Good morning from wet TX!!!

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Good morning from wet TX!!!
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Sun, 07-06-2003 - 8:14am
I just happened to be up in the middle of the night with one of my famous 'headaches' so I showered, boy did the hot water feel good on my the back of my skul & neck, tried to tidy up a bit without waking Bill and went outside to watch it rain. We have a second rainy July in a row but one thing different about this year's, no 26" in one day. Nice little showers here and there, the gardens love it. Yes, I promised picts to those who want them, just haven't taken them yet. I will.

Bill took something off the kitchen wall and with it came a strip of paint and wall paper. Wall paper that had been here since the house had been built in the 50's. When we moved into this house it was painted over and we didn't know it was there. Now we had the paint already to do the kitchen, but didn't know it would be, like, now. So we spent yesterday peeling old wall paper off the walls of the kitchen and the next step is...well, you know.

Oh I'm so excited...I don't know if I told you or not but I want to change the guest room into a sewing room. Now I have to have a bed in there for guests, yes Kat, there will still be somewhere for you to sleep when you come visit again, lol. Well, I have been looking for a day/trundle bed because it's the only other piece of furniture that will fit in that room, the other being a sewing table. I finely found one. It is second hand but it's in great shape with practicly new mattrices. Not day bed mattrices, but twin bed mattrices. It's all wood painted white which I am going to strip and stain. I've never done that before so who knows what it will turn out to look like, but I'm willing to try. It was homemade and very well made at that, will last forever. Now the furniture that is in there now, is Bec',s which she couldn't have till I didn't need it anymore. Well, she can come get it as soon as she wants, Bill took it all apart yesterday and it's ready for her. Next We'll paint that room and I will have a brand new sewing room, I can't wait.

Been battling with high colestrol, of course it would help if I ate right, It really went up lately so I guess I'll try again. My dr is not going to like the readings she will get from my blood test last week.

Y'all have a great week and keep all our troops still in the Middle East in your prayers. RJ, loved your son's letter, thanks for sharing. Prayers for all who need them, BIG HUGS for everyone. Hi to the newbies and I'll be seeing you around. ..Free

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Sun, 07-06-2003 - 12:49pm
HI Free

Sure hope that headache is better now. Your sewing room sound just perfect. How lucky to find a great sewing table.

We were going to paint a bedroom here and had to strip wallpaper first what a mess. Sure hope your kitchen was not so bad.

Have a wonderful Sunday. I just got the pictures I took in Vegas. Love being able to put real faces with those names.

Love

Mary

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Sun, 07-06-2003 - 7:58pm
Sounds like perfect weather there. We sure could use some of that rain up here in W.Washington, it's so dry here. You sounds pretty happy about that sewing room and I'm sure Bec will be happy to get the funiture. Take care and I hope those headaches are few and far between. Hugs, Gabby

       


 


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Sun, 07-06-2003 - 8:26pm
Free, a new sewing room...what fun!! My

spare bedroom needs a new identity, too;

was thinking that half should be for crafts

and half for business; with a divider down

the middle. It can be done. We used to

have it as a guest room, but I can always

just put down a fat futon and comfy pillows.

Good luck on painting your kitchen!

love,

Cindy


~*~ Aloha to all .... ~*~

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Mon, 07-07-2003 - 8:31am
Hi Mare...No the kitchen wasn't bad, small room. After hearing lots of horror stories about wall pappering, I never want to do that. BIG HUGS. ..Free
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Mon, 07-07-2003 - 8:33am
Oh Gabby, come on down and get some of this rain. Isn't it ususually rainy up there? BIG HUGS. ..Free
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Mon, 07-07-2003 - 8:35am
Yes Cindy, I like that idea of dividing the room. You can find really nice room dividers. We all need change every once in a while, this is mine. BIG HUGS. ..Free
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Mon, 07-07-2003 - 9:29am
Good morning Free!

We both have Bills in our life! ha ha ha... Last week I went to the doctors so while I was there I ask the doc what my colestral was. I figure it was alright because he never contacted me when my result came in. Any how colestral was 273 can you believe that. I asked him why he has not put me some serious drugs to get it down before I have a heart attack and he said I do not need any drugs because my good colestral was 140. He said he has never in him life ever seen some one's good colestral be that high. hummmm... I wonder how many Hawaiians he has as patients. It is probably a genetic thing! What was your ratio ...--> bad colestral vs. good colestral?

Aloha,

Leilani

P.S Mahalo Free for being my buddy all these years!

Leilani

Aloha,

Lei

 

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Mon, 07-07-2003 - 10:01am
Hi Free-I'm up for a Texas get together!! I'm feeling way more confident about getting around. I didn't know MJ was going to CA!! I knew she knew someone there. Lord I need to be better at keeping up. I didn't know Elena was in Peru either. I'm really hoping to get to San Antonio before summer's end. Dh has customers up that way and I want to show ds the Alamo and Riverwalk. Of course dh also is going to El Paso and that's within a hour or so of my birthplace. So much to see so little time. Hope you're headache is better. I know what you mean about the rain. I was so happy to hear the pitter patter against the windows on Fri-had been so long since we had any. We're getting more today too-but right now it's pretty. ((HUGS)) Becky