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Gee I really hated that hat

by Mary Anne

My sister and I were looking through family photo albums earlier today, and we were laughing and teasing each other about some of the pictures of us when we were younger. But mostly we were oooohing and awwwwwing about how cute we really were. Isn’t it funny how when we are younger we really think we are ugly as can be, but many years later we look back at our photos and realize that we really were cute!

Anyway, there are several photos of the sisters wearing matching dresses for special holidays that we all got a kick out of. We were all wearing identical dresses, each of us wearing little hats that were held onto our heads by really tight clamps, and holding Easter Baskets in front of us. You can tell by the look on my face that I was not happy to be in that picture. When my sister asked me about the facial expression I explained that the hat our mother was making me wear pinched my head really hard and hurt like the devil. I can remember I kept taking it off and my mother would get angry and make me put it back on, even though I told her that it hurt my head. I can remember getting a spanking over that stupid hat. Makes me wonder why I don’t hate hats even now!


My sister’s basement floods

by Mary Anne

My sister called me today and told me that she is sick and tired of her basement getting wet every time it rains.  A few years ago she noticed some cracks in her foundation and she has been asking her hubby to fix it.  Well, it hasn’t been fixed yet, and she is frustrated.

She told me that she is at the end of her rope!  I told her that what has worked for me in the past was to tell my hubby that if it was not done in a certain period of time (usually 30 days) that I would call in a professional to have it done and tell them to send him the bill. Works like a charm! Admittedly there were a couple of times when I DID call a professional and my hubby wasn’t too happy about it, but the job got done, and now hubby pays a little bit closer attention to my repair requests.


Wrought iron

by Mary Anne

My sister knows how much I am enamored by things that are made of (or look like they are made of) wrought iron, she has sent me the link to a website that makes a variety of wrought iron items.  The link is www.wroughtironhaven.com.  I have just gone to the website and found that they sell just about everything imaginable out of wrought iron!  I especially like the curtain rods that have shelf brackets built right in!  I have ALWAYS wanted to have shelves above my windows, and have begged my hubby to install them.  But my pleas have always fallen on deaf ears!  Now I see that I can buy curtain rods with shelf brackets and install them myself!


Relocating for a new job

by Mary Anne

One of the things that I’ve been reading on Facebook a lot is a debate between folks who are supposedly friends regarding the unemployment situation. Some of the people maintain that there are plenty of jobs “out there” for people that really WANT to work. The rebuttal that I’ve been reading is often that the jobs that are available require relocation, and many families don’t want to relocate.

The entire discussion reminded me of a few years ago when my sister accepted a job out in Los Angeles, and had to find some Los Angeles movers to help her with her relocation process. She told me that she had hired a Los Angeles moving company to do everything that needed to be done – even the packing! I thought that was amazing, I had never heard of a company that will do the packing for you in addition to the transportation! I wonder if the LA movers are the only ones that do that, or if it is a service available around the US and I just live under a rock.


Tom Kincaid paintings

by Mary Anne

My sister in law loves Tom Kincaid paintings. She is convinced that they are a good investment, and has spent a small fortune buying them. I’ve noticed that most of the paintings that she has that bear his signature are of old English-style cottages with window boxes that are overflowing with some kind of cascading plant. I can’t really see the detail of the flower boxes very closely to be able to tell for sure if the plant is a trailing petunia or a creeping garden phlox, or even cascading rose buds, but I do have to admit that having that
windowbox full of flowers on the painting adds a lot of charm to the painting.

One thing worries me, though. If I recall correctly I saw a special about the Tom Kincaid dynasty and I worry that my sister is over-valuing her collection. Sure, they are limited editions, but there are thousands of them out there. Not quite as valuable as if the limited edition only had less than a dozen. I guess only time will tell, and for now she is just as happy as a pig in mud with her collection, so who am I to rain on her parade? As a famous advice columnist advises from time to time “MYOB.”


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