Monday January 4 2016  OFF TO A GALLOP

I feel as if the month of January is already galloping away!  Every day goes so quickly and there are never enough hours in the day.

I PROMISE THIS WILL BE A SHORT BLOG!  Mainly because I am short of time and must still accomplish too many things that can’t wait until tomorrow.  Most of the morning was taken up with workers here checking out the mess, loading up some equipment, opening up another wall that hasn’t yet dried out, and reattaching new hoses to the wall in Dave’s den.  So we still have noise and clutter.  But at least the sound is further away from where I am sitting.  Dave’s T.V. room in in the lower level. 

The floor in the dressing room is still opened up.  It will all be put back together later this week or perhaps next week.  The date it will be done is now in our court.  During the re-build we are changing the counter on the vanity in the dressing room.  A carpenter was here to measure for specifics and told us where to go to pick out what kind of top we want.  We will leave early for church service because the place we want to go to is over by our church and is open until 7:00 p.m.  We may put marble on the vanity.  It is currently a sink made of Corian.  We are not having the sink in that room reconnected because we do not use it any more.  We are leaving the hidden plumbing in so it can always be reconnected if a new owner desires to have a sink in the dressing room.  We remodeled two bathrooms into one bathroom about 4 years ago and put in a double sink vanity.  It is perfect for us and we have decided since we are the ones who live here we are rebuilding for what is convenient for us at the present.

A short story about “Rose Street”.  When Dave was an infant his father built a beautiful house on Rose Street in Anaheim California a few miles from where they lived.  His father had dreams of moving into the house someday so every time they bought anything for their existing home, the stipulation was, “will it fit on Rose Street”?  Dave remembers year after year this comment coming up, causing his mom to never be able to buy something that fit perfectly in the house she currently occupied.  The same house Dave lived in as an infant was the same house where his parents died.  His father lived to be 101 years of age.  They never did get to find out if everything would fit in Rose Street.

So over the years we have both brought up that long ago memory of Dave’s father saying, “will it fit in Rose Street” when we give consideration of purchasing or remodeling the house we live it.  It doesn’t matter if it will fit on Rose Street (the imaginary house we’ll live in next).  We live where we live, and we buy and design for where we live at present.

The sooner we pick out the counter top, the sooner our house will be back to normal!  So we are going shopping TODAY!

JUST FOR US

By Kathleen Martens

January 4, 2015

Where you live today

Is not tomorrow’s concern.

Live in the moment

Is what you must learn.

Make it right for now,

As we enter old age.

And remember to watch the budget

For we no longer have a wage.

Comfort is a necessity,

Does it fit just so?

Those grab bars might not be pretty

But their strength we surely know.

That toilet may be high

For a toddler to climb aboard

But we have no little ones

For others to adore.

What is right for us,

Your needs, it may not meet.

But I’ll tell you one thing,

We don’t plan to live on Rose Street.

See how short this blog is!  Great!

More tomorrow about all the gooey stuff I like to write about!

GOD BLESS YOU!