Ican’t remember what this “thing” is called, but I do remember that Tim said it’s an antique “thing” used to soak wooden wheels. They would fill it with some sort of liquid, set the wagon wheel in it, and let it soak until it was done. It came from Tim’s …

Here is a picture of the buttons for the computer part of the keyboard I play at church. The green part is the screen that shows all of the settings. I’ll describe that more in another post about worship team practice later in the week.

We bought this piece at a family reunion a few years ago. It was drawn by a distant relative of my dad. It sits on our mantle in the living room.

This a quilted wall hanging that Tim’s mom made for his birthday a few years ago. It hangs in our living room on the wall that goes upstairs. Like the other things in our living room, it adds to the lodge look so we can at least dream about those …

These books came from a dear family friend of my grandmas who passed away last year. They were given to me on one of our visits to see her a few years ago. The set is now displayed in various spots all over our house. Here you see them on …

We have two of these lamps and they both sit in our lodge style living room. My dad made these lamps when he was in high school. We found them in the garage, dusted them off, and brought them in the house. We added some lampshades, little elk embellishments with …

One of my MANY clipboards. I’m a notebook and clipboard type person so all of my projects have one of each. The clipboard is for all things I *must* have on my person at all times (LOL). I got tired of lugging notebooks around. I’ll only talk about my SAGE …

Every year I try to change one thing that didn’t work very well the previous year. I’ve tried several new systems for recording our personal finances the last few years and nothing seemed to work until last year (2006) when I decided to quit using Quicken for our personal finances. …

This is my piano. Passed down from my grandma. Frist to my aunt. Then, to my mom. Finally, to me. My mom and aunt both learned to play on this piano, as did my brother and I. Now, three of our kids have learned to play piano on it and …

You can stop by any day of the week and my refrigerator will pretty much look the same as any other day. Years ago someone stopped by unannounced with a surprise dinner for us. We went to the fridge and put things away and she commented on how clean my …