Happy Homemaker Monday

                  Hosted by Sandra over at Dairy of a Stay at Home Mom.

💚💚The weather💚💚 

Monday  sunny,  56

Tuesday cloudy, 64

Wednesday cloudy, 70

Thursday  cloudy, 63

Friday  cloudy, 57

Saturday,  cloudy, 68

Sunday, cloudy, 53

                                                             

💚💚On my mind💚💚

All I can think  this week is  with all this warm rain, the beds will all be shining golden faces very soon!!  We planted many tulips last fall!  The  ground has  opened and    we see  shoots  sprouting up! 

💚💚How I am feeling💚💚 

I am doing very well,  except for my lower back.  it has been trying me for some time  but was getting better until I started  therapy and now it is so weak.  I know what the  prescription is.. keep exercising.  and I do but  I must admit.. not  as  much as I should. I must today and tomorrow to bet lady form  therapy session on Wednesday!

💚💚On the breakfast plate💚💚

 Coffee, scrambled eggs and small buttered  English Muffin

💚💚On my reading pile💚💚

My favorite  romance author,  Lynn Kurland and her time travel books  involving  medieval Scotland.  These are perfect books to read when you're planning your  dream trip!

Right not I am reading A Garden in the Rain!  We are also studying  the book of Exodus, The Core Group is  starting Ephesians, which I love!!!  I am taking a Hermeneutics class on how to study the Bible! Lynn and I are doing a read through the Bible in a year  systematic  read  provided by the Allen Jackson Ministries!You can download the app  there  to get the  Bible schedule. BTW, if you aren't  currently going to church, I  absolutely  recommend  watching  Allen Jackson,  (Not the country singer)  He is  so wonderful!!!  Very passionate  and   exceptionally knowledgable.  Lynn and I  listen to him every week!

💚💚On my tv💚💚

Various vlogs ,  and HGTV  programming

💚💚Interesting youtube vlog I saw this week: 💚💚

Do you watch the Day Connoisseur?  I really  enjoy her.. The world could a lot more of her sensibility!!!

💚💚Looking around the house💚💚

Finally, the living room has found it's  own personality and  state of being!   hehehe

Lynn and I  were  going back and forth about   some final  furniture  placements and things just weren't working . Then Lynn had the idea to place the couch in front of the window and that  made all the difference. Then everything fell into place!  We Botha re very happy.  How if the rug would only  come!!

💚💚On my to-do list💚💚

• Devotions and Bible reading
• marketing  
•  laundry
•  therapy classes
• strip the kitchen  and paint the ceiling
• paint the walls and  baseboard  put the kitchen back together
• 
  
• 💚💚To relax I will:💚💚

Listen to music, Bible Study, vlogs, work on my Christian planner..  create  some  lovely vignettes for scripture  on  the pages

💚💚Prayer and devotional :💚💚

 

Our government leaders to seek God, stop the politics  during this   terrible time  during  the Ukraine  war. May for the fear of the Lord to spread  among all people.  Thank you Lord for the shift in our state government.  Lead  them to  make godly solutions for the people!

Father, be with the Ukrainians during this  upheaval and   build up their resolve to remain strong and   dependent on you to lead them! Father, speak into the heart of Vladimir Putin,  that he might  relent from  this  debacle he is perpetrating on  the innocent nation of Ukraine. May calm and  sensibility  reign in the minds of  all Russian leaders. We thank you, Lord, that  the European neighbors have issued strong sanctions  on   Russia and that they have   strong implications for  the nation and  its leaders.

Prayer about the influx of illegals into our nation, and the possible spread of disease and covid.. Father, we rebuke the spread of covid and its attaching deviants.. and we do thank you Lord that  we do see  some   demise of the covid strain and pray that all covid will dissipate and be gone forever, in Jesus name!! 

We pray for the places everywhere that persecution is taking place...

For healing of the sick,

salvation of the lost,

deliverance for the hurting,

the supply, food, and building shortage problem: may it not become

a huge crisis   We say NO to the drear  outlook  some are reporting  about our supply and  the inflation .. We know that it is satan who comes to rob, steal, and destroy and we, by the power of Jesus name, say STOP NOW,  You may not   have the resources of the people.We also pray for godly wisdom to overtake our leaders  that they will deal with the world circumstances with the USA's best in mind.  

