Saturday, May 7, 2016

Lubbock House updates.






The master bath has lots of mirrors but had little storage. We put a small chest under the right side of the counter. We also added two wall cabinets - one right side up and the other on top upside down.
























Jerry reworked the master shower, redoing the grout and caulking.















We added a wall medicine cabinet to the main bath over the commode.  Plans  are to take mirrors out and replace with paneling or plywood. The new bathtub and shower surround is on order and should be in about the middle of the month.




















The living room is opposite the dining room and leads into the hallway to front door and guest part of house.




The dining room has a beautiful chandalier over the table.






















The laundry room has plenty of storage. We also put some pantry shelving in it that we made years ago in Odessa. Our kitchen pantry is not quite large enough.
























The den is a large room with a gas fireplace.




This goes out to the patio and back yard.






















This is the front bedroom guest room.



This is the back bedroom guest room. We are still unpacking boxes from there.




We added some new appliances to the kitchen.

The cooktop, refrigerator and dishwasher are new as well as a new kitchen sink.

We kept the microwave and the oven. Microwave is fairly new and newer ovens will not fit in space allowed. Old one seems to work OK. I did not burn my cupcakes or cake!!




























We also set up a coffee bar to free up some counter top space.






The master bedroom is very large. We put our desks in there temporarily until we get the office/sewing room all set up.







The closed in garage will be the office /sewing room. It is very full right now and we are still working on it. After a garage sale, there should be a lot less in there. Still unloading boxes there too.



Plan to keep most decor in boxes for now since the whole house needs painting.
We had new tile put down in the office and really like it.






We enjoy the private front porch. With a dog gate on one end and metal gate on the other, the dogs can be out there too.
The patio still needs work.


This is a small utility room leading to the furnace room. The freezer is there as well.













The cellar is mostly clean now. Still needs some attention and I am so grateful it is a large one - size of a small bedroom. I am not fond of tight places. I have been down in it and it is OK.





We found a bag full of vintage Mason/Ball jars down there.

It needed a lot of cleaning and clearing junk out.



































































Steps are very steep so cinder blocks made shorter steps.






Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Family Calendars 2015


Another Family Calendar.



























It is really handy to have all the birthdays and anniversaries on the calendar. With this large family it is hard for even me to keep track of everyone - and I keep the genealogy data base!! I frequently have to look up to see who belongs to who. I did put together a list for Mom of grandkids, great grandkids and great greats with parents names to help us all out!!


When I first started doing the calendar, I tried to put family pictures on each day but soon discovered with a large family, there was not room for two or three in one day.

I don't know for sure how long I have been doing these as in the beginning I did not save my cover pages but I do have them dated back to 1993 and two before that with no dates on them.

I usually make about 15 copies for the family. That allows one for each brothers (4) and sister's (6) families, two for Mom and two extras.

Sometimes I have difficulty coming up with cover pages but this year it came to me early.













Chimala Mission 2015


Once again, our congregation made and gathered supplies for the Chimala Mission. I think this was the largest contribution thus far.

Our sewing endeavor produced 54 diaper shirts, 49 lightweight blankets and 43 book bags. Other items donated were medical products, everyday needs and lots of school supplies.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this such a success!!









































Gathering and displaying all the donations  to be picked up on November 24th.









Our Chimala coordinator, Mary Tuck, who does a great job!