What I'm Reading This Week #30
Happy Final Friday of July everyone! I will not be sad to see this month in the rear view. The Mr finished the HOA minion's job by checking on the basement wall crevasse of missing mortar pretty much every waking hour after he "filled" the hole. I gave him a bamboo skewer to see if it hit the long bottom we saw with the camera. Nope. source When he poked it, it drained away. Every hour, he'd do the same and it kept emptying. I had him check to make sure it wasn't pouring out the front of the house and thankfully it wasn't. But if you figure that water has been etching away at the stairstep crack leading from the top of the hole then that goes down the entire length of the wall , so it had a long way to travel. In the end not only did the Mr use one quart of the filler but had to buy another one and used 1/3 of the bottle before it finally started leveling off!! If we'd left it to the HOA dude, an eighth of the bottle woul...
You really got some good deals at that last place. Tags popped successfully! I love that little note from the grandkid. I could have easily written the same thing when I was a kid too. Everyone here should know the lady didn't pass away. She just moved to a nursing home and had to declutter. That makes me feel better about it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't think any of the sales we hit up were from the dearly departed so that's good. I always feel weird about that and I always hear someone ask. I love the card from the grandkid too. Funny, I thought of your mom making you do thank you cards as a kid to your grandparents when I saw it. It's a lost art but one I still heavily support.
DeleteOh that reminded me of my grandpa's (mom's dad) last letter to me..my handwriting resembles his...and his is more spidery and Loved his sweet letter to me..when he passed, I treasured that letter more...I was 10 when he passed and my regret was he never got to play monopoly with me again as he promised he would in the letter...
ReplyDeletehad a traditional house warming party on Sunday so up early and wore a saree and went to it...was their official photographer:)
Thanks to the Mr. for clarifying about the lady's status. That makes me feel better. Still sad that she had to get rid of her 'stuff.' I dread that day. I save too much stuff that has meaning only to me. Sometimes I wonder what my kids will do when they go through my stuff after I'm gone. I'm sure it will all get thrown out, but I'm going to let them do it, if possible. It would be too hard for me to throw away all those wonderful cards, letters, pictures, etc.!
ReplyDeleteOMG... I think that thank you card was written by my ex! The hand writting and name are identical to his. I still have the letters he wrote me while we were dating. Somethings we seem to keep forever.
ReplyDeleteI am very sentimental. I watched this Lifetime movie yesterday called Mother and Child and I bawled like a baby.
ReplyDeleteDidn't do much this weekend, unfortunately that means making up for it today.
ReplyDeleteI'm sentimental about some stuff. The card would have made me happy/sad too.
I love stuff like that. When we look in antique shops I go for the post cards, never have bought any, but love reading the notes penned for loved ones. And yes they bring tears to thine eye.
ReplyDeleteI am nursing a poor knee, but spent the weekend doing genealogy research on my computer, which I love! I am a big dork over old cards...I have a hard time getting rid of them they're always so sentimental! Glad you had a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteAw, so sweet. :) I'm not sentimental at all and even I am feeling a little verklempt. I can't wait to see what fun things you're going to do with those lights!
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