Churches to arise and pastors to preach according to our times and

these days.. very vital! For the churches to repent and get straight

before a holy God. We have become too lax in our Christianity and

we need to be more persistent to seeking God and His Word!  Lord, prepare your people to be ever minded  that our work here is to lead others to Christ. Too often  we  fail  to do this,  I pray for  opportunity and   the will to do your will in Jesus name!!

Friday fave five

host, Susanne,

Good morning and welcome to the Friday Fave Fives.  I am so glad FFF isn't coming to an end ,  only  is the last one for February!!!  Whew!!  Thanks  for  helping me on that one, everyone!!!!

** This week  has  had its ups and downs, but I will really try to focus  on the ups! One very  integral  up  was Sunday when Lynn and I   joined our new church.

We absolutely  love  our new fellowship.  The staff  is  amazing and the  people as we get to know them are  just so sweet and   welcoming.As we get more involved in our Core Group and our  Sunday night class on Bibiology I am  so pleased to see how devoted  the people are to learning and applying God's truth! 

** Today and Tuesday were devoted to painting and   finishing up  not only the living room but the dining room. The piano was picked up and taken to its new home.  I was sad to see it go as it represented years of  love of playing for me,  but I hadn't  played in several years   because I cant really see well enough to play well.   So  now it is gone  the living room seems so much bigger.  We did have to buy a larger rug   which comes next week!!

There you can see Lynn sitting in the dining room reading his Bible.   The  room all lit up   shows off  the lovely light   shade of our color!  Whereas, the living room in late afternoon light  shows a much moodier tint!

There you can see   how I am  forcing some forsythia to bloom.   It finally is   beginning to show!!

**Wednesday, I got to go to my physical therapy and meet one of my  therapists and she was  so cute..      very  instructive and  encouraging.  Im so glad  I got her now because if I had to wait a bit  she  would  be having her first baby!!. So far  therapy Is

   really great  and something I really need!!

** We were so blessed  this week.  One of our dear friends   who  just  loves to stay busy and loves to help others  came over and helped  paint the dining room. That is how we got it done so quickly. He cut out around  the trim and  Lynn  used the   roller.  It was all done in a couple of hours. By the afternoon it was all set up  and everything back in its place!

**I know everyone is just so  undone  by the terrible news this week.  It is hard to  think about our blessings  when so many are in such turmoil, panic, and fear  because their lives have been jerked out from under them.  And I must say  it is hard to feel  happy  when you feel like  your own government  should stop playing politics and do something. I don't mean send troops,  but  there are things that should be done about  the pipeline.   I won't go into detail  but  this business does keep me in a tailspin  ..  I am so thankful that I do have  an outlet   to take this and other matters  before the throne of grace.. not only  privately,  but also corporately.  Prayer is a powerful tool in our arsenal of weapons.  And  I think  corporate prayer is  magnified in times of great need! Praise God!!

Wednesday Hodge Podge

 

Hosted by Joyce.

1. February 16th is National Almond day...are you a fan? I love those  Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds, but can’t eat too many.  Too salty!If so what's your favorite food item or recipe that contains almonds? I would love to make the Almond Joy candies!

2. Something you are currently 'nuts' about? Well, the first thing that popped in my mind was the PBS series All Creatures Great and Small!  I love every version, and the books are wonderful!

3.  Something currently driving you 'nuts'?   Well, the fourth room we plan to paint is the  den with its wall of bookshelves.  I understand the trend now is to paint the shelves an accent color but then, go ahead and paint the woodwork the same color. My accent color is a medium teal.  But to get the paint to dry the right color, you must start with a rather dark color.  In this instance , Im looking at Winter in Paris which appears to be quite dark.  But in the visualization it appears qu ite medium. Trying to convince hubby is becoming quite nutty buddy!

4. Something you recently bought for 'peanuts'? I can’t think of a thing..things have been so much higher here lately!

5. Share a favorite quote uttered by any U.S. President ( if you're not an American, a quote made by the leader of your own country.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.   

