Healthy Choices

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Happy Birthday, Heghine!!

Today is our daughter-in-law, Heghine's birthday. Here are a couple of pictures taken in Armenia July 2009. Love you, Heghine!

Our Cupboard Is Not Bare!

Just finished putting 30 pounds of raisins into containers. What a sticky job that was! A couple of months ago, I decided to go pro-active about food storage and set up a monthly food order from a wholesaler and invited members and friends to order as well. It's a little bit of work to print and distribute the order sheets and collect everyone's money, but I actually like doing it, and the company trucks it all to the church in Dover for a flat rate of $2.50 no matter the size of our order! Can you imagine? We picked up our 3rd order this morning. This time I got 6 gallons of canola oil, a pound of Spanish paprika, and 50 lbs. of white whole wheat flour, along with the raisins. It's a great way to save on lots of staples - spices, grains, flours, leavenings, etc. Most things are much cheaper than the grocery stores, and I love seeing our shelves fill up. Next month I'm planning to get 30 pounds of craisins and 25 pounds of almonds or walnuts. World events don't stress me quite so much when I know my shelves are full of good wholesome nutrition.

Bob Dow's 80th

We enjoyed a family gathering last night at Bob and Rosa-Lee's. It was Bob's 80th birthday - so a plan was hatched to surprise him at 5:00PM - I think we woke them both from a nap - so I guess you could say the surprise part was a success. :) Zack & Ruth, Randy & his 5 kids, Gram, Sandra Harmon, Lloyd & Althea and us. We had yummy food and drink, including ice cream cake - and we sat around their kitchen reminiscing for the evening - shared lots of laughter and good memories. Sorry to say, we forgot to take our camera - aggravation!!

TAK OF YER SHOS

Hey, chill factor of 18 degrees, I am ready for SPRING! I know that means mud season - it is a bridge that must be crossed, but I'm ready. As I was mopping our downstairs floors on Saturday, Abe made a sign for our door - it says TAK OF YER SHOS - he taped it to the door. If obeyed, it will solve the only bummer about spring in Maine.

still dreaming

I've been on the hunt for a tree wallpaper for one wall of our library - I'm thinking I will pull my colors for the other walls from this one papered wall.
I like the ocean colors in this one - still in the dreaming stage. Gotta finish preparing the walls and ceilings and priming everything and painting tons of woodwork and 4 doors and 4 bookcases. Will it ever be done????????

A Start

Got started on the mudding upstairs - convinced Dad that painting the bookcases white is okay - I'm all into white wood, feel like it goes better with our cottage-size house, and makes everything clean and fresh. Now my big challenge is the uneven ceilings - I'll likely go with some texture. The guy that did our LR ceiling last summer, Mike, said that you can mix joint compound with primer and a tiny bit of Dawn dish soap and roll it on for a textured ceiling - getting the right proportions might be tricky, so I'll do some samples on some scrap sheet rock first. Wish me luck!!