A Great Philosophy

I love cartoons and I am always cutting them out. I don't know what I plan to do with them but I am still young so I will make a decision some time. Maybe I will just scotch tape them in a lined spiral notebook. As for now, I will just share them with all of you. I used to pound nails everywhere and women would ask me how I got Lyle's permission to do that. Hmmmmm....Never did fully understand that "permission" thing. Actually, I don't think he ever minded it. In fact, at one point, in our Edgerton home, I was so tired of plain doors that when I found an old white door on the curb in Pipestone during the days Pipestonians could put junk on the curb, folks like me could go through it before the garbage trucks took it to the final resting place. (Now that could be a story itself! I smile as I recall it!) Lyle drilled four holes in the closet door of the den and mounted my old door onto the existing door. I loved it. When we put the house up for sale, Lyle simply filled the bolt size holes and we painted the door. That's why we keep left-over paint. So gals, pound away until the wall decor makes you happy!

I have searched for a photo of my door and could only find the above two. These date back to the early 2000s. Why didn't I take photos of the house before we sold it? What I really loved about the old door is that it had an old window (old being a given since you can see it is an old door) in which I put either a photo or a piece of an old quilt. I loved it! So right now, go get your camera and photograph your house, PLEASE! Trust me, someday you will be glad you did!!

Gotta love seeing this spring cleaner!

Perhaps you remember that at the beginning of 2010, I told how Davonne, Anita, and I were making an Advice Book. We have completed it and I want to share it with you. It has been both fun and challenging. Anita and Davonne have busier lives that I do and it requires time. I did learn that a page seldom turned out as I had thought it would. While working on the page, ideas lead from one direction to another and sometimes even the advice I was planning on using is not the one I end up using. When we exchange our pages, it is always an exciting time for me. I love getting a package with the new page. It is not as fun as it would be to do a project together, but it is a great way to stay connected and creative. This year we are doing quotes. Again, we share laughter and ideas. I will always love these two special friends and I love having a book that contains their creativity and their advice. The Slideshow of GOOD ADVICE is below.

Those Old Rotary Phones

Remember those old rotary dial phones? We had the pleasure of renting two of them years ago in Edgerton. When the NEW push-button type came out, we replaced them, never thinking about the fact that we were renting those rotary phones. Garage sales came and went and I never was able to sell those phones. Nobody wanted them! Years later, and I mean YEARS, Lyle asked me about an expense listed on our phone bill. It was for around $4.00 each month. Neither of us knew so I called the phone company. The conversation went something like this:
Me: What does the line blah blah blah mean?
She: That is for the two rotary phones you are renting.
Me: WHAT? I am renting those? You are kidding!! Nobody uses those anymore! Why didn't someone contact me about it?
She: (Thinking: Why would we do that? It's money for us!) Says: It is not a policy.
Me: I have tried to sell them on garage sales but no one wants them. I don't even know if I have them anymore!
She: You can purchase them for $16 each.
Me: WWWWHHHAT? After all the rent I have paid. (By this time I am calculating into hundreds of dollars, maybe even a thousand! Seriously!)
She: If you find them, you can return them to DeBoer Cheverolet. (For those of you outside of Edgerton, you will not understand this but we could pay our bill there etc. Never know--your husband could go in to pay the phone bill and walk out with a car!)
Me: Sigh! (and hang up, very frustrated!)
You better believe I drove my chevy home and looked for the phones. Fortunately, those were in my save everything daze so I still had them in the storage room! I marched them straight over to DeBoer Chevrolet and started saving $4 a month!
Moral of Story: Check your bills and call if you have any doubts or you may end up with a couple of sheep to decorate your yard or home.