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

6. Insert your own random thought here. I have been watching a great gardening series on YouTube… P.Allen Smith.. His spring shows are so fantastic.  My mind is full of springy ideas for my garden! Oh, how .I want to plant, plant, plant many more flowers than I usually do. His gardens are magnificent.  So inspiring.,

Tuesday 4

Pondering Odds & Ends

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 kept up in her memory.

Hosted by Annie!

 Here we go discussing some personal thoughts this week....

1. Do you have a favorite gem stone? Why is it a favorite.I was born in July so I suppose it is  ruby,  I also love  amethyst and sapphire.  I have rings of all of those and  actually  they are birthstones of my grands and daughter so I will leave the ring to each  of them!. 

2. Do you know and  understand the doctrines of your religious faith?  

    I do understand the doctrines of my Christian faith.  I have been a Christian now for  5 decades,  but  to be honest I didnt really, fully understand  the deeper truths of the faith until I retired when I really began to  study  much more.  But I didn't say the deepest truths because  I find the more  I learn the more there is to learn about our  Awesome  Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient   wonderful God!  And His Son, Jesus Christ   to whom we owe  our very existence as a Christian is truly the one  we need to know!!

3. Do you have a favorite décor style... as in classical, traditional, modern, mid century, colonial, etc? I am such a huge anglophile, I love everything British,  especially  even medieval  style. I love tapestries, and  dark heavy  decor .  Our living room used to  exude  that  same dark heavy feeling, I think  that reminded me of an inn  or tea room,  where you might have found CS Lewis  and  Tolkien discussing    their own theology!

    What do you like about it?  But it was so much  our own style,  if we  had to  put this home on the market   it would probably turn  prospective buyers away, so that is why we  lightened it up    and  have  sort of transformed it to a more  English country style,  cottage  look. I love this look as well!   The piano movers came today and removed the piano to its new home! yayaya!  And now  the room seems huge!!!  Hence,  I knew we would have to  order a new rug which comes next week. For now we can do some ball room  or country dancing!!!

Before  the piano  left us!

Round off 1,2,  34,  1,2... 3,4!

4. Are  there any books or movies you want to see this summer?

Of course, I would love to see Downton Abbey,  but we'll see.  If Amanda doesn't  come    when it is on,  I will have to wait   til it comes out in DVD!

Happy Homemaker Monday

Hosted by Sandra over at Dairy of a Stay at Home Mom.

The weather 

Monday  cloudy, 64

Tuesday rain, 64

Wednesday rain, 68

Thursday  rain, 50

Friday  rain, 59

Saturday,  cloudy, 47

Sunday, cloudy, 49

On my mind

All I can think  this week is  with all this warm rain,  the bulbs  will be  poking their lovely heads into  the flower beds soon!!  We planted many tulips last fall!

 Yesterday   we and our best friends  joined our church.  It was a  great day, one we had been looking forward to for some time!

Some of you had asked  to  have a comparison photo  regarding our  painting project

I would say the mood of the room has changed quite a bit!

On the breakfast plate

 Coffee, boiled eggs and small buttered bagel

On my reading pile

I have started reading my favorite  romance author,  Lynn Kurland and her time travel books  involving  medieval Scotland.  These are perfect books to read when you're planning your  dream trip!

Right not I am reading A Garden in the Rain!  We are also studying  the book of Exodus,  and   I am taking a Hermeneutics class on how to study the Bible!

On my tv

Various vlogs ,  All Creatures Great and Small, I am so sad  the series has ended for the season, and HGTV  programming.

Interesting youtube vlog I saw this week: 

Looking around the house

You asked..  This  is  what we have to look forward to  for  a while..  but the dining room is being painted now,  so  hopefully we can get  most of this    put back.   then  tomorrow the piano is picked up and then    the living room can be  rearranged!

On my to-do list

• Devotions and Bible reading
• marketing  
•  laundry
• Purge as I go 
•  therapy classes
• gradually  redo  some rooms. 
• 
  
• To relax I will:

Listen to music, Bible Study, vlogs, work on my Christian planner..  create  some  lovely vignettes for scripture  on  the pages

Prayer and devotional :

 

Our government leaders to seek God, and for the fear of the Lord to spread  among all people.  Thank you Lord for the shift in our state government.  Lead  them to  make godly solutions for the people!

