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What’s going on in your world? I sat down to try to remember what’s been happening in our world, otherwise it will all just fritter away into the ether. Here’s what I actually remembered!
Liva has decided to cut off almost ALL of her hair. For a girl who kept her hair to her waist for most of her life, it was a painful thought to this Mama. But, she’s had it cut off to her chin for the past couple of years, so it wasn’t unexpected. She just keeps going shorter and shorter.
I’ll try to get a picture to show you I mean ALL of her hair, at least in the back.
On our way to get Liv’s hair cut off, we saw a very disturbing sight. As we were hurtling down the interstate at 80 miles an hour there was a Penske moving truck up ahead of us. We could see something hanging out of the drivers window. The closer we got, yep, we confirmed it. It was a human leg. With a sock on the foot. Just dangling out the window on the driver’s side of the truck. When we drew up beside the guy, he glanced over, startled. He gave us a look like – what are you looking at! Go on! As he texted. Good grief, people are insane. You do not drive a loaded down moving truck on the interstate at 75 miles an hour with your LEG hanging out your window. Especially if you are the driver of said truck, while TEXTING. I wanted to take a photo, but Denton wouldn’t slow down. He was probably afraid we’d all be killed by the lunatic driving the Penske truck.
I came out of the store the other day and there was a Grandma, a Mama and a little boy who couldn’t have been more than two. He was so little he needed to hold his Mama’s hands to steady himself to walk. I overheard him say, “Look, that car is a Pontiac.” His mama said, yes, it is. He said “That ones a Chevy”. Yes, yes it is. Then she asked him what the car beside it was. He thought for a moment and said, “I don’t know that one. What is it?” His mama said, that one is a Ford, and he shook his head and said “Ohhhhh.” Hahaha! I guess that family doesn’t like Fords.
We replaced the gutters this summer. Yippee. Not that we have needed them. It has been a long, long summer with very little rain. On a high note, I’m sure the neighbors appreciated it though.
And when I say WE, I mean the company Denton hired to do it.
It literally, LITERALLY, took them an hour and a half to remove the old gutters, and to make the new gutters and then install them. One of the reasons that we hired this job out is because the front of our house is about thirty feet off the ground. I talked to my Daddy about DIYing it when they were here a few months ago. He hesitated then told me the first thing we’d need would be a thirty foot ladder. I looked them up and they start around $400.00. Uhmm, we have a 22 foot ladder in the garage that we use maybe once every 3 years. I’m not shelling out another $400.00+ for another ladder that we would then have to store……
You have to pick your battles and this wasn’t one that I wanted to have with Denton. Just like with the Jeep, sometimes your sanity is worth a little bit of money. 😉
I gathered more stuff to haul away this week. I’ll get a post together and show you what didn’t make the cut to live at our house anymore. You can see everything that didn’t make it so far this year, here.
Budgets. Why did it take me two years to figure out what I’m doing with Mint? I love this free app, by the way. Now that I’ve figured out what the heck I’m doing with it, our budget has finally been conquered! At least for the moment.
I knew that I had to do something. Our eating out and grocery bill was out of control. So I spent about ten hours wrestling this thing to the ground. It was so worth it people! I’ll write a proper post about and tell you all the things.
We I finished the giant hallway, yay!
Sorry for the crappy cell phone photo. All of the tools are still in the hallway and none of the trim is back up in the photo, but I couldn’t resist. This hallway just about defeated me. I am so very thankful to be done with it!
You know that feeling you get when you are so tired and worn out, when your body just wants to shake and all you can do is cry? Please say you know what I’m talking about. Well, this flooring has brought me to that point several times. This time wasn’t one of them though. All that kept going through my head when I finished this was that old hymn. Revive Us Again.
We praise Thee, oh, God
For the Son of Thy love
For Jesus who died
And is in now gone above
Hallelujah, Thine the glory Hallelujah, amen Hallelujah, Thine the glory Revive us again
We praise Thee, oh, God
For Thy spirit of light
Who hath shown us our Savior
On a banished dark night
Hallelujah, Thine the glory Hallelujah, amen Hallelujah, Thine the glory Revive us again
Revive us, revive us
Revive us again
All glory and honor
To the Lamb that was slain
Who has taken my sin
Lord, and cleansed every stain
Hallelujah, Thine the glory Hallelujah, amen Hallelujah, Thine the glory Revive us again
I have no idea why this song was stuck in my head, but I just went with it. I was all alone, I was so, so happy to have finally gotten this hallway done and I’m singing this song. It was great! I love, love, love the old hymns I grew up with.
If that’s too old school for you, here is one my brother introduced me too. I love, love, love this song. I keep it on repeat a lot. Thanks Adam! I would never have found the Digital Age without you. I love you!
I’ll leave you with this song. Let me know what you think of it. What’s been happening in your world this week?
