thankful that I found her.</div>
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And just for fun, check out her other channel called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOycIBiiA_iO6I0Aiv730Yw" style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Kat & Mr. B</a><b style="color: #38761d;"> </b>where they read their old love letters and do other fun stuff, like cooking and showing how to make a box for the recent solar eclipse:</div>
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Thank you so much, Kat, for showing me how to have A Better Life!</div>
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Ruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110133467260748245noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514949068618443114.post-14267552638143738552017-10-17T19:03:00.000-07:002017-10-17T19:03:04.680-07:00I just know<div style="text-align: center;">
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As I've said before, aside from Christmas time, I'm not much of a seasonal decorator.</div>
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Some old Halloween knick-knacks will make their appearance around October 1st.</div>
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Mostly at my daughter's urging ;)</div>
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As I've gotten older, I love it even more than any other Season.</div>
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Sometime in the late spring or early summer, I visited the town of Clifton.</div>
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It almost qualifies as a ghost town and by that I mean that most of the town shops have been abandoned and a lot of the buildings have fallen down, but people still live there.</div>
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I always find towns like this sad, but especially a place like this when the surroundings are so beautiful.</div>
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It sits nestled in a mountain and it was built because of the mining that went on there and is still ongoing, albeit a little farther away in a neighboring town.</div>
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The first part of town has a railroad track that divides the main street, as you can kind of tell by the following pictures.</div>
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On the other side are shops, including this hotel:</div>
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The old girl has changed quite a bit looking at a picture from inside the hotel.</div>
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You can see more pictures of what Clifton used to look like "<a href="http://visitcliftonaz.com/image-galleries/historical-photos/" target="_blank">here</a>".</div>
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The couple that owns the Hotel Reardon were kind enough to invite us in to take a look. They're in the process of fixing it up and they allow dogs, so if you're ever up the way and need a place to stay, they'd be happy to have you (They don't have a website, but their number is: 480-599-2819 :)</div>
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Farther down, on the same side as the hotel, are more houses, which we decided to walk alongside and take pictures.</div>
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All in all Clifton is still beautiful in it's own way and it looks like there are a few people that want the town to thrive once again.</div>
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I truly hope it does :)</div>
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xo</div>
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