Prayer about the influx of illegals into our nation, and the possible spread of disease and covid.. Father, we rebuke the spread of covid and its attaching deviants.. We say no more and we also pray that these diseases will calm down and that they will not be so disruptive to the body. that our bodies will fight them off effectively and without devastating consequences.. we say enough to covid! In Jesus name!!

We pray for the places everywhere that persecution is taking place...

For healing of the sick,

salvation of the lost,

deliverance for the hurting,

the supply, food, and building shortage problem: may it not become

a huge crisis   We say NO to the drear  outlook  some are reporting  about our supply and  the inflation .. We know that it is satan who comes to rob, steal, and destroy and we, by the power of Jesus name, say STOP NOW,  You may not   have the resources of the people.We also pray for godly wisdom to overtake our leasers  that they will deal with the world circumstances with the USA's best in mind.  God protect the people of  Ukraine,  and Lord may we not do anything that will perpetrate harm to  that country! 

Churches to arise and pastors to preach according to our times and

these days.. very vital! For the churches to repent and get straight

before a holy God. We have become too lax in our Christianity and

we need to be more persistent to seeking God and His Word!  Lord, prepare your people to be ever minded  that our work here is to lead others to Christ. Too often  we  fail  to do this,  I pray for  opportunity and   the will to do your will in Jesus namE!!

Friday's fave five

Hosted by Susanne!

It's Friday! And that means we take time to look for the blessings God has graciously given over the last week into our lives. It  means so much to take the time to  consider just how good God is and how richly He has blessed us this week.  

**As  many of you know we have been deep in the  throes of painting and redecorating our  lower lever,  the living room,  dining room, kitchen and den.  The living room is done except for the trim.  But  to  facilitate  things  we  decided to get  a paint as close to the paint that is already on the trim and only do touch up. It doesn't look as bad as we thought... so back to Home Depot,  but that is a huge blessing that  Lynn was able to make that decision  He is usually such  a perfectionist   and  we were able to come to this decision   which will  cut his  hard work probably  in half! 

**I   had decided that I wanted  a new  crystal lamp for the living room. Our other ones were dark and heavy from our old  decor  and so  I had seen some lovely   crystal lamps at a friend's and they kept resonating with me. I found  a sale at Macy's   who had  one I liked  for $99.99

Macy's is the only  nice  department store we  have in Roanoke now  and I  did think  that was  a big pricy,  but I was at loss to know what to do!  Then we went to Hobby Lobby  midweek,  and I found this one

 for $49.49  Thank you, Lord.  You are so good to us!!

**I had told Lynn  that  I felt it was time to give our piano away to reclaim the space it took up in the room.  Surprisingly, he  said,  "Go for it!"  I really didn't want to place an ad or go to Facebook Marketplace because that meant  strangers traipsing through the house.  But I did mention in on Facebook where only friends see it. In an hour I had 3  friends who wanted it.  But Amanda  had a friend whom she had called earlier and really wanted it badly so  she came over , saw it and set up for it to be picked up next week!  Hurrah.  Thank you, ,Lord, I had figured   it would  be  much harder to  get  it our of our house.  But You had a plan, and  gave it to us.  Glory to God!

**  Now that we had  opened up  a quadrant of the room where the piano had been  I  could now push the sofa back a good 7 feet and  really open up the living room..  But now our  small  rug  just wasn't going to work  with such a space to fill.  We like our furniture feet to rest on the rug. Now I needed a 10x13 rug. After we went to Hobby Lobby,  we decided to drive all the way down to  Eden, NC  to go to the Karastan Rug store. It took us 2 hours  to get there and  low and behold, they  had closed at 1pm.  We were  feeling  pretty  awful driving the other 2 hours back home, and we wondered what were we going to do! Yesterday, after breakfast Lynn said, "Why don't we go over to that new place in Salem and see what they have.  We knew they carried Karastan rugs,  so we   finished up and  drove to Salem, 8 miles away.  It didn't take long to find one I absolutely  loved.

