Decking The Walls

Since my last post I have really been concentrating on the house, especially since we finally got the entertainment center moved from the parsonage to here.  And this weekend Mark and I have been working in the basement so he can build some more storage shelves to get things off of the floor.  There is always the threat of water damage, especially since we have had so much rain over the past year.

Wall Decorations

This is one of the dining room walls.  I'm not sure if I am done with it yet.

This is our Americana wall in the living room.  I'm not done with it yet.  I will continue to look for items to add as I visit the thrift stores......and Hobby Lobby!

This is another wall in the dining room.  This is my Flower wall.  Everything will center around the big, framed puzzle shown here that Ilene and I completed.  We spent so much time on it......nearly giving up at one point and stuck it under the bed for several months.....that I decided it needed to be framed when we FINALLY got it done!

Entertainment Center/Living Room

The boys, Jaxon and Noah, spent the weekend with us last weekend.  Here they are racing against one another and grandpa using DS game devices.  The cubby hole you see in the background is full of pictures and photo albums that we still need to go through......one of these days!

This picture is dark, but where the recliners are here used to be where the couch in the picture above used to be.  When we moved the entertainment center from the parsonage last weekend, we also moved Tim's recliner.  Jessica Ann and Elisabeth had just given the chair to Tim for Father's Day in June before he passed away in August.  I tried putting the couch against the other wall shown in this picture, but it was too crowded for the recliners.

This picture shows the dining room to the left of the couch.

And here is the monstrous, beautiful entertainment center!  None of the kids wanted it, and I paid too much for it to donate it to Goodwill, and I couldn't have gotten a good price for it by selling it, so Mark let me keep it and we moved his into the kids' den.  Thank you, my love!

Basement

Things have been piled into the center of the basement, needing to be gone through and organized and put into storage on the shelves.....or gotten rid of.

This is the area I worked on this weekend.  I took one load to a Goodwill drop-off location yesterday in the car.  The next load will have to be taken in the bed of Mark's pickup because there is so much!

Mark took some of the stuff from the basement to one of the storage buildings in the back of the house. 

All Work And No Play.....

.....makes Jack a very dull boy!  That's what Tim used to say!  Yesterday was beautiful!  So, in the afternoon I decided we needed to take a break from the basement work and enjoy a ride on the bike.  Mark said he would like a Sonic slush puppy, so that is where we went.  I got a delicious new cone Ilene told me about that she had seen advertised.

This heart decoration was on our table at Sonic.  I decided to take a selfie through it!

Here's the delicious Oreo cone I got!

The weather was beautiful, but it was windy.  The crosswinds were wicked to a motorcycle!

Shadow selfie.

Beautiful clouds!

How Now Brown Cow.....

The neighbor's cows have been going through the fence and coming for a visit.  They mess up the yard, especially when the ground is soft after a rain.

Mark scared them off with a BB gun.

Christian Fellowship

This afternoon Bobby Smith texted us to see if we wanted to take a bike ride with him.  We ended up making plans to meet him and Joy and go out to eat supper.  We went to Christo's in Lexington.  The basement will have to wait!

We met them at Sheets in Welcome.

We enjoyed eating and fellowshiping with them.  Thank You, LORD, for Christian friends!

Today's shadow selfie from our trip home.

Praying you all have a blessed Lord's Day tomorrow!