I know, in that light  hanging on that turnstile,  amid  50 other rugs,  with Lynn pushing back  the rugs  enough for me to take a shot..   But you can see the teal,  the  light blue, and  darker navy.  Even the yellow flowers.  I loved it so much.  And  it was  probably half the price we would have paid at Eden!!! God, you did it again.  Praise your Holy Name.. Lord, give me the grace and forbearance to wait for the two weeks it takes to get it here! 

**Lastly, for  this post, I had a beautiful  ginger jar lamp  my mother had  that was navy and white and knew it would finally have a room   where it would shine.  But it needed a shade.  I  never really knew how to  size a shade well, to a lamp,  so I  studied around and really wanted a 7"round top x 17" round bottom and 11 inches tall. The lady at the rug shop told us to  drive down 22 South  to a decor  shop where they sold lampshades.  So  off we  went this afternoon. When we got there  we saw scads of  shades    and there was a sale, $4  dollars each.  😲

But once we really got over in there to look, they were either too large,  wrong color,  wrong shape,.  nothing in all those shades  seemed to work!  Then Lynn said I like this one.  Actually it was  rectangular,  but  a very nice fabric  shade with  expensive detailing..  but it was  medium beige..  I wanted to like it so badly. I mean $4.  It seemed like  it was worth it  to just barely like it at that price.  and I did just barely like it .  I told myself,  this is an oriental  ginger jar design and instead of a white rice shade this is a wild rice shade.so we bought it and now that I have it home  I think  that beige is the same beige in my new rug.  Dear Lord, you have been so amazing in everything we have done this week:; you have gone before us ,  made it  easier,  less expensive,   and  had exactly what I wanted and needed! Even when we didn't know it was what we needed!! My heart is so full of  thanks as I count my blessings today!!!

My Life, Tuesday 4

My Life

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Welcome... This is Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4   hosted by Annie!

In keeping with our theme of looking at the past, maybe we can talk about your past life and what it might have been like?

1. What was life like for you as a child of elementary school age? I started first grade at age 6 in  the mid 50’s.  My school was a large brick rectangular building where you went up to a landing where the principal’s office was tucked into the space .  I never thought about it then, but I  wonder about that now.  How did the office and store fit on a landing?We also had a small school store where pencils and erasers were my favorite items. I walked to school, about 8 blocks .  I stopped about half way to school, to meet up with Vickie, my best friend.  We still meet up for lunch about twice a year.  She lives about an hour away! Friends, My other good friends in elementary school were Carol, Kathy, and Linda.  But Vickie is the only one  I’ve seen since we graduated from high school. games,   I loved to wear saddle Oxford shoes because I could kick the kickball over second base.  Therefore, I was never the last girl chosen on a team.  I loved kickball, we also played red rover and red light.  I wasn’t a rope skipper.. a TV,   I remember our square large tv  was b/ w  and enjoyed coming home from school to watch Edge of Night with my mother. It was pretty soon  Mom went to work in the Children’s department at Miller and Rhoades downtown.   Thereafter, my neighbor, Frances, who lived across the street kept me after school until daddy got home. Music, I remember  mother wanted a stereo so badly and after she started working we were able to get one.  I think I wrote this  on here before, but we bought the stereo at MR where you also got 20 lps free as a special.  We had music every day ,  I really love to have music playing at home ever  since!  Food,  Mother worked about three nights a week, but when she came home around 5:30 the other nights. She always put a beautiful meal on the table. We always ate together as a family.  On the other nights she would pack her dinner and dad and I would dine out.  I loved going out to restaurants with daddy. Interests? Both of my grandparents  lived in the same town about 100 miles up in the country.  Both families were farmers and I had several aunt, uncles, and cousins we enjoyed visiting.   We usually visited with them once a month, sometimes more. Because of the farm experience, my parents loved the outdoors,  gardening, picnicking, and camping. Life was simple and sweet. Because I was an only child, those special days with the whole family are cherished memories!

2. Moving along to the teen years would you mind sharing some of the same things with us? What were you interested in?  Being an only child and because I sort of lived on a hill,  I really didn’t have a place to bicycle, so I was 13 before I learned to ride and that was at my Grannie’s where I learned on my cousin, Gary’s bike.  I was not very athletic at all!  Most of the cousins considered me the city cousin who couldn’t do anything.  I couldn’t even climb a fence unless the bull was chasing me. Instead, I was a reader, I lived life through the stories I read. I loved Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew etc.  later I loved Jane Austen.  I read Pride and Prejudice multiple times.  I read it with an English accent.,   What did you watch on TV.. I enjoyed westerns, especially Laramie,  and I enjoyed shows like Andy Williams and Perry Como. or listened to the radio.  Because of the 101 Strungs albums that played at home I enjoyed elevator music.  One of my favorite songs was Where or When!

But at night and once we started dating, Lynn and I loved to listen to WLS the Chicago station that we could pick up  when we were parking at the airport  ..we would sing along with the top 40. I love our rock songs of the 60’s.

  

3. Would you share your college or young working years with us? I applied to both the teacher’s college and the junior college Lynn had applied to.  When the acceptance letter for Radford College  arrived I knew I had to go there. I had wanted to be a fourth grade teacher ever since the fourth grade. I knew I wanted to teach Virginia history!  Did your interests change or grow in 

your late teens or early 20s?  My interests never wavered.  I had beeen in the Future teachers and the Future Homemakers Club in high school. Three of mothers sisters and several of her aunts were teachers, and I really felt inclined to follow their vocation. Did your friends come or go? When I left home for college the only friend who mattered was Lynn. He came home most every weekend, so did I.  Therefore, I did miss out in much dorm life those first two years. After two years Lynn enlisted in the Army so my dorm life picked up. I did date a couple of times..  horrible, both times were blind /double dates. I dated the driver who made it possible for my friend to date her fella, mine was always the booby prize.  Each time I swore never again, but I was an easy mark, but really it meant I got to go to the movie.  Lynn had one of his best friends take me to the Moody Blues concert  at Virginia Tech which was the men’s college nearby.  To thank him I got him a date with a lovely girl who never dated ,  she was lovely but terribly shy.  They ended up getting married.  But I truly appreciated how sweet he was to take me to my favorite concert of all time!

Did you live at school or home or have a place of your own?  So many questions only you can answer.Lynn came home from Germany when I graduated and we got married  I then went to Germany to live with him that first year.  I returned home the next summer to prepare for starting work.  After I started teaching school,   Lynn was not quite discharged  so I had to choose our apartment . I chose one that was about half way from my school and half way to Virginia Tech where he planned to commute.  I was a bit overwhelmed with things as they were so Lynn’s sister moved in with me for those two months before Lynn came home. So no, I never lived alone!

4. And lately... what are the topics occupying your mind right now?   How have things changed in your life in the not to distant past. Are you okay with the changes? Well, I gained weight living in Germany and never was able to lose it.  That has been  a bane of my life.  But not to blame or give my self an excuse,  I do come from families where the women were large.  But I also have some beautiful slim cousins so I can’t blame anyone but myself! Ever since my GB problem, I have lost about 30 pounds and hope to lose 30 more!  On an other note, my primary focus outside of the home is church, Bible Study, and prayer.  I was always so inundated during my teaching years with homemaking, motherhood and my vocation, I wanted to do Bible Study during the summers, but I never could find any..  things stopped over the summer.  So once I retired I have made church life my main focus and I love it.,

Comments to some faithful friends!

Thank you all for the kind comments..    I will respond  below!

Faith:   I so wish I could show you  some  great  arrangements of the rooms  now that  the living room is  almost painted..  but, alas I fear it will take some time to get  the furniture in  place..  We hadn't thought we would have to paint the windows, but  the outer  frame will need to be painted, but I do think I can place most of the furniture and begin to   decorate.. wow,  three buts in one sentence!   I am chomping at the bit to pull out SPRING!!! The Bleached Linen color will be used in the kitchen and den.  I think  Lynn may  do the kitchen next because the dining room is  so full of living room articles.  This is a huge jigsaw puzzle of a mess for two old fuddy duddies!!  Oh, and   bless my heart,    I do get ahead of myself.  Thankfully, after I placed a desire on my Facebook page to  give my  lovely Baldwin piano to  a friend, I had 3 takers,  the first one in  was a friend of Amanda's and  she  is  setting up  for a mover  today, hopefully.  My prayer is that it will be soon,  because I really cannot do much of anything until the piano is out! 

Susanne,Wendy. Jean and Ellen B:  Thank you for  liking my color choices.  Lynn and  I are  now in our seventies and , as such, you'd be surprised how  loosely you start to  feel about stuff.  I find  I am  loading boxes  full of stuff  every week.  So we are, of course, thinking what if I were left alone  to deal with  everything  and selling a dull boring home? That would   not be  the best thing so we  were really trying to come up with a color palette that would suit young buyers.  and I think  it will look very nice once  it is all done.  The color in the  den for the  bookcase which extends across the wall  I think is going to be gorgeous.  A couple of years ago the  most popular color was Aegean Teal

which is very close to  the Behr, Winter in Paris. So  my dream of using a very close  Aegean teal color  is coming true!!

Sherry Jolly:  Oh how I wish we   could meet and I could discuss your questions.  You really hit a cord  with me.. Learning spiritual truths and   biblical tenets   are  one of my  favorite lifelong   quests  especially  since I retired. I have been very fortunate to  have a Bible Scholar  who teaches   the  most difficult  passages and  studies  I have ever  had.. He was my Bible teacher at a church I attended  15 years ago, but he is also    the leader of our local Intercessors for America  group. We used to meet once a month,   but with the  quagmire our nation is in now, about a dozen of us meet weekly.  I have grown so much in my prayer life,  actually lost my fear of praying aloud because I  am really only talking to God, my Father,  by the power of the Holy Spirit so I wait   to pray  until  I am urged my the Spirit to do so.   Now   our  spiritual leader, Jim,  tells me  satan is  afraid of the woman I am becoming.   I had to remember that when I had  so many  really odd   medical  things  slam against me this past year,  and even  when I end ed up in the hospital  looking like death warmed over with a horrible  infection of the gall bladder,   I had every  oncologist at the hospital come to me in triage to tell me  sorry but you have pancreatic cancer. I  immediately,  without even thinking, said no way,  I am a spiritual warfare warrior, and  satan is trying to  take me out,  but I know who I have believed and am persuaded  that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day..  I do not and will not  believe  his lie  about pc.    until I hear God tell me  I have it.  After  3 months of  trouble and in and out of hospital it was proven I never had pc but truly, I knew  I never did. So  There is so much to know and learn about our faith. I wish I could point you to a great book on Hermeneutics,  but our  pastor  has taken his course work manual  and copied the pages  he  is using to teach us and  made a manual for our use.  Without  the videos  we use to  study each  chapter the manual would do you no good.   But  if you could find a good study book perhaps on amazon   on Hermeneutics..  which is how to study the Bible,  it would be  so beneficial to you!

The following book  sounds a lot like our   guide we use.  It has  many  excellent reviews  that sound like it would be a very good choice if you so are inclined!!!

https://www.amazon.com/Hermeneutics-Principles-Processes-Biblical-Interpretation/dp/0801031389/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16LYS8LGDCLKS&keywords=hermeneutics+principles+and+processes+of+biblical+interpretation&qid=1644857943&sprefix=hermeneutics%2Caps%2C52&sr=8-1

Best wishes to you in your quest!!!

Preppy Empty Nester, and Elizabeth Day:   YOUr encouraging words  really give me the strength and energy to  persevere through this  pretty huge task  we have taken on.  I knew if I really wanted to get the whole downstairs done this year, we would have to go ahead and bite that bullet and    plan to  just  keep getting it done.  It really isn't  such a huge task  taking a bit at a time,   I mean Lynn wouldn't agree,  but  to me the  hard part is having   the house so    undone..     If Lynn intends to   do the kitchen next I have a wall paper border above the chair rail I have to  take down.  He said that was my part of the ordeal.  

I know I will be crying the whole time because I  loved that wallpaper so much!!!  Dear Lord, please let it  come off easily!!